Matko Vekić

Matko Vekić was born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. He is a contemporary Croatian artist working in the medium of painting. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Vekić uses diverse everyday motifs (cars, a rat and a goldfish, insects, traffic interchanges and bridges, relays and transmission lines, women terrorists and body builders, football players and models) to problematise and address the irony the state of contemporary society.^[1] From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer of drawing and painting at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, and from 1999 to 2003 he was a teaching assistant (later assistant professor) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar. From 2007 he has been an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.

He has had many solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including Gallery Nova (Zagreb, 1996), Art Gallery (Split, 2003) and Art Pavilion (Zagreb, 2005). Together with Nikola Koydl and Zoltan Novak, he was the Croatian representative at the Venice Biennale in 2009.^[2] His works belong to many museum and gallery collections, including the Modern Gallery in Zagreb, the Art Gallery Collection in Spilt and the Erste Bank Collection. A monograph about his work, Matko Vekić, was published in 2005 (Petar Prelog, Fraktura, Zaprešić, 2005). He has received several awards, including the annual Filip Trade Award (Zagreb, 2003) and the annual Croatian Association of Artists for Young Painters (Zagreb, 2002).

Published works on Matko Vekić

Ed. Vuković, Radovan – Matko Vekić: the Animal Circle, the Zodiac Circle, (exh. cat, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, 15/2/2005).
Ed. Kralj, Ariana – Matko Vekić: Symbol, Sign, Emblem, Ornament and Crime, (exh. cat, Croatian Academy of Science and Art, June 2008).
Ed. Gottwald, Gaella A. – Matko Vekić: Okrutnost Kruga, (exh. cat, HDLU, Zagreb, October 2010).

Notes and References

^ Maroević, Tonko, Phases of Solar Orbits in, Ed. Vuković, Radovan – Matko Vekić: the Animal Circle, the Zodiac Circle, (exh. cat, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, 15/2/2005).
^ Ožegović, Nina -Controversial Biennale in Venice: Selection of the last century, Nacional, 02/10/2009, (accessed, 08/03/2011).

External Links

Official Artist Website

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[1] Maroević, Tonko, Phases of Solar Orbits in, Ed. Vuković, Radovan – Matko Vekić: the Animal Circle, the Zodiac Circle, (exh. cat, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, 15/2/2005).

[2] Ožegović, Nina -Controversial Biennale in Venice: Selection of the last century, Nacional, 02/10/2009, (accessed, 08/03/2011).

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