Summary Igor Eskinja
Igor Eskinja constructs his architectonics of perception as ensembles of modesty and elegance.
The artist “performs” the objects and situations, catching them in their intimate and silent transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional formal appearance. Using simple, inexpensive materials, such as adhesive tape or electric cables and unraveling them with extreme precision and mathematical exactitude within strict spatial parameters, Eskinja defines another quality that goes beyond physical aspects and enters the registers of the imaginative and the imperceptible. The simplicity of form is an aesthetic quality that opens up a possibility for manipulating a meaning. It derives, as the artist states, from the need for one form to contain various meanings and levels of reading within itself. The tension between multiplicity and void constitutes one of the most important aspects of Eskinja’s mural “drawings” and seemingly flat installations. A void is still an active space of perception; it does not conceal; it comments on the regime of visibility, it invites the viewer to participate in the construction of an imaginary volume in an open space. The temporary nature of the artist’s spatial structures and the ephemeral quality of his carpets (where ornaments are carefully woven out of dust or ash) manifest a resistance to the dominant narratives of institutional apparatus and socio-political order.
Igor Eskinja Biography
Born 1975 in Rijeka, Croatia.
2002 Graduated painting at Accademia di Belle Arti Venice, Italy.
Igor Eskinja Solo exhibitions:
2012 forthcomming – MAC / VALm Musee D'Art Contemporain Du Val-De-Marne, France
forthcomming – Krobath Gallery, Vienna, Austria
forthcomming - ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
2011 THE DAY AFTER - Curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Federico Luger, Milan, Italy
IHABITANST OF GENERIC PLACES - MSU Museum of contemporary art Zagreb, Croatia
THE NEAR AND THE ELSEWHERE, curated by Sonja Zavrtanik, SKUC gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
IHABITANST OF GENERIC PLACES, Tresor im Bank Austria Kunstforum, View, Austria
ONE ON ONE, Igor Eskinja and Viktor Popovic, curated by Jasminka Babic and Sabina Salamon,
Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia
INHABITANTS OF GENERIC PLACES, curated by Annemarie Tuerk and Heike Eipeldauer,gallery Tresor, Kunstforum Bank-Austria, Vienna, Austria
2010 NOWHERISTAN, ADN gallery, Barcelona, Spain
TIHA PROIZVODNJA, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
2009 YOU SAY BILD I SAY SHOOT!, Elly Brose Eiermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
MADE IN:SIDE, curated by Alberto Salvatori, Bardinicontemporanea, Firenze, Italy
APPARENZE, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
IGOR EŠKINJA, curated by Riccardo Caldura, Galeria Civica di Mestre, Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy
PROJECT FOR UNSSUCCESFUL GATHERING, curated by Anne Kayser, Casino Luxembourg –
Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2008 IGOR EŠKINJA, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy
IGOR EŠKINJA, CAB (Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos), Burgos, Spain
FUGAZ, ADN galeria Barcelona, Spain
2007 INFINITAS POSIBILIDADES DE MUNDOS PARALELOS, curated by Gabriela Quero Larrazabal, Centro Cultural Chacao,
Caracas, Venezuela
ICEBERG, curated by Željko Marcijuš, Gallery Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia
IGOR EŠKINJA, Gallery Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
IMAGINEERING, curated by Branko Franceschi and Nataša Ivančević, Mali salon, MMSU-RIjeka
IMAGINEERING, Gallery PM, Zagreb, Croatia
2006 DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
2005 PRESENT FUTURE, (Federico Luger Gallery), Artissima 12, Torino, Italy
REALITY CHECK, text by Alfredo Sigolo, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy
ONI/THEM, gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
2004 OBLI(LIK)OVAN/JA*, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
Interno 12, curated by Paolo Angelosanto, Via Ratazzi, Rome, Italy
2003 NAJOBIČNIJA IZLOŽBA, («The Most Common exibition»), gallery OK, M.M.C. Palach, Rijeka
IZLOŽBA - Gallery Fontikus, Grožnjan / gallery Toš, Punat-Krk
2001 Igor Eškinja, gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
Igor Eskinja Group exhibitions:
2012 forthcomming – Mad Museum, New York, USA
forthcomming – Royal Museum of Alberta, Canada
forthcomming – Marta Herford, Germany
2011 REARVIEW MORROR, curated by Christophere Eamon, Power Plant gallery, Toronto, Canada
DIRT, curated by Kate Ford, Wellcome foundation, London, UK
FREE PORT OF ART, curated by Giuliana Carbi Jesurum, Porto Vecchio, Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy.
