Goran Petercol

Born in 1949 in Pula, Croatia. Lives and works in Rijeka and Rovinj, Croatia.

Since 1975 Goran Petercol has been exhibiting works concentrating upon processualism, scopes, stylization and subversion of the purity of conceptual structures. He started with his first light installation as early as 1985, treating light as a material and shadow as a smaller amount of light. Petercol works with material and intangible forms, spaces and interim spaces, spontaneous and controlled art treatment deal above all with the problem of creation itself.

Selected solo exhibitions

2023
Chiaroscuro, Gregor Podnar, Vienna, Austria

2022
And Or, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 

2021
Hijerarhije [Hierarchies], Croation Association of Artists (HDLU), Galerija Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia.

2019
Don’t Worry About Poetics, It’ll Come on Its Own, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.

2018
Goran Petercol – Nizovi, Academia Moderna, Zagreb, Croatia.

2017
Goran Petercol, Galerija ŠKUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2014
Dean Jokanović Toumin / Goran Petercol, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia.
Symmetries and Halves, Academia Moderna, Zagreb, Croatia.
Solo, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger at Art Brussels 2014, Belgium.

2013
Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
Common Places, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.

2012
Halves, Rigo Gallery, Novigrad, Croatia.

2011
Objects, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia.

2010
SAM (Selected Art Model), Cologne, Germany.
The Things, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy.

2009
15 Views of Glass, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
Art Unlimited at Art Basel, Galerija Gregor Podnar and Galleria Suzy Shammah, Basel, Switzerland.

2007
After Reflections, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Side Wind, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy.

2006
Unplugged / Brez struje, Gliptoteka, Zagreb, Croatia.

2005
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Reflections, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia.

2004
Drawing, Drawing (with Dan Perjovschi), Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj, Slovenia.
Galerija Moria, Stari Grad, Hvar, Croatia.

2002
Flashes, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia.

2001
Light, Moderna Galerija, Studio Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia

1999
Centro Arte Contemporana Spazio Umano, Milan, Italy.

1998
Izazov prostora, PM Galerija Zagreb, Croatia (with V. Pokas und T. Gecan-Savić)
IFA Galerie, Bonn, Germany.

1997
Fenster, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.
Frames, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia; (1998) Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia.

1996
Krabice/Boxes, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.

1995
Zagreb-Riga, Galerija M6, Riga, Latvia.

1993
Written Line, Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia.

1992
Contrepoint, Lorette Ateliers d´artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marseille, France.

1991
Sala Umberto Boccioni (with J. Hadzifejzović, D. Rakoci), Milan, Italy.

1990
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.

1989
Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia.

Selected group exhibitions

2023
Space as a Duty of Care, Gallery Studio G7, Bologna, Italy

2022
ThisPlay, curated by Emre Baykal, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey.
Belonging, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

2021
Holy Bureaucracy, Where Are You Taking Us?, curated by Ksenija Orelj, Poreč Open University, Poreč, Croatia.
Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary.

2020
Umjetnost je sumnja / Art is Doubt I/III, Lexart Skladište, Zagreb, Croatia.
Collection of Contemporary Art: Marino Cettina, Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Croatia.

2019
Negative Space – Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2018
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico.
Instructions for Watching – What the Body Wants?, MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia.

2017
ICON, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.

2016
My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise), Galerija Nova and other venues, Zagreb, Croatia.
Always a knit of identity, always distinction, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2015
Site, Specific, Objects, with Fernanda Gomes and Marcius Galan, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
Mainzer Ansichten, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

2014
Drawing In Space, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, St.Moritz, Switzerland.
Observation, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
See What Sees You, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria.
Great Undoing, 54 Annale, Poreč, Croatia.
Prizori od svjetla za Julija, Galerija Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia.

2013
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.

2012
First Act: Opening, Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
The Exact Weight of Lightness, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain.
Turn The Light On, It’s Dark, Museum of Modern and Contemproary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.
Who Am I, What Am I Doing Here??, Shanaynay, Paris, France.

2011
Dialogos, Assab One, Turin, Italy.

2010
Roaming. Heterotopias, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Starter – Works from the Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, ARTER, curated by René Block, Istanbul, Turkey.
Moderna (post) moderna, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Istre, Pula, Croatia.
Ellipse/Eclipse part II, Galerie schleicher+lange, Paris, France. In the framework of ‘Berlin-Paris, un échange de galeries’

2009
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, curated by Chris Sharp, New York City, USA.

2007
Central Europe Revisited I, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria.
Like to like II, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.

2006
Venture II, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The Sun on the Wall, steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria.
Arteast Collection 2000+23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Trajectory 1, LCCA Riga, Latvia.

2005
Nothingness, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj, Slovenia.
Galerija Adris, Rovinj, Croatia.
Blue salon, Zadar, Croatia.
39th Salon in Zagreb, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.
Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2004
Nothingness, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria.
Jedan podzemni vrt (An underground garden), Palace of Dioklecian, Split, Croatia.
Mass, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia.

2003
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
2000 2000+ Arteast collection, Metelkova/Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Rund um, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.

1999
The Stockholm Connection, (elsewhere 4, Attitudes / somewhere else, Galerija Škuc), ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany.
Aspekte/Positionen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria.

1998
Spatiale Malerei, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.
Sensitivities, European Academy for the Arts, London, UK.

1997
United Enemies, Galeria Jiři Švestka, Prague, Czech Republic.
Schwere-Los, Landesgalerie, Linz, Switzerland; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.

1996
Oktlon, Moderna Galerija, Zagreb, Croatia.
(Antartica) Brahma, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria.

1995
46th Biennial di Venezia, Croatian Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.

1994
Translucent Writings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York City, USA.
Zentrum Zagreb – Skulptur in Kroatien 1950-1990, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
22nd Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brasil.