Antun Božičević

e-mail: antuna@net.hr
address: Vrapcanska 231, 10000 Zagreb
home phone: +38513459039
cell phone: +385989063532

Biography

Born 15 July 1970 in Andrijasevci, Croatia. Graduated in 1999 from the Painting Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

The artist's interest lies in the relationship of society towards art and in providing a critical view on socially, politically and economically absurd situations, repression and aggression. He takes up the up-to-date issues that are relevant to his profession, the crucial problems of society and potential individual fears. His installations are technology-based, with emphasis on sound and ready-made aesthetics. They are a combination of high- and low-technologies with ready-made industrial objects, found footage and the like. By means of interactive installations and environments the audience often becomes an equal in creating an artwork that depends on its movement, pulling it inside the project through sound, smell, feeling of insecurity, anxiety, irony and humor.

Group exhibitions

2009
36 th Split Salon, HULU, Split, Croatia
Crisis, Istrian Museum of Contemporary Art, Pula, Croatia

2008
Donumenta 2008, Regensburg, Germany
We Are Here, Istrian Museum of Contemporary Art, Pula, Croatia
Croatia First Minute,Verket, Avesta, Sweden
Contro Ignoti, Spazio Pubblico Arte Contemporanea, Buttrio, Italy
Field Trip, PM Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2007
42nd Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia Editing Projects, Zerynthia, Universita' Degli Studi Roma 3 - Facolta' Di Architettura, Roma, Italia
20th Slavonian Biennale, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

2006
1st Vukovar Salon, Museum Vukovar, Vukovar, Croatia

2005
39th Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Radoslav Putar YVAA, Krizic Roban Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
YVAA, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2004
27th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia

2003
The 8th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoeka, Zagreb, Croatia
Festival Visura Aperta /Momiano 03/, Momjan, Croatia 

2002
18th Slavonian Biennale, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

2001
36th Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Graddonji, Museum Slavonia, Osijek, Croatia

2000
17th Slavonian Biennial, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

Solo exhibitions

2009
School Works, AŽ Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Art Is Not Allowed Here, Waldinger Gallery, Osijek, Croatia

2008
Art Is Not Allowed Here, Vinko Percic Gallery, Subotica, Serbia

2006
Station Badel
, MK Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Station Badel, Slavko Kopac Gallery, Vinkovci, Croatia

2005
Let's live the life…, Sv. Toma Gallery, Rovinj, Croatia

2004
It's important to take a part, Kazamat Gallery, HDLU, Osijek, Croatia

2003
Pot, Matica hrvatska Salon, Krizevci, Croatia

2001
No name, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2000
No name, City Museum, Vinkovci, Croatia

Screenings and events

2004
Battlefield (site specific installation), Festival Grill Peace United, Svetvincenat, Croatia
Battlefield (site specific installation), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2001
Attack on the museum, Museum Slavonia, Osijek, Croatia

Awards

2007.
42nd Zagreb Salon (jury award)

2005.
YVAA "Radoslav Putar" (jury award)

2004
27th Youth Salon (jury award)

2003.  
Visura aperta /Momiano 03/ (jury award)

2000. 
18th Slavonian Biennale (honorary mention)

Residencies

2005.
ISCP, New York, United States
PVA Media Lab, Bridport, United Kingdom


Workshop

2006.
Editing#4, Gorizia, Italy