Zoran Poposki FRSA
Hong Kong
Award-winning Artist & Curator | Exhibitions worldwide l MFA & PhD | Hong Kong | All rights reserved.
MessageZoran Poposki (MFA, PhD, ILPVAM, FRSA) is an award-winning transdisciplinary artist and curator based in Hong Kong.
His work has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions, screenings and festivals worldwide, including XIII Cairo Biennale, 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Xi'an Art Museum in China, Art Basel Hong Kong, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong, Modern Art Center in St. Petersburg in Russia, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Museo de Arte de Ponce San Juan in Puerto Rico, Museu da Vila Velha Portugal, National Museum of Montenegro, National Gallery in Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Art Stays Festival of Contemporary Art Ptuj, University of Sharjah, etc. His public art projects have been presented on urban LED screens, video billboards, posters and billboards in NYC, Skopje, Dublin, Hong Kong, and the demilitarized border zone between South Korea and North Korea.
Poposki has exhibited alongside some of the major names in contemporary artistic production, including: Gerhard Richter, Nam Jun Paik, Allora and Calzadilla, Xu Bing, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jenny Holzer, Olafur Eliasson, William Eggleston, Thomas Ruff, Robert Cahen, Sebastiao Salgado, etc. His works have been selected for curated and juried exhibitions by prominent international curators and critics, including: Deborah Cullen (Director and Head Curator, Gallery of the Columbia University New York), Elisabeth Sussman (Curator, Whitney Museum, NYC), Donald Kuspit (Professor Emeritus of art history and philosophy, SUNY), etc.
Poposki's curatorial projects have been presented at: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Osage Gallery Hong Kong, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Manchester, Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery Hong Kong, Videotage Hong Kong, ArtStays International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia, Gallery 3D Mestre, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, etc.
Awards include: CEC Artslink Award (New York), ArtSlant Prize Showcase Juried Winner (Los Angeles), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA, London), Global Art Awards Finalist/Painting (Dubai, in association with The Wall Street Journal), ArtRights Prize Finalist (Italy), etc.
Artist residencies include: SVA School of Visual Arts (New York), Wooloo (Berlin), PNCA Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR), VSC Vermont Studio Center, etc.
Poposki's work is collected in the Luciano Benetton Foundation's Imago Mundi collection (Italy) and in the Videotage Media Art Collection (Hong Kong), featured in The Guardian, and archived in the AUP archive (a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery London) and in Google Arts & Culture.
Statement
My work is transdisciplinary and combines painting, drawing, photography and printmaking, performance, video and installation to explore from a social practice perspective themes of cultural translation, identity, liminality, territory, and public space.
Contemporary lives in altermodernity have become journeys in a chaotic universe, transforming it into a territory which may be traveled both in time and space. In such a changing terrain, individuals’ daily practices, as well as their sense of self, rely on constant translation and mediation between identities and cultures, an ongoing process of negotiation of cultural meanings.
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