Renata Poljak was born in Split, Croatia, in 1974. She lives and works in Paris, France.
Education / Residencies
2008 – 2007 Artist in Residency Cité des Arts, Paris.
2004 Artist in Residency, Museum Quartier, Vienna.
2002 ArtsLink, Artist in Residency San Francisco Art Institute.
1998 - 1999 Post - diplôme, E.R.B.A.N., Nantes.
1992 - 1997 Arts Academy, Split.
AWARDS
2006
Great Expectations, Golden Black Box Short Award at the Balkan Black Box Festival, Berlin.
Great Expectations, 2nd Award at the 7th Days of Film Mediterranean Festival Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Great Expectations, Best film in national competition at the 4th Tabor film festival, Croatia.
2000
Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata, Public Award, Balkan Video Federation, Belgrade.
Skok/Jump, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad.
1999
Souvenirs (Memories) / Tito, Tata, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad.
1997
I, the Housewife!, Annual Award of Women`s Art Center Electra, Zagreb.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 I Need You to Believe in Something, Artopia, Milan
2007 All One Knows, Gallery Kraljevic, Zagreb.
2006 All One Knows, Vukovar City Museum, (Kuba project) Vukovar.
2005 The View, Galery SC, Zagreb (cat.).
2003 Emergency Tensions, (with D. Figarella), Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami.
2002 Wonderland, Galerie Soardi, Nice.
2001 Did she Fall or was She Pushed?, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb (cat.).
2000 Renata Poljak, Galerie Soardi, Nice.
1998 Noise / Criteria, Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik.
Noise / Criteria, Architects` Club, Zagreb.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2008
Micro-Narratives - temptation of small realities, Museum of Modern Art of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne Biennale Transfrontaliera dell’arte contemporanea VAPARTEC _ Evento Trasforma Arte e città sostenibile, Senigallia, Italy.
Passages, passagen, pasàz, projections at Jeu de Paume, Paris, Gallery Kraljevic, Zagreb and in Art in General, New York.
2007
Challenging the East West Art Map, U-Turn Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen.
Passages, passagen, pasàz - hommage à Walter Benjamin, Gandy Galerie, Bratislava.
48th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade.
Central Europe Revisited I, Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstad, Austria.
Strictly Berlin 007, Galerie der Kunste, Berlin.
Woman at the crossroad of ideologies, international art and science event / exhibition, screenings, lectures, debates with edited book, HULU, Split.
2006
Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz / Basel.
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Nestroyhof, Vienna.
Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö.
International Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art, Central European University, Budapest. Sigmund's Stories - Perception as Spatial Transgression, gallery SC, Zagreb.
L’usage du monde, Mali Salon, Rijeka.
Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka.
2005
Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Between Fetishes and Ideology,- 34th Split Salon, Split.
Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
Binder, Milunovic, Poljak, gallery Ernst Hilger Contemporary, Vienna.
2004
Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France.
Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje, Montenegro.
2003
First View, gallery Ernst Hilger Contemporary, Vienna.
High Hills, public space project, Krems, Austria.
C’est(-)à(-)dire!, Palais de Papes, Avignon, France.
Rest Assured, CCS Museum, Bard College, New York.
Remediation Variants, WRO 03 Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Sharks In The Morning, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami.
2002
Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
2001
“video / je vois” La création vidéo en France, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
Central, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Quartier 21, Vienna.
Höchstleistung, Le Centre d’Art Shed im Eisenwerk de Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
Freedom and Violence, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Warsaw.
Provisoirement / Provizorno, La Station, Dubrovnik.
Dare to be different, Fier, Albania.
Adriatico: le due sponde, Michetti Museum, Francavilla a Mare, Italy.
WRO 01 Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland.
To tell a story, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
2000
BIG TORINO 2 000, Biennal of emerging artists, Turin.
A Small Country for a Big Vacation, Galerie SKUC, Ljubljana.
Actif-Réactif-la création vivante à Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes.
12 Positionen zeitgenossischer Kunst, Palais Harrach et Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna.
What, How & For Whom, dom HDLU, Zagreb.
1999
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.
Post Diplome, Glassbox, Paris.
Estatic memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Post Diplome, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, ZOO Galerie, Nantes.
10 Artists/ 8 Months/ Nantes, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid.
1998
Utopia, Chateau de Beaumanoir, Le Leslay, Quintin, France.
33 Zagreb Salon, Zagreb.
Messages (Public Art Project), Zagreb.
1997
As large as life, Raum fur Kunst, Steirischer Herbst, Graz.
Biennale of Young Artists/Artisti del Mediterraneo, Rijeka / Fiume.
Exchange Art Festival, Split.
1996
Visual Arts Section of the International Festival of New Film and Video, Split.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION) :
Lejla Topic, Renata Poljak, Camera Austria, Forum, No. 99/2007.
Natasa Ilic, All One Knows, in cat. Kuba - Journey Against the Current, 2006.
L.Topic, At the Court of the Transition King, in cat.The View, Renata Poljak,2005.
R. Ratkovic Arhitektonsko nasilje kao paradigma obiteljskih odnosa, Covjek i prostor, br.09-10, 2005.
M. Golub Renata Poljak u Galeriji SC, radio 101, likovnost, studeni 2005.
R. Marcoci Here Tomorrow, in cat. Here Tomorrow, 2002.
N. Ilic, Falling into Circularity, in cat. did she fall o r was she pushed ?, Zagreb, 2001.
Ana Devic, Croatia, Young Art, in cat. Adriatico, Le Due Sponde, 2001.
M.Mercier, Video indépendante en Croatie, BREF- le magazine du court métrage, n°43, hiver 99/2000.
Janka Vukmir Renata Poljak-Issues of Intimacy and Femininity, SIKSI - The Nordic Art Review, vol.12/no.4, winter 1997.
