Josip Zanki Croatia
Josip Zanki was born in Zadar on 14th March 1969. He grew up in the village of Privlaka, north west of Zadar, in a family of fishermen and farmers. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1994 (class of Professor Miroslav Sutej) with a thesis entitled "Mysticism in the Artistic Practice of J. Beuys" and an experimental series of etchings "New Machines", a remake of the research conducted by the renaissance scientist Faust Vrancic. Since 1986 he has been working on installations, performances, experimental film and video and in the research into graphic media. He received numerous prizes for his work. His involvement in archaeology has resulted in a collection of 200 prehistoric and mediaeval objects relating to mystical and occult religious practices. He is also interested in the phenomena of the Velebit mountain range; Mirila, valleys, enchanted forests and the existence and the influence of elemental beings on the myth and the reality of this region.. He has realised numerous individual and collective exhibitions with other artists in Croatia and abroad. Since decembar 2007 he is president of Croatian aassociation of artist He works in Zagreb. Major group exhibition: 1991-Guernica croatica- Arengario, Milano, Italy 1993 - Mediteraneen Youth Biennial - Modern Gallery, Rijeka 1993, 1995, 1998,2001 - Zagreb salon - MGC, Zagreb Gallery, Modern Gallery, House of the Croatian association of artist , Zagreb 1995 - Trace di grafica Croata- Galleria d arte contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Italy 1996 - New concept- Kula Lotr??ak, Zagreb 1996, 1998- Youth salon - House of the Croatian association of artist , Zagreb 1997,2001,2003,2006,2008 - Graphics Triennal - Modern gallery, House of the Croatian association of artist , Gliptoteka HAZU,Zagreb 2001 - Mutamenti/inganni - Scardavilla - Forli, Italy 2002 -Calendar, Studio Tomasseo, Trieste, Italy 2002 -Digging the channel-Mobius centar for experimental art, Boston, USA 2004 -Pilot 04-Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb 2004- Erben-eroberen-Inovation park, Graz, Austria 2005- Contemporary Croatian drawing, Aman, Kairo, Hong Kong, Ljubljana, Wiena…. 2006 - Wegstrecken: Standpunkte-Arten des Bewegens, St. Lambrecht, Austria 2007 -- Contemporary Croatian art - Lighthouse gallery, Jaffa , Israel 2008- Bienale of ilustration - Klovi?evi dvori Gallery, Zagreb 2008- Contemporary Croatian art, Rabat, Maroco Major individual exhibition 1998 - Gradec Galery- Zagreb 1998 - Museum of eastern and western art - Odessa, Ukrayne 1999 - Galerija 36 - Kiev, Ukrayne 2000 - Enciklopedija mrtvih (with Bojan Gagi?) - Gallery "Miroslav Kraljevi?" - Zagreb 2001 -Manulera (with Bojan Gagi?) Ludiialydis, Milano, Italy 2001- Mirila (performance with Bojan Gagi?), Galeria Neon, Bologna -Studio Tomasseo, Trst, Italy 2002- Mirila, Museum Mimara, Zagreb 2002 - Institut Sztuki, Krakow, Poland 2003- Studio Tomasseo, Trst, Italy 2004- Galerie sur Cour, Paris, France 2004, 2006, 2007- Violin factory, London, UK 2007- Chopor horda, Pe?uh, Hungary 2008 - Kosa?a Gallery, Mostar, BIH
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