Damir Očko
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com Born in 1977. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia education and residencies
2011 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2010 Nordic Art Center Dale Künstlerresidenz Blumen, Leipzig
2008-2009 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2007 HIAP, Helsinki KulturKontakt, Vienna Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana
1997-2003 Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
solo exhibitions
2018 CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux Jeu de Paume, Paris
2017 Dicta, Kasia Michalski, Warsaw The Agency Gallery, London
2016 Repeat after me, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest Year out of Shape, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery, Naples DAZIBAO, Montreal
2015 Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree, Croatian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice Photon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana Studies on Shivering: The Hunt, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw
2014 Studies on Shivering, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin Damir Očko: PST, APOTEKA, Vodnjan, Croatia Studies on Shivering, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2013 Kabinett - ArtBasel Miami (with Yvon Lambert), Miami Damir Očko: FILMS, Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno Psst, TRAPEZ, Budapest The Body Score, Yvon Lambert Gallery (project space), Paris
2012 Damir Ocko: The Kingdom of Glottis, Palais de Tokyo, Paris On Ulterior Scale, FIAC (with Gallery Tiziana di Caro), Paris On Ulterior Scale, MultiMedia Center Luka, Pula Očko/Tadić, Galerie de l’ESAM, Caen, France (With M. Tadić) We saw nothing but the uniform blue of the Sky, Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno
2011 On Ulterior Scale, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf Jedinstvo Hall - Gallery Močvara, 26th Music Biennale, Zagreb 2010 Castle & Elephant, Coventry
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com 2 Event Horizon, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig The Age of Happiness, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno Screening Room, Blumen, Leipzig
2009 The Age of Happiness, Lothringer13 Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich The Age of Happiness, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2007 The End of the World, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb 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 Garden, Gallery VN, Zagreb Compositions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lotrščak Tower, Zagreb
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
2004 Ich leb allein in meinem Himmel (PILOT 04), Museum of Contemporary Art - Project room, Zagreb group exhibitions
2017 Temporary Encounters, Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica, Croatia The Arbitrary Nature of Words and Everyday Life, Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg, Austria The Arbitrary Nature of Words and Everyday Life, Galerija Vodnikova, Ljubljana Fly Into The Sun, 24th Annual Summer Benefit & Auction, Watermill Center, New York Seeing Ourselves Sensing, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest Fragments of Paradise, Collezione Agovino - Le Scalze - Chiesa di San Giuseppe a Pontecorvo, Napoli
2016 Not Fair, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw Remembering in Form, Galerie Heike Sterlow, Frankfurt Boom Bang III, NN Contemporary Art Northampton Politiche della Natura, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement - De leur temps (5) - Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/ Rhône-Alpes (IAC), Villeurbanne NORMALITIES, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2015 100%, Galerie de Multiples, Paris Through the Barricades, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano The Beast and the Sovereign, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Two Mouthfuls of Silence, Duke’s House 32-38 Duke’s Place, Aldgate, London 3rd Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014 LA PERMANENCE, Musée de la Danse, Rennes Notes on Undoing, Garis & Hahn, NY Noli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, Verona Great Undoing, 54th Annale, Poreč The Sounds of Silence, CAC La Halle des bouchers, Vienne Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon Journey at the end of the word, Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno Interprète, FRAC Le Plateau, Paris
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com 3 2013 I open my eyes and there you are, MUDAM, Luxembourg Le ragioni della pittura, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso (Teramo) TRAPEZ 1, TRAPEZ, Budapest Lightning out for the territories, TRAFO house of contemporary art, Budapest
