Great Expectations
Renata Poljak
Born in 1974, in Split. She graduated in 1997, in Split, as a professor of visual arts, and attended a postgraduate study at the Arts Academy E.R.B.A.N. in Nantes, France, obtaining a degree in 1999. She also won the 2002 Artslink scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, and the Artist in Residency, Vienna, Museum Quartier, 2004. One Person Exhibitions: 2006 All One Knows, Vukovar City Museum, (Kuba project) Vukovar, Croatia 2005 The View, Galery SC, Zagreb, Croatia 2003 Emergency Tensions, (with D.Figarella), Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida 2002 Wonderland, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France 2001 Did she Fall or was She Pushed?, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (cat.) 2000 Renata Poljak, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France 1998 Noise / Criteria, Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik, Croatia Noise / Criteria, Architects` Club, Zagreb, Croatia Group exhibitions (selection): 2006 L’usage du monde, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Nestroyhof, Vienna Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden ARCO-Contemporary art fair, Madrid, by Gallery Hilger/Vienna Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia 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.
Velika očekivanja, 17:00, Color, Stereo, HR, 2005
R. Poljak: Great Expectations
Man and architecture speak the same language. Human and architectural violence are the result of the same virus infection- Great Expectations.
Reflecting on people’s thoughtlessness and about the birth of a hybrid pseudo-urban context, the author has found connections and interlacing of family relations, the architectural urbicide that is taking place in Split (Croatia) and its surroundings, and the violence at football stadiums which finally led to the incident reported in the 'crime section' of the daily newspaper.