IGOR ESKINJA
Born 1975 in Rijeka, Croatia Lives and works between Rijeka, Croatia and Milan, Italy.
EDUCATION
2002 Accademia delle Belle Arti, Venice, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Poems of Accumulation and Growth, Scaramouche, NY Museum of Arts-MUO, Zagreb, Croatia (forthcoming)
2014 Quixote, curated by Adam Budak, Museum of Perception-MuWA, Graz, Austria Azuriranja, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia Dialogue With The Permanent Collection, Museum of Arts-MUO, Zagreb, Croatia Temporary Encounters, curated by Branka Bencic, Gallery Apoteka, Vodnjan, Croatia
2013 Dan Zatem, curated by Petja Grafenauer, Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia In Vitro, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, MAC-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy Infinity Paper, curated by Daniele Capra, Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi, Rovereto, Italy
2012 Interieur Captivant, curated by Valerie Labayle, MAC-VAL, Vitry sur Seine, France Right Construction, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2011 The Day After, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy Inhabitants Of Generic Places, Museum of contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia The Near And The Elsewhere, curated by Sonja Zavrtanik, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia One On One: Igor Eskinja and Viktor Popovic, curated by Jasminka Babic and Sabina Salamon, Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia Inhabitants Of Generic Places, curated by Annemarie Tuerk and Heike Eipeldauer, Gallery Tresor, Kunstforum, Austria, Vienna
2010 Nowheristan, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Tiha Proizvodnja, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
2009 You Say Build I Say Shoot!, Elly Brose Eiermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany Made In:Side, curated by Alberto Salvatori, Bardini Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy Apparenze, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy Igor Eškinja, curated by Riccardo Caldura, Galleria Civica di Mestre, Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy Project For Unssuccesful Gathering, curated by Anne Kayser, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2008 Igor Eškinja, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy Igor Eškinja, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos-CAB, Burgos, Spain Fugaz, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Infinitas Posibilidades De Mundos Paralelos, curated by Gabriela Quero Larrazabal, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela Iceberg, curated by Željko Marcijuš, Gallery Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia Igor Eškinja, Gallery Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria Imagineering, curated by Branko Franceschi and Nataša Ivančević, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Imagineering, Gallery PM, Zagreb, Croatia
2006 Different Point Of View, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
2005 Present Future, Federico Luger Gallery, Artissima 12, Torino, Italy Reality Check, text by Alfredo Sigolo, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy Oni/Them, Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
2004 Obli(Lik)Ovan/Ja, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia Interno 12, curated by Paolo Angelosanto, Via Ratazzi, Rome, Italy
2003 Najobičnija Izložba, Gallery OK, M.M.C. Palach, Rijeka Izložba, Gallery Fontikus, Grožnjan / Gallery Toš, Punat-Krk, Croatia
2001 Igor Eškinja, Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (forthcoming ) Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy (forthcoming)
2014 Notes On Undoing, curated by Branka Benčić, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York Great Undoing, curated by Branka Bencic, Porec Annale, Porec, Croatia My Land Has Palm Trees, curated by Irena Boric, SIZ Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2013 Eight Ways To Overcome Space And Time, curated by, Una Popovic and Stefanie Bottcher, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia Silent Work, curated by Sabina Salamon and Slaven Tolj, Michaela Stock Gallery, Vienna, Austria Art Must Be Beautiful, curated by Jerica Ziherl, Porec Annale, Porec, Croatia The Immigrants, curated by Federico Luger and Pasquale Leccesse, ex-bireria Dreher, Giudecca, Venezia Ten is more than a number, curated by Miguel Angel Sanchez, ADN gallery, Barcelona, Spain P - (P)arerga & (P)aralipomena della (P)ittura, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Bonelli LAB, Mantova, Italy Zero Point Of Meaning, curated by Sandra Krizic Roban, Ivana Hanacek, Irena Gessner, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria Lo Parcial Como Significativo, curated by Emilio Navarro, Centro de Arte Alconbendas, Madrid, Spain
