biography
Damir Očko
Zagreb, 1977
education and residencies
2011
Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Nordic Art Center Dale, Norway
Künstlerresidenz Blumen, Leipzig, Germany
2008-2009
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
HIAP, Helsinki, Finland
KulurKontakt, Vienna, Austria
Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania
1997-2003
Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
selected solo exhibitions
2012
Multi Media Center Luka, Pula, Croatia (upcoming)
Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno, Italy (upcoming)
2011
On Ulterior Scale, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jedinstvo Hall - Gallery Močvara, 26th Music Biennale, Zagreb, Croatia
2010
Castle & Elephant, Coventry, UK
Event Horizon, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
The Age of Happiness, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno, Italy
Screening Room, Blumen, Leipzig, Germany
2009
The Age of Happiness, Lothringer13 Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
The Age of Happiness, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
The End of the World, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Why does Gravity make things fall?, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania (With N. Domidiano and S. Kanani)
2006
The Missing Mountain, Barutana, Osijek, Croatia
Garden, Gallery VN, Zagreb, Croatia
Compositions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lotrščak Tower, Zagreb, Croatia
2005
Driving world does not end at the same point, Gallery Moria, Hvar, Croatia
Avoid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (with I. Franke and S.Vujičić)
Resil(i)ence, PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2004
Ich leb allein in meinem Himmel (PILOT 04), Museum of Contemporary Art - Project room, Zagreb, Croatia
selected group exhibitions
2012
T-HTAward, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia (upcoming)
2011
On stage: narrative and performance in contemporary Croatian video, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria │ curated by Jasna Jakšić
Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cities - visionary places, Torrance Art Museum, L.A, USA │ curated by Camilla Boemio
11th Visura Aperta, Momiano, Croatia │ curated by Davorka Perić
Picture of Sound, Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia │curated by Evelina Turković
After the Crash, Orto Botanico, Rome, Italy │ curated by Camilla Boemio
PRETTY VACANT – spaces of uncertainty and discontinuity, POLIS 2011, Pula, Croatia │ curated by Branka Benčić
Jour de Fête, Loop Festival, Private Art Space Gallery, Barcelona, Spain │ curated by Pedro Torres & Alexandra Laudo
Picture of Sound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia │curated by Evelina Turković
Mit Seife und Gabeln, Kunstraum Kreunzlingen, Kreunzlingen, Switzerland │ curated by Tanja Trampe & Daniela Petrini
2010
Picture of Sound, Multimedia Center Split, Split, Croatia │ curated by Evelina Turković
PostDimensione - Viaggio nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta Bari, Italy │ curated by Giacomo Zaza
Videonale Sarajevo Intervention - Balkan Box, DUPLEX, Sarajevo, BIH │ curated by Pierre Courten
Avventure Minime, Convento di San Lorenzo, Salerno, Italy │ curated by Antonello Tolve
Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany │ curated by Anna Ptak, Marianna Dobkowska & Konstantin Lom
Here and Now, Bolognia Art First, Museo Arheologico, Bologna, Italy │ curated by Julia Draganović
2009
Working Title, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland │ curated by Anna Ptak, Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka & Marianna Dobkowska
Grenzenlos, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia │ curated by Jerica Ziherl
CITIES - visionary places, Roma Festival dell Arhitettura, Auditorium Arte, Rome, Italy │ curated by Camilla Boemio
VIDEOARTEVERONA - Sezione Visione Video, Art Verona, Verona, Italy │ curated by Maria Rosa Sossai
GENERATIONS, AKTO4 - Festival for Contemporary Art, Bitola, Macedonia │ curated by Nataša Bordožić
Video Salon, Duplex / Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH │ curated by Pierre Courten
Cinemaniac, MultiMedia Center, Pula, Croatia │ curated by Branka Benčić
Wondering where the ducks went, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno, Italy │ curated by Simona Brunetti
Dealing with Fear, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy - National Studio for Contemporary Art, Tourcoing, France │ curated by Pascale Pronnier
2008
COMUNICOLOGY, Projektraum Römerstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany │ curated by Konstantin Lom
4th Busan International Video Festival, Art Space Bandee, Busan, Korea │ curated by Pierre Courtin
In Transition Russia, National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia │ curated by NeMe
In Transition Russia, National Center of Contemporary art Yekaterinburg, Russia │ curated by NeMe
SPAPORT, 1st International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, BIH │ curated by Ana Nikitovic
