* 1978, currently based: Zagreb, Croatia
Affiliated institution: University Algebra Zagreb
http://www.martinazelenika.com/ | info@martinazelenika.com
About
The interdisciplinary artist doc. mr. art. Moon Martina Zelenika (Croatia) uses an innovative and alchemical approach in the realisation of artworks that encompass a wide range of techniques and media. The main feature of Moon’s work is attributed to the combination of traditional artistic techniques and cutting-edge digital technologies. She is the author of pioneering new media works in which she uses augmented reality technology in combination with traditional drawings, and innovative art projects in which she uses sonification of various types of data obtained by biosensors, x-ray analysis, signals from the Earth’s magnetosphere, drawings, etc. Martina calls for unity by centralising the human experience, questioning existence and freedom in the age of post-humanism through a scientific-philosophical-theological aspect. Her projects and artworks have been exhibited abroad in Austria, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Latvia, etc. She graduated in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, and earned her master’s degree in video-new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of New Media Arts at the Department of Digital Art at Algebra University in Zagreb, Croatia.
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EDUCATION
2006 M.F.A. Video-New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia EU (two years programme)
2002 Diploma from the University of Zagreb Teachers Academy (one year of Pedagogic-psychological training)
2001 BA/MFA diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb CRO/artistic orientation – Graphics and Printmaking (four years programme)
1997 Graduated from the High School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, scenography and arrangement department (four years School programme)
LECTURES / CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIUMS
2021 Conference POSTSENSORIUM - RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga Latvia; Session
Sensory perception and sonic immersion by Douglas KAHN; paper & presentation title The body as a musical instrument: generating data into audio-visual content
2020 Artist talk at Gorgona Hall of Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia EU; MOUNTAIN a film premiere
2019 Lecture University of Applied Arts Vienna, Digitale Kunst; lecture AUGMENTED REALITY – CONTEMPORARY (DYS)UTOPIA, presentation of an Augmented Reality artistic project 6th SENSE and my creative practice.
2019 Conference RE: SOUND – 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark; paper title The sound of mineral stone: Chemical properties of civilisation
2019 Lecture Center for Innovative Media (CIM) at the Academy of Applied Arts of The University of Rijeka, semester program of Virtual and Augmented Reality projects; title AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) – CONTEMPORARY (DYS)UTOPIA, presentation of an Augmented Reality artistic project 6th SENSE and my creative practice.
2018 Conference ZIP-SCENE Conference. Analogue & Digital Immersive Environment (Perspectives on Digital Interactivity and Narrative in Performing Arts and VR) @ Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest; the paper title The Perfect Language
2018 Conference GLOBAL CONTROL, RIXC Art Science Festival, September 13–15, Riga, Latvia; speech and presentation - paper title “A secret way of communication: The perfect language that the global control system cannot control
2017 Conference Risk Change EU Project, Contemporary Museum Novi Sad Serbia, presentation of the art project TAB_Letter Haiku
2017 Symposium TOUCH ME Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, the fifth edition entitled - “The Invisible Around Us”, curated by Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN; artwork NEW EUROPE - the sound of mineral stones
2013 Artist talk New Media Cross Border, Multimedia center KIBLA Maribor, Slovenia EU, presentation of multimedia project TAB_LETTER, ODE TO HUMANITY poem in the Slovenian language
2004 Artist talk; MFRU Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor SLO, multimedia presentation of the art project Media Art in the process: Virtual Station
STIPENDS / GRANTS / REWARDS / FUNDINGS / NOMINATIONS
2023 Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, financial support for the development and production of the art project and solo exhibition In the beginning, before we are gone
2023 City of Zagreb, City Office for Culture and Civil Society, financial support for the realisations of the solo exhibitionIn the beginning, before we are gone
2020 SOUND TO SHAPE / SHAPE TO SOUND tehnoarte.com, Artist-in-residence, online program
2019 Ministry of Culture Croatia, a production grant for development and production of new artwork - ChORUS (MSSS), real-time generative light-audio installation of Earth’s Magnetic field.