2012 Voices of Truth, Villa Romana, Florence Takes on Memory & Flight Paths, HIAP - Gallery Augusta, Helsinki Lightning out for the territories, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna Abstraction, Galerija Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb T-HTAward, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2011 On stage: narrative and performance in contemporary Croatian video, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo Cities - visionary places, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles 11th Visura Aperta, Momiano, Croatia Picture of Sound, Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik After the Crash, Orto Botanico, Rome PRETTY VACANT – spaces of uncertainty and discontinuity, POLIS 2011, Pula Jour de Fête, Loop Festival, Private Art Space Gallery, Barcelona Picture of Sound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb Mit Seife und Gabeln, Kunstraum Kreunzlingen, Kreunzlingen
2010 Picture of Sound, Multimedia Center Split, Split PostDimensione - Viaggio nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta Bari Videonale Sarajevo Intervention - Balkan Box, DUPLEX, Sarajevo Avventure Minime, Convento di San Lorenzo, Salerno Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Here and Now, Bolognia Art First, Museo Arheologico, Bologna
2009 Working Title, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Grenzenlos, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka CITIES - visionary places, Roma Festival dell Arhitettura, Auditorium Arte, Rome VIDEOARTEVERONA - Sezione Visione Video, Art Verona, Verona GENERATIONS, AKTO4 - Festival for Contemporary Art, Bitola, Macedonia Video Salon, Duplex / Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo Cinemaniac, MultiMedia Center, Pula Wondering where the ducks went, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno Dealing with Fear, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy - National Studio for Contemporary Art, Tourcoing, France
2008 COMUNICOLOGY, Projektraum Römerstrasse, Stuttgart 4th Busan International Video Festival, Art Space Bandee, Busan, Korea In Transition Russia, National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow In Transition Russia, National Center of Contemporary art Yekaterinburg SPAPORT, 1st International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka Kairos, Mali Salon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka Kairos, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Maribor Salon of Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb Where the east ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden Re-reading of the future, International Triennial of contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague 13th Biennale of young artists BJCEM, Puglia, Italy Croatia First Minute, Verket, Avesta, Sweden Balkan Express, Gallery Piksel, Warsaw,
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com 4 ISOLOMANIA, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia
2007 Somewhere far away, Lothringer13 Laden, Munich Under Construction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb T-HTaward@MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb The post cinema Experience, d/Art/07 - Australian center for photography, Sydney New Revelations, Spectrum project space, Perth Croitoru, Demetja und Ocko, Art Point Gallery, Vienna Heroes in Transition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2006 Fetish, Gallery VN, Zagreb 28th Zagreb Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb Finale 2006, Putar award, Gallery Galzenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2005 Back to the future, Gallery SC, Zagreb Backwards, Pixelpoint05, Mestna Gallery, Nova Gorica, Slovenia Postskulpture, HDLU, Zagreb 39th Zagreb Salon of Fine Arts, HDLU, Zagreb festivals and screenings
2017 Moving Image New York, New York
2016 International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris (first prize in the Cinema in Transgression category) Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin
2014 25fps: Reflexion program, Zagreb Artist Cinema: new narratives, Pula film Festival, Pula
2013 VIDEOEX Experimental film and video festival, Zurich Artist Cinema: Damir Očko, Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb
2012 Acts of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart 25fps, International experimental film and video festival, Zagreb
2011 Cinematography is the strongest weapon, 98WEEKS Project Space, Beirut
2010 Film Screening - The Age of Happiness, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Forde Film Screening - The Moon shall never take my Voice, Nordic Art Center Dale Nuit Blanche 2010, Point Ephemere, Paris Territories of the In/Human, Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2009 Something in Common, Chisinau SuperNova, La Generale, Paris Lille3000-Europa XXL, Tri Postal / Gare Saint Sauveur Lille
