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Renata Poljak (b. 1974, Split, Croatia) graduated from the Academy of Arts in Split, after which she studied at the prestigious international post diplome at Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. In 2020 she got MA from Arts Academy in Zagreb. She lived and worked for many years in Paris, she participated in the most famous American art residencies like Art in General (New York), Art OMI (New York), RU (New York) and Skowhegan (Maine), also MQ in Vienna and Recollet and Cite des Arts (Paris). She was visiting artis/professor at San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A. in 2002. also Renata gave workshops in L'École supérieure des beaux-arts du Mans (ESBAM) regularly as well as in Arts Academy in Split and Zagreb. She has received numerous accolades for her work: for Great Expectations she won the Best Film Award at the festival Black Box in Berlin, and her video work Directing Actors / Directing Beliefs won the T-HT Competition Award at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2012). For Porvenir in 2020 and 2021 she recived five awards at film festivals. In 2006 her work was comissioned by TBA21 Vienna for Kuba project. In 2010 Poljak showed a substantial selection of her films at the screening program of Prospective Cinema at the Centre Georges Pompidou and in October 2012 at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Her solo exhibition at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York was listed by New York weekly The Village Voice as one of the three best exhibitions to see in New York in January 2013, while a notable retrospective of her works in November 2014 opened simultaneously in two art centers in Montreal - Optica and Occurrence. During 2016/17 Renata had five museum solo shows followed by artist book entitled 'Don't Turn Your Back On Me' published by Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, including essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and others. In 2018 she had solo show in the Contemporary Art Museum in Belgrade and her work was chosen for award at MAC Metropolitan Art Center Belfast among 800 artists. Her three recent films Yet Another Departure (2018), Porvenir (2020) and Split (2021) premiered at Oberhausen Short Film Festival three times in row. Porvenir was chosen as one of the top five films of 2020 by Lars Henrik Gass, director of Oberhausen Film Festival for Kinoscope. Awards: 2021 Croatian Film Days, for Porvenir Best music composition Best sound design 2021 Museum of City of Šibenik, first prize Porvenir 2020 Liburnia film festival, for Porvenir Best Film Best Cinematography Best Sound Design 2020 Betina Film Festival, jury special mention for Yet Another Departure 2012 5th Annual T-HT competition Award, Museum of Contemprary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, for Staging Actors/ Staging Beliefs 2011 Award at 37th Split Art Salon, Contemporary Visual Arts Biennial, Split, Croatia, for Staging Actors/ Staging Beliefs 2006 Golden Black Box Short Award at the Balkan Black Box Festival, Berlin, for Great Expectations 2006 2nd Award at the Mediterranean Festival of Documentary Films, Široki Brijeg, BiH, for Great Expectations 2006 Best film in national competition at the 4th Tabor film festival, Croatia For Great Expectations 2000 Public Award, Balkan Video Federation, Beograd, Serbia for Souvenirs (Memories) 2000 VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad, Serbia for Skok/Jump 1999 VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad, for Souvenirs (Memories) 1997 Annual Award of Women`s Art Center Electra, the Housewife! One Person Selected Screenings: 2013 Something You Should Know, Artistes et producteurs, MSH, Paris 2012 Renata Poljak, East Side Stories, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2010 Renata Poljak, Cinema 1, Prospectif Cinéma, Centre George Pompidou, Paris One Person Exhibitions: 2020 Porvenir, Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb Partenza, Gallery Nikola Đurković, Kotor, Monte Negro 2019 Terra Icnognita, Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb Yet Another Departure, Gradska Gallery, Varaždin 2018 Yet Another Departure, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 2017 Partenza, Galerija Waldinger, Osjek 2016 Partenza, Museum Danubiana, Bratislava An Ordinary Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Split Partenza, Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Pula Partenza, Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb Partenza, Gallery Contexts, Paris Partenza, Gallery Dešković, Bol, Brač 2015 Don't Tourn Your Back on Me, Gallery Eternal Network, Tours, 2014 Uncertain Memoires, Art Center Occurrence, Montreal Renata Poljak, Art Center Optica, Montreal 2013 Staging Our Realty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb Uncertain Memoires, gallery Stephan Stoyanov, New York City 2012 Ruta and the Monument, gallery Grands Terrains at La Friche Marseille 2012 Renata Poljak, opening exhibiton for the 11th performance days, We Shall Never Surrender, Varaždin, Croatia 2011 Renata Poljak, 3 solo shows in Gallery Luka, Pula, Gallery Rigo, Novigrad, Small Gallery, Poreč 2009 I Want You Believe in Something, Galerie Artopia, Milan 2008 Ruta and the Monument, Art in