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Born in Zagreb, Croatia (1984)
Working as a welder in Liverpool, England

roncevicdina@gmail.com



EDUCATION

2015. MFA, Sandberg Instituut, Art and Learning department, School of Missing Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010. MA, Academy of Fine Arts, New Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2009. Women's Studies Course, Center for Women's Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
2009. Retraining in Automotive Mechanics, Electromechanical Vocational School, Zagreb Croatia
2005. BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Animation and New Media, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2002. School of Applied Arts and Design, Textile Design, Zagreb, Croatia


SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS, AND PERFORMANCES

2024. Car Deconstruction Performance, Out of Sight, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 – 2019. Welding, car mechanics, and car deconstruction workshops in collaboration with Idle Women, Heart of Glass, and a local women's shelter, St. Helens, UK
2017. Car Deconstruction Performance, Live Art Breda, Breda, Netherlands
2017. Car Deconstruction Performance, IPAF, Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016. Car Deconstruction Performance, Mesto žensk, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016. Car Deconstruction Performance, Perf, Geneva, Switzerland
2016. Solo performance My bears, my bones, my teeth, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015. Car Deconstruction Performance, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015. Participatory work and solo performance Can I Just Have Some Time to Think, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014. Participatory work and solo exhibition When the System Fails, Relationships Matter, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. Car Deconstruction Performance, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK
2013. Car Deconstruction Performance, PitchWise Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2013. Car Deconstruction Performance, KvirFem Festival, Vienna, Austria
2013. Car Deconstruction Performance, Kocka Gallery, Split, Croatia
2013. Solo sales exhibition, Greta Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. Solo exhibition, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2012. Car Deconstruction Performance, ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Finland


GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2025. Group exhibition Too Late to Give Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2019. Participatory work and group exhibition Femxle Football Project: Against the Run of Play with Dalmain Girls’ Football Club (ages 11-13), London, UK
2019. Group exhibition Tailored Futures, Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. Participatory work, presentation, and group exhibition Arte Útil, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. Group exhibition Drava Art Biennale, City Museum Koprivnica, Croatia
2015. Group exhibition Umag Art Salon, City Museum Umag, Croatia
2014. Group exhibition Image from Sound in the City and participation in the TV program Image from Sound, Croatian National Television, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. Short film screening Concretizing, Femmes’ Video Art Festival, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2014. Short film screening Concretizing, EVA (Experimental Video Architecture), Isolab, Venice, Italy
2014. Short film screening Beetroot, Carpfish and Me, Kratki na Brzinu Film Festival, Zagreb, Sv. Ivan Zelina, Croatia
2014. Screening of the short video essay Concretizing as part of Bik Van der Pol’s project at the 31st São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
2014. Performance with Paško Budžerlez, group exhibition East of (P)aradise, Otok Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2014. Participatory workshop and group exhibition Liquidation, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. Group exhibition State a Bed, Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia
2013. Group exhibition October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2013. Group exhibition Transitio MX Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2013. Group exhibition and work presentation for the Radoslav Putar Award, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2013. Group exhibition, Rdeče Zore Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012. Group exhibition, Werkleitz Festival, Halle, Germany
2012. Group exhibition Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
2012. Performances and artistic interventions, Simplon Express performance in the Zagreb-Paris train
2012. Conference and work presentation, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
2011. Group exhibition for the T-HT Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. Group exhibition, XV Mediterranean Biennale, Split, Croatia
2011. Group exhibition, Split Salon, Split, Croatia 
2011. Participation in the workshop and publication of a text, The Bring In Take Out Living Archive, Zagreb, Croatia
2010. Group exhibition, XV Mediterranean Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
2010. Group exhibition of students, National Museum of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009. Group exhibition Articulation, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2008. Group exhibition Youth Salon – Salon of Revolution, Zagreb, Croatia
2008. Participation in a workshop and intervention, Urban Festival – Monument for a Just City, Zagreb, Croatia
2008. Group student exhibition Cyberdzhezva, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
2007. Group student workshop and exhibition Cyborgesia, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb Croatia
2006. Group student exhibition Supertourist, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia


