Tomo Savić-Gecan
TOMO SAVIĆ-GECAN was born in Zagreb in 1967. He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Milan in 1993. His work was featured in numerous solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, such as the exhibitions at the Student Centre Gallery in Zagreb (1994), Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana (1994), M6 gallery in Riga (1995), Spaces Gallery in Cleveland (1996), Extended Media Gallery (with Julije Knifer) in Zagreb (2005), Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen (2010), Museum Jeu de Paume in Paris (2010), the Zuidplein public area in Amsterdam, Van Abbe Museum of Contemporary Art in Eindhoven (2016) and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mali salon Gallery) in Rijeka (2017), Frank Elbaz Gallery in Paris, 2023. His work was included in group exhibitions such as in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (2001), Królikarnia National Museum in Warsaw (2001), Technical Museum in Zagreb (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2002 and 2012), Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (2003), Apexart Gallery in New York (2000 and 2007), PS1 Museum in New York (2004), De Appel art centre in Amsterdam (2009), Kunsthall Bergen in Bergen (2010), Witte de With Center for contemporary art in Rotterdam (2011), (ON)begane Grond in Antwerpen (2015), etc. He has participated in big international events like Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana (2000), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and the Taipei Biennial (2012). In 2020, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and in 2022, he represented Croatia at the 59th Venice Biennale.