2019 Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, financing the travel costs of transporting works of art Zagreb - Vienna, Austria - Zagreb on the occasion of an independent exhibition in Vienna
2019 Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, financing of travel expenses on the occasion of participation in the conference RE:SOUND - 8th international conference on the history of media art, science and technology at Aalborg University, Aalborg Denmark
2019 ISEA2019 Penumbra:In-between, a finalist with an Augmented Reality Art project “6th SENSE” at Special Exhibition, Asia Culture Center Gwangju, Republic of South Korea, 22 June - 28 July 2019
2019 MADATAC X Festival Madrid, Spain / a finalist with an Augmented Reality Art project “6th SENSE” for “Residence prize for producing an audio-visual work”
2018 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, financing of travel expenses on the occasion of participation in the conference ZIP-SCENE - Analog and digital immersed in the environment (perspectives of digital interactivity and narrative in performing arts and virtual reality in VR) held in cooperation with Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, financing of travel expenses on the occasion of participation in the conference GLOBAL CONTROL - RIXC Festival of Science and Art, Riga, Latvia
2017 Croatian Audiovisual Centre - HAVC, government-backed strategic agency for the audio-visual sector in Croatia: a majority production grant for debutant experimental movie “Mountain”
2015 Croatia House Foundation (member of EUNIC), grant for solo exhibition abroad at Multimedia center KIBLA Maribor Slovenia EU
2013 Multimedia center KID KIBLA Maribor, New Media Cross Border program, Art Residency SLO, residency stipend
2011 Institute of International Visual Arts INIVA, Art Residency UK, production grant for video making
2009 Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts HAZU, financial support for the production of the video game Planet Mar Save the Earth
2009 City of Zagreb, City Office for Culture, Multimedia Art, financial support for the production of the video game Planet Mar Save the Earth
2003/06 Stipend provided by the Ministry of education, science and sport of Republic Slovenia EU during the MA study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana
1998/01 Stipend provided by the Sisacko-moslavacka County Croatia during the BA/MA study at the Academy of Fine Arts University Zagreb
2001 First prize at 2nd YOUTH SALON SISAK, House of Culture - Crystal Cube of Serenity, Sisak, Croatia
2001 The Rector’s Award for exceptional accomplishment work during the study at the Academy of Fine Arts University Zagreb Croatia EU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 IN THE BEGINNING, BEFORE WE ARE GONE, a multimedia exhibition; The artworks from 2013 to 2023 created in a variety of media from traditional techniques to the latest digital technology. Author of the exhibition, Martina Zelenika. Technical museum Nikola Tesla Zagreb, Croatia EU
2022 PRESENCE, a multimedia exhibition concept (3 large drawings MSSS 2017, vocal sound mp3, sensor, cooling fan, 48 m of white transparent fabric) for the exhibition project In dialogue - The Benko Horvat Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Curator Martina Munivrana; MSU Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2020 MOUNTAIN a film premiere and an exhibition of a unique art kimono, “Mountain”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2019 INTROVERSION video installation, a series of curatorial exhibitions on the theme of silence, Gallery 90-60-90 at POGON Jedinstvo Zagreb, Croatia EU
2019 Art and Science expressed in Lines: Extended Realities, curator dr. Phil. Penesta Dika; has presented a new project cycle, Metaprogramming of The Human Algorithm, artwork La Petite Mort with Augmented Reality technology – mobile application MoTHA and a short video about RECEPTILIUM performance. At Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna, Austria EU
2016 ABSOLUTE IDEALISM, a concept for healing, curator and producer MOON Martina Zelenika; interdisciplinary exhibition presents a TAB_Letter project and its implementation of the poem ”Ode to Humanity” in French language and a series “Projections Beyond”; music performance with percussion, contrabass, vibraphone, guitar and violin, and a singsong recital in the French language. At Institut Français de Croatie Médiathèque, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2015 METAPERSPECTIVE a concept for healing, curators MOON Martina Zelenika
and Ira jeza; interdisciplinary performance and multimedia exhibition; TAB_Letter project and a series of large drawings “Projections Beyond”. At Multimedia Center KID KIBLA Maribor, Slovenia EU
2013 TAB_LETTER implementation of the poem “Ode to Humanity” in the Slovenian language, music performance by clarinet and Turkish oud; producer MOON Martina Zelenika and Media-Art-Cross-Border program. At Multimedia center KID KIBLA Maribor, Slovenia EU