2012 Stardust, curated by Laurance Gateau and Slaven Tolj, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France Second Ural Industrial Biennal, curated by Iara Boubnova, Ekatarinbourg, Russia Dimentions Of Humor, curated by Blazenka Perica, Sonja Gasperov and Vedran Perkov, Gallery Klovicevi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia Topical Tactics, Media-Scape 2012, Biennial, Zagreb, curated by Ingeborg Fulepp, Zagreb, Croatia Ash And Gold: A World Tour, curated by Anne Schloen, Schloss Moyland, Germany Abstraction, curated by Ana Medic and Ivana Mance, Klovicevi Dvori Musuem, Zagreb, Croatia Swept Away, curated by David McFadden, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Ash And Gold: A World Tour, curated by Anne Schloen, Marta Herford, Germany Rearview Morror, curated by Christophere Eamon, Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2011 Rearview Mirror, curated by Christophere Eamon, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Dimentions Of Humor, curated by Blazenka Perica, Sonja Gasperov and Vedran Perkov, Gallery Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia Zero Point Of Meaning, curated by Sandra Krizic Roban, Ivana Hanacek, Irena Gessner, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia Dolomiti Contemporanee, curated by Daniele Capra, Pordenone, Italy Arte Non E' Cosa Nostra, Accademia Pavilion, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy DIRT: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life, curated by Kate Ford, Wellcome Foundation, London, England Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Parallel Lines, with Michael Boran, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Days Of Graphic Art, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osjek, Croatia Carpet Diem, Plusdesign, Milan, Italy
2010 Auguri Ad Arte, Museum MART - Rovereto, Italy Blow−Up, Galerie Alberta Pane-Kernotart, Paris, France Luc Tuymans – A Vision Of Central Europe, curated by Luc Tuymans, Brugge Centraal, Brugge, Belgium E-Motion To Cohabit, curated by Aurora Fonda and Iva Rada Jankovic, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy There Has Been No Future There Will Be No Past, curated by Marco Antonini and Sandrine Canac, ISCP-New York, USA Word For Word, Without Words, curated by Alenka Gregorič, Municipal Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia Tu Smo, curated by Mladen Lucic, Museum of Contemporary Art Istria-MUI, Pula, Croatia Big Wave, August In Art Biennal, curated by Maria Vassileva, Varna, Bulgaria Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy Beyond Credit, curated by M. Vassileva, I. Boubnova, L. Boyadijev, Antrepo 5, Sanat Limani, Istanbul, Turkey Stratifications, curated by Daniele Capra, KernotArt, Paris, France No Contemplation, Gallery Federico Luger, Milan, Italy Who Want To Use My Windows, curated by Silvia Conta, Paolo Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy Fische Hinterlassen Keine Spuren, curated by Stefanie Bottcher, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Germany Sull'invisibile, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Photo I Photo You, curated by Iara Boubnova, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, England
2009 Processing A Mirage, curated by Ema Nobile Mino, Futuraproject, Prague, Czech Republic Grenzenlos, curated by Jerica Ziherl, MMSU Rijeka, Croatia Past Present Future, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria Limite Alla Rovescia, curated by Daniele Capra, Palazzo Minucci, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 28 Grafični Bijenale, curated Jadranka Ljubičič, Gallery Alcatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia Fifty Fifty, Kunst im dialog mit den 50er –jahren, curated by Wolfgang Kos and Gudrun Ratzinger, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria Living With..., Gallery Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy Mother, Future Was A Drawing!, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy Scenes Centrales, curated by Elena Sorokina, TriPostal, Lille, France Complicity, curated by Leigh Markopoulos, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2008 Perverted By Theater, curated by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young, Apexart, New York, USA Risque D'Attente, curated by Branka Benčić, Gallery Karas, Zagreb, Croatia What About Power Relations?, curated by Alenka Gregoric, Mara Vujic, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia Manifesta 7, curated by Adam Budak, Rovereto, Italy OPEN SKY – Spaces beyond their Practice, curated by Sandro Droschl, Ilz, Austria Words, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy Island Map, curated by Marina Viculin, Klovicevi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia Fourth Croatian Triennale Of Drawing, curated by Ruzica Pepelko and Margarita S. Simat, HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia Re-Constructions, curated by Branka Benčić, Gallery Waldinger, Osijek, Croatia