VOLUME COLLECTION, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
PARALLEL LINES, with Michael Boran, Kevin Kavanagh gallery, Dublin, Ireland
V. DAYS OF GRAPHIC ART, Gallery of fine arts, Osjek, Croatia
CARPET DIEM, Plusdesign, Milan, Italy
2010 AUGURI AD ARTE, Museum MART - Rovereto, Italy
BLOW−UP, Galerie Alberta Pane-Kernotart, Paris, France
LUC TUYMANS – A VISION OF CENTRAL EUROPE, curated by Luc Tuymans, Brugge Centraal, Brugge, Belgium
E-MOTION TO COHABIT, curated by Aurora Fonda and Iva Rada Jankovic, Galleria d'arte Moderna, Verona, Italy
THERE HAS BEEN NO FUTURE THERE WILL BE NO PAST, curated by Marco Antonini and Sandrine Canac,
ISCP-New York, USA
WORD FOR WORD, WITHOUT WORDS, curated by Alenka Gregorič, City Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia
TU SMO, curated by Mladen Lucic, MUI - Museum of contemporary art Istria, Pula, Croatia
BIG WAVE, AUGUST IN ART BIENNAL, curated by Maria Vassileva, Varna, Bulgaria
VOLUME COLLECTION, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
BEYOND CREDIT, curated by M. Vassileva, I. Boubnova, L. Boyadijev, Istanbul
STRATIFICATIONS, curated by Daniele Capra, KernotArt, Paris, France
NO CONTEMPLATION, Gallery Federico Luger, Milan, Italy
WHO WANT TO USE MY WINDOWS, curated by Silvia Conta, Paolo Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
FISCHE HINTERLASSEN KEINE SPUREN, curated by Stefanie Bottcher, Kunstlerhaus Bremen,Bremen, Germany
SULL'INVISIBILE, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
PHOTO I PHOTO YOU, curated by Iara Boubnova, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, England
2009 PROCESSING A MIRAGE, curated by Ema Nobile Mino, Futuraproject, Prague, Cech Republic
GRENZENLOS, curated by Jerica Ziherl, MMSU Rijeka, Croatia
PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
LIMITE ALLA ROVESCIA, curated by Daniele Capra, Palazzo Minucci, Vittorio Veneto, Italy
28 GRAFIČNI BIJENALE, curated Jadranka Ljubičič, Gallery Alcatraz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
FIFTY FIFTY, Kunst im dialog mit den 50er –jahren, curated by Wolfgang Kos and Gudrun Ratzinger,
Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
LIVING WITH..., Gallery Raffaella Cortese, Milano, Italy
MOTHER, FUTURE WAS A DRAWING!, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy
SCENES CENTRALES, curated by Elena Sorokina, TriPostal, Lille, France
COMPLICITY, curated by Leigh Markopoulos, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2008 PERVERTED BY THEATER, curated by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young, Apexart, New York, USA
RISQUE D'ATTENTE, curated by Branka Benčić, Gallery Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
WHAT ABOUT POWER RELATIONS?, curated by Alenka Gregoric, Mara Vujic,Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MANIFESTA 7, curated by Adam Budak, Rovereto, Italy
OPEN SKY – Spaces beyond their Practice, curated by Sandro Droschl, Ilz, Austria
WORDS, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy
ISLAND MAP, curated by Marina Viculin, Klovicevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
4.th CROATIAN TRIENNALE OF DRAWING, curated by Ruzica Pepelko and Margarita S. Simat, HAZU, Zagreb
RE-CONSTRUCTIONS, curated by Branka Benčić, gallery Waldinger, Osijek, Croatia
2007 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Museum of Contemporary art, Zagreb, Croatia
ART POINT gallery, with Kristina Lenard and Katarina Radovic, organized by Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria
PRAGUE BIENNALE 3, Expanded Painting, curated by Helena Kontova, Prague, Cech Republic
VISURA APERTA – momjano 07, curated by Davorka Perić, Momjan, Croatia
SPACE 101, with Esperanza Spearling, gallery Buro fur Kunst, Dresden, Germany
MINE, YOURS, OURS, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic i Davor MIskovic, gallery Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
YOUTH ARTIST PRIZE - HENKEL, organized by Kulturkontakt, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
ART IS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE, 2. Biennale of young Artist, Bucharest, Romania
OUT OF THE BLUE, Gallery Federico Luger, MIlan
THE 3rd GONGJU INTERNATIONAL ART FESTVAL, curated by Ha Jin, Gongju, Korea
PHOTO NEW YORK 2006, Federico Luger gallery, New York, USA
MULTIMERIDIAN 06 – curated by Branko Franceschi, chosen by artist Alen Floričić, Gallery Luka, Pula
GO-GLOBAL, Gallery Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb
TRANSFORMATIONS, curated by Jasminka Babić, island Zlarin, Croatia
