Mladen Bizumic
1
The Picture Made After the Last Picture
c-Print on kodak endura metallic paper, Guggenheim frame
107 × 137 cm
2016
2
KODAK: One and Three Images
2015
Fuji Archival paper, frame, USB Stick. 35 mm slides, original 35mm Kodak Film Elitechrome 200 ED-3, 10 parts
68,5 x 207 cm (32 x 32 cm each)
3
Kodak Employed 140,000 People. Instagram 13
installation view MOSTYN I Wales
2017
4
Kodak Employed 140,000 People. Instagram 13
installation view MOSTYN I Wales
2017
5
KODAK (Four Dimensional Community)
chromogenic print on kodak endura gloss paper, kodak endura transparency paper, original kodak 160 vc negative
72 cm x 2016 cm x 4 cm
2016
6
KODAK (Karl Marx Fountain)
chromogenic print on kodak endura gloss paper, kodak endura metallic paper, original kodak 160 vc negative
102 cm × 102 cm x 4 cm
2017
7
Event Horizon Black Hole
4-screen video installation, 2-channel audio
installation view cad, vilnius
2004-ongoing
8
Event Horizon Black Hole
4-screen video installation, 2-channel audio
installation view cad, vilnius
2004-ongoing
9
Opening Nights
chipboard, sound
Art Forum Messe, Palais am Funkturm, Berlin
2007
10
Opening Nights
chipboard, sound
Art Forum Messe, Palais am Funkturm, Berlin
2007
11
Hotel Jugoslavija (Double Exposure)
silver gelatin photograph on baryte paper
100 cm x 100 cm
2012
12
Hotel Jugoslavija (The Spirit is Willing but the Flesh is Weak)
decommissioned lights from hotel jugoslavija, belgrade
dimensions variable
2012
Installation view Salon of the MOCA, Belgrade
13
Hotel Jugoslavija (Conversation Hall)
decommissioned mirrors from Hotel Jugoslavija, Belgrade
dimensions variable
2012
Installation view Salon of the MOCA, Belgrade
14
Two for One (Mies van der Rohe #11)
collage on paper
23 x 18.5 cm
2007 - 2008
15
Freud Museum (for Her)
wood, stone, paint, plexiglas, sound
dimensions variable
2007
16
Sometimes Old Sometimes New
collage, vintage photographs from moderne neubauten aus süd- und mitteldeutschland
32, 2 cm x 44 cm
1894-2011
17
In Transition
photo collage, paint, windows, vitrines
Installation view 53rd october salon, belgrade
2012
18
In Transition
photo collage, paint, windows, vitrines
Installation view 53rd october salon, belgrade
2012
19
In Transition (Holder)
b&w digital print on fuji archival paper
32,5 cm x 47,5 cm x x 2,5 cm
2012-2013
Unique
20
A Beautiful Afterlife
duratrans in light box
Installation view Auckland Art Gallery
2001
21
Sister Cities of Berlin (Paris)
video installation
dimensions variable
duration 7 min 30 sec, loop
22
Untitled (Three in One)
wood, glass
dimensions variable
Installation view marmorsaal stift klosterneuburg
2014
23
180° (with Andreas Fogarasi)
dimensions variable
installation view neuer kunstverein wien, vienna
2012
24
Coexist (Purple)
used postcards on hand-made paper, aluminium frame
65 cm x 90 cm x 2 cm
installation view neuer kunstverein wien, vienna
2012
25
Die Wiener Luft
slide projection, display unit
dimensions unmeasurable
installation view neuer kunstverein wien, vienna
2012
Mladen Bizumic
"Mladen Bizumic’s work begins from a deceptively simple question: “What is photography?” And while not the first to ask it, Bizumic will offer an original and complex answer that unfolds itself between two oppositions; that of analogue and digital photography, and of modernist and conceptual artistic practice."*
For Bizumic, a photograph is precise, valuable and yet obsolete "image-object" in the digital era. Material properties of the photographic are explored to reveal the means of its production, distribution and reception marked by the social relations of globalisation, corporate capitalism and contemporary art.
Mladen Bizumic (b. 1976) is a Vienna-based artist who was raised in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Bizumic has participated in the 9th Lyon Biennial, the 10th Istanbul Biennial, the 5th Busan Biennial, 3rd Vienna Biennial and the 1st Auckland Triennial. Bizumic holds a PhD in cultural studies and art theory from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and an MFA from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts.
Among other private and public collections, the work of Bizumic has been collected by the MAK, Vienna; the mumok, Vienna; the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; the Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes; Fotosammlung des Bundes, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
Recently, Bizumic’s work was included in Unearthing the Collection: October Salon, Cultural Centre Belgrade, Belgrade (2023), Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2022), Enjoy: Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna (2021), Outgoing Dispatch, Aotearoa Artspace, Auckland (2020); Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence and You, MAK, Vienna (2019), Interiors of Photography, Camera Austria, Graz (2019), Traces of Time, Leopold Museum, Vienna (2018), Out of Site: Works from the Victoria University Art Collection, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2017), Past as Costume or Inspiration, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2017).
In 2022, Bizumic was awarded the Staatstipendium for Art Photography of the Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria and, in 2020, the Visual Arts Residency hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. Bizumic’s writing has been published by TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Berlin.
*Stephen Zepke, "Post-conceptual analogue: Mladen Bizumic's Kodak Photographs, Camera Austria, Issue 133, 2016, pp. 22-44
https://www.mladenbizumic.net/