Kairos, Mali Salon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Kairos, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Salon of Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia │ curated by Antonia Majača & Ivana Bago
Where the east ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Re-reading of the future, International Triennial of contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic │ curated by Nathalie Hénon & Jean-François Rettig
13th Biennale of young artists BJCEM, Puglia, Italy
Croatia First Minute, Verket, Avesta, Sweden │ curated by Jasna Jakšić
Balkan Express, Gallery Piksel, Warszawa, Poland
ISOLOMANIA, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus │ curated by Helene Black
2007
Somewhere far away, Lothringer13 Laden, Munich, Germany │ curated by Adela Demetja
Under Construction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia │ curated by Jasna Jakšić
T-HTaward@MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
The post cinema Experience, d/Art/07 - Australian center for photography, Sydney, Australia │ curated by Ricardo Felipe
New Revelations, Spectrum project space, Perth, Australia │ curated by Leon Marvel
Croitoru, Demetja und Ocko, Art Point Gallery, Vienna, Austria │ curated by Katarzyna Uszynska
Heroes in Transition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK │ curated by Jasna Jakšić
2006
Fetish, Gallery VN, Zagreb, Croatia │ curated by Olga Majcen
28th Zagreb Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Finale 2006, Putar award, Gallery Galzenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2005
Back to the future, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia │ curated by Leila Topić
Backwards, Pixelpoint05, Mestna Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia │ curated by Igor Španjol
Postskulpture, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia │ curated by Zvonko Maković
39th Zagreb Salon of Fine Arts, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
festivals and screenings
2011
Cinematography is the strongest weapon, 98WEEKS Project Space, Beirut, Lebanon │curated by Gaia Casagrande and Barbara Goretti
2010
Film Screening - The Age of Happiness, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Forde, Norway
Film Screening - The Moon shall never take my Voice, Nordic Art Center Dale, Norway
Nuit Blanche 2010, Point Ephemere, Paris, France │ video program by Pierre Courten
Territories of the In/Human, Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany │ curated by Iris Dressler & Hans D. Christ
2009
Something in Common, Chisinau, Moldova │ curated by Nataša Bordožić
SuperNova, La Generale, Paris, France
Lille3000-Europa XXL, Tri Postal / Gare Saint Sauveur Lille, France │ video program by Pierre Courten
2008
Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
2007
Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Videojamit4, HIAP project room, Helsinki, Finland
d/Art/07, Chauvel cinema, Sydney, Australia
52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy │ video program by Edi Muka
2004
Little Queer overture (with London gay symphony orchestra), Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall, Zagreb, Croatia
Little Queer overture (with London gay symphony orchestra), St. John's church, London, UK
selected bibliography
-Damir Ocko by Reuben Henry, a-n Magazine, september issue, UK, 2010
-essay by Antonello Tolve, ARTKEY Magazine, 2010
-The Age of Happiness, EXIBART no.65, text by Daniela Trincia, Rome, 2010
-Interview with Maria Rosa Sossai, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno, 2010
-Deadpan, text by Camilla Boemio, Equipeco no.22, Roma, 2009
-Cat., Working Title, CSW Ujazdowski, Warsaw,2009
-Cat., CITIES-Places visionaries, Roma, 2009
-Cat., CINEMANIAC 09, MMC Luka, Pula, 2009
-Cat., The Age of Happiness, Lothringer13, Munich, 2009
-Cat., Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy, Tourcing, 2009
-Cat., Salon of the Revolution, 2008
-Cat., SPAPORT first international annual exhibition, Banja Luka, 2008
-Cat., Where the east ends, KNV, Wiesbaden, 2008
-Cat., Re-reading of the future, ITCA 2008, Prague, 2008
-Cat., Croatia First Minute, MSU, Zagreb, 2008
-Cat., Insert, MSU, Zagreb, 2008
-Cat., Isolomania, NeMe, Nicosia, 2008
-Cat., Damir Očko / The end of the world: Interview, Zagreb, 2007
-Cat., Rencontres Iternationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, 2007
-K15, Concepts in New Croatian Art, Krešimir Purgar, Zagreb, 2007
-Cat., Tirana institute for contemporary Art, Tirana, 2007
-Concrete choice: Damir Očko, Jasna Jakšić, Kontura no.93, Zagreb, 2007
-About Heroes, Jasna Jakšić, Život Umjetnosti no.80, Zagreb, 2007
-Cat., Heroes in Transition, Jasna Jakšić, Nottingham, 2007
-Desire for utopia, A.M. Koljanin, Kontura no.91, Zagreb, 2006
-How to find your own place, N.Bošnjak, Glas Slavonije, Osijek, 2006
-Damir Očko's Garden, Leila Topić, Vjesnik, 2006
-Damir Očko: Interview, Leila Topić, Kontura no.89, Zagreb, 2006
-Traps of Musical Irreversibility, Trpimir Marasović, Zarez no.179, Zagreb, 2006
-Cat., Compositions, Jasna Jakšić, Trpimir Matasović, Zagreb, 2006
-Pleasure of renunciation, Ivana Mance, CIP, Zagreb, 2005
-Cat., A shot at the void, Jasna Jakšić, Zagreb, 2005
-Cat., Life counterpoint, Leila Topić, Hvar, 2005
-Cat., Resil(i)ence, Jasna Jakšić, Zagreb, 2005