Mladen Bizumic

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

b.1976 in Yugoslavia
lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand; Vienna, Austria & Berlin, Germany

Education

2003
MFA (1st Class Honours)
Elam School of Fine Arts
University of Auckland
2000
BFA ('University Of Auckland Scholar')
Sculpture
Elam School of Fine Arts
University of Auckland


Solo Shows and Performances

2010

From Cube to Ball (Chapter1) Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2009

After the Party, Hirschfeld

http://www.hirschfeld.byethost31.com/seiten/mladenbizumic.html

Global Truths V.s Local Reflections, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, NZ


2007

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2006

'The Crystal Memorial', Charim Galerie, Vienna
'Superstructure Doubled' (with Øystein Aasan), Korridor, Berlin

2005

'Cafe Wittgenstein', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'event.horizon.black.hole', Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

2004

'Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart (again), Hocken Library Gallery, Dunedin
'Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

2003

'Fiji Biennale Pavilions', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
'Making Waves' (performance), Lobby of the Pompidou Centre, Paris
'The Night Shift', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Event Horizon', Ramp Gallery, Hamilton
'Total Disorientation' (performance), Passy Plaza, Paris

2002

'Tauranga Guggenheim', ARTSPACE, Auckland
'7000 Rimu Trees', Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
'A Beautiful Afterlife',  Auckland Art Gallery

2001

'I Like Victoria Park and Victoria Park Likes Me', Light-box Gallery, Auckland
'Mladen Bizumic', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Ferry Stop', (performance), Auckland City Harbour, Auckland
'An Imax Experience', (performance), IMAX Cinema, Auckland

2000

'Mladen Bizumic and Glen Hayward' (with Glen Hayward), George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
'Sky City', (performance), Sky City Casino, Auckland
'I Like New Zealand and New Zealand Likes Me', (performance)
  International Auckland Airport



Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2009

The Forgotten Bar
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL
Wafae Ahalouch, Mladen Bizumic, Matti Blind, Raphael Danke, Chris Filippini, Robert Gfader, Romeo Gongora, Ane Graff, Lise Harlev, Bertram Hasenauer, Maarten Janssen, Philip Loersch, Lynne Marsh, John McCusker, Ulrik Møller, Pablo Pijnappel, Mikhel Proulx, Marc Räder, Stefan Schuster, Thomas Seidemann, Takahiro Suzuki, Andreas Tellefsen, Isaac Bigsby Trogdon, Erik van der Wijde



2006

'HIDE TIDE: recent currents in recent Australasian art', Zacheta National Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (curated by Magda Kardasz and Simon Rees)
'Everywhere', Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea (curated by Manu Park)
'SCAPE', Art & Industry Biennale, Christchurch (curated by Natasha Conland and Susanne Jaschko)
'PLAY: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand', Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth (curated by Sophie McIntyre & Blair French)

2005

'Re: Modern', Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna (curated by Sandro Droschl and Norbert Pfaffenbichler)
'Truer Than the Truth', Charim Galerie, Vienna (curated by Miriam Charim and Kurt Kladler)
'Want and Need', Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
'Art Cologne - art fair', Charim Galerie (Vienna) stand, Cologne
'Playground', Art Play-Architecture & Design Centre, Moscow (curated by Yuri Avvakumov)
'Vienna Art Fair', Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius) Stand, Vienna (curated by Simon Rees)
'Skin Oil - Chartwell Collection', Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (curated by Robert Leonard)
Small World, Big Town-National Collection', Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
'Recent Acquisitions', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (curated by Greg Burke)
'PLAY: Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and New Zealand', Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (curated by Sophie McIntyre & Blair French)
'Hotere, Tan, Aberhart, Reynolds, Bizumic', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland (curated by Sue Crockford)
'N.Z. Showcase', Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland Art Festival, Auckland

2004

'We are the World', Chelsea Art Museum, New York (curated by Elga Wimmer)
'Identity & Fandom', (publication by Kathy Temin), ICA, London
'Everyday Minimal', Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (curated by Robert Leonard)
'Break-Shift', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (curated by Greg Burke and Simon Rees)
"International Art Fair and Cake Stall', Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin (curated by Ali Bramwell)

2003

'Vecu', (with Katherine Huang and Nick Mangan), Conical Artspace, Melbourne (curated by Emily Cormick)
'Gallery', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Break– biannual review of contemporary New Zealand Art", Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth (curated by Simon Rees)

2002

'Sublime Indigo', Waikato Museum of Art and History", Hamilton, N.Z. (Jakki Leota-Ete)
'Video', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Botanica', The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (curated by Zara Stanhope)
' I See', video show, The Croft Institute, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Emily Cormick)
'White', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Waikato Contemporary Art Award', Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton (curated by Zara Stanhope)

2001

'Bright Paradise', The 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (curated by Allan Smith)
'Bloom', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
'Summer Show', Sue Crockford, Auckland



Awards, Artist Residencies

2006 Aug. - 2007 Aug.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004 Feb. - Jan 2005
Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin

2003 July - Sep.
Govett- Brewster Art Gallery and Taranaki Polythec, New Plymouth

2002 Oct. - Jan. 2003
Research Residency- Contemporary Art and Modernist Architecture, Paris



Selected Collections

Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Chartwell Collection, and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
Hocken Library and University of Otago, Dunedin
The University of Auckland Art Collection
Wallace Art Trust, Auckland



Artist's books

'Superstructure Doubled', Korridor, Berlin, 2006
'One Love', Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Hocken Library, Dunedin, 2004



Television Broadcast

Play: (Special Edition) , OKTO TV (Kanal 8), Vienna,  (video 'Colonial Atmospheres'), May 2006



