The Picture Made After the Last Picture, 2016
C-print on kodak endura metallic paper, Guggenheim frame
107 × 137 cm

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/

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Archeologies of the Future, KCB-Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbien

2023
COPIA: Collection of Post-Industrial Arts, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

2019
The Ecology of Attention, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Interiors of Photography (with Sophie Thun), Camera Austria, Graz

2018
Kunstbüro (with Yuki Hugashino), Vienna
BOOK (Photo Boom Photo Box), Kunstraum, Retz

2016
Kodak Employed 140.000 People. Instagram 13., MOSTYN. Wales

2015
Kodak: Reorganization Plan, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Artissima (with David Maljkovic), Oval, Turin

2014
Bankruptcy and Reorganisation, ZAMEK Centre for Culture, Poznan
Kodak: la présence de l’image, galerie frank elbaz, Paris

2013
Kodachrome Presents, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Keep Me. Protect Me. Share Me, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich

2012
Hotel Jugoslavija, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
180° (with Andreas Fogarasi), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Hotel Jugoslavija: A Repository with a View, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna

2011
Untitled (Window Painting #5) (with Benjamin Hirte), Ve.sch, Vienna

2010
From Cube To Ball (Chapter 1), Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
From Cube To Ball (Chapter 2), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington

2009
Global Truths vs. Local Reflections, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
America (with Ovul Durmusoglu), Parallel Event/Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
After the Party, Hirschfeld, Berlin
Everyone is Welcome!, Uszynska Schaufenster, Vienna

2008
1st Translator’s Note – Le desir de philosophie, Zoo Galerie, Nantes
Everyone is Welcome!. Te Tuhi - Centre for the Arts, Auckland

2007
How If - A Translation in III Acts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien & PROGRAM, Berlin
Colonial Atmospheres, Physics Room, Christchurch
An Expedition Yet To Happen, Two Rooms, Auckland

2006
Superstructure Doubled (with Øystein Aasan), Korridor, Berlin
Crystal Memorial, Charim Galerie, Vienna

2005
Planet Wittgenstein, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

2004
event.horizon.black.hole, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart (again), Hocken Collections, Dunedin

2003
Fiji Biennele Pavilions, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
The Night Shift, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
event.horizon, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton

2002
Tauranga Guggenheim, ARTSPACE, Auckland
A Beautiful Afterlife, Window, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
7000 Rimu Trees, Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

2001
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

Group Exhibitions

2024
By the Means at Hand: Vlatka Horvat, Croatian Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale
Bringing Owls from Athens, Georg Kargl BOX x Callirrhoë, Athens, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna

2023
Synchron, Ela Nord Studio, Vienna
Unearthing the Collection: October Salon Collection, Cultural Center, Belgrade
Little Precious Things, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

2022
Metadata: Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century, The Ringling, Sarasota, FL
AFFAIR, Savremena Galerijy Contemporary Gallery Subotice, Szabadka
Mutual Aid, Neadertal, London

2021
Enjoy - the mumok Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna
GEORG KARGL EDITIONS, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna

2020
OUTGOING DISPATCH, Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Bakelite: The Georg Kargl Collection, MAK, Vienna
Mulberry Tubes, Galerie Göttlicher, Krems

2019
Uncanny Values, 3rd Vienna Biennale, MAK, Vienna
Dialogue, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna

2018
Futurs Antérieurs, Maison Guerlain, Parcours Privé de la Fiac, Paris
Between Us, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Concentration - A Tribute, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Reduction, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna

2017
Traces of Time, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Ponovo Upotrebiti, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Out of Site, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington
Secret Art Sale, Te Tuhi – Centre for the Arts, Auckland

2016
A Matter of Memory, Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Ouverture pour inventaire, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes
Undreamed of..., Dunedin Public Gallery & Hocken Collections, Dunedin

2015
Le bon ton, Cultural Centre Belgrad, Belgrade
Repeat / Personal, Porous Space, Vienna
New Acquisitions, Moderna Galerija, Subotica
Etiquette: New Acquisitions October Salon, Cultural Centre of Belgrade
Our Hearts of Darkness, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

2014
Hier & Jetzt, Stift Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg
Cut it, Scratch it, Stitch it, Keep it, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Artists Using Photography, GESSO, Vienna
Freedom Farmers, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

2013
Chambres de luxe, Kunstmuseum, Thun
Memory of Space – Space of Memory, Moderna Galerija, Subotica
Was ist Kunst? Resuming Fragmented Histories, KM – Künstlerhaus, Graz
Ephemeral Self, Finite Projections, The Gallery of the National Technical Library, Prague
21st Century Collecting, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington

2012
Good Life, 53rd October Salon, Belgrade
Long Day, Fei Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai

2011
Erschaute Bauten, MAK, Vienna
Dancing in the Rhyme, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
Pawn Shop, Kopfbau, Basel
This is Happening II, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Opening Borders/Opening Objects, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Wallpaper, Motel Campo – espace d’art polyvalent, Geneva
Drift of Summer, RM, Auckland
Dienstag Abend Editions, Ve.Sch, Vienna
First Impressions, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
All Black, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga

2010
Phoenix vs. Babel, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris
Thriller, Rigaerstr. 69, Berlin
The Forgotten Bar, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin

2009
Video from Aotearoa, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
For Keeps, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

2008
Common Affairs, steirischer herbst festival, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Space Chase, Magnus Müller Galerie, Berlin
Zapping Unit, Le Ferme du Buisson, Paris
If You Carry A Hammer A Lot of Things Look Like Nails, Skalitzerstr. 64, Berlin
Earth Matters, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Video from Aotearoa, Co-Lab, Copenhagen
In Shifting Light, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Drawings, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

2007
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
00s’, Lyon Biennale, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Lyon
Art of the Nation, Te Papa – Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
Through the Painting, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Federation Tower, Moscow
Invisible/Invincible, Curators Without Borders, Berlin

2006
Hidetide, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw
Hidetide, CAC, Vilnius
Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan
Don't Misbehave, SCAPE Biennale, Christchurch
Play, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
Play, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington

2005
Re: Modern, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
Truer Than the Truth, Charim Galerie, Vienna
Playground, Art Play Architecture & Design Centre, Moscow
Skin Oil, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Small World, Big Town, City Gallery, Wellington
Showcase, The Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland

2004
We are the World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Everyday Minimal, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Break-Shift, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
International Art Fair and Cake Stall, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin

2003
Vecu, Conical Artspace, Melbourne
Break, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth

2002
Sublime Indigo, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
Botanica, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
7000 Rimu Trees, Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Video, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
I See, The Croft Institute, Melbourne

2001
Bright Paradise, 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland

Public Collections / Museumssammlungen

MUMOK - Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst Vienna
Fotosammlung des Bundes – Museum der Moderne Salzburg
FRAC - Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Nantes
Te Papa - Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
Victoria University Art Collection, Wellington
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
Moderna Galerija, Subotica
October Salon Collection, Kulturni Centar, Belgrade
Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York