Curriculum Vitae


Full name:                                         Zdenko Radovanic

Place and date of birth:                Osijek, 24. august 1967. Croatia

Occupation:                                     painting, instalation, graphic,
                                                          mosaic, sculpture, education

Education:                                        Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb,
                                                            class-prof. Zlatko Keser

                                                            College of drawing and painting, Zagreb,
                                                            class-prof. Igor Modric


Exhibitions (solo-group) and participations:


Stancic Gallery, Zagreb-Convocation Hall, Rangoon-Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo-The Ryder-Gallery, Los Angeles-Gallery Amadeus, Osijek-Herman Pecaric Gallery, Piran-Sveagalleriet, Stockholm-Galleria d'Arte La Lanterna, Trieste-Galleria d'Arte and Volsci, Roma-Philips-ontspannings Centre, Eindhoven-Galerija Waldinger, Osijek-Galeria D'arte pittore, Milan
Casa del Palladio, Benetke-Kritzraedthuis Museum, Sittard-Galerie Civil Kozossegek Haza, Pecs
Gallery Antik, Slavonski Brod-Gallery Ariston, Osijek-Galerie Hoffman, Koln-Museum Henriette Polak, Zuitphen-Xochipilli Art Gallery, Rochester-Kulturzentrum, Linz-Künstlerhaus, Bretten
Galeria Vincent, Udine-Events Gallery, ZagrebMCKissic Museum, Columbia-Aras Gallery, Ravensburg-Volksbank Gallery, Biberach-Council Municipality Cepin, Cepin-Fad Gallery, Osijek
Passage Gallery, Osijek-Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom-Ichisan Gallery, Tokyo-Gallery Plavi Jadran, Slavonski Brod-Museum de Tendschuur, Wert-The Foundation Harbison, Columbia
Galerie d'art Barzacchi, Paris-Croatian Chamber Ivanovac-Galleries Mia Joosten, Amsterdam
National Museum, Belgrade-ART 17, Kunstmesse Basel-Schlossgalerie Arbon, Arbon-Theatre, Zagreb-Forum Gallery, Zagreb-Gallery of Fine Arts, Zagreb-Galeria Vinciane, Milano-Gallery Smelt, Ljubljana-Mimara Museum, Zagreb-Revolution's Annual Art, Taiwan-First Biennial Exhibition, Fiji-New Media Company, London-Hotel Corso, Pecs-4th Croatian Art Triennial, Zagreb-12th review of the University, Zagreb-Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts, Novi Sad-Gallery of Modern Art, Budva
Galleri Gamlebyen, Fredrikstadt-Kunsthalle, Nuremberg-Gallery of Fine Art Slavko Kopac, Vinkovci (Mosaic)-Gallery of the Faculty of Economics, Zagreb-Balkan Peace Project Foundation, Haarlem
Galerija Waldinger, Osijek-Galeria Poliedro, Trieste-Cordignano, Italy-Gallery Peter Smajic, Ernestinovo-Weihergut Galerie, Salzburg-Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo-Gallery Belisce, Belisce
Castle Mihanovic, Tuhelj-Magis Gallery, Osijek-Gallery of Art, Podgorica-Hotel Central, Osijek-Yugoslav Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac-Slawonien 92, Hamburg-Center for war victims, Osijek-Kunsthal Hof, Almelo -Gemeentemuseum, Markiezenhof-Galerija Waldinger, Osijek
City Cafe, Sisak-Centro culturale di Rocca Borromeo Anger, Anger-Orsbroich Museum, Leverkusen
Gallery Hotel, Osijek-Galerie Hofman, Alphen aan den Rijn-Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul-Galerie Art et Communication, Paris-National Center of Arts, Akhnaton Gallery, Cairo-Montjoie Galerie, Brussels-Gallerie Aras, Saulgau-Galerie Jutta Radicke, St. Augustin, Bonn-Galleria I'Occhio,-Benetke-Ateneo San Basso, Benetke-Galleria del Cavallino, BenetkeLe Monde de l'Art, Paris-Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz-Scuola Internationale di Grafica, Benetke-Gallery Mercator, Ljubljana-Galerija Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota-Trittligasse Galerie, Zurich-Galerie im Schloss Porcia,-Spittal-Galerie Le Lys, Paris-Galerie Alain Margarona, Paris-Gezira Art Center, Cairo-The Central-House of Artists, Moscow-Leonhard Galerie, Graz-Galerie Korotan, Dunaj-Galerie Helga Hofman,-Amsterdam-Artbreak, Oakland, USA-Wooloo, Copenhagen

Prizes:

Painting Prize, the Premio Internazionale Michetti, Francavilla al mare
Exhibition of Small Sizes, Chietti
Premium purchase award, ex-tempore Piran
Premium prize, Magazine "Blue Swallow", Zagreb
Praise of Academy Council, Zagreb

 Activities

The initiator of the humanitarian action to help Children's Home "Klasje", Osijek
Donated 57 paintings for the Department of Intensive care, Clinical Hospital, Osijek
Education of students children's home "Stjepan Radic", Osijek
He collaborates on interconnection of artists between cities Pécs and Osijek

 Membership

HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists), Zagreb
HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists), Osijek
UPAF (Unione Artisti e Pittori Friuliani) Mortegliano, Italy
InAEA (International Art Education Association)
Academy Art, Zagreb

About my work:

I am an artist living and studying nature accurately and comprehensively, realizing that all great truths are simple and universal, without borders and time.
Everything has a deep core of sensation, a deep core logic, and immense wealth. When the mind is sorted on the basis of such experiences, attempted synthesis of drawing, it is simply going and instinctively. Is taking place to develop some kind of stock, regardless of whether through forms or by color, at a time speaks about something which I think I should say. Is it invisible and visible, it's hard to say. In fact, it is my preference.
I'm not broken. I have found and reached the authenticity of which can survive as an artist and human being. There is no other way.
The complexity and the multiple facets of the global world are my main fundamentals. Selecting and manipulating images, essentially from the press and popular magazines, I try to create a new suggested reality, a new narrative, open to the viewer.
Resorting to the realism of the figures and the gestural abstraction, the paradox, the contrariety, the criticism or irony, what I do is unfold the reality, individual and collective, which is common to us, reconfiguring it in the plan of the canvas.