Selected Bibliography and Writing

- Aasan, Øystein and Bizumic, Mladen - 'Superstructure Doubled' (artists book), Korridor, Berlin, 2006, p.20
- Architecture New Zealand - 'Bopp-Gugg' (article), April 2002, pp.-12
- Art Daily-the first newspaper on the net- 'Bizumic Examines the
  Branding of Modern Art Museums', 24/02/2002
- Barnett, Cassandra and Matheson, Grant -'Ride on Time: Recent Works
  by Mladen Bizumic' (article), The Velvet Rickshow - A Ramp Magazine, April 2004 Vol. 1 No.1, pp. 26-30 or
  http://www.rampmagazine.org/thevelvetrickshaw/
- Bizumic, Mladen 'Event.Horizon', http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/
- Burke, Gregory - 'Fiji Biennale Pavilions Catalogue' (foreword), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2004, pp. 3
- Benzer, Christa - 'Kritishe Ausgleichsmasse', Der Standard, Vienna, Juni 1 2005
- Byrt, Anthony- 'The Creepy Contemporary Sublime' (review),
  Broadsheet, Adelaide, February 2004, pp. 53
- Cherrie, Derrick -'Dream Run For Elam Artist' (article), The University of
  Auckland News, May 2001, pp. 8
- 'CAC stand', Vienna Art Fair catalogoue, Herausgeber Publisher, 2005, pp. 54
- Conland, Natasha - 'Passing Through: A Base in New Zealand Art' (article), Broadsheet, Adelaide, June-August 2005,
  Vol. 34 No.2, pp. 84-86
- Cormick, Emily –'Feeling for the Edges' (catalogue  'Vecu' ), Conical Artspace and Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Feb. 2003
- Crockford, Sue -'Sue Crockford Gallery Catalogue', 2001
- C.B.- 'Rauschende Bilder' (Galerien National review), Der Standard, Vienna 09/03/06, pp. 12
- Drouschl, Sandro - 'Re: Modern', Künstlerhaus Vienna,  http://www.re-modern.at/cms/cat16.html
- Gallagher, Kate -'Mladen Bizumic- A Beautiful Afterlife', (article)
  Auckland Art Gallery News, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002 p. 4
- Gardener, Sue -'An Alternative Venice', (review), Art Monthly Australia, 
  June 2003, pp. 37
- Garzon, Elisa - 'Shuravlev - Bizumic' (review), Exit EXPRESS # 19, Abril 2006, Madrid, pp. 28 -29
- Hipkins, Gavin - 'Middle Earth', (article), Visit - Govett-Brewster Art  Gallery Publication,
  New Plymouth, N.Z. December 2002, pp. 12
- Kardasz, Magda - 'Upside Down', (essay), HIDE TIDE (exhibition catalogue), Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Szutki,
  Warsaw, 2006, pp. 28 - 44
- Laird, Tessa - 'Occhio alla Nuova Zelanda', (article), Case Da Abitare Magazine,
  Giugno 2005, pp. 62-63
- Leonie, Bridie - 'To the Centre of the City Where All roads Meet' (article), www.listener.co.nz/default,3329.sm
- Leonard, Robert - 'Mladen Bizumic',  ARTSPACE web-site http://www.artspace.org.nz February 2002
- Leonard, Robert - 'Mladen Bizumic: Hauturu. Doc', Snake Oil (exhibition catalogue), Auckland Art Gallery, 2005, p.15
- McNamara, T.J. - 'Mladen Bizumic', exhibition review The New Zealand Herald, 03/04/01, pp. 18
- McNamara, T.J. - 'Art from Lens', exhibition review The New Zealand Herald, 25/11/01, p.17
- McNamara, T.J. - 'The Strong Lines of German Influence', review The New Zealand Herald, 18/02/02, p.18
- McNamara, T.J. - 'Like Stonehenge on Stewart Island', exhibition review The New Zealand Herald, 14/09/04
- McNamara, T.J. - 'Minimum Effect, Maximum Efforts', exhibition review The New Zealand Herald, 27/07/05
 -McAllister, Janet -'Spectator', (article), Metro, January 2002
- Melhart, Erwin - 'Retro-Look in Der Kunst', Kultur , Vienna, Mai 20,2005, pp. 38
- McAloon, William -'The Arrival Lounge', www.listener.co.nz/default,3583.sm
- Rees, Simon - 'Point Break', (article), Visit- Govett–Brewster Art Gallery
  Publication, New Plymouth, N.Z. December 2002, pp. 5-7
- Rees, Simon -'Pacific Trade and Exchange' (essay), Fiji Biennale Pavilions (exhibition catalogue),
  Govett- Brewster Art Gallery, 2004, pp. 4 -12
- Rees, Simon - 'Changing Address', Govett–Brewster Art Gallery Publication
  Publication, New Plymouth, N.Z. December 2004, pp. 10- 14
- Smith, Allan - 'Artifice', (exhibition catalogue), 1st Auckland Triennial,
   Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki with Artspace and The University of 
   Auckland, 2001, pp. 62 and 122-125 and
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/around/places/artgallery/brightparadise/triennial
- 'Pavement to Tauranga Guggenheim',
  (artist page - Pavement Magazine), April-May 2002
- Panckhurst, Paul -'Getting in on the Franchise', (article), The New
  Zealand Herald, 18/02/02, p.18
- Speigler, Almuth -'Malewitsh, Mumifiziert', Die Presse, 25 Mai 2005
- Wittneven, Katrin -'Keimzellen' (review),  Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 11/03/06