I was born in Zadar in Croatia; I live and work in Shanghai and Milan. I graduated in painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in the class of Professor Luciano Fabro. My work consists of installations, video work, assemblages and photography. Using photography or the video, it is in connections with performance / installation art. In the photography, I work on the images before taking the shots, arranging ephemeral interventions and installations that transfigure the world in a poetic, playful deliberately utopian way. I posit my characters within the space of metaphors where the landscape is not only a objective phenomenon, but a new and personal place. Sometimes my sources are old photographs and documents from the 19th or the first half of the 20th century, where I appropriate forms and characters, through a procedure of re-contextualization assigning them new meanings.
Dubravka Vidović
Born 1970 in Zadar, Croatia
Lives and works between Shanghai and Milan
2001 BFA in painting at the Academy of fine Arts of Brera in the class of Professor Luciano
Fabro | Milan
1999 Diploma in Visual Arts at Fondazione Ratti | Como | with Haim Stainbach
1993 Diploma at the Faculty of Letter and Philosophy | Zadar | Croatia
Awards & Museum Collections:
2019 In permanent collection at National Museum, new acquisition for the new contemporary
art museum at Providurova Palace, Zadar, Croatia
2013 T-HT Award – The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2012 In permanent collection at MEF Museum Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
2007 In permanent collection at National Museum, Zadar, Croatia
2005 11 Youth Salon (first prize), Art Gallery of the National Museum, Zadar, Croatia
1999 Premio dʼArte Mercedes Benz, Centro dʼArte la Loggia, Siena, Italy
Selected solo exhibitions:
2019 Mini-Museum in Countryside | Xinchang Ancient Town | Shanghai | China
2018 Interstices | Anne Cecile Noique Gallery | Shanghai | China
2014 Once Upon A Time | Anne Cecile Noique Gallery | Shanghai | China
Exile, OCAT, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Museum | Shanghai | China
curated by Mariagrazia Costantino
2013 Monte Verità | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany
2012 Exil | Alberto Peola | Torino | Italy | curated by Gigliola Foschi
2011 Exil | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany | curated by Gigliola Foschi
2007 Boxed Sea | Artopia | Milano | Italy | curated by Francesca Pasini
2006 Formae Mentis | City Loggia of the National Museum Zadar | Croatia | curated by Ljubica Srhoj Čerina
2002 View | Gallery SC | Zagreb | Croatia | curated by Fabiola Naldi
2001 Waterwalkers | Il Graffio | Bologna | Italy | curated by Alessandra Pioselli
Selected group shows:
2020 When the Globe is Home | Gallerie delle Prigioni - Fondazione Benetton | Treviso | Italy | curated by Claudio Scorretti and Irina Ungureanu
2019 Papir, Škare, Knjiga | Galerija Galženica | Zagreb | Croatia | curated by Klaudio Štefančić and Petra Galović
2018 Moving Worlds | Podbielski Contemporary | Milan | Italy
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai | ArtCN | China
E il giardino creò l'uomo | Alberto Peola Artecontemporanea | Turin | Italy | curated by Francesca Simondi
Utopia in the Air | Shanghai Tower | Shanghai | China
Milan Image Art Fair | Podbielski Contemporary | Milan
Bye Bye Berlin | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany
2017 Summer Group Show | Bank MABSOCIETY | Shanghai | China
Great Walls Beijing | Art projections on the Beijing’s city walls during the Beijing Design Week 2017 | Beijing | China
Selected works - the permanent art collections from National Museum Zadar | Croatia
Chinese and Italian cultural exchange feast | Meilian Museum | Shenzhen | China
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai | ArtCN | China
2016 Utopia | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany
