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Tina Gverovic (1975, Zagreb) lives and works in London. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and finished her MA at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. She holds a doctorate from Middlesex University. She represented Croatia at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Her works have been exhibited internationally, among others at Tate Modern in 2013 and at the Busan Biennal in 2012.
Tina Gverović works with installation, drawing, painting, sound, text and video. Her work – often in the form of immersive, disorientating installations – explores the economy and history of materials. She also continues to exhibit paintings and drawings independently from other media. Her work engages with questions related to understandings of space, territory and identity and particularly the way in which they are bound to invention and imagination. Whilst her work is influenced by the experience of the transitional period of the breakup of Former Yugoslavia, she is not interested in directly representing this period or employing motifs directly associated with it in her work. One of the key questions in her work is where lies the potential of the political vision and re-invention?
1975, Zagreb, Croatia
Studies
2013
Practice based doctorate in visual art titled Itinerant Travellers: Drifting, Revisiting Amnesia, Middlesex University, London
1998-2000
MA (Description: Practice with a research subject ‘States of Transition’), Jan van Eyck Academy, Post Graduate Centre for Art, Design and Theory, Maastricht, NL
1991-1997
BA (Painting), Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Prizes, scholarships
2019
Grand Prix of 54th Zagreb Salon
2012
Frankopan Fund Grant (The Staples Trust) for practice based PhD in visual arts for 2012
HIAP Residency at Baltic Art Centre, Visby, Sweden
2011
Kultur Kontakt Residency, Vienna, Austria
2010
1st prize at I Am What I Am – 25th Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak, Serbia. 09.2010 Curatorial team: Maja Ćirić, Dušica Dražić, Miroslav Karić, Una Popović
2007-2010
Middlesex University scholarship for practice based PhD in visual arts
Frankopan Fund Grant (The Staples Trust) for practice based PhD in visual arts for 2007/2008
Professor Gabrielle Parker Travel Bursary for the year 2008-2009 from Middlesex University
2007
European Cultural Foundation Travel Grant towards the exhibition ‘Reconstruction’ (Belgrade, November 2007)
2006
Siemens Award for the project At First Sight (Berlin, 2007)
Residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York. Funded by Radoslav Putar Award for contemporary art
2005
Residency at Media Centre, Seattle. Funded by CEC Arts Link
HDLU (Croatian Art Association), Artist Award
2003
Award from the Croatian Ministry of Culture for the multimedia project ‘Third Part’
2002
Research and development grant from Art Council England for the video/documentary project ‘To Whom no One Ever Tells Stories’
2001
First prize for the best new theatre production, for ‘Oedipus, Split, Croatia
2000
First prize in ‘project’ section, at 34th Zagreb Salon for Design, Zagreb, Croatia
1998
Residency in Farrera, Spain. Funded by UNESCO for research on theatre in arts practice
1998-200
Scholarships from Nuffic, (Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education), awarded for two years post graduate study at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
Selected solo exhibitions
2018
Mechanization of Dreams, Flora Gallery, Dubrovnik
2017
Phantom Trades; Sea of People. Installation for the Croatian Pavilion at the 56 Venice Biennial, Venice
Collage on the Highway, Installation, Apartment Softić, Gajeva 2, Zagreb. Curated by WHW
2016
Bodies and Things, Lost and Found, Installation, French Pavilion SC, Zagreb
Sea of People, Installation, Dubrovnik Museum of Modern Art
2015
Slowing Down: Liquid Territory, Installation, Gallery Anex MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia. Curated by Branka Benčić
Slowing Down: Liquid Territory, Installation, Gallery AZ, Zagreb, Croatia
2014
Turnovers, Installation and projection of the film Chameleon (12’30), The Salon of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia (with Ben Cain and Siniša Ilić)
2013
Inverted House, Installation, Tate Modern, London, UK (with Siniša Ilić)
Missing Image. Installation. Fordham Gallery, London, UK. (with Siniša Ilić)
2012
Solid Ground. Installation. Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2011
What Would Objects Do With Out Us. Installation. Gallery Vesch, Vienna, Austria. (with Ben Cain)
Precarious Adaptations. Installation with video, purpose built structure, drawings, prints and sound. Cultural Centre, Belgrade. (with Siniša Ilić)
2010
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State. Installation with drawings, purpose built structure and a video projection. Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. (with Siniša Ilić)
2009
This Group Will Never Disappear. Installation including purpose built structure, actors, large scale circular rotating photograph, monitors and a wall drawing. Lenbachhaus-Kubus. Curated by WHW, Munich, Germany. (with Ben Cain) (cat.)
