About - Marko Markovic
Marko Marković (1983)
2007. Graduated as an academic painter at the Art Academy in Split, Croatia.
2009. Graduated at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Zadar, Croatia Pedagogical – psychological education
2016. enrolled MA Art and Science Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.
2019. Art and Science department Academy of Applied Arts Vienna – Program Coordinator in partnership with European Capital of Culture 2020 Rijeka, Croatia.
Working in different media with a focus on performing arts, Marko Marković critically reflects on political and social structures in his work. His artistic interests are predominantly marked by transformation processes between the individual and society. His works reflect everyday life in which he examines the relation between inferiority and superiority as well as the position of power in different geopolitical systems.
He is recognized as a performance artist who is exploring the boundaries of his own endurance and is one of the most radical performers on the Croatian art scene. Marković deals with identity issues and the body as instrument of expression and experimentation. He often includes audiences in his work and collaborates with people from different social and professional background.
Marko Marković is also the curator and organizer of various cultural-artistic projects and have founded in 2008. DOPUST/ Days of Open Performance, international festival platform for the performance art.
For 2016 festival edition he curated an exhibition on Viennese Actionism, in collaboration with MUMOK archive.
From 2012-2014 he worked as a production assistant in the New York studio of Matthew Barney, where he curated a program introducing artists working in the studio.
Marković exhibited his work at Anthology Film Archives, New York; ISCP New York; The Kitchen New York; La Esmeralda, Mexico City; Biennale de Mediterranean, Thessaloniki; Art Rotterdam; Künstlerhaus Wien, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
In 2016 his work has been presented in the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Link to performance "Praise the laziness" together with Marina Rebhandl
2007. Graduated as an academic painter at the Art Academy in Split, Croatia.
2009. Graduated at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Zadar, Croatia Pedagogical – psychological education
2016. enrolled MA Art and Science Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.
2019. Art and Science department Academy of Applied Arts Vienna – Program Coordinator in partnership with European Capital of Culture 2020 Rijeka, Croatia.
Working in different media with a focus on performing arts, Marko Marković critically reflects on political and social structures in his work. His artistic interests are predominantly marked by transformation processes between the individual and society. His works reflect everyday life in which he examines the relation between inferiority and superiority as well as the position of power in different geopolitical systems.
He is recognized as a performance artist who is exploring the boundaries of his own endurance and is one of the most radical performers on the Croatian art scene. Marković deals with identity issues and the body as instrument of expression and experimentation. He often includes audiences in his work and collaborates with people from different social and professional background.
Marko Marković is also the curator and organizer of various cultural-artistic projects and have founded in 2008. DOPUST/ Days of Open Performance, international festival platform for the performance art.
For 2016 festival edition he curated an exhibition on Viennese Actionism, in collaboration with MUMOK archive.
From 2012-2014 he worked as a production assistant in the New York studio of Matthew Barney, where he curated a program introducing artists working in the studio.
Marković exhibited his work at Anthology Film Archives, New York; ISCP New York; The Kitchen New York; La Esmeralda, Mexico City; Biennale de Mediterranean, Thessaloniki; Art Rotterdam; Künstlerhaus Wien, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
In 2016 his work has been presented in the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Link to performance "Praise the laziness" together with Marina Rebhandl
Works
- Mutual aid in self-organized societies (January 20, 2021)Master Project Presentation
- Invisible performance. (November 16, 2019)Exhibited
- C.A.T.: Catastrophic Animals on Terra (June 25, 2019)Author
- A T.A.Z. FOR C.A.T.S – UTOPIA – MAKHNO (June 25, 2019)Author
- The Landing is on Friday (November 20, 2018)Exhibited
- Black Forest (October 25, 2017)Works
- Direct Action (June 06, 2017)Works
Activities
- Migratory Anthropocene / Improper Walls (September 09, 2022)ExhibitionExhibited
- Mutual Aid Orchestra (September 15, 2021)Performance by Ausländer for WIENWOCHE 2021Project coordinator
- CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL VIDEOPARK (July 22, 2021)The third edition of Contemporary Art Festival VIDEOPARKParticipant
- CAN YOU HOLD THIS FOR A SEC? (June 29, 2021)2020–2021 Master works exhibition, part of the Angewandte FestivalExhibited
- Vienna Art Week 2020 (November 15, 2020)Participation – Artist TalksContributions
- SMALL THINGS THAT HOLD (June 26, 2020)Interventions in public space Vienna & Live Stream – Part of the Angewandte Festival 2020Project Management and exhibiting artist
- Fuzzy Speculations on Neighbourhoods: Conversations around speculative "souvenirs" for future neighbours (June 25, 2020)Part of the Angewandte Festival 2020Project Management and exhibiting artist
- FILMS @ ANGEWANDTE / Art & Science 2020 (June 23, 2020)Fužine project / 27 NeighborhoodsProject coordinator
- THE ELSEWHERE SCHOOL (June 23, 2020)"Research in conviviality" on-going students project 2019/2020Project coordinator
- Fu-Zine (May 12, 2020)Programme 1 – Our irregular zine documenting our research and connections within the neighborhood of Fužine, CroatiaProject Management and exhibiting artist
- ART & SCIENCE group exhibition as part of the Vienna Art Week Open Studio Days (November 16, 2019)Exhibited
- FUŽINE – European Cultural City Rijeka 2020 (November 04, 2019)First Excursion to FužineProject coordinator
- Meet the Universe (September 05, 2019)Exhibition - in collaboration with Cuántico, HEPHY and Art@CMSExhibited
- C.A.T.: CATASTROPHIC ANIMALS ON TERRA – A GUIDEBOOK TO LIFE ELSEWHERE (June 25, 2019)Picnic and book presentationText
- Scouting mission Fužine, Croatia (May 13, 2019)Art & Science DepartmentCooperations and Excursions' organization
- Boxels – part of Biennale Sessions – La Biennale di Venezia (May 11, 2019)Exhibition on the occasion of the panel “Digital Transformations – Society and Arts at the Turning Point”Exhibited
- LATENT COMMONS (February 07, 2019)International group exhibitionExhibited
- THE LANDING IS ON FRIDAY (November 23, 2018)MinisymposiumExhibited
- The Essence 18 (November 20, 2018)University of Applied Arts Vienna | Annual ExhibitionExhibited
- The Essence 18 (November 20, 2018)University of Applied Arts Vienna | Annual ExhibitionExhibited
- ROUNDTABLE (December 19, 2017)Midsemester presentations, second yearsPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (December 12, 2017)Midsemester presentations, second yearsPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (October 10, 2017)Second years introductions
- Excursion (October 10, 2017)TBA21-Academy
- In The Woods | In The Wild (July 03, 2017)Field research and publication projectParticipant
- ROUNDTABLE (May 23, 2017)CERN/HEPHYPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (May 02, 2017)CERN/HEPHY individual feedbackPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (March 27, 2017)Sample/prototype displayPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (March 21, 2017)CERN/HEPHY I Thesis writingPresentation
- ROUNDTABLE (WS Presentations) (January 31, 2017)CERN/HEPHY semester presentations
- ROUNDTABLE (January 19, 2017)Midsemester presentation, second yearPresentation
- Excursion to Radiology Department (AKH) (January 16, 2017)with Franz Kainberger and Andrea Maier
- Excursion to CERN (December 18, 2016)Participant
- ROUNDTABLE (December 13, 2016)Presentation
- ROUNDTABLE (November 08, 2016)MULTINATURALISM - Preparing for HEPHY & CERN
- ROUNDTABLE (October 18, 2016)
- OPEN HOUSE 2016 (October 11, 2016)
Marko Markovic