2007 T-HTnagrada@msu.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Art Point Gallery, with Kristina Lenard and Katarina Radovic, organized by Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria Prague Biennale 3: Expanded Painting, curated by Helena Kontova, Prague, Czech Republic Visura Aperta – Momjano 07, curated by Davorka Perić, Momjan, Croatia Space 101, with Esperanza Spearling, Gallery Buro fur Kunst, Dresden, Germany Mine, Yours, Ours, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic and Davor Miskovic, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
2006 Youth Artist Prize - Henkel, organized by Kulturkontakt, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria Art Is Always Somewhere Else, Biennale of Young Artists, Bucharest, Romania Out Of The Blue, Gallery Federico Luger, Milan, Italy The Third Gongju International Art Festval, curated by Ha Jin, Gongju, Korea Photo New York 2006, Federico Luger Gallery, New York, USA Multimeridian 06, curated by Branko Franceschi, selection by artist Alen Floričić, Gallery Luka, Pula, Croatia Go-Global, Gallery Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia Transformations, curated by Jasminka Babić, Zlarin, Croatia RUBIK3, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Gallery Studio G7, Bologna, Italy MACO, Federico Luger Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico Memory W(H)Ole, organized by Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia MIART, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy
2005 New Rijeka Scene, curated by Natasa Ivancevic and Branko Cerovac, Umjetnicka Galerija Dubrovnik, Croatia Dicotomie, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy Continental Breakfast, Ljubljana, Memory (W)hole, curated by Janka Vukmir and Dario Simicic, SCCA, Slovenia Zagreb, organized by Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia SEAS-Rijeka 2005, international multimedia festival, organized by Drugo More, Ex-Paper Mill, Rijeka, Croatia Linear Structures, curated by Branko Franceschi, organized by Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Rijeka, and Institute for Contemporary Art-Riga, Gallery Riga, Riga, Latvia Ek-sistere, curated by Branko Cerovac, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
2004 Castrum Vallis, curated by Ravnica Organization, Bale, Croatia Radoslav Putar prize, winner 04, curated by SCCA, Zagreb, Gliptoteka HAZU-a, Zagreb, Croatia 6+1 traže gledatelja, curated by Ksenija Orel, Gallery Juraj Šporer, Opatija, Croatia
2003 Emerging Artists: Riječka Situacija, curated by Nataša Ivančević, MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia Godišnja izložba HDLU-a Rijeka, annual award of the Association of Visual Artists-HDLU, Gallery Kortil; Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia Garage, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre-Venezia, Italy Poetike slike – Mape realnosti, curated by Sabina Salamon, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia I Care Because You Do, curated by Interno 3, Gallery Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy
2002 Godišnja izložba HDLU-a Rijeka, Gallery Kortil; Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia Young Artists from Rijeka, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
2001 International Triennal Of Drawing, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Young Artists From Rijeka, Ex-Pescheria, Este; Cividale del Friuli, Italy Novoprimljeni članovi HDLU-a Rijeka, Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
2000 Godišnja izložba HDLU-a Rijeka, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia Made In Venice, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Roma, Italy Palazzo Carminati Invita, Palazzo Carminati, Venice, Italy
1999 83rd Collettiva, Nuova Icona Prize, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy Segni Contemporanei, exibition organized by CAT-workweare, Palazzo Carminati, Venice, Italy Autori/Tratti/Contemporanei, curated by Antonio Arevalo i Aurora Fonda, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, and Biennale dei Giovani, Roma, Italy Wim Wenders E Due Generazioni, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy Produzione Resistente, curated by Aldo Grazzi and Luca Massimo Barbero, Museo Virgiliano, Mantova, Italy
1998 Night Gallery, TAG, Mestre, Italy 82nd Collettiva, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, Prize Winner, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
1997 Nuove Figure, Gallery Traghetto, Venice, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2012 MAC-VAL, Vitry sur Seine
2007 Kulutrkontakt, Vienna
2006 Triangle-France, Marseille
2004 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
1999 & 2002 Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
AWARDS
2007 T-HT Award, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia
2006 Youth Artist Prize - Henkel, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria
2004 Radoslav Putar Prize, Winner 2004, curated by SCCA (Institute for Contemporary Art), Zagreb, Croatia Gliptoteka HAZU-a, Zagreb, Croatia
2003 Annual Award Of The Association Of Visual Artists HDLU, Gallery Kortil and Gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