RUBIK3, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Gallery Studio G7, Bologna, Italy
MACO – Mexico City, Federico Luger Gallery, Mexico
MEMORY W(H)OLE, organized by Museum (Ljubljana), Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
MIART, Federico Luger gallery, Milano, Italy
2005 NEW RIJEKA SCENE, curated by Natasa Ivancevic and Branko Cerovac, Umjetnicka Galerija Dubrovnik, Croatia
DICOTOMIE, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto (TN), Italy
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, Ljubljana, Memory (W)hole, curated by Janka Vukmir and Dario Simicic, SCCA Zagreb, organized by Muzeum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SEAS-Rijeka 2005, international multimedia festival, organized by Drugo More, Ex Paper Mill, Rijeka
Linear structures, curated by Branko Franceschi, organized by Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Rijeka and Institute for Contemporary Art-Riga, Gallery Riga, Riga, Latvia
Ek-sistere, curated by Branko Cerovac, gallery Kortil, Rijeka
2004 Castrum Vallis, curated by Ravnica organization, Bale, Croatia
Radoslav Putar prize, winner 04, curated by SCCA (Institute for Contemporary Art), Zagreb,
Gliptoteka HAZU-a, Zagreb
6+1 traže gledatelja, curated by Ksenija Orel, Gallery juraj Šporer, Opatija
2003/04 EMERGING ARTISTS - Riječka situacija, («Situation» subtitle of the show) curated by Nataša Ivančević,
MMSU, Rijeka
2003 Godišnja izložba HDLU-a Rijeka, anual award of the Association of visual artists HDLU,gallery Kortil i gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka
Garage – Centro culturale Candiani, Mestre-Venezia, Italy
Poetike slike – Mape realnosti, curated by Sabina Salamon, gallery Kortil, Rijeka
I CARE BECAUSE YOU DO, curated by Interno 3, gallery Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy
2002 Godišnja izložba HDLU-a Rijeka, gallery Kortil i galerija Juraj Klović, Rijeka
Young artists from Rijeka, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka
2001 International triennal of drawing, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Young artists from Rijeka, ex Pescheria, Este; Cividale del Friuli, Italy
Novoprimljeni članovi HDLU-a Rijeka, gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka, Croatia
Made In Venice, seven yuong artists from Venice, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Roma, Italy
Palazzo Carminati Invita, Palazzo Carminati, Venice, Italy
1999/00 83° collettiva, Nuova Icona prize, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
Autori/Tratti/Contemporanei, curator Antonio Arevalo i Aurora Fonda, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa,Venice,
the exibition were presented on the Biennale dei Giovani, Roma, Italy
Wim Wenders e due generazioni, curator Luca Massimo Barbero, galerija Contemporaneo Mestre,Italy
PRODUZIONE RESISTENTE, curators Aldo Grazzi i Luca Massimo Barbero, Museo Virgiliano, Mantova, Italy
1998 Night Gallery, TAG, Mestre, Italy
82° collettiva, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia prize winner, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa,
Venice, Italy
1997/98 NUOVE FIGURE, gallery Traghetto, Venice, Italy
Igor Eskinja Residences:
2007 Kulutrkontakt, Vienna, june-septembar
2006 Triangle-France, Marseille, january - fabruar
2004 ISCP-New York, residency program, november
- 2000 One month study program in Berlin
1999/02 studio grant Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
Igor Eskinja Awards:
2007 T-HT award, award by Museum of Contempoarary Art in Zagreb, Croatia
2006 Youth Artist Prize - Henkel, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria
2004 Radoslav Putar prize, winner 04, curated by SCCA (Institute for Contemporary Art), Zagreb,
Gliptoteka HAZU-a, Zagreb
2003 Anual award of the Association of visual artists HDLU,gallery Kortil i gallery Juraj Klović, Rijeka
1999/00 Nuova Icona prize, 83° collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
1998 Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia prize, 82° collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
Igor Eskinja in Public collections:
MAXXI – Museo nazioniale delle arti del XXI secolo – Rome, Italy
MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
CAB – Caja De Arte Burgos, Spain
Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia
Department of culture - Madid,Spain
Zagrebačka banka - Unicredit, Zagreb
Hypo-Alpe Adria Bank, Zagreb, Croatia
Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, Italy
Igor Eskinja Works
