Marko Tadić
Marko Tadić (b. 1979, Sisak, Croatia) is a visual artist based in Zagreb, working across drawing, collage, animation, and installation. A graduate in painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (2006), Tadić’s practice is centered on the reimagining of discarded historical fragments. Through repurposing found objects — such as old photographs, postcards, books, and maps — he explores the interplay of personal memory and collective history, reflecting on the cyclical nature of history and its potential for renewal. His work is an ongoing exploration of time’s elasticity, shifting between the real and the imagined, the document and the abstraction.
Solo and group exhibitions include: Fridericianum, Kassel; Bozar, Brussels; Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz; 1st Anren Biennale in China; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Parco Arte Vivente (PAV), Torino; EKO 8 International Triennial of Art and Environment; and others.
Tadić represented Croatia at the 57th Venice Biennale with Horizon of Expectations, in collaboration with Tina Gverović.
In addition to his artistic practice, he has been a guest lecturer at NABA, Milan, since 2015 and has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, since 2016. His works are included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; the MAXI Arte Collection Rome, the AGI Verona Collection; PAV Torino; Collezione Taurisano; Art Collection Telekom; and others.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Funga Robo, Trotoar, Zagreb, Croatia
2025 The Future is Out There, KV / RLP, Berlin, Germany
2024 The Kitchen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 Heliopolis, PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy
2024 Playing a Role, Kula Gallery, Split, Croatia
2023 The Aim, Filodrammatica, Rijeka, Croatia
2021 Complicity in the making, with Petra Feriancova, GJK Synagoga, Trnava, Slovakia
2019 The World as a Pavilion, (with Vjenceslav Richter), Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2019 The Speculative view, with Philip Corner (FLUXUS), Striegl Gallery, Sisak, Croatia
2017 Horizon of Expectations, Croatian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2017 Man standing in a museum looking at something, Richter Collection, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Imagine a moving image, Laura Bulian Ballery, Milano, Italy
2016 This is not a museum, Apoteka Gallery, Vodnjan, Croatia
2014 An exhibition with Marko Tadić, Marko Tadić didn’t write about. (with Ištvan Išt Huzjan), Super Deals, Brussels, Belgium
2014 A Gaze in Wonder (a retrospective of films), Galženica Gallery, Croatia
2014 The Books, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 Imagine a moving image, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 The stars look different today, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Pavla Scerankova and Fridvalszki Mark)
2012 Očko / Tadić, Esam, Caen Cherbourg, France
2010 Nicolaj Dudek and Marko Tadić, Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2009 I speak true things, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Salon ISCP, (with Bekim Gllogu), ISCP, New York, USA
2007 Linienstrasse113 Project, Linienstrasse113 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 Souvenirs, VN Gallery; Zagreb, Croatia
2007 Storyboards, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2005 Above the Clouds (with Vedran Perkov), Josip Račić Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, Croatia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Bauhaus Ecologies – Webs of Continuity, Curated by Vesna Meštrić, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2025 Né qui, né altrove – on domestication, Curated by Arnold Braho, ArtNoble Gallery, Milano, Italy
2025 The Forest as a Bright Light, Prozori Galerija, Zagreb, Croatia
2025 Nirgendwo, Trotoar, Zagreb, Croatia
2023 Horror Patriae, Steirischer Herbst, Neue Gallerie, Graz, Austria
2023 Planet, People, Care-It Spells Degrowth!, curated by WHW, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2023 Don’t Dream Dreams, a selection from the Art Collection Telekom, curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, Modern Gallery MG+, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022 Urban text, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
2021 Eko 8, International triennial of art and environment / A letter to the future, Maribor, Slovenia
2020 From imagination to animation: six decades of Zagreb film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2018 Second Industrial Art Biennial-On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants, curated by WHW
2018 Proposals, Dreams, and Utopias from Zagreb (with Tomislav Gotovac, Pero Dabac, David
Maljković, Vlado Martek, Ivan Picelj, Marko Pogačnik, Zvonimir Radic, Vjenceslav Richter, Aleksandar Srnec), I am the Mouth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 The Szechwan Tale: Theatre and History – 1st Anren Biennale, Anren, China
2017 Architecture in Contemporary Art, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia
2014 They Used to Call It Moon, Baltic Mill, Newcastle, England (Artists: Katy Cole, Caroline Corbasson, Aaron Guy, Thomas Ireland, the Kubrick Archive, Michael Light, Kate Liston, Aleksandra Mir, Michael Mulvihill, Mehreen Murtaza, Liam Murray, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Joseph Popper, Sophy Rickett, Aura Satz, Simon Starling, Marko Tadić, Wolfgang Tillmans )
2014 Notes on undoing, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Only to melt, trustingly, without reproach, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Curators: Magdalena Ziółkowska, Tevž Logar. Artists: Bani Abidi, Bas Jan Ader, Esad Babačić, FORT, Hreinn Fridfinsson, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, David Horvitz, Željko Jerman, Jacek Kryszkowski, Lee Lozano, Jerzy Ludwiński, Ruth Oppenheim, Agnieszka Piksa, Camila Rocha, Julika Rudelius, Ariel Schlesinger, Ulay, Marko Tadić 2013 Artist’s Book, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2013 18th international drawing exhibition / 18DC, Museum of modern and contemporary art, Rijeka, Croatia
2011 Second World, (WHW) Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria; & Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 255 804 km2, Brot-Hilger Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; & Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Picture of Sound, No Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Clueless / Geometry of misunderstanding, Manifattura Tabacchi, Torino, Italia
2010 T-HT@MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 And then nothing turned itself inside out, WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (curated by Antonija Majaca and Ivana Bago)
2009 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 Grenzenlos, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2009 Financial District, organised by Miguel Amado, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2009 VISITING, MUU and FAFA Galleries, Helsinki, Finland
2008 We are here, Istria Museum of Contemporary Art, Pula, Croatia
2008 Donumenta, Regensburg, Germany
2008 Boys and their Toys, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Glow Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Croatia first minute, Avesta, Sweden
2008 Radoslav Putar Award Finals, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2008 113 days after, Linienstrasse113 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 Heroes in Transition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
2006 Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2004 Side Effects, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia; & Contemporary Art Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
2003 In the Gorges of Balkans, (WHW) Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2002 Start, Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Karas Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