1999 Nuova Icona Prize, 83rd Edition, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
1998 Cassa Di Risparmio Di Venezia Prize, 82nd Edition, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MAXXI – Museo Nazioniale delle Arti del XXI Secolo – Rome, Italy MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia MAC/VAL – Musee d'Art Contemporain Val de Marne, Paris, France MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia FRAC-Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France CAB – Caja De Arte Burgos, Spain Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia Department of Culture, Madrid, Spain Zagrebačka Banka-Unicredit, Zagreb, Croatia Hypo-Alpe Adria Bank, Zagreb, Croatia Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014 Temporary Encounters, exhibition catalogue, essay by Branka Bencic. Azuriranja, interview no.1 newspaper edition, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU), Rijeka, Croatia Parcours (No. 6) de la collection, MAC/VAL Museum, France
2013 8 Ways To Overcome Space And Time, exhibition catalogue, essay by Una Popovic and Stefanie Bottcher, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia Artribune, review by Claudio Cucco, May 2, 2013 Gabriele Salvaterra, “Arte per le Machine,” in Espoarte, April 17, 2013
2012 Stardust, exhibition catalogue, essay by Laurance Gateau and Julie Portier, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France Second Ural Industrial Biennal, biennale catalogue, essay by Iara Boubnova, Ekatarinbourg, Russia Abstraction, exhibition catalogue, essay by Ana Medic and Ivana Mance, Klovicevi Dvori Musuem, Zagreb, Croatia Swept Away, essay by David McFadden, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, USA Grace-Yvette Gemmell, “Dust might: For a new exhibition, artists work in a material that’s synonymous with fleetingness,” Capital New York, March 29, 2012 http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/03/5581820/dust-might-new-exhibition-artists-work-material-thats-synonymous-fle Ash And Gold: A World Tour, exhibition catalogue, essay by Anne Schloen, Museum Marta-Hertford, Germany
2011 Marco Tagliaferro, “Critic’s picks: The Day After,” Artforum, December 2011 Rearview Mirror, exhibition catalogue, essay by Christophere Eamon, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada The Day After, text by Giorgio Verzotti, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy Sandra Krizic Roban, Ivana Hanacek and Irena Gessner, “Zero Point Of Meaning,” Zivot Umjetnosti no. 89 Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life, exhibition catalogue, essay by Kate Ford, Wellcome Foundation, London, England Kate Forde “500 words with Kate Ford,” Artforum, June 2011 Laura Barnett, “Another view on Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life,” The Guardian, March 27, 2011 Inhabitants Of Generic Places, exhibition catalogue, essay by Annemarie Tuerk and Heike Eipeldauer, Kunstforum Bank-Austria, Vienna
2010 There Has Been No Future, There Will Be No Past, exhibition publication, essay by Marco Antonini and Sandrine Canac, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA Luc Tuymans: A Vision Of Central Europe, exhibition catalogue, essay by Kate Mayne, Brugge Centraal, Brugge, Belgium Word For Word, Without Words, exhibition catalogue, essay by Alenka Gregorič, Municipal Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia Prezivjeti Sliku, text by Kresimir Purgar, Meandarmedia, Zagreb, Croatia Photo I Photo You, exhibition catalogue, essay by Iara Boubnova, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, England
2009 28 Grafični Bijenale, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Alcatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia Fifty Fifty: Kunst im dialog mit den 50er –jahren, essay by Wolfgang Kos and Gudrun Ratzinger, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria MADE IN:SIDE, text by Alberto Salvatori, Bardinicontemporanea, Firenze, Italy Mario Cresci, FUTUREIMAGES, Federico Motta editori, Italy Design – Play, published by Victionary, Hong Kong Igor Eškinja, text by Riccardo Caldura, Galeria Civica di Mestre, Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy
2008
Manifesta 7, biennale catalogue, essay by Adam Budak, Rovereto, Italy Igor Eškinja, text by Kresimir Purgar and Emilio Navarro, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos-CAB, Burgos, Spain Soft-Cell dinamiche nello spazio in Italia, by Andrea Bruciati, Damiani Editori, Italy
2007 Prague Biennale 3, biennale catalogue, essay by Helena Kontova, Prague, Czech Republic Infinitas Posibilidades De Mundos Paralelos, text by Gabriela Quero, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela. Imagineering, exhibition catalogue, essay by Branko Franceschi and Natasa Ivancevic, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia
2003 Najobičnija Izložba (The Most Common Exhibition), text by Branko Cerovac, Gallery OK, M.M.C. Palach, Rijeka
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