DarkoMasnec
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Exhibitions list:

2025 - Next Level: Rendering the Process - group exhibition, Gallery 112, Zagreb, Croatia

2023 - Sketch for (Video)game - view from the other side - group exhibition, Gallery Putolovac, Zagreb, Croatia

2022 - Behind the Scenes 4 - group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2022 - Cinema on the Edge - Cycle of short films and talks about the intersection of film genres - group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2022 - Poveznice iz druge ruke / Second Hand Connections - solo exhibition, Gallery Putolovac, Zagreb, Croatia

2019 - Navigator B - solo exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2019 - Byl-ka - solo exhibition, G-MK (Galerija Miroslav Kraljević), Zagreb, Croatia

2019 - Vrijeme srca: (Re)Animacija poezije - group exhibition, Gallery Pogon, Zagreb, Croatia

2018 - Slovenian animated film 2006 – 2017 - group exhibition, Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia

2018 - Nove kolekcije - Makh - solo exhibition, HRT (Croatian Radiotelevision)

2017 - Iza kulisa - vizualni kodovi mreže (Behind the scenes - visual network codes) - group exhibition, Gallery VN, Zagreb, Croatia

2017 - T-HT award MSU - group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2016 - Dream Control - solo exhibition, Net.Cube gallery, cooperation with WHW (Internet project)

2015 - Crtomat - group exhibition, Gradski muzej Virovitica, Virovitica, Croatia

2014 - Transform 2014 - group exhibition, Bucharest, Romania

2013 - Prostor je taktika IV - group exhibition, Gallery Pogon, Zagreb, Croatia

2012 - Stillstand: Persistent Control - solo exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2012 - Prostor je taktika III - group exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2012 - Collab - Lauba cinema - group exhibition, Gallery Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 - "buffering", art-group filtrKOMBINAT - solo exhibition, Inkubator, Maribor, Slovenia

2011 - Prostor je taktika II - group exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 - All the art that's fit to show - group exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 - Prostor je taktika I (Space is a tactic) - group exhibition, Gallery Jogurt- AKC Medika, Zagreb, Croatia

2011 - Skup.Na - group exhibition, Gallery VN, Zagreb, Croatia

2010 - Identiteti/Identities - group exhibition, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia

2009 - Visual arts Forma Viva "Evolution", art-group filtrKOMBINAT - group exhibition, Narodni dom Maribor, Slovenia

2008 - Object NOB, Nanagiriti.si - group exhibition, artistic intervention as a festival of contemporary visual art, Maribor, Slovenia

2008 - Visual arts Forma Viva "Harmonic interventions into the urban green", art-group filtrKOMBINAT - group exhibition, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia

Collaborations, project, workshops:

2025 - In The Palace International Short Film Festival - jury member for the best student animated film, Pernik, Bulgaria

2025 - XR Game Jam - participant, AI Tools for Games and XR Storytelling project at the University of Bristol, BDFI, Bristol

2025 - Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC - University of West England) - Associate resident, Bristol, United Kingdom

2023-2024 - Expert program committee for the design of programs, development and realization of animated film projects - member of the committee, Slovenian film centre, Ljubljana

2023 - ASIFA International Animation Day 2023 - Croatia - jury member for competition programme, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

2022 - Digital Animation - Animated Film, Simulation Media and Future of Animation - author of article in monography, Zagreb

2021 - A sense of unfinished destiny- a talk with Zlatko Bourek and Pavle Štalter - co-author with Andrijana Ružić, journal „Hrvatski filmski ljetopis“, autumn edition (107), Zagreb

2021 - Member of the state level committee for Competition-exhibition of high school students in the field of visual arts and design - LIK 2020/2021 - committee member, Education and Teacher Training Agency, Croatia

2021 - Animated documentary film - guest lecturer at PSJ Lab workshop, Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

2020 - "Animation in the context of multimedia and videogames" - artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2020 - Constantines Gold Coin, international animated film festival - jury member, Niš, Serbia

2019-2022 - Edu4Games – Creation of standards of professions and qualifications as well as new study programs for the area of design and development of video games - member of the project team, University of Zagreb

2019-2021 - Member of the committee for designing a new PHD programme at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb - committee member, University of Zagreb, Croatia

2019- (ongoing) - Animafest council - member of the council of Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb, Croatia

2018 - Banja Luka international animated film festival - jury member for the best short animated film, Banja Luka

2018 - Animafest 2018, international animated film festival - member of selection committee for student competition programme, Zagreb, Croatia

2018 - "Anemoia of the Video Game Space" - Talkthrough II - conference on the video games phenomena, GMK, Zagreb, Croatia

2017 - Videogames – aesthetic role of game and interactivity - author of article in a journal, „Hrvatski filmski ljetopis“, summer-fall edition (90-91), Zagreb

2017 - Aesthetics of animated film - author of article in a journal, „Hrvatski filmski ljetopis“, winter-spring edition (89), Zagreb

2016 - Monstra, international animated film festival - jury member for the best short animated film, Lisbon, Portugal

2015 - Videogame workshop, Animafest 2015 - co-mentor of a workshop, Zagreb

2015 - "Videogames as an art" - lecture in the multimedia centre "Mama", WHW, Zagreb, Croatia

2015 - "Animation and animated film in art teaching in primary schools" - lecture at the symposium "The media as a challenge in the art teaching", Agency for Education, Rijeka

2015 - Revija studentskog filma, the festival of animated, short, feature and documentary films - jury member, Zagreb, Croatia

2014 - Here, There, animation on a short animated-experimental film by Alexander Stewart - artistic intervention, Bonobo studio

2014 - Videogame workshop, Animafest 2014 - co-mentor of a workshop, Zagreb

2013 - Videogame workshop, Animafest 2013 - co-mentor of a workshop, Zagreb

2013 - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - animation and montage on a short animated film project, Zagreb film

2012 - At first sight, animation and scenography on a short animated film project by Lea Jeger Kralj - animation and scenography, Zagreb film

2009 - Festival Lent, Maribor - mentor of art workshop, Maribor, Slovenia

2009 - Društvo za oživljanje zgodbe 2. koluta, Ljubljana - mentor of animated film workshops, Ljubljana