biography
Damir Ocko was born in 1977 in Zagreb (HR), where he currently lives and works.
His practice involves film, collage, photography, installations and artist books. Working in between the edges of reality and fiction: Ocko documents reality, while maintaining critical distance from it. Instead of focusing on the issue he rather tends to explore the potential in subjects placed in his work.
He represented Croatia at 56. Venice Biennale (2015), with a solo show entitled Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree curated by Marc Bembekoff.
In 2019 he won the first prize HTaward at MSU Zagreb for the film DICTA II
Damir Ocko's exhibitions at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro
Damir Ocko was first time invited to show his work at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro by Simona Brunetti in 2009, on the occasion of the group show ...Wondering Where the ducks Went...
The first solo show by Damir Ocko at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro took place in 2010 and it was entitled The Age of Happiness. Alway in Salerno he did his second solo show: it was 2012 and the name of the show was We saw nothing but the uniform blue of the Sky. One year later Galleria Tiziana Di Caro presented Films a screening of the whole video production by Damir Ocko. In 2016 Galleria Tiziana Di Caro organized Damir Ocko's first show at the Napoli venue, called Year out of Shape
Selected solo exhibitions:
Dami Ocko, Pear fate meter, Gaep Gallery, Bucharest (RO), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia, 2019;
Desire in Language, (with Roman Štetina), curated by Adam Budak,National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic, 2018
Dicta, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, curated by Agnès Violeau, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 2018;
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux , France, 2018;
Dicta, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2017;
The Agency Gallery, London, UK, 2017;
Repeat after me, Eastward Prospectus, Bucharest, Romania, 2017;
Year out of shape, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples, Italy, 2017;
DAZIBAO, Montreal, Canada, 2016;
Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree, Croatian Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, curated by Marc Bembekoff, 2015;
Photon, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015;
Studies on Shivering: The Hunt, Gallery Kasia Michalski, Warsaw, Poland, 2015;
Studies on Shivering, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 2014;
Damir Očko: PST, APOTEKA, Vodnjan, Croatia, 2014;
Studies on Shivering, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria, 2014;
Damir Ocko, Films, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, 2013;
The Body Score, Yvon Lambert Gallery (project space), Paris, France, 2013;
Damir Ocko: The Kingdom of Glottis, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2012;
We saw nothing but the uniform blue of the sky, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, 2012;
On Ulterior Scale, MultiMedia Center Luka, Pula, Croatia, 2012;
Očko/Tadić, Galerie de l’ESAM, Caen, France (With M. Tadić), 2012;
On Ulterior Scale, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.), 2011;
Jedinstvo Hall - Gallery Močvara, 26th Music Biennale, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011;
Castle & Elephant, Coventry, UK, 2010;
"Event Horizon", Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2010;
Damir Ocko, The Age of Happiness, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, 2010;
Screening Room, Blumen, Leipzig, Germany, 2010;
The Age of Happiness, Lothringer13 Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany (cat.), 2009;
The Age of Happiness, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009.
Selected group exhibitions:
REZ/CUT, curated by Branka Benčić and Tihomir Milovac, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia, 2018;
And we were trying to be there, La Chaufferie - The University of Quebec (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, curated by Damien Beyrouthy, 2018;
Lewben Art Foundation Playlist, curated by Francesca Ferrarini, Mo muziejus, Vilnius (LT), 2018;
Il corpo è un indumento sacro, curated by Paola Ugolini, Museo del Novecento di Firenze IT, 2018;
Temporarry Encounters, Galerija Galenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia, curated by Branka Benčić, 2017;
The Arbitrary Nature of Words and Everyday Life, Pavelhaus, Bad Radkersburg, Austria, curated by Petja Petja Grafenauer and David Kranzelbinder, 2017;
The Arbitrary Nature of Words and Everyday Life, Galerija Vodnikova, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curated by Petja Petja Grafenauer and David Kranzelbinder, 2017;
Fragments of Paradise, Collezione Agovino - Le Scalze - Chiesa di San Giuseppe a Pontecorvo, Napoli, Italy, 2017;
Remembering in Form, Galerie Heike Sterlow, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Adela Demetja, 2016;
Boom Bang III, NN Contemporary Art Northampton, UK, curated by Jasmina Cibic, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Filip Markiewicz and Katharina Stadler, 2016;
Politiche Della Natura, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, 2016;
Le temps de l'audace et de l'engagement - De leur temps (5) - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (IAC), Villeurbanne, France, 2016;
