Dare to try! Artist talk with Boris Cvjetanović

Join us on our next artist talk, on 12/04 at 19h, meet Boris Cvjetanović himself! 

Boris Cvjetanović was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia. From 1976 to 1984 he worked as a restoration sculptor at the Croatian Restoration Institute and started his photographic career. From 1981 he started publishing in student papers (Student Paper, Polet). In 1984 he quit the restoration job and began his professional photographic career as a freelance independent artist. Since 1981 he has had many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. Together with Ana Opalić, he was the Croatian representative at the 50th Venice Biennial. He has published photographs in numerous newspapers and journals. In Japan he received the Nikon Camera Co. Award for his exhibition “-ism ’95: at The 1st Tokyo International Photo-Biennale”. In Croatia he received the Grand Prix at the “Croatian Photography” exhibition in 1997, along with the Homo Volans Award. In 1996 he published a book of photographs entitled Scenes without Significance. His photographs are also featured in the book Echoes – Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions by Francesco Bonami (The Monacelli Press, New York, 1996). Cvjetanović’s photographs are part of the collections at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Croatian History Museum, Gallery Dante Marino Cettina, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Art Gallery in Split, and in private collections. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.