FILMOGRAPHY / ANIMATIONS
2017/ 2021 Events meant to be forgotten
2016 Moving elements
2014 Until a breath of air
2012 Borne by the Birds
2011 We used to call it: Moon.
2010 I speak true things
2008 The Black Ouija Board
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
City Museum, Sisak, Croatia
Art Collection Telekom, Germany
MAXI Arte Collection, Rome, Italy
AGI Verona Collection, Italy
PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, Italy
Collezione Taurisano, Naples, Italy
Laura Bulian Collection, Milan, Italy
Hilger Collection, Vienna, Austria
ARTIST BOOKS
2018 Biotecture
2017 Red Book
2017 Big Book
2017 Anfiteatro
2017 Ideas
2017 Book Die Welt Der Dinge
2016 Stile Book
2016 Imagine a Moving Image
For more information: markotadic.com
Selected Press
Suvremena hrvatska fotografija. “Novi pogled na urbani prostor budućnosti i život u njemu – razgovor s Markom Tadićem”, interview, July 2026. [Link]
Most Magazine. “Funga Robo – Marko Tadić”, feature, May 2026. [Link]
Mousse Magazine. “Marko Tadić “Funga Robo” at Trotoar, Zagreb”, feature, April 2026. [Link]
Easttopics. “Marko Tadić at Trotoar”, feature, May 2026. [Link]
Artribune. “Artissima 2025 a Torino: gli stand da non perdere alla fiera più contemporanea d’Europa”, 2025. [Link]
Večernji list. Maja Car, „Suvenire gledamo nostalgično…“. 2025. [Link]
DEEDS.NEWS. “Mark Fridvalszki & Marko Tadić – The Future Is Out There.” 2025. [Link]
Art Collection Telekom. “Marko Tadić.” 2025. [Link]
HRT Magazin Kultura. “Što povezuje umjetnika Marka Tadića s velikim Ivanom Kožarićem.” 2024. [Link]
e-flux. Marko Tadić: Heliopolis at PAV. 2024. [Link]
Finestre sull’Arte. “Heliopolis, la città utopica di Marko Tadić in mostra a Torino.” 2024. [Link]
Juliet Art Magazine. “Marko Tadić: May You Live in Interesting Times.” 2021. [Link]
Artforum. “Tina Gverović and Marko Tadić to Represent Croatia at 2017 Venice Biennale.” 2017. [Link]
Ikon Arts Foundation. “Marko Tadić Discusses His Latest Series of Work.” 2014. [Link]
Publications
Robinson, Chris. Earmarked for collision: a highly biased tour of collage animation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2024.
Scotini, Marco, Messali, Alessandra. “Marko Tadić: Heliopolis”. Turin: Parco Arte Vivente (PAV), 2024.
Oraić Tolić, Dubravka. “Citatnost u književnosti, umjetnosti i kulturi (Citationality in Literature, Art, and Culture)”. Zagreb. Ljevak Editions, 2019.
Štefančić, Klaudio. “A Gaze in Wonder (A retrospective of films).” Velika Gorica. Galerija Galženica, 2018.
Scotini, Marco. “Demonumentalising History: The Haunting Plots of Marko Tadić.” Horizon of Expectations, Croatian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017.
Benčić, Branka. Horizon of Expectations, Croatian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017.
Orelj, Ksenija. “Historical Gaps (and Other Absences).” Rijeka. MMSU, 2017.
Popović, Una. “Man Standing in a Museum Looking at Something.” Zagreb. Richter Collection, 2017.
Dević, Ana. “Imagine a Moving Image.” Milano. Laura Bulian Gallery, 2016.
Meštrov, Ivana. “Table of Contents.” Split. Galerija Škola, 2015.
Kovač, Leonida. Ana Hušman, “Marko Tadić: Exhibition.” Zagreb: Culture of Change, SC, 2013.
Benčić, Branka.“Imagine a Moving Image.” Pula. MMC, 2012.
Dević, Ana. “We Used to Call It: Moon!”Lauba, House for People and Art, 2012.
WHW (What, How & for Whom). “Second World.” Graz. Steirischer Herbst Festival, 2011.
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At the Museum
Klagenfurt
Funga Robo - Imagining the New Museum
Rhythmanalysist and his Tools
Funga Robo - The Reader and the Writer
The First Architect
From the Museum’s Window (a Sculpture in the Snow)
The Final Act (Festa del Redentore)
Still, not Still
Scenography for an Idea
Tubular Worm Habitat
Funga Robo (The Outside)
Biomimetic
Pilgrimage to the Museum
The Good Old Future
Figures Based on Triangles
The Investors
The Path Home
Funga Robo - Translator
Post-Cathedral
An Interior Composition
Table of Contents (The Museum)
Paravent
Funga Robo (Paper Puppet)
The Engineer’s Idea
