Professional profile
Twenty years of diverse experience in photography as artist, researcher, educator and curator. Continuous professional development.
Work
2001 – current Visual artist
2004 - 2019 Professor of Photography,
University of Zagreb, Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU)
2008 - 2012 Photography Program Chair
University of Zagreb, ADU
Curriculum developement and implementation of the new Master's Degree in Photography studies
2015 - 2019 Artistic Advisor and Member of the Artistic Council for Organ vida - International Photography Festival, Zagreb
Advising on the future development of the festival, planning and preparing festival program with artistic director.
1997 – 2001 Photographer at the weekly magazine Nacional
Education
2010 PhD awarded, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague
2004-2008 PhD studies in History and Theory of Photography, FAMU, Prague
1994-1996 MFA Photography, FAMU, Prague, Department of Photography
1991-1994 BA Photography, FAMU, Prague, Department of Photography
Additional Education
2021 The Photographic Artist’s Book - Performing Sustainability
Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
2018/2019 Critical Images, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
2017 Do It With Books; Do It Yourself With Others, Masterclass with Corinne
Noordenbos and Fiorenza Pinna, Zagreb
2010 FORMAT Summer School, Simon Norfolk Masterclass, Derby, UK
2006 - 2007 Fulbright fellowship at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Rochester, NY
Awards
2014 1st Award for photographic installation "Beloved" at T-HT@MSU.hr -
Award for Contemporary Croatian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art
Zagreb
2014 Award for book Rat slikama - Suvremena ratna fotografija (War of Images
– Contemporary War Photography), Sarajevo Book Fair
2013 CCN Award for photographic series Infertile Grounds,Cultural City
Network Graz, Austria
Published Books
Up Close and Personal: War in Croatia, Image of War Museum, Zagreb, 2018
Rat slikama - Suvremena ratna fotografija (War of Images - Contemporary War Photography), Algoritam, Zagreb, 2013
Infertile Grounds, Foreword: Svetlana Slapšak, Eikon Studio, Pula, 2012
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2021 I Just Greet Back, Gallery Spot, Zagreb
2020 Infertile Grounds, Galleri Artget, Belgrade
2018 ...and there was evening, and there was morning, Maša Bajc and Sandra
Vitaljić, University Gallery, The UMass Lowell Department of Art and
Design, University of Massachussets, Lowell, USA
2018 Infertile Grounds, Ragusa Photo Festival, Ragusa, Italy
2017 Sichtbares - Unsichtbar / Vidno - Nevidno, Pavelhouse, Potrna, Austria
(Goran Bertok Survivors, Sandra Vitaljic Infertile Grounds, Sergej
Lebedev Searching for Germany in Russia )
2013 Beloved, Dhaka Art Center, Chobi Mela VII, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011 Infertile Grounds, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2021/2022 Vi är ju grannar – om folkmord och brott mot mänskligheten, Mångkulturellt
centrum, Fittja
2021 On the Move, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Šibenik
2019 Salong CFF, Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm
2018 Vigilance, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2018 Vigilance, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
2017 Natural Histories. Traces of the Political, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
2017 Tito's Bunker, Wurttembergischer Kunstverain Stuttgart, Germany
2017 Vojna/War/Krieg, Koroska galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec,
Slovenia
2014 Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History, European Month of
Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Europe - South East / Recorded memories, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Bucharest, Romania
2013 Global Photography - Europe, SI Fest - Savignano Immagini, Savignano,
Italy
2013 Aftermath / Changing Cultural Landscape Tendencies of engaged post-
Yugoslav contemporary photography, European Month of Photography,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Curatorial Projects (selection)
2018 Up close and personal – War in Croatia, Image of War museum, Zagreb
2016 Lessons from 1991, Zagreb, Maribor, Belgrade, Berlin
2011 – 2013 Aftermath / Changing the Cultural Landscape, international
collaborative project