2007
Reconstruction. Audio/visual installation Kontekst Gallery, Beograd, Serbia. (with Siniša Ilić)
The Visit. Installation including drawings, wall drawings. Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
At First Sight. Installation including drawings, wall drawing, video. Blickensdorff Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006
Spies and Subjects. Installation with sound, Notice Gallery, London, UK
2005
Ways Out. Series of installations (mirror, video, light). Media Art Centre. Seattle, USA
2004
Six rooms. Installation inc. sound, video, wall drawings and paintings. Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia
Together. Installation for ‘Pilot’ project. Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Third Part. Installation incl. stage, actors, script, video, still images. Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
Diary of Drowning. Installation including sound, wall drawing, light. PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2002
From 1 to 4. Video / documentary, project supported by the Art Council, Leeds, UK
The Event. Writing, furniture, performance. Fordham Gallery, Whitechapel, London, UK
2000
Inbetween one beginning and two ends inbetween two beginnings and one end
24’ video projection with sound. Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
1998
Theatre Stage Set. Paintings, oil on canvas. University Gallery, Poreč, Croatia
Theatre Stage Set. Paintings, oil on canvas. Gallery Gradska, Zagreb, Croatia
1997
Occupied. Installation incl. floating elements on the sea surface facing the border line of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ston, Croatia
Selected group exhibitions
2022
Emese BENCZÚR, Tina GVEROVić, Radenko MILAK & Roman URANJEK: ‘EITHER CROSSROADS, INTERRELATIONS, OR INTERFERENCE’, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
2019
Sleeping with a Vengeance Dreaming of a Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Contemporary Art from Croatia, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Mechanization of Dreams (series of gouache paintings, each 40x60cm) and Handmade Politics (video 3’40”) shown as part of 54th Zagreb Salon. Curated by Branka Benčić and Tevž Logar. Grand Prix award
Mechanization of Dreams (series of gouache paintings, each 40x60cm) and Dream Catchers (installation with rope, clothing and print 600 x 800 cm) showing as part of Sleeping with Vengeance, Dreaming of Life in WKV Stuttgart
Glimmer (video 9min) shown as part of 66th March Festival in Belgrade. Selector Marta Popivoda
Start up of Third Floor Exhibitions – self initiated independent exhibition platform in Zagreb
2018
Mechanization of Dreams. Series of gouache paintings exhibited in the exhibition Sleeping with Vengeance, Dreaming of Life in Yellow Brick gallery in Athens
Diamond Cuts: Sea of People. Installation for the exhibition The Museum of our Transcultural Past, Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg
2017
Issues of Uncertainty, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest
Glimmer. Film screening shown as part of the exhibition The Way Objects Go, Podroom Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade. Curators Isabelle Henrion and Nyima Leray, in collaboration with L’Œil d’Oodaaq.
Chameleon. Film screening shown as part of 64th Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Dom Omladine, Belgrade.
Chameleon. Film screening shown as part of the exhibition Usage Guidelines, MMC Luka, Pula. Curated by Branka Benčić.
Chameleon. Film screening shown as part of the exhibition Temporary Encounters, Galženica Gallery, Zagreb. Curated by Branka Benčić
2016
Sea of People. Artist’s book produced as part of the series of A-Books
Diamond Cuts: Sea of People. Installation. Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China. Curated by Zhang Qing (Head of the Curatorial and Research Department, National Art Museum China, Beijing) and Roger M. Buergel (Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum, Zürich)
Chameleon. Film screening shown as part of Debatable Screenings: a Curated Series of Global
Contemporary Video, Los Angeles Times Auditorium, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Curated by Maja Ćirić and David Ayala-Alfonso.
Chameleon. Video installation. Shown as part of the exhibition Museum ON/OFF. Curated by Alicia Knock Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (with Siniša Ilić)
Chameleon. Video installation shown as part of Arrivals – Departures, Galerie Centrum, Graz
2015
Copper, Dust, Indigo, Seep. Installation. Gallery Raum mit Licht, Vienna. Curated by Ruth Noack.
