Galerija Kula

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Dalibor Martinis
Brilliant Selfportrait

📆Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
📍Kula, Split

Text by Žarko Paić - link in bio.

Dalibor Martinis is a leading Croatian transmedial and video artist, internationally recognized for his work with video, performance, and time based media. Emerging in the 1970s, he became associated with experimental and conceptual art practices in former Yugoslavia. His projects often explore themes of time, identity, and the relationship between media and society
Born in Zagreb in 1947. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has been exhibiting since 1969, since 1973 he has been working as a video author. He held numerous independent exhibitions, performances and screenings and participated in numerous international exhibitions (Biennales in Venice, Sao Paulo, Kwangju, Thessaloniki, Cetinje, Cairo and Ljubljana; Dokumenta Kassel, Triennale Riga, etc.). His video works and films have been shown at video festivals in Berlin, Tokyo, Montreal, Locarno and at international film festivals in Oberhausen, Bogotá, Vienna, Taormina, Seattle, Nice, Montreal, Ljubljana and others.
He taught at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, and at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka where he is a professor emeritus.
He has won several international awards (Tokyo Video Festival 1984, Locarno 1984, Alpe/Adria Film Festival Trieste 1996, Festival de Cine de Bogotá 2014, etc.). He is the recipient of the Vjesnik “Josip Račić” Award in 1995, the City of Zagreb Award in 1998., the 1st T-HT Award in 2013, the Vladimir Nazor Award in 2016, the Split Film Festival Special Award for Contribution to the Development of the Art of Moving Images in 2023, etc.
His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Zagreb, The Museum of Modern Art/New York, Stedelijk Museum/Amsterdam, ZKM/Karlsruhe, New York Public Library, Kontakt/Erste Bank/Vienna, etc.
Martinis lives in Zagreb.

OSCAR TUAZON

THE ULTIMATE ENVIRONMENT, 2026

Oscar Tuazon is an artist based in Los Angeles. He is currently Director of Cedar Spring Water School in the Great Basin region of Nevada, a long-term Land Back initiative in collaboration with the Goshute Tribe. Tuazon studied at The Cooper Union and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He is a co-founder of Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), New York in 2000; castillo/corrales, Paris in 2007; and Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Los Angeles in 2016. His work has been included in the São Paulo Bienal, Chicago Architectural Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale and Skulptur Münster. Solo exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Le Consortium, Dijon; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.In 2025 Tuazon completed a major public artwork for the City of Seattle.

Oscar Tuazon