Goran Tomcic

Goran Tomcic (b. 1964) is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. His diverse artistic styles and subjects include site-specific installations, temporary structures, text-art, and performative and participatory practices..

Tomcic grew up in Croatia, and since 1991 has been based in the USA until he relocated to Germany in 2009. Tomcic is recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Pollock- Krasner Grant (2007), the MacDowell Residency Fellowship (1992, 1996), the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (2020), and he has been artist-in-residence at many artists residencies. His large-scale installations and projects have been exhibited in museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide. His art can be seen in many public collections, including the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), KRC Collection (the Netherlands), CitizenM Hotels , Haifa Museum of Art (Israel) , Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (Croatia) , Valamar Riviera Collection (Croatia), Lapidarium Museum Novigrad (Croatia), Royal Caribeann International (USA)

Since 2015 his artistic practice has been focused on participatory art, particularly on the “Pompom Nets” project ; an ongoing, interdisciplinary, process-based art project and a social experiment. The project creates temporary situations and a new ways of being associated. As the main part of this project, the artist has been collaborating with the public, involving diverse communities and various artistic mediums in exhibiting spatial, site-specific installations all over the world.