Installation and projection of the film Chameleon (12’30), Apoteka. Vodnjan, Croatia. Curated by Branka Benčić. (with Siniša Ilić)
From Above. Video(13’). Part of Book of Burning Matches, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley.
Audiable Audience. Audio performance. Part of Radio City, Tate Britain, London, UK.
2014
Parastates. Installation with a series of gouache paintings and a metal sheet. Shown as part of Great Undoing, Palazzo Zucatto, Poreč, Croatia. Curated by Branka Benčić.
Parastates. Series of gouache paintings. Shown as part of Notes on Undoing. Ikon Arts Foundation, New York. Curated by Branka Benčić.
Known Unknowns. Installation with graphite dust, wood and newspaper. Shown as part of Mundus Vadit Retro, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia.
Without Delay. Series of posters shown in various locations in Dubrovnik and in KCB Belgrade as part of Dead City.
2013
Or an Island or a Boat. Installation with video, purpose built wooden
structure, paintings and sound recording. SE8 Gallery, London, UK.
Visit. Artist book. Shown as part of the exhibition Artist’s Books. Gallery Galzenica. Curated by Ane Škegro, Nambi Kezić and Ane Mirilović. Zagreb, Croatia.
Building Site: Dreams in the Dust. Graphite dust and ink on paper (36 x 226cm) shown as part of International Exhibition of Drawings. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
2012
Invisible Building. Installation shown as part of The Garden of Learning – Busan Biennial. Curated by Roger M. Buergel, Busan, Korea.
Travelling South. Audio installation included in the project Simplon Express (presented during the train journey Paris – Zagreb). Organised by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts visuels et de nouvelles technologies, France.
Because We Had It All. Collage on the wall 700 x 700cm. Shown as part of THT exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
2011
Our Forests. Installation. Shown as part of Life in the Forest. Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland, curated by Rael Artel. (with Siniša Ilić and Ben Cain)
Travelling South. Urban intervention in Kotor, Montenegro. Curated by Slaven Tolj.
News Keeps Us Awake II. Installation with video projected onto a purpose-built structure and photographic prints. Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, Austria.
News Keeps Us Awake. Installation with video and costumes stuffed with
daily newspaper. Shown as part of No Network, 1st Time Machine Biennial. Curated by Branko Dimitrijević. Atomic bunker, D-O, Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The First Thing She Wore. Video contribution for the Art Vehicle – Contemporary Art in London – Issue 55,
Pustjerna. Video for Zensko Pismo. Curated by Ana Perajica. Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb.
2010
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State. Artist’s book. Shown as part of the exhibition The Moment of Privacy Has Passed. Curated by Gwen Took. The Usher Galley, Lincoln, UK. (with Siniša Ilić)
On the Waves. Radio play. Presented as part of the exhibition Image of Sound. Curated by Evelina Turković. Mulitimedia Centre, Split, Croatia.
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State. Poster contribution for the exhibition Though Drawing. Curated by Miroslav Karić. Magacin Kraljevica Marka, Beograd, Serbia.
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State. Wall drawing on both sides of a free standing portable wall, approx. 340 x 840cm. Shown as part of I Am What I Am 25th Nadežda Petrović Memorial. Curatorial team: Maja Ćirić, Dušica Dražić, Miroslav Karić, Una Popović. Čačak, Serbia. (with Siniša Ilić)
HaVE A LoOk! HAve a LOok!. Sound installation. Form and Content. Curated by Antonija Majača. London, UK.
Infinite Exposure. Installation with slides. Shown as part of Neither From Nor Towards. Curated by Ivana Bago and Antonija Majača. Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia.
The radio play Infinite Exposure broadcasted during the journey in extra territorial waters in
the vicinity of Israel and Cyprus via the on-board marine radio station -“Slow Web” VHF broadcast. Curated by Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir. (sailing across international internet fiber lines – 09:00, 21.06)
Travelling South. Video projection in ex-cinema turned car park. Shown as part of Tu Smo/We Are Here. Pula Biennale, Museum of Modern Art Istria, Croatia.
In the name of the People. Two acrylic paintings (90 x 120cm). Shown as part of the exhibition Homework: Contemporary Art in Dubrovnik. Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Alphabet of the Winds. Installation including watercolours presented in a ruin during Visura Aperta. Momiano, Croatia
2009
Spaces for disobedience: Notes on ruptures, trembles and sudden transformations. Series of drawings. Shown in Nova Gallery. Curated by WHW, Zagreb.
