Curriculum vitae

Mirko Zrinšćak was born in 1953. in Volosko, Croatia.

He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice(1983.), class of Emilio Vedova.

After his course, he spent a year in Kiel, in Kunstlerhaus, as an artist in residence. In the next few years, he lived and worked in a studio in Veprinac, at the foot of Mt.Učka.

In 1992. he moved his studio to the higher parts of Učka (former wooden barracks located right in the forest). Since 1997. he lives in the village of Vela Učka in the natural park Učka.

In company with Martina Kramer and Goran Petercol, he represented Croatia at the 46th Venice Biennale. He is the founder of the Multimedia Reasearch Centre Učka (C.M.R.U.).

He is a member of the artists association HZSU and HDLU of Rijeka and the Lokve Sculptors workshop of the Gorski Kotar region. He won the City of Rijeka Prize and was decorated for particular services to culture of the Republic of Croatia and many other prizes.

Some of his exhibitions were in Contemporary and modern art museums Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Krakow, Budapest, Santiago de Chile, Rijeka, Osaka Triennale, Modern gallery Zagreb...

His whole artistic work, Zrinšćak spent most in search of forms; trying to find new explanations of the forms and development of the shapes.

Curriculum vitae

Mirko Zrinšćak was born in 1953. in Volosko, Croatia.

He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice(1983.), class of Emilio Vedova.

After his course, he spent a year in Kiel, in Kunstlerhaus, as an artist in residence. In the next few years, he lived and worked in a studio in Veprinac, at the foot of Mt.Učka.

In 1992. he moved his studio to the higher parts of Učka (former wooden barracks located right in the forest). Since 1997. he lives in the village of Vela Učka in the natural park Učka.

Some of his exhibitions were in Contemporary and modern art museums Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Krakow, Budapest, Santiago de Chile, Rijeka, Osaka Triennale, Modern gallery Zagreb...

His whole artistic work, Zrinšćak spent most in search of forms; trying to find new explanations of the forms and development of the shapes.

Solo exhibitions

1995
Scissors Bar, Gallery of Youth Club Rijeka: Mirko Zrinšćak and Goran Štimac

1986
Gallery Gi-Gi, Lido, Venezia, Italia

1887
Koparaga, Galerie Prima Kunst E. V., Kiel, Germany

1988
Student Center Gallery, Zagreb

1989
Modern Gallery, Small Salon Rijeka
Rex Solia, Škuc, Ljubljana Slovenia
Mirko Zrinšćak and Dalibor Laginja

1991-2001
C.M.I.V.U Juraj Šporer Art Pavilion, Opatija

1993
C.M.I.V.U We Are the Cosmic Series, Kandler Gallery, Pula

1994
Faculty Eormatrix, Small Salon, Rijeka

1995
Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Barozzi, Croatian Representative, Venice, Italy
C.M.I.V.U - We Are the Cosmic Series, Studio 'Josip Račić', Zagreb

1998
Museum Gallery Center, Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb

2000
Homeland Museum of the Town of Rovinj

2004
Gallery Marino, Umag

2008
Art Pavilion Zagreb

2011
Gallery HNK Rijeka, Atrium

2012
Maritime Museum of Rijeka, MMSU Rijeka
Gallery of St. Krševan, Šibenik

2013
Park Sculpture "Around Učka" PP Učka

2015
Gallery Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica on the Krka

Solo exhibitions

1995
Scissors Bar, Gallery of Youth Club Rijeka: Mirko Zrinšćak and Goran Štimac

1986
Gallery Gi-Gi, Lido, Venezia, Italia

1887
Koparaga, Galerie Prima Kunst E. V., Kiel, Germany

1988
Student Center Gallery, Zagreb

1989
Modern Gallery, Small Salon Rijeka
Rex Solia, Škuc, Ljubljana Slovenia
Mirko Zrinšćak and Dalibor Laginja

1991-2001
C.M.I.V.U Juraj Šporer Art Pavilion, Opatija

1993
C.M.I.V.U We Are the Cosmic Series, Kandler Gallery, Pula

1994
Faculty Eormatrix, Small Salon, Rijeka

1995
Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Barozzi, Croatian Representative, Venice, Italy
C.M.I.V.U - We Are the Cosmic Series, Studio 'Josip Račić', Zagreb