2008 Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
2007 Rencontres Internationales-Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris Videojamit4, HIAP project room, Helsinki d/Art/07, Chauvel cinema, Sydney 52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com 5 2004 Little Queer overture (with London gay symphony orchestra), Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall, Zagreb Little Queer overture (with London gay symphony orchestra), St. John’s church, London selected bibliography
2015 Marc Bembekoff, Damir Očko (eds), Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree reader, Republic of Croatia Ministry of Culture, Zagreb Bice Curiger, Damir Očko, Studies on Shivering, exhibition catalog, Kasia Michalski Gallery
2014 Marc Bembekoff, Branka Benčić, Damir Očko, Studies on Shivering, exhibition catalog, Künstlerhaus, Graz
2011 Magdalena Holzhey, Alexander Sigman, On Ulterior Scale, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
2009 Working Title, exhibition catalog, CSW Ujazdowski, Warsaw CITIES-Places visionaries, exhibition catalog, Roma CINEMANIAC 09, exhibition catalog, MMC Luka, Pula The Age of Happiness, exhibition catalog, Lothringer13, Munich Videos Europa, exhibition catalog, Le Fresnoy, Tourcing
2008 Salon of the Revolution, exhibition catalog SPAPORT first international annual exhibition, exhibition catalog, Banja Luka Where the east ends, exhibition catalog, KNV, Wiesbaden Re-reading of the future, exhibition catalog, ITCA 2008, Prague Croatia First Minute, exhibition catalog, MSU, Zagreb Insert, exhibition catalog, MSU, Zagreb Isolomania, exhibition catalog, NeMe, Nicosia
2007 Damir Očko / The end of the world: Interview, exhibition catalog, Zagreb Rencontres Iternationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, exhibition catalog Why does Gravity make things fall?, exhibition catalog, Tirana institute for contemporary Art, Tirana Jasna Jakšić, Heroes in Transition, exhibition catalog, Nottingham, 2007
2006 Compositions, Jasna Jakšić, Trpimir Matasović, exhibition catalog, Zagreb
2005 A shot at the void, Jasna Jakšić, exhibition catalog, Zagreb Life counterpoint, Leila Topić, exhibition catalog, Hvar Jasna Jakšić, Resil(i)ence, exhibition catalog, Zagreb selected press
2016 Alessandra Troncone, Damir Očko Galleria Tiziana Di Caro / Napoli, Flash Art, November 23, 2016 Francesca Blandino, Corpo-scrittura. Damir Ocko a Napoli, Artribune, October 31, 2016 Alina Aliman, Repeat After Me… The Name Damir Ocko: interview with a contemporary artist, dreamingof.net, October 24, 2016 Elvira Buonocore, Fino Al 19.Xi.2016 Damir Očko Year Out Of Shape Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, exibart.com, October 6, 2016 Orit Gat, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Art Agenda, September 29, 2016 Valérie Savard, Corps Vivant, Corps Politique. Damir Ocko, Revue Ex_situ, February 23, 2016 Damir Očko + Vidéographe @ dazibao, ratsdeville – le webzine de la diversité en arts visuels | the visual arts’ diversity webzine, Feburary 12, 2016
2015 Antonello Tolve, Il corpo come spazio espanso, Flash Art no. 322, July – September 2015
Kasia Michalski Gallery • Poznańska 16 • 00-680 Warsaw • +48 22 409 33 07 • www.kasiamichalski.com 6 Art Press no. 422, pp. 22-23 The Third Degree and Beyond, L’Officiel Art no. 14, pp. 62-73 Dina Akhmadeeva, Back to the future: 20 artists from the new east at the Venice Biennale, The Calvert Journal, May 8, 2015 12 Pavillions a ne pas manquer, BeauxArts, May 2015 Nikolett Kadlót, Interview with Damir Ocko: Croatia at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, ArtGuideEast, April 14, 2015 Ginevra Bria, Biennale di Venezia. Il padiglione della Croazia spiegato da Damir Očko, Artribune.com, February 16, 2015 Krzysztof Kosciuczuk, Damir Očko, Frieze issue 172 Piotr Drewko, Studies on Shivering: About Damir Očko’s Exhibition, Magenta Mag 2013 Erik Verhagen, Damir Ocko - The Tragedy of Listening, Artpress no. 399 pp. 64-68 Anne Picq, Reportage / Palais de Tokyo, Beaux Arts Magazine, February 2013, pp. 98-99
2012 Damir Ocko in conversation with Daniele Balit, Palais no. 16 Antonello Tolve, Il discorso ritmico di Damir Ocko, Artribune Mousse diary, Mousse magazine no. 32 FLASH reviews by Fuani Marino, Flash Art Italy, no. 302
2010 Reuben Henry, Damir Ocko, a-n Magazine, September issue Antonello Tolve, ARTKEY Magazine Daniela Trincia, The Age of Happiness, EXIBART no. 65 Interview with Maria Rosa Sossai, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno
2009 Camilla Boemio, Deadpan, Equipeco no. 22
2007 K15, Concepts in New Croatian Art, Krešimir Purgar, Zagreb, 2007 Concrete choice: Damir Očko, Jasna Jakšić, Kontura no.93, Zagreb, 2007 About Heroes, Jasna Jakšić, Život Umjetnosti no.80, Zagreb, 2007
2006 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
2005 Pleasure of renunciation, Ivana Mance, CIP, Zagreb
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