DAVOR TOCINOVSKI
Davor Tocinovski was born on 12 June 1976 in Skopje. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts “Lazar Ličenoski” in Skopje (1994), graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje (2001) in the class of Prof. Rubens Korubin and received his Master's degree at the University of Arts in Belgrade (2010) with Prof. Vladan Radovanović.
1996. Veles, Annual Exhibition of the Society of Fine and Applied Artists.
1997. Veles, Annual Exhibition of the Society of Fine and Applied Artists.
1998. Art colony “Lesnovo 98”, Probishtip.
1998. Exhibition at the Art Colony “Lesnovo 98” in Probishtip and Skopje.
1999. Art Colony “Jelak”, Tetovo, Macedonia.
1999, Skopje, MKC, Art installation “Future in Advance, Past”, co-authored with Meto Angelovski.
1999. Exhibition of the Art Colony “Jelak 99”, House of Culture “Koco Racin” Skopje.
1999. 4th International Student Biennial, Skopje City Museum.
2000. Art and Graphic Colony, woodcarving, Makedonski Brod.
2000. Podgorica, Montenegro, Art Colony “Sound, movement and music”.
2000/2001. Exhibition of the Art Graphic Colony from Makedonski Brod in Skopje, Prilep, Kumanovo, Bitola, Strumica, Veles, Ohrid, Demir Hisar, Kratovo, Kriva Palanka, Tetovo, Gostivar, Kicevo, Macedonia and Kyustendil, Bulgaria.
2001. Skopje, Secondary School “Josip Broz Tito”, independent art project “When the child was a child, he did not know that he was a child”.
2001. Belgrade, Serbia, “Real Present”, SKC.
2002. Skopje, Urban independent art project “Reconstruction of the circle”.
2003. Re-construction of the circle, Art-action, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Video Library.
2003. The last East – European show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.
2003. International project “Differences Unite”, Art Salon, Veles.
2003. Skopje, Biennial of Young Authors, Museum of Contemporary Art.
2004. Skopje, Skopje City Museum, “View from the Margins”, solo exhibition.
2004. Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria “Masa”, art colony.
2005. Project “Parallel Time” Art-action, Rencontres internacionales Paris/Berlin.
2005. Project “Parallel time” Art-action, Rencontres internacionales Berlin / Paris.
2006. “The Rain carries the truth”, co-authorship with Dubravko Naumov and Stojce Tocinovski, Skopje summer.
2007. “Projections identity”, Reithalle, Ingolstadt, Germany.
2008. Art colony “Author through the emergence 3”, Oreov Dol, Veles.
2008. Projections identity, Gallery Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
2008. Projections identity, Gallery of Modern Art, Opole, Poland.
2009. Projections identity, Kragujevac, Serbia.
2009. “Author’s Through the Appearance 3” Exhibition “House of Kasapovi”, Veles.
2010. University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia, “Expectation of reality” independent presentation.
2010. MKD “Ilinden”, Rijeka, Croatia, “Expectation of Reality”, solo presentation.
2010. “Aster Fest”, Strumica, Macedonia.
From 2010 to 2022, I realized two textual – documented art performances entitled “Abstaining from Art” and “Deconstruction of Matter and the Material”, which, in addition to other contents include in their concept the failure to exhibit or present a work of art, except for the exhibition at the Gallery Kazamat, “As fresh as a tomato (Svjeza kao paradajz)”, where I was represented without my knowledge.
2014. Osijek, Croatia, Galerija Kazamat, “As fresh as a tomato (Svjeza kao paradajz)”.
2022. National Theater, Gevgelija, Macedonia, “Identification with Sisyphus”, video art, solo presentation.
2022. House of the Book, Bitola, Macedonia, “Modern Humanoid”, independent conceptual project.
2022. Macedonian House of Culture “Kočo Racin” Pula, Croatia, “Identification with Sisyphus”, video art, Solo presentation.
2023. Vienna, Austria, ARSM Gallery “Multicultural Exhibition”.
2024. Skopje, Macedonia, KORA Gallery “Eternal Tango”.
2024. Skopje, Macedonia, KORA Gallery “Identity Identification Integrations”.
2024. Veles Macedonia, National Museum Veles “Video art”, Solo presentation.
2025. Skopje, Macedonia, KORA Gallery, group exhibition “Women of the World through History”.
2025. Skopje, Macedonia, KORA Gallery, group exhibition “Our Vision for Europe”.
2025. Skopje, Macedonia “Museum of the Macedonian Struggle for Independence” solo presentation “The Challenge of Nothing”.
2025. Korčula Croatia “Center for Culture of the City of Korčula” group presentation “Identification with Sisyphus”.
2025. Skopje, Macedonia, KORA Gallery, solo exhibition “Video Art”.
The collection
- 2002 Army
- A modern Humaniod
- Cassete player
- View from the margins
- 2001 – When the child
- Upfront future past
- Reconstruction of the circle