1998
Museum Gallery Center, Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb

2000
Homeland Museum of the Town of Rovinj

2004
Gallery Marino, Umag

2008
Art Pavilion Zagreb

2011
Gallery HNK Rijeka, Atrium

2012
Maritime Museum of Rijeka, MMSU Rijeka
Gallery of St. Krševan, Šibenik

2013
Park Sculpture "Around Učka" PP Učka

2015
Gallery Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica on the Krka

Group exhibitions

1883
Ex Tempore - Opatija

1984
16th Youth Salon Modern Gallery - Zagreb
1985
17th Youth Salon Modern Gallery - Zagreb

1986
13th Youth Biennial - Modern Gallery of Rijeka

1985
Youth Salon Modern Gallery - Zagreb
Youth Salon Modern Gallery - Zagreb (Matijević, Bornefeld, Zrinšćak)

1987
14th Youth Biennial Modern Gallery - Rijeka
(Matijević-Bornefeld-Zrinšćak) Modern Gallery, Mali Salon, Rijeka

1988
Controlled Gesture - Examples of New Informen and Abstract Expressionism - Modern Gallery of Koprivnica.
Modern Gallery - Ljubljana
Likovni Susreti Subotica, Yu Fest Imago
Collegium Artisticum - Sarajevo

1990
Forza Fiume, Gallery Karas - Zagreb

1991
Pancevac Exhibition of Yugoslav Sculpture - Pančevo
Sculpture from Opatija Studios on Statehood Day - Art Pavilion Juraj Sporer - Opatija

1992
Ville e Palazzi, Le Muse di Pietra - Veneto Venezia-Giulia, Altu Adige - Italia
View of Chaos - S.K.U.C - Ljubljana
Art Gallery - Maribor

1993
New Croatian Art
Modern Gallery, Zagreb
Gallery Salon Karas - Zagreb

1994
XXIV Aunals - Processed Material, Investigation Parliament Poreč - HDLU Gallery - Zagreb

1995
Contemporary Rijeka Authors - Part of New Croatian Art Small Salon - Rijeka
Waldinger Gallery, Osijek
Exhibition of Luburni Fine Artists - Art Pavilion

1997
New Croatian Art - Prince's Palace, Dubrovnik
Museum of Art Contamporaneo, Santiago of Chile, Chile
Civilian Museum, Valdivia, Chile

1998
Museuo de Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Contemporaneo, Sao Paolo, Brazil

2000
MIB Art Trieste
Decorative Constructive, Small Salon Rijeka
Rovinj Art Colony, Domvin Museum - Rovinj

2001
Osaka Trienalle, 10th Contemporary Art, Japan
HDLU Rijeka 55th Annual Exhibition - Sculpture Gallery Kortil, Rijeka

2003
Liburnian Sculptors, Art Pavilion Juraj Sporer, Opatija (Makuj, Štimac, Zrinšćak)

2004
Picture, Gesture, Matter, 80's MMSU Rijeka

2005
Industrial Landscape, MMSU Rijeka

2006
Petikat Art Workshop, Bicycle-Art, Technical Museum Zagreb

2007
Gallery Kortil - Cosa Nostra - HDLU Rijeka

2009
Croatian Contemporary Sculpture. Vienna, Kunstlerhaus
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin
Hermetic Icon of the New Age, Sv. Donat. Zadar

2010
Contemporary Croatian Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Hungary

2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland

2017
Art Pavilion in Zagreb, Forest Painting, Sculpture, Product, Design, Literature

2018
Art Pavilion in Zagreb, 120 Years of Artists, Works, Art Timetable
Croatian Sculpture Festival Đakovo - Đakovačka Cathedral

2021
Biennale architecture Venezia exibition " TIME SPACE EXISTECE " - palazzo Mora