David Maljković

Maljković’s work delves into the malleability of the collective and individual experience of time and space. The artist presents viewers with works that create their own space, time and history, while also hinting at answers to the uncertainty of an unknowable future. In so doing, Maljković often plays on the possibilities allowed by the mediums at hand, making works that have a more and intuitive use of the materials.

Maljković embraces the collage method and self-referentiality by (re)using his earlier works as raw material in order to reach a high level of complexity in his work. The exhibition spins around a network of subtle signs, fragments, transformations, metamorphoses and references.

There is a certain parallelism on stage, in which, the space of everyday routine as well as artistic practice is approached. This is visible on the two-dimensional surface where a photograph serves as a backdrop for the fine network of drawings on the surface. These lines recall the various metamorphoses of the artist’s work. The interspace of these two opposing realities creates the theme.

Maljković’s new objects follow the subtle narrative of the collage, although not always in an obvious way. The logic of the exhibition thus continues in the objects’ work that also disrupts the image and deconstructs the posited narrative. Here, the intimate space rejects its own mood, and in its deconstruction it becomes a hybrid artifact in which new experiences are being enabled.

An excerpt from the text on David Maljković – Solo Show, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv, 2017

David Maljković’s recent solo exhibitions include:  A Retrospective by Appointment —the Nova Gallery, HDD (The Croatian Designers Association), the artist’s studio and Cinema Tuškanac, Croatian Film Association, Zagreb (2015); Again and Again at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2016); Sources in the Air, Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven, Netherlands (2012), BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, and GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (2013).  He has had solo or two-person exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunsthalle Basel (with Latifa Echakhch), Switzerland ; SculptureCenter, NY (with Lucy Skaer), USA; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Kunstverein Hamburg; Germany; and MoMA PS1, NY, USA. He participated in the 11^th Gwangju Biennale, the 56^th Venice Biennale and the 29^th São Paolo Biennial.