Ivo Deković

Ivo Deković (born May 14, 1952 in Šibenik , Yugoslavia , today Croatia ) is a German-Croatian artist. He attended the Naval School in Split from 1966 to 1970 and studied at the University of Fine Arts in Novi Sad from 1972 to 1974 . From 1975 to 1979 he continued his studies at the State Academy in Düsseldorf with Klaus Rinke and Nam June Paik . In 1984 he received a teaching position at the FH Aachen in the design department. He has held a professorship there since 1989. In 1996 the experimental water project Sub-Art was founded at the FH Aachen.

Exhibitions (selection)

1972 Foaje Kozalista, Sibenik, Croatia
1985 Delta Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1986 Videonale-3, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
1987 Galeria Zagreb, Croatia
1990 Kunstraum Wuppertal, Germany
1991 4 semaine internationale de video, Geneva, Switzerland
1992 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
1993 XLV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1993 Videofest, Berlin, Germany
1993 Goethe Institute, San Francisco, USA
1994 Moderna Galerija Zagreb, Croatia
1994 5th International Cairo Biennale, Egypt
1994 German Video Art Prize, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995 Düsseldorf Avantgarde, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Mixed Pixels, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
1996 Delta Gallery, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1997 Balance, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 8th Marler Video Art Prize, Marl, Germany
1998 Museo Nacional, Argentina, Buenos Aires
1998 Museo de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
2000 "Good Vibrations", Moscow
2000/07 Sub-art, Maritimo Gallery, Boot, Düsseldorf
2003 "From the Depth", Galeria Bethowen, Düsseldorf
2005 Sub-art, Gliptoteka HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia, Germany
2010 "Digifesta", Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
2013 "Smuggling Anthologies", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2013 "50 ans d, art Video", Marseille, France
2014 Sub-art, Maritimo Gallery, Boot, Düsseldorf
2014 “It Took a While to Find These Things” Part Two, OMC Gallery, USA
2014 "Smuggling Anthologies", Idrija Municipal Museum, Slovenia
2015 "Smuggling Anthologies", Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
2015 Videonale-15, Bonner Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2016 "Migrants of Mental Spaces", Modern and Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbija
2017 "die Digitale", .. free energy ..., 3327 .. THE BOX, Düsseldorf, Germany

Prizes / awards / bonus

1977: Travel grant for the film "Stein und Meer", Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany
1986: 3rd prize for the video "Linardo", 3rd Videonale Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1986: Travel grant for the video installation “Im Schiff” (with Axel Klepsch), Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
1986: Working grant for the video "Iwan san", ZDF (small television), Germany
1994: 1st prize in the installation category for the work of art "Tabula Rasa", 5th International Cairo Biennale, Egypt
1994: “Josip Racic” award for art, Zagreb, Croatia
1994: Medal for Cultural Merit, Republic of Croatia
1996: Working grant for video "Ivan does not need a television" from AVID Technology, Munich with Studiosysteme Schell GmbH, Cologne; 8th Marl Video Art Prize
2001: Award for the SUB-ART multimedia project, Zagreb Bank, Zagreb, Croatia
2009: "Teleivori" - Homage Nam June Paik, Installation, 10th Trijenale Croatia Sculpture, Zagreb (three equal prizes)
2015: "Ariel" - The best video (with Igor Kirin and Nikola Ukic), art project "Schmuggling Anthologies", MMSU-Rijeka, Croatia

literature

ART FOR 25 MILLION PEOPLE, BON JOUR, MONSIEUR ORWELL, KUNST UND SATELLITEN (in the future) by NAM JUNE PAIK, book-an anthology by NAM JUNE PAIK on the occasion of the exhibition GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL in the daadgalerie from November 28th to December 9th, 1984
MY TIME MY PREDATOR, catalog, exhibition-25. June to August 1988, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, ill. Pages 61,62,63,410
NOVA ARTE DA CROACIA, 1998, catalog, ill. Pages 26,27,61
Kontura-art magazin, Dvobroj 17 / Summer 1993, ill. Pages 18,19
Jens Christian Jensen (Hrsg.) / Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Hrsg.): Kunsthalle zu Kiel of the Christian-Albrechts-University: New acquisitions 1986–1990, Kiel, 1991, ill. Page 49, catalog no. 79
XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 1993-Edizionni La Biennale di Venezia, Fig. Page 160,162, ISBN 88-208-0378-X
Düsseldorfer Avantgarden, delivery Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, ill. Page 5,123, ISBN 3-928762-45-I .
German Video Art 1996–1998, 8th Marler Video Art Prize, catalog, ill. Page 5.20, ISBN 3-924790-48-5
Internationaler / media / kunst / preis 2001, catalog, illus . Page 105, ISBN 3-928201-27-1

DIGIFESTA 2010 Medija Art Festival, catalog, ill. Pages 64,65,66,67, ISBN 978-89-963586-3-3

Ive Simat Banov "Hrvatsko kiparstvo od 1950. do danas", fig. Page 515,516,518,775, ISBN 978-953-303-596-3

"Smuggling Anthologies Reader", 2015, Publisher Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, ill. Pages 286, 284, 285, 286,

"Migrants of Mental Spaces", 2016, Modern and Contemporary, Art Vojvodina, 21000 Novi Sad, Dunavska 37, Goethe-Institut Belgrade, ISBN 978-86-6333-038-2

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Deković, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Croatian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Šibenik , Croatia