CV Born in 1974, in Split. She graduated in 1997, in Split, as a professor of visual arts, and attended a postgraduate study at the Arts Academy E.R.B.A.N. in Nantes, France, obtaining a degree in 1999. She also won the 2002 Artslink scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, and the Artist in Residency, Vienna, Museum Quartier, 2004

Awards
2006 “Great Expectations”, BalkanBlackBox, festival fur film und kultur aus sudosteuropa, Best Short Film, Berlin
2006 “Great Expectations”, second award on 7th Mediterranean festival of documentary films in Siroki Brijeg, BiH.
2006 “Great Expectations” Best film in domestic competition, Tabor 2006, 4th International Short Film Festival, Tabor, Croatia
2000 “Souvenirs (Memories)”, Public Award, Balkan Video Federation, Beograd, Yugoslavia
2000 “Skok/Jump”, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1999 “Souvenirs (Memories)”, VideoMedeja Award, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1997 “I, the Housewife!”, Annual Award of Women`s Art Center Electra, Zagreb, Croatia
One Person Exhibitions:
2006 All One Knows, Vukovar City Museum, (Kuba project) Vukovar, Croatia
2005 The View, Galery SC, Zagreb, Croatia
2003 Emergency Tensions, (with D.Figarella), Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002 Wonderland, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
2001 Did she Fall or was She Pushed?, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (cat.)
2000 Renata Poljak, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
1998 Noise / Criteria, Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Noise / Criteria, Architects` Club, Zagreb, Croatia
Group exhibitions (selection):
2006
Sigmund's Stories - Perception as Spatial Transgression, gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia
L’usage du monde, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia
Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
Kuba: Journey Against the Current, Nestroyhof, Vienna
Normalization, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
ARCO-Contemporary art fair, Madrid, by Gallery Hilger/Vienna
Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
2005
Landscape in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture Between Fetishes and Ideology,- 34th Split Salon, Split, Croatia
Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Binder, Milunovic, Poljak, gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
2004
Passage d’Europe, Musée d’Art Moderne de St-Etienne, France
Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje, MonteNegro
Rivage, Saint-Brieuc, France
2003
First View, gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
High Hills, public space project, Krems, Austria
C’est(-)à(-)dire!, Palais de Papes, Avignon, France
Rest Assured, CCS Museum, Bard College, New York
Sharks In The Morning, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002
Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, c. R. Marcoci
2001
Central, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria, c. K. Aligner and L. Hegyi
Höchstleistung, Le Centre d’Art Shed im Eisenwerk de Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Freedom and Violence, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Varsovie, Poland
Provisoirement / Provizorno, La Station, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dare to be different, Fier, Albania
Adriatico: le due sponde, Michetti Museum, Francavilla a Mare, Italie
To tell a story, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2000
BIG TORINO 2 000, Biennal of emerging artists, com. R. Fleck, Torino, Italy
A Small Country for a Big Vacation, Galerie SKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Actif-Réactif-la création vivante à Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
12 Positionen zeitgenossischer Kunst, Palais Harrach et Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna
What, How & For Whom, dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
1999
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Post Diplome, Glassbox, Paris, France
Estatic memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Post Diplome, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, ZOO Galerie, Nantes, France
10 Artists/ 8 Months/ Nantes, Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid, Spain
1998
Utopia, Chateau de Beaumanoir, Le Leslay, Quintin, France, com. R. Fleck
33 Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, com. I. Zabel, Croatia
Messages (Public Art Project), Zagreb, Croatia
1997
As large as life, Raum fur Kunst, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Biennale of Young Artists/Artisti del Mediterraneo, Rijeka/Fiume, Croatia
Exchange Art Festival, Split, Croatia
1996
Visual Arts Section of the International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Croatia
Museum of Split, Split, Croatia
film & video projections (selection):
2006 “Great Expectations”:
BalkanBlackBox, festival fur film und kultur aus sudosteuropa, Acud kino, Babylon Kino Berlin
7th Mediterranean festival of documentary films in Siroki Brijeg, BiH.