2013 Point of (de)CREATION, a part of the exhibition concept, presents a visual-audio installation of the TAB_Letter project at The cellars of the Diocletian’s Palace UNESCO, Split, Croatia EU
2012 TAB_Letter, 1st phase: “Ode to Humanity” in Croatian language, music performed by string trio: viola, violin, and cello. curators MOON Martina Zelenika and Martina Mezak. At Multimedia Gallery Nano, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2011 ÐABALESKO (eng. meaning-work without meaning-for FREE) a mini-retrospective the exhibition, curator and producer MOON Martina Zelenika, at Gallery Kristofor Stankovic Zagreb, “Cycle of Young Artists” organised by the Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Croatia EU
2008 SIZE DOES (NOT) MATTER, video and sculpture-light interactive installation of human brains, curators MOON Martina Zelenika and Željko Marciuš, at Josip Racic Studio of Zagreb Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2007 PLANET MAR, video installation and Net Art artwork Virtual Station, curators MOON Martina Zelenika and Martina Mezak. At Multimedia Gallery Nano, Zagreb, Croatia EU
2006 PLANET MAR, artistic research of energy phenomenon No#2, multimedia and interactive exhibition, artwork Virtual Station and a series of digital collages (UV prints on canvas and photo paper), at Gallery of Matrix Croatia, Zagreb; curators MOON Martina Zelenika and Vanja Babić
2006 CONTACT, artistic research of energy phenomenon No#2, digital collages, UV digital prints on photo paper and canvas, from a series Planet Earth, at Bol Gallery Branislav Deskovic; curator MOON Martina Zelenika
2005 PLANET MAR, video installation and Net Art artwork Virtual Station, at Subgallery MUL of Multimedia Centre Luka, Pula Croatia EU
2005 THE DAY AFTER, artistic research of energy phenomenon No#1, photography the exhibition, at Gallery Camera obscura, Rijeka, Croatia EU; curator Nadežda Elezović
2004 KMMZ (Kurtz, Mihalke, Muller, Zelenika), multimedia exhibition, Gallery of Moslavina Museum, Kutina, Croatia; curator Mladen Mitar
2004 KMMZ (Kurtz, Mihalke, Muller, Zelenika), multimedia exhibition, House of Culture Crystal - Cube of Serenity, Sisak Croatia; curator Mladen Mitar
2003 X - FILES artistic research of energy phenomenon No#1, multimedia exhibition and ambient installation (sculpture flying object and light), series of digital prints on UV transparent foils and Kapa boards, at Gallery Vladimir Nazor, Zagreb, Croatia EU; curator Olga Majcan and MOON Martina Zelenika.
2002 PURGATORY - FORM IN INFORMATION, artistic research of energy phenomenon No#1, space ambient multimedia installation (large sculptural objects made of mixed media, light, music), at Student Center Gallery Zagreb Croatia EU; curator MOON Martina Zelenika
FILMOGRAPHY / VIDEOGRAPHY
INTORVERSION, experimental video
2020 Earth Day, in collaboration with CLOT Magazine; 24 hours online streaming
2019 A series of curatorial exhibitions on the theme of silence, Gallery 90-60-90, at POGON Jedinstvo Zagreb Croatia EU
MOUNTAIN, a debut short experimental documentary film
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Gorgona Hall, Zagreb, Croatia; a film premiere
2019 EUROPA Cinema Zagreb, Small Hall, a film pre-premiere
PLANET MAR, art video
2007 Galerija Nano, Zagreb, Croatia; solo exhibition, an interactive audio-video installation Virtual Station
2006 Galery Matrix of Croatia, Zagreb Croatia; PLANET MAR solo exhibition, Planet Mar series
2005 FONA Festival of New Art, Marganovo Hartera, Rijeka, Croatia; video installation
2005 39th Zagreb Salon, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb, Croatia; the project titled Virtual Station, Net Art project
2005 Art-Net-Lab, MAMA Multimedia Center Zagreb, Croatia; a part of an interactive art project - Virtual Station
2005 Subgalery MUL, MMC Luka, Pula Croatia; video installation
2005 11th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor Slovenia; a part of an interactive art project - Virtual Station
9 EMOTIONS, short video autoportraits, duration 3 - 4 sec
2006 PLANET MAR solo exhibition, Planet Mar series, Galery Matrix of Croatia, Zagreb Croatian EU
2005 39th Zagreb Salon, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb, Croatia
VIRTUAL STATION, Net Art project
2005 Art-Net-Lab, MAMA Multimedia Center Zagreb, Croatia; a part of an interactive art project - Virtual Station
2005 11th International fest of computer arts, Maribor Slovenia; a part of an interactive art project - Virtual Station
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS selection
2022 6th Moslavina Art Triennial, Gallery of Moslavina Museum, Kutina, Croatia, 6.10.-26.11. Curator Jelena Batinić; exhibiting The Solar Corona - energy processing series.
2021 Nothing’s gonna change my world?, online and interactive exhibition, inc. book release, from 13.08.-05.09. 2021, curated by raumwww.de at GR_UND Gallery Berlin, Germany; La Petite Mort, augmented reality artwork.
