DAVOR MEZAK

was born on July 19, 1968, in Zagreb. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb and received his degree from the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb in 1995, under the mentorship of Professor Ante Kuduz.
Since 1992, he has been regularly exhibiting in Croatia and internationally. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
2024
Crta Totem as part of the evening of visual and performance events, Crta za beskraj, KNAP, Zagreb

2023.
Dreamed of Bare Island, gallery Kraluš, Sv. Ivan Zelina

2022.
Earthquake reality, MSU, Blackbox, Zagreb, 
Artupuktura, Art bubble, exhibition of the Art bubble program jury (with D. Krašković and P. Jazvić), Zagreb

2019
Top secret 2.8., Gallery Greta, Zagreb

2017.
Ship of Madmen and Mercedes Benz (with D. Friščić and Mercedes Bratoš), Galerija Otok;

2016
Trolik, gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb (with D. Friščić and F. Rogić)

2015
Galerija Farof, Vugrovec, "Arkadini", with Danko Friščić and Stipan Tadić

2014
MSU, NO gallery, " Ship of Madmen", with D. Friščić

2012
Galerija Nano, Teaser trailer Medusa (with D. Friščić)

2011
Galerija Greta, "Treš"

2011
Galerija Nano, "Top secret"

2009
Rovinj City Museum, "Purification II" 

2008
Gallery of Fine Arts of the City of Slavonski Brod, gallery “Ružić”, (with D. Friščić and F. Rogić)
Art Colony Rovinj, ZMGR

2007
Gallery PM, 24, HDLU

2004
"Cloneyourself I and II", gallery "Otok", Dubrovnik

2003
"Cloneyourself and Necrophilia 2", with D. Friščić, gallery VN, Zagreb

"Cloneyourself and Necrophilia 2", with D. Friščić, gallery OK, Rijeka

"3 x-man", KIC, (with D. Friščić and F. Rogić), Zagreb

"Three rooms", SC, (with D. Friščić and F. Rogić), Zagreb

2002
"Discohome", gallery M. Kraljević, Zagreb

"Two Artists, two curators", studio Janos Sugar, Budapest, Hungary

2001
"Shum", (with D. Friščić and F. Rogić), Gallery PM, Zagreb

"Lost in the shopping center", Kaptol center, Zagreb

Ars electronica / Kuilturaxe, internet project, Risovary, Hungary

Modern gallery, Ars electronica / Kuilturaxe, internet project, Wien, Austria

2000
"Home", gallery "Karas", Zagreb

1998
"Symbolon", gallery "Josip Račić", Zagreb

1997
Gallery St. Thomas, Heritage Museum of the City of Rovinj, Rovinj

1996
Video projection (with S. Narath, I. Kuduz, I. Kočica), MM center, Zagreb

“Metamorphosis”, gallery of Matica Hrvatske, Zagreb

Gallery I. Meštrović, Photo club "Split", Split

1995
Gallery Miroslav Kraljević (with D. Friščić and O. Šuman), Zagreb
Bookstore Moderna vremena, Zagreb

1993
Video installation "Purification", gallery SC, Zagreb

2023
Drava Art Biennale, gallery Koprivnica

“Four Elements”, gallery of Fine Arts, Split

Open door days of art studios 2023, (June) Zagreb, organized by Yelo, Artupunktura, Zagreb
Open door days of art studios 2023, (October) Zagreb, organized by Yelo, Artupunktura, Zagreb

“Cult of Ugliness”, HDLU Istria, Pula

2022
“Summer Exhibition”, KCM, Zagreb

2021
“Surroundings of Memory - Art Against Repression”, ARL and Museum of Red History, Dubrovnik
2019
“Iconography of the City II”, (1950-2000) VISIONS OF THE CITY, Modern gallery, Zagreb

“Refreshing Memory / When Monuments Come Alive”, Gallery Nova / SKD Prosvjeta, Zagreb

2018
“Brain, Mind, and Art”, Museum of the City of Pakrac

2017
“Love” gallery Galženica

“Day and Night of Video and Performance”, Festival željezara, Sisak

“Žeravica”, Galerie Mariánská, České Budějovice

“Maternal in Contemporary Croatian Art”, HDLU, Zagreb

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

2016
“Exporting Zagreb”, Gdansk, Palac Opatow, Museum of the People of Gdansk

51st Zagreb Salon

“Sava”, watercolor exhibition, Slavonski Brod

Museum of the City of Đurđevac

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

“Tradition in Contemporary Context”, Gallery Farof, Vugrovec

“Tradition in Contemporary Context”, gallery Greta and Upper Town, Zagreb

2015
Art Metamedia festival, SC, Zagreb and Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin

Annual exhibition of HDLU members

3rd Biennale of Painting, HDLU, Zagreb

Krapanj 2015

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

Museum of the City of Đurđevac, "Slikomon"

Gallery Center Varaždin, Žeravica III (The mystic 3ple tunnel)

Museum of the City of Đurđevac, Žeravica III (The mystic 3ple tunnel)

2014
“Art Colony Rovinj”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

2013
Zagreb Salon

T-HT Award, MSU

2nd Biennale of Painting, HDLU

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

2012
Petit bain, "Les ovnis de Croatie" , "Croatie la voici"(with Martina Mezak), Paris

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

2011
“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

Kazamat, Onurov Dvojnik

1st Biennale of Painting, HDLU

Gallery Greta, New Year's Exhibition

2007
“Four Elements” (with D. Friščić) Kaptol center, Zagreb

“Art Colony”, Heritage Museum Rovinj

Croatian Film Days, SC, Zagreb

“Return of the Lost Generation”, salon I. Kršnjavi, Zagreb

“Challenge of Ties”, Berlin

Gallery SC 40 years, retrospective of video works (with D. Friščić, D. Krašković, and F. Rogić)

