MARE ŠULJAK
Short Bio
Mare was born in 1983 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She is an independent fine arts professional with a master degree in painting.
She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) and Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU). She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad and took part in various workshops, film festivals and residences programs.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
EDUCATION
2019 Member of Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU)
2008 MFA at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Member of Croatian Association of Artists
2005 Ceepus grant at Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Katowicach, Poland
2001 graduated from Art School Luka Sorkočević, Dubrovnik
AWARDS
2023 First Prize at the 55th Review of Croatian film and video, Zagreb
2012 Second Prize at the 44th Review of Croatian film and video, Đakovo
2012 Debutant of the year on Days of Croatian Film Festival, Zagreb
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 (April) 'Interlocking Weaves', Gallery Artsada, Volosko, Opatija, Croatia
2022 'Pink Stories', Medijateka, Gallery Flora, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2021 'Mono-Dia-Logos', Gallery Ars et Mundus, Kaunas, Lithuania
2020 'InterWEAVING', Gallery Izidor Kršnjavi guest in The Richter Collection, MSU, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 'I’m better of when you’re silent', Gallery Događanja, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 ‘Wonder Traps’, Gallery Umjetnost Osmijeha, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 'Entropy', Creart, KIC Skopje, North Macedonia
2014 ‘Tell me’, Salon Galić, Split, Croatia
2014 ‘Passage’, Nano Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2014 ‘A house where nobody lives’ Gallery Art, Podgorica, Montenegro
2014 ‘Traces’, Oblok Gallery, Sesvete, Croatia
2013 ‘The Doorway’, Nouvel Organon Gallery, Paris, France
2012 ‘As it once was’, Razvid Gallery, Zaprešić, Croatia
2012 ‘As it once was’, Green Room Gallery, Zabok, Croatia
2010 ‘Constellations’, Palach Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2006 ‘Constellation’s, Booksa Book Club, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 ‘A year after’, Ronald Brown Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 'ICIA - 2nd International Competition of Intermedia Artwork', Kraków, Poland
2022 'Woven under the skin' Gallery Događanja, Zagreb, Croatia
2022 ‘One su tu’, Gallery ‘Meraja’ Vinkovci, Croatia
2021 International group exhibition of 'Independent Biennial', Slovenia
2021 ‘One su tu’, Gallery ‘Slavko Kopač’ Vinkovci, Croatia
2021 '27th Slavonian Biennial', Osijek, Croatia
2020 'XXI Cerveira International Art Biennial', Cerveira, Portugal
2020 'CreArt Kaunas', Gallery Ars et Mundus, Kaunas, Lithuania
2020 ‘Art and Politics’, Gallery HDLU Istra, Pula, Croatia
2020 ‘Anthropologio’, ArtNo23 Gallery, Athens, Greece
2020 ‘One su tu’, Gallery ‘Slavko Kopač’ Vinkovci, Croatia
2020 ‘Memories 8’, New Space Arts Foundation, Hue city, Vietnam
2018 '7th Biennale Of Illustration', Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
2018 '21st International exhibition of miniatures', Vršilnica, Zaprešić, Croatia
2013 ‘Boiling Point’, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 T-HT@MSU Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2006 ‘New Fragments 3’, Erste Bank, Zagreb, Croatia
2006 ‘inter(-active)’, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
RESIDENCIES
2021 International Art Colony Skopje, North Macedonia
2020 'CreArt AIR', Kaunas, Lithuania
2019 ‘CreArt AIR’, Skopje, North Macedonia
2018 'YURTA' Yssyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
2015 ‘GLO’ART’ Lanaken, Belgium
2015 ‘Inside Zone’ House of culture Borsec, Romania
FILM FESTIVALS
Evanescence, experimental film, 3'32”, 2023
2024 upcoming - XXVII International Encounters Traverse, in situ, in tempore, Toulouse, France
2024 upcoming - VIDEOFORMES 2024 Young public screenings program, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2024 upcoming - Anifilm 2024 International Festival of Animated Films, Abstract and Non-Narrative Animation category, Liberec, Czech Republic
2023 Interface Video Art Festival, Official program, Art-kino Rijeka
2023 55th Review of Croatian Film and Video, Competition program, Zagreb
2023 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2023 Balkanima 20th European Animated Film Festival, Balkan Panorama, Belgrade, Serbia
2023 8th Film Round, Main program: Spaces of memory, Osijek, Croatia
Before Dark, experimental film, 7'15”, 2022
2023 Alternative Film/Video, International Competition Program, Belgrade, Serbia
2022 54th Croatian Amateur Film Festival, Beli Manastir, Croatia
2022 31st Croatian Film Days, Zagreb, Croatia
Pink Stories, animation, 10', 2021
2024 upcoming - XXVII International Encounters Traverse, in situ, in tempore, Toulouse, France
2023 Video Art Miden, Kalamáta, Greece
2022 Animafest, Croatian Film Competition, Zagreb, Croatia
2022 28th International Animation Day, Zagreb, Croatia
2022 31st Croatian Film Days, Zagreb, Croatia
722-032-2, experimental film, 5’10’’, 2013
2020 MikroFAF, Side program, Belgrade, Serbia
2015 Cinema in the Making: From dusk till dawn, Urban Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 45th Review of Croatian film and video, Pula, Croatia
Site Selection, experimental film, 3', 2012
2015 Tricky Women Festival, Tough Cookie, Wien, Austria
2013 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, program Focus on Croatia, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Videoex Festival, as part of the Guestcity Section “Zagreb”, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 International Short Film Festival, In official festival competition, Oberhausen, Germany
2012 44th Review of Croatian film and video, Đakovo, Croatia
2012 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 Tabor Film Festival, Kumrovec, Veliki Tabor, Desinići, Croatia
2012 Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb, Croatia