NORMALITIES, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York City, NY, curated by Marko Lulić, 2016;
100%", Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France, 2015;
Through the Barricades, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati The Beast and the Sovereign, 2015;
Württembergischer, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany, curated by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Paul B. Preciado and Valentín Roma, 2015;
Two Mouthsful of Silence", Duke’s House 32-38 Duke’s Place, Aldgate, London, United Kingdom, curated by Bea Herhold de Sousa, 2015;
3rd Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, BIH, curated by Adela Demetja and ROTOR (Graz), 2015;
LA PERMANENCE,Musée de la Danse, Rennes, France, curated by Boris Charmatz, 2014;
Notes on Undoing, Garis & Hahn, NY, USA, curated by Branka Benčić, 2014;
Noli me tangere, L'arte in movimento e la malattia dei sentimenti di Michelangelo Antonioni, Biblioteca Civica, Verona, Italy, curated by Eva Comuzzi and Andrea Bruciati, 2014;
Great Undoing, 54th Annale, Poreč, Croatia, curated by Branka Benčić, 2014;
The Sounds of Silence, CAC La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, France, curated by Marc Bembekoff, 2014;
Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vivien Trommer, 2014;
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France, curated by Eric Mézil, 2014;
Journey at the end of the word, Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno, Italy, curated by Antonello Tolve, 2014;
Interprète, FRAC Le Plateau, Paris, France, curated by Xavier Franceschi, 2014;
I open my eyes and there you are, MUDAM, Luxembourg, curated by Christophe Gallois, 2013;
Le ragioni della pittura, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso (Teramo), Italy, curated by Laura Cherubini & Eugenio Viola, 2013;
Lightning out for the territories, TRAFO house of contemporary art, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Leila Topić, 2013;
Voices of Truth, Villa Romana, Florence", Italy, curated by Adela Demetja, 2012;
Takes on Memory & Flight Paths, HIAP - Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Marita Muukkonen, 2012;
Lightning out for the territories", Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria, curated by Leila Topić, 2012;
Abstraction, Galerija Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by Ivana Mance, 2012;
T-HTAward, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia;
On stage: narrative and performance in contemporary Croatian video, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria, curated by Jasna Jakšić, 2011;
Southern Panoramas, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2011;
Cities - visionary places, Torrance Art Museum, L.A, USA, curated by Camilla Boemio, 2011;
11th Visura Aperta", Momiano, Croatia, curated by Davorka Perić, 2011;
Picture of Sound", Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, curated by Evelina Turković, 2011;
After the Crash", Orto Botanico, Rome, Italy, curated by Camilla Boemio, 2011;
PRETTY VACANT – spaces of uncertainty and discontinuity, POLIS 2011, Pula, Croatia, curated by Branka Benčić, 2011;
Jour de Fête", Loop Festival, Private Art Space Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, curated by Pedro Torres & Alexandra Laudo, 2011;
Picture of Sound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by Evelina Turković, 2011;
Mit Seife und Gabeln, Kunstraum Kreunzlingen, Kreunzlingen, Switzerland, curated by Tanja Trampe & Daniela Petrini, 2011;
Picture of Sound, Multimedia Center Split, Split, Croatia, curated by Evelina Turković, 2010;
PostDimensione - Viaggio nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta Bari, Italy, curated by Giacomo Zaza, 2010;
Videonale Sarajevo Intervention - Balkan Box, DUPLEX, Sarajevo, BIH, curated by Pierre Courten, 2010;
Avventure Minime, Convento di San Lorenzo, Salerno, Italy, curated by Antonello Tolve, 2010;
Working Title, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, curated by Anna Ptak, Marianna Dobkowska & Konstantin Lom, 2010;
Here and Now, Bolognia Art First, Museo Archeologico, Bologna, Italy, curated by Julia Draganović, 2010;
Working Title, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Anna Ptak, Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka & Marianna Dobkowska, 2009;
Grenzenlos", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, curated by Jerica Ziherl, 2009;
CITIES - visionary places", Roma Festival dell Architettura, Auditorium Arte, Rome, Italy, curated by Camilla Boemio, 2009;
VIDEOARTEVERONA - Sezione Visione Video, Art Verona, Verona, Italy, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, 2009;
GENERATIONS, AKTO4 - Festival for Contemporary Art, Bitola, Macedonia, curated by Nataša Bordožićć, 2009;
"Video Salon, Duplex / Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH, curated by Pierre Courten, 2009;
Cinemaniac, MultiMedia Center, Pula, Croatia, curated by Branka Benčić, 2009;
Wondering where the ducks went, Tiziana di Caro Gallery, Salerno, Italy, curated by Simona Brunetti, 2009;
Dealing with Fear, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009;
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy - National Studio for Contemporary Art, Tourcoing, France, curated by Pascale Pronnier
His work is also in many public collection such as:
Luis Vuitton Fondation for Creation, Paris, France; FRAC le Plateau, Paris, France; CNAP - Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France; MUDAM, Luxembourg