Colours couldn’t change us: In the name of the people. Series of paintings. Shown as part of the exhibition And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. Curated by Ivana Bago and Antonija Majača. Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria.
Nama. Installation for the permanent collection of Mini Theater, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Red Point. Installation incorporating video and drawing, for the exhibition Croatian Contemporary Art-It’s Now or Never. MUU Gallery and FAFA Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. (cat.)
Choose Your Time. Series of paintings for the exhibition East Up. Gallery Römerapotheke, Zürich, Switzerland.
Constant Traveller. Series of drawings for Dubrovački trenutak. Curated by Antun Maračić, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.
On the Waves. Radio drama. Presented as a part of Radio Gallery. Curated by Evelina Turković for Croatian National Radio Television III. First broadcast April 10. 2009.
Tired eye does not see out. Series of paintings. Exhibition Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire.
Foreigners in Their Own Country. Series of drawings. Shown as part of the exhibition Visura Aperta, Momiano, Croatia.
Near Island: Score for a Complex Scene. Installation for the exhibition Political Speech is Suprematism: The Meštrović Pavilion. Curated by Branko Franceschi. Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2008
Changes in the Scale of a Map. Video installation. Shown as part of THT exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
Constant Traveller. Installation including video, light boxes, drawing on the wall. BOP Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
Choose Your Time. Series of paintings for the exhibition Libertas. HDLU. Curated by Antun Maračić, Zagreb.
Choose Your Time. Series of paintings for the exhibition Parallel Lines. Museum Rupe, Dubrovnik. Curated by Katarina Ivanišin Kardum and Silva Kalčić.
Constant Traveller. Two channel video installation for the exhibition Re/Konstrukcije. Waldinger Gallery. Curated by Branka Benčić, Osijek.
After Besa. Pencil drawing for the Triennial of Drawing. Gliptoteka, Zagreb
2007
Choose Your Time. Series of paintings for the exhibition Croatian Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala, New Delhi, India.
At Second Sight. Forum Stadtpark. Curated by WHW, Graz, Austria.
Vocal Verbal. Audio project for SC gallery. Curated by Lala Raščić. Zagreb, Croatia.
Pustjerna. Video installation inc. drawings for ‘On The Crossroards’, City Community Hall, Curated by Ana Perajica. Split, Croatia.
Choose Your Time from Time to Time. Two paintings (acrylic on canvas). Shown as part of Croatian Contemporary Art. Lalit Kala, New Delhi, India
2006
At First Sight. Drawings and paintings for group exhibition Triumph of Painting. HDLU. Curated by Zvonko Maković. Zagreb, Croatia.
This Place Will Disappear. Installation with drawing and light for the exhibition Here and Now, Present but not Concrete. Curated by WHW. Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
At First Sight. Drawing for group exhibition in Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia.
Monuments for Nikola Tesla. Poster for the group exhibition at Gallery Nova. Curated by WHW, Zagreb, Croatia.
At First Sight. Installation inc. painting and drawing. Radoslav Putar award exhibition Gallery Galženica, Zagreb, Croatia.
From the Beginning. Series of paintings. Avesta Biennale, Sweeden.
2005
You and me. Video/sound installation for Continental Breakfast. Museum of Modern Art, Maribor, Slovenia.
Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Screening of video work.
About Recording and Watching. Video installation for Insert. Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb.
As it used to be. Video produced in Baranja, Croatia.
Layers Digging. Video for Pustjerna. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Kino. Video installation with wall drawing. Shown as part of Linear Structures. Riga Gallery. Curated by Branko Franceschi. Riga, Latvia
2004
Facing. Video installation incl. monitor, live video, and a poster for Ordinacija. SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.
Yes or No. Installation. Shown as part of Distant Neighbourhoods. Lazareti Dubrovnik/ Cetinje/ Mostar.
What to see, what to do, where to go. Shown as part of Imagine Limerick, ev+a 2004. Limerick City Gallery. Curated by Zdenka Badovinec. Limerick, Ireland
2003
Taking pictures and making scenes. 12 page contribution to publication ‘Fantom Slobode’ (pub. Croatia).
