ALEM KORKUT

BIO

Born in 1970 in Travnik. He finished primary and secondary school in Banja Luka. He studied sculpture in Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo 1991. From 1992 to 1997 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb where he graduated in 1997.
He is the author of several public sculptures, including the sculpture “Caryatid” in Pazin (2002), a Bicycle monument in Koprivnica (2005), memorials to the war veterans of the Homeland War in Šibenik (2006), Karlovac (2009) and Koprivnica (2016).
Among others, he is the winner of Grand Prize of the 27th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the annual HDLU Award for Best Young Artists 2004, the Grand Prize of the Split Salon in 2009, the third prize at the T-HT Awards 2011 @ msu.hr prize, and one of three equal awards of the 13th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2018.
He is the winner of several awards at public tender for the art in public spaces. He has exhibited at about forty solo, and about one hundred and fifty group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.
From 1998 to 2007 member of HZSU, association of independent artists. Since 2004 Member and then President of Art Organization.