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Marina Viculin 
Award


Marina Viculin Award is a national photography award granted to an individual or collective working in the medium of photography, or those whose artistic practice is grounded in the medium.

The award is presented by an expert jury to a work in progress, which is developed over a ten-month period with production and mentorship support from the Organ Vida curatorial collective. It includes financial support for production, as well as the presentation of the selected project within the international Organ Vida Festival.

Established in 2017, the award is named after Marina Viculin, a distinguished art historian, curator, and former director of the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, whose work in affirming the medium of photography has left a lasting mark on the Croatian photographic scene.

The Award is designed by OAZA collective.



Awarded Artists

2025/2026
Paula Tončić
COCYX CUTZ


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2023/2024
Ivan Buvinić
ID_75



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2021/2022
Filip Milković
Familiar Territory



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2020  
Deni Horvatić
SCAN



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2019  
Denis Butorac
Epistle



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2018
Bojan Mrđenović
Adriatic Highway

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Marina Viculin

Marina Viculin (1957–2015) was a Croatian art historian and curator born in Zagreb. She graduated in 1982 in art history and comparative literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and went on to complete her MA at Paris IV – Sorbonne in 1987, with a dissertation on citation in 1980s French painting. Under the supervision of Serge Lemoine, she later earned her doctorate at the same university with a thesis titled The Story of the New Tendencies.

From 1988, she worked as a freelance writer, contributing exhibition texts and art criticism to daily newspapers. In 1989, she joined the Klovićevi dvori Gallery as a curator, where she developed an extensive exhibition program. She authored numerous retrospective exhibitions, particularly in the field of photography, presenting artists such as Marija Braut, Ivan Posavec, Mio Vesović, Josip Klarica, Nenad Gatti, Ivan Faktor, and Petar Dabac. She also curated a series of smaller exhibitions at the Lotrščak Tower Gallery.

Viculin collaborated with leading international curators on major exhibitions, including Dora Maar and Picasso – A Meeting Through Looks (2004, with Anne Baldassari), Marc Chagall – Story of Stories (2007, with Jean-Michel Foray), and Masterpieces from the Picasso Museum, Paris (2013, with Anne Baldassari). Her curatorial work also included exhibitions such as Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese – Great Masters of the Renaissance, Edgar Degas – Sculptures, Martin Arnold: The Frozen Embrace, and a monographic exhibition of Damir Sokić. In collaboration with Jadran Adamović, she curated projects focused on Central and Eastern European art, as well as Intercessory Prayers to St Tryphon – The Treasures of the Diocese of Kotor.

In 2014, she was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier) of the French Republic in recognition of her contribution to artistic collaboration between France and Croatia. In the same year, she organized the exhibition Normandy: The Birth of Impressionism. She served as director of the Klovićevi dvori Gallery from April 17, 2012, to January 19, 2015.