David Maljković

David Maljković (1973, Rijeka, Croatia) lives and works in Zagreb. David Maljković's work is a highly controlled variant exploitation of formalist concerns. While narrative is the driving element at the origination of a project, the artist's varied means of visual implementation profoundly modifies and compromises its supremacy. The process of construction within a set of formal directives encrypts the narrative and postulates what Maljković describes as a new semantic logic. His overall project is engaged in the variable relationship between form and content in art terms, or signifier and signified in linguistic terms; it is within this relationship that Maljković negotiates his formal methods and disjunctive intentions.

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Maljković participated in several artist residency programs, including the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and IASPIS in Stockholm.

Solo exhibitions include In The Pictorial Code, Quetzal Art Center, Vidigueira (2023); In the Corner of the Eye, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2021); Forthcoming, T293, Rome (2020); With The Collection, MMSU, Rijeka (2019); Glimpses, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia (2018); Gaze Dithering, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (2017); Also On View, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2016); Alterity Line, Metro Pictures, New York (2015); In Low Resolution, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2014); and Afterform, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2013).

Group exhibitions include All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016); Animism, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012); and the 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009).