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Ana Mušćet (born in Metković, 1981) is a Croatian multimedia artist. She works with sculpture, photography, installation, and video. She lives and works in Zagreb.

Biography

Ana Mušćet studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she graduated in 2016 with a Master's degree, Summa Cum Laude, in the class of Professor Slavomir Drinković. In 2010, she also earned a Master's degree in Croatian and Russian Studies from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Croatia and abroad, and was one of the artists featured in the exhibition The Visible Ones at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2023. She has held many solo exhibitions and projects, and has received multiple awards and recognitions.

In 2016 and 2017, she collaborated with the editor Ružica Šimunović on the Croatian Radiotelevision, working on the shows Kretanje točke and U vizualnom kodu.

From 2018 to 2021, Mušćet led cultural programs and projects at the CEKAO and Bernardo Bernardi galleries within the Pučko otvoreno učilište Zagreb. As a member of the Gallery Council, she organized exhibition programs for Croatian contemporary artists and designers.

She is currently an artistic associate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she teaches the course titled Narrative, led by Marko Tadić.

Ana Mušćet is also a member of the Council for the Activities of Cultural Centers in the City of Zagreb, serving a term from 2021 to 2025. Additionally, she is part of the Working Group tasked with developing the Proposed Cultural Development Plan for the City of Zagreb, which focuses on the city's cultural strategy for the period from 2023 to 2030.

Selection of Works, Exhibitions and Projects

2015

For her work on the topic of Goli Otok, titled Na promjenu zraka (For a Change of Air), Ana Mušćet was awarded the Second Prize for Freedom at the VII Passion for Freedom Festival in London. The award was presented by a professional jury led by artist Gary Hill.

Due to this achievement, the University awarded Mušćet a Special Recognition for an accomplishment of international significance, Dies Academicus 2015. The same work was later included in the program of Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture.

2016

Her project Zastave (Flags) was awarded the Grand Prix at the Slavonian Biennale. In addition, the 25th Slavonian Biennale brought her the Audience Award in 2017. Zastave is one of the most borrowed works from the Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek.

2019

In May 2019, Mušćet exhibited in the Great Hall of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, where she opened her exhibition Zastave (I, II, III). The Adris Foundation awarded Mušćet a cash prize in the Creativity category for her exhibition at the Museum.

That same year, Mušćet collaborated with the theoretician Leonida Kovač to create a graphic novel and exhibition about the life and work of painter Nasta Rojc, titled Ja borac (I, the Fighter). The publisher of the work was the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

2021

At the Spot Gallery in Zagreb, she presented the exhibition Horizont (Horizon), exploring landscapes marked by trauma from the Croatian War of Independence, questioning how these landscapes function today. This work was preceded by research she conducted in 2019 with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Kultura Nova Foundation in the Vukovar-Srijem County. She is one of the few artists addressing the theme of the fates of the missing persons from the Croatian War of Independence.

2022

For her work Horizont, exhibited at the 57th Zagreb Salon of Visual Arts, Mušćet won the Grand Prix of the Salon. That same year, she also held a solo exhibition titled Albedo at the Gallery of Matica Hrvatska in Zagreb.

Selection of Awards and Recognitions

Ana Mušćet has received three Excellence Scholarships and was a finalist for the international Austrian Essl Art Award in 2015. She is also the recipient of the Special Rector’s Award and two Dean’s Awards for her academic achievements. Her internationally significant work earned her the Dies Academicus Freedom Award for her second prize at the VII Passion for Freedom Festival in London.

In 2016, she won the Grand Prix of the jury at the 25th Slavonian Biennale, and in 2017, she received the Audience Award at the same event. In 2019, she was awarded the Adris Foundation Creativity Award. Most recently, in 2022, she won the Grand Prix at the 57th Zagreb Salon of Visual Arts for her work Horizont.