Toni Mijač – Superorganism

Toni Mijač

Croatia

Toni Mijač is a film and multimedia artist born in 1988 in Split, Croatia. He gained a bachelor’s degree in Film and Video at the Art Academy in Split and a master’s degree in New Media Art at the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb. He worked on numerous conceptual, cinematographic, and commercial projects, also having collaborative experience in local and international residencies, workshops, and festivals across Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Portugal and The United Kingdom. He was the author of ten solo exhibitions and took part with his work in over twenty group exhibitions. In his artistic work, he predominantly plays with everyday impulses in different areas of human life, routines and tendencies, which he explores using the language and expressive tools of various media forms such as film, video, text, installation, performance, photography and social/community practices. 

His awarded works are ‘Connection Is/Not Possible’ which received the public’s vote on the HT Contemporary Art Award 2018 in Zagreb and the jury’s 2nd award for best artwork on the GRISIAyouth 2018 exhibition in Rovinj, and ‘Slon Eye’ which was awarded with the jury’s 1st award for best artwork on the GRISIAyouth 2021 exhibition in Rovinj. In 2020, he was chosen as one of the artists in residency for the MagiC Carpets / LAB 852 / Meta Cultural Foundation program. In. 2022 Mijač was artist in residency on ‘Summer Sessions’, a residential programme led by the art organization Metamedij in collaboration with Schmiede in Hallein.