WORK PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

2016. Ružica Šimunović, text on work in the book The Body in Dialogue: Women's Performative Practices in Croatia
2016. Artist talk, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015. Artist talk, ID Residency, Delft, Netherlands
2014. Artist talk, Eastside Projects Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2013. Gun-Marie Frånberg et al., Umeå University, contribution to the book Invisible Girl, Umeå, Sweden
2012. Artist talk, University of Zadar, Croatia


ART RESIDENCIES

2025. Temper Theatre, Incubator Residency, London, UK
2018 - 2019. Heart of Glass, St. Helens, UK
2017. Idle Women Residency, St. Helens, UK
2015. ID Residency, Delft, Netherlands
2013. Filter, Detroit Residency, USA
2013. ISCP Residency, New York, USA
2012. CANTE Residency, San Luis Potosí, Mexico


WORKSHOP FACILITATION

2024 – present: STEM Ambassador; delivering presentations and interactive sessions in schools to promote careers in STEM fields
2024: Puppet-making workshops with children, in collaboration with Flintshire Social Services, Flintshire, Wales
2023: Creative mental health workshops with women’s community groups, SICK Festival, Manchester, England
2023: Creative mental health workshops with local communities, SICK Festival, Manchester, England
2022: Sculpture workshops and exhibition with clients of an asylum support organisation, Asylum Link, Liverpool, England
2015: Stop-motion animation workshop with incarcerated individuals, Remetinec Prison, Zagreb
2013: Car maintenance workshop for women, Klosterdorf, Germany


AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2015. Frankopan Fund Scholarship, Staples Trust, UK
2014. Frankopan Fund Scholarship, Staples Trust, UK
2013. Radoslav Putar Award for the Best Young Artist in Croatia
2010. Dean’s Award for Best Master’s Thesis, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb


RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
November 2020 – present: Self-employed welder; ongoing collaboration with a bronze foundry, welding work for companies specialising in stainless steel, welding instruction, technical support in installing large-scale artworks, England
August 2023 – March 2024: Employed as a TIG welder at steel cable factory Salamander, Deeside, Wales
August 2018 – November 2020: Employed as a welder and technician at a bronze sculpture foundry, Liverpool, England
September 2015 – November 2017: Self-employed welder; fabrication of tables, railings, staircases, and similar products in mild steel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
January 2014 – April 2015: Intern at a custom motorcycle workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 2012 – June 2012: Lead animator on the puppet film by Lea Kralj, At First Sight, Zagreb Film, Zagreb
June 2010 – August 2011: Lead animator on the puppet film A Story from the Beginning of Time by Boža Trkulja, Bonobo Studio, Zagreb
June 2008 – September 2008: Assistant stop-motion animator on the film Lunch by Ana Hušman, Pangolin Studio, Zagreb
September 2007 – June 2008: Automotive mechanic trainee, Volvo Service, Zagreb
2006 – 2008: Short animated films for the TV show Na vrh jezika, Croatian National Television (HRT), Zagreb


AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS

2015. The Frankopan Fund scholarship, Staples Trust
2014. The Frankopan Fund scholarship, Staples Trust
2013. Radoslav Putar, award for Croatian artists
2010. Art Academy dean award for best graduate work


MEDIA COVERS

2018 (in English) Video about Idle Women Institute, made in St.Helens, England




2016 (in English) Video interview made during the Car deconstruction performance on Mesto Zensk festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia 





2015 (in Dutch) Sander Janssens interviewed me for Het Parool, before performing in Frascati theatre in Amsterdam
2015 (in English and Croatian) an item in Transfer, Croatian TV show about contemporary art

 

2014 (in English) Blow the bloody doors off! The 10-year-old girls hacking apart cars for art,  
article in the Guardian, by Nell Frizzell
2013 (in Croatian) Bojan Kristofic, an article for Kulturpunkt