Gallery SC 40 years, Gjuro II, performance-dj set

“Challenge of Ties”, Gdansk (Russia),
Krakow (Poland),
Vienna (Austria)

“Videotravel Zagreb”, Centre d`art conteporain, Metz, France

“DHF”, SC, Zagreb

“Croatian Film”, Croatian Cultural Center, Vienna, Austria

Sculpture Triennale, Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb

“Images of Difference”, Croatian video 1994/1996, Tuškanac Cinema

Graphic Map “From A to Z”, Graphics Cabinet HAZU, Zagreb

“Video Dia Loghi”, Centre Culturel Francais, Torino, Italy

2006
“Video Dia Loghi”, presentation of the video works of Croatian authors, Trevi Flash art museum, Treviso, Italy

“Videotravel Zagreb”, Artspace Hue, Seoul, South Korea

“DHF”, SC, Zagreb
Art Colony, "Adris"

"Protagonists of the Zagreb scene", In Search of the Lost Ideal", V. Šunjić, HDLU, Zagreb

"Le Samourai" (with D. Krašković), Greta gallery, Zagreb

2005
"Videotravel Zagreb", X festival of electroacoustic music, "Primavera en la Habana", Cuba

"Videotravel Zagreb", Scheldapen, Antwerp, Belgium

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

T-HT/MSU award, Zagreb

"Via Zagreb", Zagreb Days in Sarajevo

"HDLU Annual Exhibition"

"Videotravel Zagreb", gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb 

2004
"52 Zagreb Salon", gallery Forum, HDLU, Zagreb

"Videotravel Zagreb", Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria

"Videotravel Zagreb", the Baltic, Gateshead, England

"Videotravel Zagreb", Videochannel, Israel

2003
Art&Video festival, Arezzo, Italy

Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

"Videotravel Zagreb", the Baltic, Gateshead, England

"Videotravel Zagreb", gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb

"Videotravel Zagreb", Rauma, Finland

2002
"Videotravel Zagreb", Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria

"Videotravel Zagreb", gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb

"Videotravel Zagreb", Trevi Flash Art museum, Treviso, Italy

"Videotravel Zagreb", Kultiplex, Budapest, Hungary
"Videotravel Zagreb", Croatian Culture Week, Cologne, Germany

"Videotravel Zagreb", "World Wide Video festival", Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Art", Salzburg, Austria

"Casa della poesia", Siena, Italy

"Festival nacional de video" Havana, Cuba

"52 Zagreb salon", gallery Forum, HDLU, Zagreb

"37 Zagreb salon", gallery "Karas"*, Zagreb

"Retrospective of Croatian Video 1994/1996", Dubrovnik

2001
"Central European Multimedia Festival", Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary

"HDLU Annual Exhibition", gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb

"Croatian Video", Hungary, Kultiplex, Budapest
"Retrospective of Croatian Video", Utrecht, Netherlands

"Retrospective of Croatian Video", Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

"Art", Salzburg, Austria

"Croatian Video Art", Georgian University, Rome, Italy

"Croatian Video Art", Lubiana, Slovenia

"Festival de cine experimental de Madrid", Spain

"World Wide Video festival", Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Artistic Report 6/7", Kapelica gallery, Lubiana, Slovenia

"Project-internet", HDLU, Zagreb

2000
"Central European Multimedia Festival", Budapest, Hungary

"Festival de cine experimental de Madrid", Spain

"World Wide Video festival", Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Croatian Video Art", Ministry of Culture, Zagreb

"III Triennale of Croatian sculpture", Modern gallery, Zagreb

"III Triennale of Croatian sculpture", Meštrović gallery, Split

"From A to Z", HDLU, Zagreb

"Retrospective of Croatian Video", Dubrovnik

"HDLU Annual Exhibition", gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb

"Soundwave", MM center, Zagreb

"Seven Croatian Artists", Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines

"Christmas Exhibition", gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb

"Artic", Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

"Lost Home", Modern gallery, Zagreb

"Video 98/99", gallery SC, Zagreb

1999
"Central European Multimedia Festival", Budapest, Hungary

"Art Fair", Hamburg, Germany

"Festival de cine experimental de Madrid", Spain

"World Wide Video festival", Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Christmas Exhibition", gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb

"HDLU Annual Exhibition", gallery Bačva, HDLU, Zagreb

"From A to Z", HDLU, Zagreb

"Lost Home", Modern gallery, Zagreb

"Art", Salzburg, Austria

"Art in Zagreb", Austria, gallery Forum, HDLU, Zagreb

"Courageous", gallery SC, Zagreb

"Video 98/99", gallery SC, Zagreb

AWARDS
Award of the 30th Zagreb Salon, 1995.
XIX Biennale d`Aleksandrie, pour les pays de la Mediteranne 1997.
Art colony Rovinj 2008. 1st prize
Fine art award of HDLU and the city of Zagreb for the best exhibition in 2014 (Ship of Fools with D. Friščić)

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 "VideoGallery", Viper - Basel, Switzerland
private collection of Petr Smiljanić
MSU Zagreb