Born: 1953

Education

1974 Studied philosophy and Indology at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 1979 Graduated with a degree in political science from the University of Zagreb. Acquired a very broad education in the liberal arts,graduating with a thesis on Artistic Activity as an Individually Unified Work Process, with particular focus on work that encompasses individual artistic practices (from concept to realisation) in contrast with the general division of labour in the manufacturing domain of a technological society.

1990 Passed the state exam for museum curators at the Museum Documentation Centre in Zagreb.

2002 to 2014 Held an apprenticeship in a bronze art foundry and art workshop under academy educated sculptor and master founder Nicholas Legeros in Minneapolis (USA), going on to earn the rank of master founder of works of art and in the modelling of human figures, as the fundamentals of classical art education in the domain of sculpture.

Professional Experience

1979 to 1982 Held various jobs in the profession, for the most part as a secondary school teacher, teaching liberal arts subjects, including art history and history.

1982 to 1987 Held a curatorship at the Museum of the People’s Revolution of Istria (now the Maritime and History Museum) in Pula.

1987 to 1995 Director of the Rovinj Heritage Museum.

1995 to 2002 Curator of the collection of prints at the University Library in Pula.

2002 to 2014 Apprentice in the bronze art foundry and art workshop of academy educated sculptor and master bronze founder Nicholas Legeros in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA).

2015 to 2019 School employee and associate of the art department at Columbia Heights Public School, Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA).

Exhibitions

Participated in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions in the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Croatia and the United States of America.