Mia Štark

Fine art student - graphic arts , visual art

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˙Detail from the series “U nizu” (”In Sequence”)   Vernis mou and dry point  2017., Osijek

˙ 1/1 A.O. pdf - “ On Looking at Mia Štark’s print ‘Move Soft’” - RA       November 2018

˙Monotypie 1/1 A.O. vernis mou - “Move Soft” - Mia Štark, 2017.

This year I had the opportunity to meet Richard Allsopp, co-founder and co-editor of the journal Perfromance Research. It was a delight to learn from him, and to listen to his lectures about performative writing.

Richard also honored me with a text he wrote about my print “Move Soft”. 

Dear Richard, it was real treat to listen to your lectures!

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Traces of movement, Šira Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

Solo exhibition

19.10.2017. - Opening night

Mia Stark - “Traces of movement - visualization and processuality” 

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Bure baruta, 2017., Kazamat Gallery, Osijek, Croatia

Artists - Andrea Knezović, Jasmin Mišković, Mia Štark

25.02.2016. - opening night

HDLU Osijek sixth consecutive year organized a group exhibition titled Powder keg (Bure baruta). The exhibition is aimed at young, unestablished artists who are selected through a competition. The three artists represents the independent and separate (three) artistic concepts which focus remains solely on artists no matter what they gathered under an inclusive exhibition. Exhibition purpose is to point out the existence of young, high-quality and educated artists outside the established cultural and artistic scene and serves as a platform for informing the public and the profession by their work and activities. 

Mia Stark - “Traces of movement - visualization and processuality” 

Graduation project Traces of movement combines two forms of artistic expression - dance and visual arts. Drawings and prints done in vernis mou technique are a product of spiritual and physical movement. In a meditative state dance moves leaves a trace on the surface. Drawings and prints are only one segment of the artistic work, it begins within a deep meditation, and to the final product comes a combination of dance and drawing. The movement, as something transient, is documented and its mark is permanent.

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Discussion with dramaturges Sergej Pristaš and Mila Pavičević, about choreography and connection between visual and performing arts

8.11.2016. at Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb

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Proces Inicijacije, Zagreb, Pogon Jedinstvo, Srpanj 2016. Izložba Proces Inicijacije tematizira proces izrade izložbenog postava gdje se i sami radovi bave procesom i procesualnošću u širem smislu.

Exhibition, Process of initiation, Zagreb, June 2016. Performative drawing at the exhibition in Zagreb.

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In the presented monochromatic prints, I used toner to create dynamic compositions. With my hands, palms and fingerprints, I touched the lithography stone, directly, in a movement that liberated me as it does when I dance. No tools were used, no brushes, no crayons. It is about the process itself, the dynamics and energy of the body movement, rather than a specific message or narrative; leaving it to the viewers to interpret the forms found within the process of making. While preparing the stone, I connect my body, the ink and the stone in the sense that one extends the other, adding physicality to the final prints .

Lithographs on paper from the series "Untitled"

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On Lithographic Stone, Body Movement Rises to Form

Croatian artist Mia Stark practices a cross-disciplinary approach to printmaking in order to express her firm belief in the movement of our body as an identifier of our personality and even our identity. In lithography, the most direct printmaking technique that allows for easy, free mark-making with no resistance of the material matrix, Mia explores and pushes the boundaries between dance and visual arts.

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Thank you Celebrating Print Magazine!

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As an amateur contemporary dancer I like to combine the art of dance and the graphic arts. I am interested in exploring and merging more arts in one work. My work “The Body as a Medium” (”Tijelo kao medij”)  consists of a series of eight photographs developed in  cyanotype technique.

I thought about the ways in which our bodies could create images, yet without brushes and paint. Moving, not randomly, but in a controlled and planned way, and using a camera. A body created a “stroke” on a piece of paper, a “stroke” similar to the stroke of a brush. The initial idea, that a body is indeed a medium for the creation of an image, as is the case with colours in some other instances, has been realised. In the work “The Body as a Medium”, I bring forth my experiments with photography and dance. 

This year, on International Dance Day, my work was exhibited in  Kazamat Gallery, in Osijek, and was followed up by a performace.

International Dance Day (in the year of Mia Čorak Slavenska)  The Body as a Medium, Mia Štark 29.04.2016. Gallery Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia

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In works “happiness”, “anger” and “neutral” I am focused on investigation of emotions within us, and how they manifest with our behavior, particularly in this work, how they are “visible” in our voice. What I have done here was materialization of immaterial or materialization of abstract, that is, the emotion.

The three artworks go together as an indicator of emotions within us and they are graphic presentations of colors of the voice while we are under the influence of emotions.

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MIA ŠTARK (HR) & CHARLES J. de BISTHOVEN (BE)

GESTURE DRAWINGS An exploration into gesture and motion in drawing. 16.02. - 20.02.2016. Cluj - Napoca, Romania, Galerie Casa Matei

Presenting two series of works made in lithography technique and charcoal. They are traces of moments fixed in time, very raw and direct, like the movements that created them.  Mia Štark works just with hands, palms or fingerprints directly on lithography stone, and not with any art tools; Charles J. de Bisthoven presents an exploration of the mystery of the inner and outside world through drawings that are part of a ensemble with narrative quality.

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Project/Performance, 2014.

Short project that was part of my thesis. It was a collaboration between me and my friends dancers, Tanja and Josip, who are dancing my sequence.

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Performance/Planting, 2014.

The work of art pertains to the planting of an azalea in the Croatian part of the Pannonian Peace/Art Path as well as in the Serbian part. The Croatian Azalea was planted between Podunavlje and Kozjak, in the vicinity of another art installation, right next to the path so as to be clearly visible to passers-by. The Serbian Azalea was planted in Bač, in direct vicinity of the Bač Fortress. Azaleas symbolize harmony and togetherness in partnership and they are a token of moderation, love and friendship. The planting of this plant represents cooperation, unity and togetherness of the Croatian and Serbian people and, together with other works of art and installations, encourages future cooperation of art institutions.

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Blind print, “No name” , 2014. Detail