General, NY 2007 All One Knows, Gallery Kraljević, Zagreb 2006 All One Knows, Vukovar City Museum, (Kuba project) TBA21, Vukovar 2005 The View, Galery SC, Zagreb 2003 Emergency Tensions, (with D.Figarella), Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida 2002 Wonderland, Gallery Soardi, Nice, France 2001 Did she Fall or was She Pushed?, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb 2000 Renata Poljak, Gallery Soardi, Nice, France 1998 Noise / Criteria, Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik Noise / Criteria, Architects` Club, Zagreb Group exhibitions (selection) 2021 PROYECTOR2021, Madrid OSTRALE Biennale 021, Dresden Split Salon Of Visual Arts, MMC, Split Dream, Gallery Kranjcar Film festivals (selection): 67. Oberhausen film festival, Oberhausen, Mediterranean Film Festival, Split 2020 Economy of Living, Museum Nitsch, Napoli 60. Annale - Lonely Planet, Poreč Film festivals (selection): 66. Oberhausen film festival, Oberhausen, Mediterranean Film Festival Split, Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France 2019 PROYECTOR2019, Madrid Rencontres internationales en Gaspésie, Gaspésie, Canada Without Anesthesia, Zagreb Salon Of Visual Arts, HDLU, Zagreb TheThird Space, CreArt Europian Exhibition in HDLU, Zagreb, Lecce Italy and Clermont-Ferrand Film festivals (selection): 65. Oberhausen film festival, Oberhausen, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris 2018 2018 MAC international prize, The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast The Third Space (and All That We Have in Common), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Instantes Video, Frieche la Belle de Mai, Marseille D'EST: District Berlin in cooperation with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), the Goethe Institute Moscow, the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, the Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Pawilon, Poznań, and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Video-Forum In Spite the Context, HDLU, Zagreb Video Europe for Everybody – a display in the public space, The Institut of Contemporaray Art, Sofia 2017 Sortir du musée, Le Cyclop de Jean Tinguely, Milly la Forêt, Paris THT-award, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb 2016 Stories from the Edge, Kunsthaus, Graz 2015 Prophetia, Miró Foundation, Barcelona Fiery Greetings, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade Stories from the Edge, galerija Spazio 5, Trieste Sodobna Istra, Monfort, Portorož, Slovenia Imagination, Multimedia gallery of Split, Split 2014 Under the Stars, Galerija Knoll within Curated_By, Vienna Future Perfect, Galerija Dazibao, Montreal Destini/Storie/Vite, CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia 2013 Sélestat Biennial, Sélestat Was ist Kunst?…Resuming Fragmented Histories, Künstlerhaus, Steirischer Herbst, Graz Neighboring Landscapes, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade Dangerous Beauty, Graffit Gallery, Varna All of Me, gallery Stephan Stoyanov, New York City Attraversamenti, Ostuni, Apulia Biennale D-0 ARK Underground –Konjic, BiH Clueless, HDLU, Zagreb Lightning out for the territories, Trafo Hous for Contemporary Art, Budapest Screenings: Difference Screen at Whitechapel Gallery, London, ARKO arts Council Korea, Seul, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Barge Ideaal, Brentford, Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia 2012 Miraz, La Dotta, Dowry, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Galerie Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy T-HT award , Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Lightning out for the territories, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna 2011 Shift And Flow, Dorsky Gallery, New York Where is my Place? from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena collection, -Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 37th Split Art Salon, Contemporary Visual Arts Biennial, Diocletian Palace, Split, Croatia Myth - Reality, Constructing Cult-u're, Gallery The Guild, Mumbai The Big Screen Project, Public Plaza, NYC Where is my Place? Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 2010 Art to Be, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art contemporain, Rennes Paris Photo, Carrousel de Louvre, Louvre, Paris Where Everything Is Yet to Happen: Exposures, SPAPORT Biennial 2009/10, Banja Luka 255 804 km², Mestna galerija, Ljubljana "The Big Wave”, 8th biennial of contemporary art "August in Art”, Varna, Bulgaria T-HTnagrada, Museum of Contemporary Art, MSU, Zagreb film festivals: 25 FPS, Zagreb 2009 History Memory Identity, Fondazione - Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italie Where to go? <Rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria West 4, La Generale en Manufacture, Paris t.error-your fear is an exsternal object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York The Things Fall Apart, Gallery Winkleman, New York The state of Things, Galerie Cettina, Umag, Croatia 43ème salon de Zagreb, Zagreb film festivals: European Media ArtFestval – Osnabrueck 22, Osnabrueck, VI International Film Festival Jewish Motifs, Warsaw, Saison Video 2009, Lille, Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Studentski Centar, Zagreb 2008 The Experience of Atopia, Lokall 