After the City. Installation (spoken text, spot light, glass). Curated by Antun Maračić. Modern Art Gallery, Split, Croatia.
After Sound. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture. Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia
2002
Film you. studio lighting (tv drama), text, actor, theatre lights. Mediator (temp. space), Dubrovnik, Croatia
2001
Discussion room and presentation room for public art proposal. Belgrade Cultural Centre. Belgrade, Serbia.
Third program…record. Video/sound installation shown as part of The 26th Salon Mladih. Zagreb Velesajam, Croatia.
2000
What does a waitress do. Installation incl. actor, musician, text. Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Trilingual works. Series of paintings. Centre Social de Servieres, Marseille, France.
It reminds me of a radio play from the 50’s. Video/sound installation.
Festival mora, The Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia/ Ancona, Italy.
It reminds me of a radio play from the 50’s. Broadcast on Radio Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Lectures on lectures. Presentation inc. sound, drawing. Hallefurkunst, Lunaberg, Germany.
From the entrance till above. Video/sound installation for Open Nights. Curated by Suzanne Oxenaar / Vincent de Boer. Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL.
I would wake up to it and hear where I was. Installation incl. video, sound, mirror, glass. Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
1999
Between two ends. Installation incl. TV, microphones, receptionist, stages, a soap opera. The 34th Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, Croatia.
Another Way. Installation incl. light, video, photographs. Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, NL.
1998
Theatre Stage Set. Paintings selected for The 33rd Zagreb Salon. Zagreb, Croatia.
1997
Transition. Installation selected for Triennial of Croatian Sculpture. Zagreb, Croatia.
Occupied. Installation incl. markings on the walls, text banner, light emitting diod, and stone carving. Labin, Croatia.
Curatorial Projects
2010
Guest co-editor with Jasna Jakšić and Siniša Ilić of the summer issue of Magazine for Contemporary Visual Arts published biannually by The Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia, since 1966.
2006
Near Island. PM Gallery. Group exhibition curated by Tina Gverović and Ben Cain, incl. Susan Kelly and Dan Robinson, Zagreb, Croatia
2005
Psychometrics. SC Gallery. Group exhibition curated by Tina Gverović and Ben Cain, incl. Dave Beech, Pavel Braila, Christof Steinmann, Laura Quarmby and Brian Davies.
Third part-reset. Project incl. series of video installations. Gliptoteka HAZU, curated by Ben Cain, Tina Gverović and Zlako Wurzberg, Zagreb, Croatia.
Artist’s Books, Publications and Vinyl
2016
Sea Of People, artist’s book produced as part of the series of A-Books.
2013
Or an Island or a Boat, 7” vinyl record (300 copies) published on the occasion of Tina Gverović’s exhibition at SE8 Gallery, London, 2013.
Missing Image, publication (soft back, colour, 300 copies) with Siniša Ilić, Fordham Gallery, London, UK. January 2013. Design by Ben Cain.
2011
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State II, with Siniša Ilić, publication (soft back, colour, 500 copies). Zagreb, Croatia. January 2011. Design by Ben Cain.
2010
Uncomparables. Forming a Suspicious State, with Siniša Ilić, publication (soft back, b/w, 500 copies). Zagreb, Croatia. September 2010. Design by Ben Cain.
Infinite Exposure, artist’s book (hard back, colour, 300 copies). Zagreb, Croatia. June 2010. Design by Ben Cain.
2008
Constant Traveller, artist’s book (hard back, colour, 500 copies) produced as a part of the project with the same title that included a solo exhibition in BOP Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. April 2008. Design by Ben Cain.
2007
At First Sight, artist’s book (soft back, colour, 500 copies) produced in relation to the solo show At First Sight in Blickensdorff Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Zagreb, Croatia, March 2007. Design by Ben Cain.
The Visit, artist’s book (soft back, b/w, 500 copies) produced as a part of the project with the same title that included in a solo exhibition in Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. May 2007. Design by Ben Cain.
Fairs
2022
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
Molnár Ani Galéria
1088, Budapest
Bródy Sándor u. 36.
Nyitvatartás:
Kedd – Péntek:
12.00 – 18.00
Nyitvatartási időn kívül előzetes bejelentkezés után látogatható.
am projects
1088, Budapest
Bródy Sándor u. 22.
Nyitvatartás:
Szerda – Péntek:
13.00 – 18.00
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