Analog, Kultiviranje Arhitektonske vrste, Drustvo Arhitekata Zagreba, Zagreb
4th International Short Film Festival, Tabor, Croatia
4th Liburnia Film Festival, Icici, Croatia
22nd International Short Film Festival, Hamburg Germany
“A Room (With a View)” , fst forward , Arenbergschouwburg, Antwerpen
”Home, Sweet Home”, TV France 2
Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
AsterFest, Strumica, Macedonia, 2006
EXcroissance 3, galerie SoiXante, Saint-Denis, Paris
Focus Balkan, TOP Kino, Vienna, Austria
L'urbanisation galopante, l'Antenne-espace pédagogique du Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France
Zagreb Calling, à la Maison populaire de Montreuil, Paris
International Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art,
Central European University Budapest
2005
Great Expectations, cinema of Multimedia Centar, Zagreb
Great Expectations, gallery Hilger Vienna
(Great Expectations) Serial Cases_1 Acquaintance, Novi Sad, Iasi, Zagreb, Holon, Istanbul, Prag, Sofija, Graz
(video: Skok/Jump)“Naissance et renaissance de l'art vidéo dans les balkans" musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg : programme vidéo curated by Diane Amiel
2004
Brooklyn EUphoria, Brooklyn, New York
2003
video-zone@lx.pt, Gulbenkian Foundation Modern Art Centre in Lisbon
Zero Visibility, Genazzano, Italy, com. Sergio Edelzstein
5th Annual Video Marathon, Galery Art in General, New York, com. Sergio Edelzstein
Red Dawn Festival, Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Remediation Variants, WRO 03 Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
2002
Video-Zone, 1st International Video Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv
“Trieste Contemporanea'”, Trieste, Italy
Café Video, Saint-Brieuc, France
“Frame by Frame”: Galleri Trafo, Budimpest, Hungary, Galerija O.K. MMC Rijeka, Project Intermuros, Zadar, The International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art/University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow,
Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lab Cinema program, Warsaw
2001
“video / je vois” La création vidéo en France, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
WRO 01 Media Art Biennale, selection Katherine Carl, Wroclaw, Poland
Third Annual 12 to 12 Video Marathon, Galery Art in General, New York
VideoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
3 Bangkok Video Festival, Bangkok
Transports en commun, La Station, MAMAC, Nice
2000
Recreating Human Beings, IFU’s open space, Hannover, Germany
Dreamcatcher, International Video and Short Films Festival, Kyiv, Pologne
Balkan Video Federation, Beograd, Yugoslavia
VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1999
up-and-coming Film Festival, Hannover, Germany
12èmes Instants Vidéo, Manosque, France
VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1998
VIPER 1998 - Project Video Gallery, projections at video festivals in Lucern, Osnabruck, Palermo and Split
Retina '98, Szigetvar, Hungary
1997
The International Electronic Media Forum Ostranenie, Bauhouse-Dessau, Germany
The International Festival of New Film and Video, Split, Croatia
Videoformes 97, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Filmography, Videography and Video Installations:
2006
All One Knows, video installation, commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2005
Great Expectations, super 16mm, 17min, color, produced by Camera Lucida - Paris and HFS (Croatian Club’s Association) – Zagreb, supported by CNC ( France), France 2 and Croatian Ministry of Culture
2002
The video installation Wonderland produced with help of SCCA (Sarajevo Contemporary Art Center). Sound collaboration with Broccolichi Pascal.
2000
Sans titre (No Title), 40 sec. on loop, color, prod. by Renata Poljak and help of Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik
2000
Skok / Jump, 4min, color, prod. by Renata Poljak
2000
Until the End of the World... ( jusqu’au boût du monde... ), 2 x 1min30sec. video installation produced by BIG Torino, Biennale Arte Emergente, Torino, Italy
1999
Souvenirs, 7min30sec, color, prod. by E.R.B.A.N. Art Academy in Nantes, France
1997
The Consolation (Borders and Frames), 2min30sec, prod. by Renata Poljak
1996
I, the Housewife!, 5min30sec, color, produced with support of Ivo Dekovic
Bibliography (selection):
N. Ilic, in cat. Kuba – Journey Against the Current: “All One Knows”, 2006.
Z. Godec, “Renata Poljak”, Cosmopolitan, 09/2006,
L.Topic in cat.The View, Renata Poljak, “At the Court of the Transition King”, 2005
R. Ratkovic “Arhitektonsko nasilje kao paradigma obiteljskih odnosa”, Covjek i prostor, br.09-10, 2005
M.Golub “Renata Poljak u Galeriji SC”, radio 101, likovnost, studeni 2005
R. Ratkovic, “Arhitektonsko nasilje kao paradigma obiteljskih odnosa”, Zarez, br.167, 2005
R. Marcoci in cat. Here Tomorrow, Here Tomorrow, 2002
Georges Bertolino, Renata Poljak, Nice Matin, 01.03.2002
Fabienne Fulcheri, Le Journal des Arts, n.144, du 8 au 21 mars 2002
N. Ilic, cat. did she fall or was she pushed ?, Falling into Circularity, Zagreb, 2001
Rosana Ratkovic, Kako donijeti odluku?, Zarez, 29.03.2001
A. Devic, in cat. Adriatico, Le Due Sponde, Croatia, Young Art, 2001
M.Mercier, Video indépendante en Croatie, BREF- le magazine du court métrage, n°43, hiver 99/2000
J.VukmirRenata Poljak-Issues of Intimacy and Femininity, SIKSI - The Nordic Art Review, vol.12/no.4, winter 1997