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BIOGRAPHY
Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist who deals with the topics of clothing fetishes, identity, painting pigments, gardens, toxic and psychoactive substances and transience. His projects rely on myths, alchemical records, art, and fashion history which he decomposes into chemical, symbolic, social, and political elements linking history and modernity. He works in the media of graphics, sculpture, installations, and performances that mark the processes of transformation of matter through emergence or disappearance. The material he uses is rare, dangerous, or ephemeral, like extracts from plants, pure caffeine, or perfume from body secretions, and he makes it according to his recipes by chemical laboratory methods of crystallization, distillation, extraction, and sublimation.
He enrolled in the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb in 1997 ( Textile and Fashion Design) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999. Since 2002, he has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally (Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany,
Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan, USA), including the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing (2011, 2014); Digiark, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012); MSU, Zagreb (2005, 2009, 2012); Platform3 – Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich (2010); Device_art, Zagreb-San Francisco-Beijing (2004, 2006, 2010).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues of Solo Exhibitions
- Belevski, J., exhibition preface Necrohaphe / Touch of Death, Museum of Ancient Glass in
Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 2025 - Mestrić, V., exhibition preface Destrudo, Richter Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Zagreb, 2012 - Pudar, K., exhibition preface Solaris, Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb, 2010
- Kaiser, Ch., Vidović, P., exhibition preface Inner Colors, Platform3, Munich, 2010
- Cvetnić, S., “Caput mortuum ili o melankoliji,” exhibition preface Caput mortuum, SC
Gallery, Zagreb, 2010 - Majcen, O., exhibition preface 12R37: Under the daisies, Boris Greiner, Filip Trade, Zagreb,
2006 - Jakšić, J., “Pucanj u prazno,” exhibition preface Avoid, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Zagreb, 2005 - Lukić, D., “Inside the tunnel – inside the hole,” exhibition preface E.A. Inside the tunnel S.V.,
AAG Showroom, Zagreb, 2005 - Jakšić, J., Majača, A., “Zebra,” exhibition preface Tra/ns/vesties, Queer Zagreb, Zagreb, 2004
- Majcen, O., exhibition preface E.A. 1/1 S.V. Menswear shop #1, VN Gallery, Zagreb, 2004
- Križić-Roban, S., exhibition preface Prints, Križić-Roban Gallery, 2002
Catalogues of Group Exhibitions
- Bekić, I, Meštrov I., exhibition preface Who is Elsa Fluid, That is Well Known: An Exhibition in Sequences, Art Pavillion in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2025
- KONTEJNER, Teklić, T. (Ed.), Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age, Zagreb, 2013, pp. 94-97
- Mišković, D., exhibition preface (Un)Tamed Sea, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia, 2025
- Borić, I., exhibition preface Just Control, Libertas, Koper, Slovenia, 2024
- Belevski, J., exhibition preface 1st Croatian Art Glass Biennale, Museum of Ancient Glass in
Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 2024 - Portier, J., text in catalogue Star-Dust, XXVIe Ateliers internationaux du Frac des Pays de la
Loire, Carquefou, France, 2014, pp. 78–79 - Magaš Bilandžić, L., exhibition preface Contemporary Croatian Graphic Arts Scene /
Challenging the Medium, Osijek, 2013, pp. 4–8 - Janković, I.R., text in catalogue LII Annale Poreč, re-calling the past, Pučko otvoreno
učilište, Poreč, 2012 - Janković, I.R., T-HTnagrada2011@msu.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2012
- Vlajo, K., Croatian Contemporary Design in a Nutshell, Hrvatsko dizajnersko društvo,
Zagreb, 2012 - Fan, D., Zhang, G., exhibition preface Translife – International Triennial of New Media Art,
National Museum of China, Beijing, 2011, pp. 152–153 - Čajkovac, V., T-HTnagrada2010@msu.hr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2011
