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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
Master project Mutual aid in self-organized societies
“Mutual aid in self-organized societies” considers questions of the social behaviours of collectives and individuals by relating them to the concept of mutual aid in examples of self-organized, non-hierarchical societies…
Invisible performance.
Marko Marković, Invisible performance.Bare Island 2019. In addition to stone processing, timber, mechanical engineering, and construction, agronomy was also present as an economic branch of production on the Goli Otok. F…
04 Nov 2019
FUŽINE – European Cultural City Rijeka 2020
Meet the Universe
The exhibition “Meet the Universe”, organized by Cuántico, HEPHY, and Art@CMS shows works from 18 Vienna-based artists tackling the intersection of art and physics. The pieces have been created in collaboration with the…
A T.A.Z. FOR C.A.T.S – UTOPIA – MAKHNO
ANARCHISM FOR BEGINNERSConsidering modern society structures we often ask ourselves, what is our position and functionality in the system? There are confronted theories about the models suggested or opposed by ideas of n…
C.A.T.: Catastrophic Animals on Terra
About the book:From 2016–19 students of the Art & Science master course have been working on the implications of a contemporary academic discourse that aims at reframing our understanding of ‘nature’ through the annual t…
13 May 2019
Scouting mission Fužine, Croatia
Boxels – part of Biennale Sessions – La Biennale di Venezia
On the occasion of the panel “Digital Transformations – Society and Arts at the Turning Point”, students and alumni of the Art & Science Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna are presenting their works in a…
LATENT COMMONS
with Guadalupe Aldrete, Jasmina Grudnik, Rafael Lippuner, Marthin Rozo, Marko Markovic & Marina Markovic Opening 7th of February at 19 hExhibition until 23rd of FebruaryTuesday – Saturday, 12 – 20 h U10 Art SpaceKralja M…
The Landing is on Friday
In the context of the annual topic 2016–18: IN THE WOODS – IN THE WILDFrom 2016–18 students of the Art & Science master’s course, University of Applied Arts Vienna, have been working on the implications of a contemporary…
Black Forest
*’Black forest’ *is the video documentation of a walk through the forest in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. This walk through the forest follows the conversation with mountain people and members of anarchist commune Longo mai.…
10 Oct 2017
Excursion
10 Oct 2017
ROUNDTABLE
In The Woods | In The Wild
“Nature has lost its innocence.”This statement, probably, provokes very different thoughts, ideas and reactions. Some of us will think of “pristine nature” as something that is the other, the non-culture, the mother, or,…
Direct Action
Markovic, acting as a staff member overseeing the positioning of the flags in front of CERN, his intention was to move all flags onto one half of the field in front of CERN but only managed to move one the German Flag. T…
23 May 2017
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02 May 2017
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27 Mar 2017
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21 Mar 2017
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31 Jan 2017
ROUNDTABLE (WS Presentations)
19 Jan 2017
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16 Jan 2017
Excursion to Radiology Department (AKH)