THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
Tihomir Milovac – He graduated in Art History and Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He has been a curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb since 1984. At the moment he is the Director of the Experimental Research Department of the Museum. As a curator and art critic he has organized many exhibitions and other artistic projects in Croatia and abroad, mostly dealing with new modern phenomenon in the visual arts, but also with the phenomena of historic avant-gardes. He has been the editor of numerous publications on the subject of modern art, as well as many exhibition catalogues. He co-operates professionally with numerous museum figures, art critics and artists in both Croatia and abroad. He has participated in many international expert symposiums and conferences and has had plenty of opportunities to develop himself professionally with foreign scholarships (Berlin, New York, Munich). He is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH).
In accordance with the regulations concerning the evaluation of the photographs registered in the competition, the President of the Jury suggests the criteria for evaluating and giving awards to the works, ensures that the work of the jury proceeds without disturbance, co-ordinates the work of all the members of the jury, is responsible that all adopted ethical principles are upheld, and informs the management and the public about the work of the jury and represents the jury/work of the jury in general.
MEMBERS OF THE JURY
Branka Hlevnjak – She has been the author of many important problem exhibitions. From 1991 till 1993 she was a research assistant at the “Spot” gallery for the Photoclub Zagreb and the International Sculpture School in Vrsar. From 2000 till 2001 she was the Chief Editor of the magazine “Kontura”, and from 2001 she has been the Chief Editor of the magazine “Kerempuh”. Since 2002, she has been the Editor of the art program of the Children’s International Festival in Šibenik. Since 1978, she has been publishing prefaces, critical art reviews and scientific articles in the weekly culture magazine “OKO”, as well as in “Polet”, “Pitanja”, “Vjesnik”, "Večernji List", "Radost", "Flor Art", "Peristil", "Život Umjetnosti", "Kontura", "Hrvatsko Slovo", etc. She is the author of several books: Croatian Photography, Modern Photography by Ljudevit Griesbach, Autobiographical Sketches by Đuro Griesbach, Academy of Visual Arts in the Croatian War for Independence, Events at Peščenica, monograph of Đuro Griesbach - Od Vida do Privida, Some Other Zagreb by Branimir Butković, monograph of Anton Cetin, Water Color Painting by Matko Trebotić, Magical Realism of Alojz Orel, etc. In 1999, she received the Order of Croatian Danica. She is a member of the ULUPUH and HDPU. She lives and works in Zagreb.
Branko Franceschi - (Zadar, 1959), art historian; he has been the Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (www.mmsu.hr) since 2004, and from 1987 till 2004 he worked as the Director and curator of the Gallery Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb. Throughout his career he has organized numerous single and group exhibitions of Croatian and foreign artists both in Croatia and abroad, and he has been a national selector at the 26th Biennale in Sao Paolo in 2004 and at the 2nd International Biennale in Prague in 2005, a member of the team of curators at the 1st Biennale Kvadrilaterale in Rijeka and at the 2nd International Biennale of Young Artists in Bucharest in 2006. He was the curator of the Croatian pavilion at the 52nd Venetian Biennale in 2007. As an independent critic, he has written numerous articles for the daily press, art reviews and magazines, as well as TV and radio shows and he has initiated and co-ordinated visits and cultural exchange projects between Croatia and the USA (P.S.1 studio programs, Eastern European Residency Exchange), as well as between Croatia and Great Britain (Blind Date). He is a member of AICA, ICOM, CIMAM, DPUH and a member of the Management Committee of AICA Croatia and the ArtsLink Advisory Committee.
Ivica Nikolac – Besides being a teacher of Croatian language and literature, he is also the President of the Croatian Photographic Association and the Editor of the web portal Rijeka Online. He has been involved in the field of photography for more than thirty years. He has exhibited in many single and group exhibitions in the country, as well as abroad. He has won about thirty awards and he has been a member of the jury at many photographic exhibitions. He has achieved significant success working with young people in the area of photography and he has contributed to the development of new ideas and achievements, especially in his work with and for the young. He is a member of the HDLU Rijeka.
Ivo Posavec - He was born in 1951. He graduated in film making at the Academy for Theatre, Film and Television in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Nikola Tanhofer, and gained his Master’s degree in photography at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Dragoljub Kažić. In 1979, along with Mio Vesović he founded the group MO which made more than one hundred weekly magazine covers, and he has published in newspapers such as “Polet”, “Danas”, “Svijet”, “Start”. He has exhibited in about three hundred exhibitions and he has won about fifty awards. His photographs are in the archives of all significant museums in Croatia. Today he is the Photographic Editor for the weekly magazine Gloria.
Maša Štrbac – She was born in 1972 in Zagreb. In 2000 she graduated in Art History and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University in Zagreb. In 2001, she started and hosted the program “Art Today” – a course of lectures at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, which featured renowned art critics, curators and artists from the country and the world. In 2001 and 2002, she wrote for the art magazine “Kontura”. From September 2002 till December 2004 she managed the photography gallery KIC-Club at the Cultural Information Center in Zagreb. Since May 2004, she has been working as the manager of the ULUPUH Gallery in Zagreb. She publishes articles on photography in “Vijenac”.
Mio Vesović – He was born in 1953 in Gornja Dobrinja near Užička Požega. He graduated in film making at the Academy for Theatre, Film and Television in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Nikola Tanhofer. Since the late 1970s, he has been working in newspaper photography and his works have been published on the pages of all significant papers and magazines in this part of the world. His name is connected with “Polet”, a youth magazine from 1980s, in which as an author he defined the notion of photography. In 1979, with his colleague Ivo Posavec, he started the studio MO, which in 1987 and 1988 made over 150 covers of the weekly magazine “Danas”.
Nikica Badrov - She graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Primary School Teaching. Besides the ten year long pedagogic experience and work in school, she has also been dealing with design and marketing for ten years and has cooperated with all relevant newspaper houses and photographers. As the owner and the manager of the Gallery Badrov, in the last five years she has organized and been the author of many significant exhibitions of photographs in Croatia and abroad. She is the co-founder and vice-president of CroArtPhoto Club, in which since the founding of the Club in the fall of 2005, she has prepared a large number of exhibitions of photographs of domestic, as well as foreign authors and has continuously organized expert lectures on photography, seminars, film projections, monograph and book promotions, digital and C-B courses, auctions of photographs, photo-safaries, photo-marathons, etc., all with the aim to define and popularize photography.
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Ivica Vidović – He was born on 2nd October 1942 in Zagreb, where he attended high school and Faculty of Economics. Today he is the chairman of the board of McCann Erickson for Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As a conceptualist and a supervisor, he was behind many renowned and awarded ideas, products, campaigns and projects.
With the architect Branko Silađin, he was the co-author of Croatian exhibitions EXPO 1998 in Portugal and EXPO 2000 in Hannover which were “crowned” with many domestic and foreign awards.
In 1993 he was the founder and later a long-year president of the Croatian Advertising Association. He is a member of the international jury at the festival GOLDEN DRUM in Portorož, as well as many other professional festivals, committees and competitions. He was a guest lecturer at several Zagreb colleges.
He won many world awards as a conceptualist and creative director of a series of projects by the Croatian Ministry of Tourism.
He won the McCann Leadership Award 1999, the Award of the City of Zagreb in 1998, the Charter “Croatia Nostra” for the promotion of Croatian cultural and natural heritage in 1999 (the award for the co-authorship of the Croatian exhibition at the EXPO 1998 in Lisbon). By the decision of the Croatian President he was decorated with the Order of Croatian Wattle for the contribution in the area of culture.