- Horvatinčić, S., exhibition preface Mirabilia, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, 2012, pp. 7–9
- Abadžić Hodžić, A., Simončić, K., Maskareli, D., Udovičić, I., Vujković, S., Paić, Ž., Jurić,
H., Zagorac, I., Hošić, I., Mandić, A., Ljevaković, M., Kalčić, S., texts for exhibition and
conference Odjeća kao simbol identiteta, City Gallery, Bihać, BiH, 2011, p. 52 - Prančević, D. (Ed.), catalogue of 36th Split Salon, HDLU Split, 2009
- Marković, S., exhibition preface 4th Croatian Triennial of Graphics, Zagreb, 2009
- Szöke, A. (Ed.), text in catalogue Aspects of Collecting, Essel Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2009
- Simončić, K.N., “Boja u kulturi odijevanja i u modi hrvatskih dizajnera,” in Moć boja,
Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, 2009 - Richter, M., interview in catalogue FINALISTS Zbirke Filip Trade, Labin Town Gallery, 2009
- Jakšić, J., “Iza zastora,” interview in catalogue Operation: City 2008, Zagreb, 2008
- Bago, I., Majcen Linn, O., Ostoić, S. (Eds.), text in catalogue Touch Me! Festival, Zagreb,
2009 - Jakšić, J., text in catalogue Croatia First Minute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb,
2008 - Kalčić, S., exhibition preface Genius Loci, SC Gallery, Zagreb, 2008
- Franceschi, B., exhibition preface Umjetnici, B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb, 2007
- KONTEJNER, text for Device_art 2.006, Velika Gorica & Zagreb, 2006
- Maković, Z., exhibition preface Postsculpture, HDLU, Zagreb, 2005
- KONTEJNER, text for Device_art, Velika Gorica, 2004
- Marcoci, R., text for exhibition Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2002
- Celati, N., Big Torino, Biennial of Emerging Artists, Edizioni Lindau, Torino, 2000
Articles and Interviews
- Golub, M., Mrduljaš, M., “All Art is a Living Thing,” Oris, No. 81, Arhitekst, Zagreb, 2013,
pp. 196–213 - Vidović, P., “Sedimenti,” Zarez, No. XII (289–290), Zagreb, 2010, p. 19
- Vidović, P., “Prikaze u dva čina,” Zarez, No. XI (247/8), Zagreb, 2008, pp. 23–24
- Jakšić, J., “Berlin–Zagreb: Silvio Vujičić,” ČIP, No. 01–02 (644–645), Zagreb, 2008, pp. 69–70
- Jakšić, J., “O virusima i otiscima: noviji radovi Silvija Vujičića,” Oris, No. VIII–38–06, Zagreb, 2006, pp. 148–155
- KONTEJNER, “Izloženost virusima i modi,” Zarez, No. VII (176), Zagreb, 2006, pp. 16–17
- Matasović, T., “Društvo kao darkroom,” Zarez, No. VII (148), Zagreb, 2005
- Majcen, O., “Metafora socijalnog stroja,” Zarez, No. VII (163), Zagreb, 2005, p. 14
- Majcen, O., “Šarm procjepa,” Zarez, No. VII (168), Zagreb, 2005, p. 17
- Galliano, J., “Eastern Promise,” Gay Times, No. 313, Millivres Prowler Group, London, 2004,pp. 73–75
- Ostoić, S., “Cinizam mode,” Zarez, No. VI (124), Zagreb, 2004
- Kino, K., “Croatian Modern,” Art in America, No. 6, Brant Publications, Inc., New York, 2003, pp. 62–69
Books
- Majcen Linn, O., Prvih pedeset godina, Knjižnice grada Zagreba, Galerija VN, Zagreb, 2022
- Huzjak, M., Živković, S., Učimo gledati, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2007, p. 67
- Purgar, K. (Ed.), K15: Pojmovnik nove hrvatske umjetnosti, Art Magazin Kontura, Zagreb,
2007 - Baronica, K., Matasić, B., Galerija studentskog centra: 40 godina, SC Gallery, Zagreb, 2005,
p. 189
Artist’s Books
- Cvetnić, S., Jakšić, J., Simončić, N., Jašprica, I., Alchemic Polyptych, Studio Silvio Vujičić,
Zagreb, 2009
Publications
- Ferslov Schultz, M. (Ed.), Sustainable Fashion – Issues to be Addressed, Kolding School of
Design, Denmark, 2010 - Kaiser, Ch., Vidović, P., “Inner Colors,” in Petra Vidović – Kulturmanagerin aus Kroatien bei
Platform3 München, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany, 2010
SELECTED TEXT
Olga Majcen, Skin(s)care, exhibition catalogue text, 2025
Irena Bekić, Nocturno, exhibition catalogue text, 2025
Jadranka Belevski, Necrohaphe / Touch of Death, exhibition catalogue text, 2025
Sanja Cvetnić, Fountains, exhibition catalogue text, 2024
Petra Vidović, Zamatanja, exhibition catalogue text, 2017
Petra Dolanjski, Flowerworks, exhibition catalogue text, 2017
Sanja Cvetnić, Alchemy, Ritual, and the Simulacrum, text in Alchemic Polyptych book, 2009
Jasna Jakšić, In Front of the Crystal Chamber, exhibition catalogue text, 2007
Olga Majcen, Under the Daisies, exhibition catalogue text, 2005
Jasna Jakšić, Antonija Majača, Zebra, exhibition catalogue text, 2004