All night long | Casa Cicca | Milano | Italy | curated by Punto
2015 Imageination | MMC | Split | Croatia | curated by Silva Kalčić
Artefiera | Alberto Peola | Bologna
2014 Art in the City Festival | K11 Art Mall | Shanghai | China | curated by Davide Quadrio and Massimo Torrigiani
Breaking News | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany
Artissima | Alberto Peola | Torino | Italy
2013 Imageination | ULUPUH | Zagreb | Croatia | curated by Silva Kalčić
T-HT Award 2013 | Museum of Contemporary Art | Zagreb | Croatia | curated by Vladimir Čajkovac
Close to Asia | Podbielski Contemporary | Berlin | Germany
2012 Re-calling the past - 52. Annale | Istarska sabornica | Poreč | Croatia | curated by Radmila Iva Janković
Roma Contemporary | Macro Testaccio | Alberto Peola | Rome | Italy
2011 Memoria variabile | Gallery Milan | Milan | Italy | curated by Gigliola Foschi and Carla Pellegrini
Hotspot Berlin 2011 + Auction Phillips de Pury & Company | Georg-Kolbe Museum | Berlin | Germany | curated by Eugen Blume
The Others | Ex-carcere delle Nuove | Podbielski Contemporary | Turin | Italy
Milan Image Art Fair | Podbielski Contemporary | Milan | Italy
2010 Anamorphosis – An Early Show | Earlybird Austellung | Munich | Germany
Incanto - Al di là delle apparenze opache | European Photography Festival in Reggio Emilia | Museo Frati Cappuccini | Reggio Emilia | curated by Gigliola Foschi
2009 Creative Emergencies | MAR | Ravenna | Italy | curated by Maria Livia Brunelli and Silvia Cirelli
2008 Asta | Careof | Milano | Italy | curated by Roberto Pinto
Metodo Effe | Mole Vanvitelliana | Ancona | Italy
2007 Cantieri d’Arte – La città dei biSogni: Odissea nello spazio | Ex Chiesa di Santa Maria della Salute | Viterbo | Italy | curated by Claudio Zecchi and Marco Trulli
2006 Insert | Museum of modern and contemporary art Rijeka | Rijeka | Croatia | curated by Branko Franceschi
MiArt 2006 | neon>video | Milan | Italy
2005 Masaï Art Factory - Honey Money | Assab one | Milano | Italy | curated by Roberto Pinto and Gabi Scardi
11 Salon mladih – Zadar (1st prize) | Art Gallery of the National Museum | Zadar | Croatia
Strade bianche | Public space | Casale Marittimo | Italy
Insert | Museum of contemporary art | Zagreb | Croatia | curated by Tihomir Milovac, Branko Franceschi, Silva Kalčić and Antonia Majača
2004 QUI. New release | GAMeC | Bergamo | Italia
NZS | Galerija Matija | Šibenik | Croatia | curated by Ivica Župan
2003 VDAY | Alternativni Institut | Mostar | Bosnia and Herzegovina | curated by Antonia Majača
House Warming Show | Milan | Italy | curated by Francesca Bertolotti and Dubravka Vidović
2002 Note: nostalgie | Via Farini | Milano | Italy | curated by Gabi Scardi
Digging the channel | Public space | Zadar | Croatia
Digging the channel | Mobius | Boston | USA
Entr’Acte – The Basement Tapes | Palazzo Albiroli | Bologna | Italy | curated by Gino Gianuzzi, Elena Volpato and Mario Gorni
Superficie velocità | Chiostro di Scardavilla | Santa Sofia | Italy | curated by Fabio Cavallucci
Video It 2002 | Ex cimitero si San Pietro in Vincoli | Torino | Italy | curated by Mario Gorni
Lazareti Media Art Forum | Dubrovnik | Croatia
2001 Junge Kunst aus Italien | Documenta Halle | Kassel | Germany
Junge Kunst aus Italien | Suermondt Ludwig Museum | Aachen | Germany
Junge Kunst aus Italien | Kulturrhaus Atles Rathaus | Postdam | Germany
Junge Kunst aus Italien | Johanniskirche | Magdeburg | Germany
Junge Kunst aus Italien | Overbeck Gesellschaft | Lübeck | Germany
2000 Tracce di un seminario 3 | Via Farini | Milano | Italy | curated by Angela Vettese and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
1999 Final project with Haim Steinbach | Ex-chiesa di San Francesco | Como | Italy | curated by Amnon Barzel and Fabio Cavalucci
Premio dʼArte Mercedes Benz” | Centro dʼArte la Loggia | Siena | Italy | curated by Angela Vettese and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