2019 Glowing Globe: Science-Fiction-Art, the international exhibition, Gallery Kortil, Rijeka Croatia, Center for Innovative Media from the Academy of Applied Art, November 2019; presenting “6th SENSE” Augmented Reality app art project with analogue drawing-collages black-gold sonar series
2019 ISEA2019, Penumbra: In-between, 22 June - 28 July 2019, a finalist with Augmented Reality Art project “6th SENSE” at Special Exhibition, Asia Culture Center Gwangju, Republic of South Korea
2019 MADATAC X Festival, a finalist with Augmented Reality Art project “6th SENSE” for “Residence prize for the production of an audio-visual work”, Madrid Spain EU
2018 BAM Festival - international digital Art, Liège Belgium, 19-20 October; art installation of an Augmented Reality app art project “6th SENSE”, exposition of the silver series (3 artworks)
2018 Sounded Bodies Festival, 1st demo performance “RECEPTILIUM”, a sensory interactive audio-visual show with EEG and gesture data transmitted in music § coded visual from the freehand drawing process. At Zagreb Dance Center, Croatia EU
2017 TOUCH ME Festival, POGON Gallery, Zagreb Croatia, the fifth edition entitled “The Invisible Around Us”, a project curated by Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN; work: research project NEW EUROPE, sounds of mineral stones, interactive audio-visual ambient installation
2016 GANZ new festival, the international festival of developmental theatre, & TD Theatre Zagreb, semicircular hall / “The cabin of delicious wonders”
2016 Museum of Contemporary Art Rijeka, Empeduja Art Kamp 2016 Rijeka, performance art week
2014 Zagreb Design Week 2014, LAUBA Gallery, competition work, presentation of a furniture concept BOREALIS
2013 11th ART STAYS, the international exhibition of contemporary art, Ptuj, Slovenia EU; TAB_LETTER project, an audio-video installation
2013 MATERIALITY, the international exhibition of contemporary art, KIBLA PORTAL, Maribor, Slovenia EU
2012 Islington Arts Factory’s Summer Salon 2012, London UK; drawing Crater, a drawing of a crater, black ink on paper
2012 Laval Nugent Gallery, LN360°, promotion of young Croatian artists, Zagreb, Croatia EU; work: HORIZON 1, computer collage, digital print on photo paper
2011 INIVA Social Archive One: An Economic Forecast (Shoreditch), Guillaume at La Maison video recording, London UK; work: video recording and presentation
2011 Islington Arts Factory’s Summer Salon 2011, London UK; artwork Antifear balloon, photograph on paper
2010 International triennial expanded artistic media, Belgrade, Serbia; artwork HOMO NOVUS a mixed digital collage, video projection combined with 3D glasses
2008 Gliptoteka HAZU, 100 years of Academy of Fine Arts, rewarded students, Zagreb Croatia EU; artworks HORIZON 1 and 2, computer collage, digital prints on photo paper
2006 MAGMART International Art Festival, 2nd edition, Milan, Italy EU; Autoportraits,
photographs and video presentation
2005 Marganovo Hartera Hall FONA New Arts Festival, Rijeka Croatia EU; work: PLANET MAR video installation
2005 39th Zagreb Salon, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb, Croatia EU; artwork “Virtual Station” Net Art project
2005 MAMA Center Art Net Lab, Zagreb, Croatia EU; artwork “Virtual Station” Net Art project
2005 11. International fest of computer arts, Maribor, Slovenia EU; artwork “Virtual
Station” Net Art project
2004 10. International festival of computer arts, Maribor, Slovenia EU; artworks computer colleagues, digital print on transparent foil
2001 2nd YOUTH SALON SISAK, House of Culture Crystal - Cube of Serenity, Sisak, Croatia
2000 Pasionska baština, Mimara Museum Zagreb, two drawings (black ink on paper 100x70cm)
1996 24th Youth Salon, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb, Croatia EU; artwork Metamorphosis, 3D sculpture installation, combined technique
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Multimedia center KID KIBLA Maribor Slovenia
Institute of International Visual Arts INIVA London UK
Museum of Modern Art Zagreb Croatia
Gallery of the Moslavina Museum Kutina Croatia
ART RESIDENCES
2017 Risk Change (EU Project) Sound Art Residency, Museum of Contemporary Art Novi Sad, Serbia, by invitation
2017 Future DiverCities, Instagram Art Residency, Creative Europe, by invitation
2013 Multimedia center KID KIBLA Maribor, New media cross border program, Art Residency Slovenia
2011 Institute of International Visual Arts INIVA, Art Residency UK
2011 Islington Arts Factory London, Art Residency UK
MEMBERSHIPS
ULUPUH Zagreb - multimedia and intermedia department, 2022 - ongoing
https://ulupuh.hr
SALOON Berlin – a network for women working in the art scenes of Berlin
www.saloon-berlin.de, 2020 - ongoing
ADA, The Archive of Digital Art - database of virtual art
www.digitalartarchive.at, 2017 - ongoing
Associate member at The Centre for Innovative Media at the Academy of Applied Arts of University of Rijeka Croatia, www.cim.apuri.hr, 2018 - ongoing
CFAA, Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU) hr.hzsu.hr, 2012 - September 2020, resigned from membership
CSFA, Croatian Society of Fine Artists (HDLU), www.hdlu.hr, 2002-2015, resigned from membership
Works
- »IN TIME AND SPACE« 2006
- »HOMO NOVUS« 2004
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