01, Breda., Neederlands 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 Kraljević, 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, Slovaquie 48th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia 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,Croatia 2006 Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland Kuba: Juurney Against the Current, Nestroyhof, TBA21, Vienna Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden ”Home, Sweet Home”, TV France 2 International Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art, Central European University Budapest Where to go? <Rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz, Austria West 4, La Generale en Manufacture, Paris t.error-your fear is an exsternal object, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York The Things Fall Apart, Gallery Winkleman, New York The state of Things, Galerie Cettina, Umag, Croatia 43ème salon de Zagreb, Zagreb film festivals: European Media ArtFestval – Osnabrueck 22, Osnabrueck, VI International Film Festival Jewish Motifs, Warsaw, Saison Video 2009, Lille, Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Studentski Centar, Zagreb 2008 The Experience of Atopia, Lokall 01, Breda., Neederlands 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 Kraljević, 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, Slovaquie 48th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia 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,Croatia 2006 Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland Kuba: Juurney Against the Current, Nestroyhof, TBA21, Vienna Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden ”Home, Sweet Home”, TV France 2 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, Croatia Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Screenings of "Great Expectations”: Biennale dell'Imagine, Chiasso, Suisse, 22nd International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival, Vienne, Austria, L'urbanisation galopante, l'Antenne-espace pédagogique du Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, Zagreb Calling, à la Maison populaire de Montreuil, Paris, BalkanBlackBox, festival fur film und kultur aus sudosteuropa, Berlin, On Architecture and Other Stories 2, programme by Agentur Foundation, Amsterdam, Festival VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Serbie, 7th Mediterranean festival of documentary films in Siroki Brijeg, Bosnie et Herzégovine, Analog, Kultiviranje Arhitektonske vrste, Drustvo Arhitekata Zagreba, Zagreb, 4th International Short Film Festival, Tabor, Croatie, 4th Liburnia Film Festival, Icici, Croatie, A Room (With a View), Fst forward, Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerpen, Belgique, AsterFest, Strumica, Macédoine, EXcroissance 3, galerie SoiXante, Saint-Denis, Paris, TOP Kino, Vienne, Austria 2005 Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Between Fetishes and Ideology,- 34th Split Salon, Split, Croatia Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia Binder, Milunovic, Poljak, gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria 2004 Passage d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France Love It or Leave It, Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje, MonteNegro Rivage, Saint-Brieuc, France 2003 First View, gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria High Hills, public space project, Krems, Austria C'est(-)à(-)dire!, Palais de Papes, Avignon, France Rest Assured, CCS Museum, Bard College, New York Sharks In The Morning, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida 2002 Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, c. R. Marcoci Höchstleistung, Le Centre d'Art Shed im Eisenwerk de Frauenfeld, 2001 Central, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria, c. L. Hegyi Höchstleistung, Le Centre d'Art Shed im Eisenwerk de Frauenfeld, Switzerland Freedom and Violence, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Varsovie Provisoirement / Provizorno, La Station, Dubrovnik Dare to be different, Fier, Albania Adriatico: le due sponde, Michetti Museum, Francavilla a Mare, Italie To tell a story, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 2000 BIG TORINO 2 000, Biennal of emerging artists, com. R. Fleck, Torino, Italy A Small Country for a Big Vacation, Galerie SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia 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, Croatia 1999 A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Post Diplome, Glassbox, Paris, France Estatic memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Post Diplome, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, ZOO Galerie, Nantes, France 10 Artists/ 8 Months/ Nantes, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid, Spain 1998 Utopia, Chateau de Beaumanoir, Quintin, France, com. R. Fleck 33 Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, com. I. Zabel, Croatia Messages (Public Art Project), Zagreb, Croatia 1997 As large as life, Raum fur Kunst, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria Biennale of Young Artists/Artisti del Mediterraneo, Rijeka/Fiume, Croatia Exchange Art Festival, Split, Croatia 1996 Visual Arts Section of the International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Croatia Museum of Split, Split, Croatia