DARIO KAVARA

Born in 1969, Mostar, BH. Works and lives in Oslo/Berlin

Education: Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo 1990/92

UDK Berlin 2002 guest student Rebecca Horn

Member of Norwegian Professional Artists Association (UKS, NBK)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2008/09 International Art Museum Gallery, Oslo, Norway

1995 "Instinct", Nebb-X Gallery, Oslo, Norway

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008 "Digital art, Public Art", Grupoforja, Valencia, Spain

2007/08 "Prosperos Library", National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2005 "What do they want" , Yereven, Armenia

2005 "Dove il Lupo", Exitart, Torino, Italy

2003 "In Between", Ars Aevi-Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, BH

2000 "Kosov@:Carnival In The Eye Of The Storm", Portland, OR, USA

1999 "Out Of Site", Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany

1998/2000 "Bible of Networking" (Stockholm, London, Tokyo, Seoul)

1998 Live Art Season at Transmission Gallery, "Recollection for Repressive Memory",
Live art installation, Glasgow, Scotland

1998 SCCA-Sarajevo, "Beyond the Mirror", Sarajevo, BH

FESTIVALS

2008 Sarajevo International Winter Festival, Video performance: "Demonstrations in Paris`98

2003 Sarajevo International Winter Festival: Video performance: "Who is afraid of the Wolf"

INTERVENTIONIST SELECTIONS:

1997 Against National Art: Action in context of "Past, Present, Future" Venice Biennale

1998 Action in context of “Wound-Western Art 1945-98”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

RESIDENCE:

2008 Stavanger: Culture Capital of Europe at Tou Scene, performancekunst.no

2007/08 Collaboration project with Nino Sekhniashvili at Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1996 Metropolitan magazine, Rome 1996, On the Piazza, Interview with Gaby Ford,

1999 Oliver Bardin Album nr4 1999, Bordeaux, France

2000 Art journal in America 2000

2000 Millefleurs.org book, Berlin 2000

2000 Fjords Magazine, Norway

2001 Büro Friedrich Catalogue, Research Room

2002 Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main 2002, Flash Art International (May 2002)

2003 "In between", catalogue - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo

2005 Starship Magazine, Berlin, Germany

2008 Prosperos Books library Catalogue, Moscow, Russia

2008 Grupoforja, Valencia, Spain

INTERNET PROJECT:

2004/2008 Dario Kavara Museum, web page

2005/2008 First Independent Gallery on the Internet, curated by Beatrice Bonami

PUBLICATION:

2001 Nymphomagic, Art Book, Opera books, Venice, Italy

AWARDS:

1995 Norwegian Painter Association, material support grant,

1996 Culture council Oslo Working grant (1 year),

1998 Ministry of Cultural Affairs:Working Grant for Young Artists(1year),

2000 Ministry of Cultural Affairs: Visual arts, financial support grant,