Utstilling

Print Matters: Endi Poskovic, Field and Dream

Conceived in 2023 and developed through residencies with Artica Svalbard, Arctic Circle, and Spitsbergen Artists Center, the project grew from encounters with the Arctic landscape as a place of extraordinary splendor, profound environmental change, and contested histories.

Through extended periods of research and travel across the Svalbard and Jan Mayen archipelago, Field builds on the visual language of Poskovic’s earlier series Majestic and Crossing. Intricately carved woodcuts bring together observations of the landscape with fragments of experience, memory, and imagination. These evocations move between the specific and the elusive, linking distant geographies with traces of memory while reflecting on the fragile, continually changing relationship between land, memory, and belonging.

Woodcut printmaking is central to this process. Its materiality, repetition, and layered processes transform observation into physical traces, translating encounters with place into image and carved wood. The print becomes a trace of encounter, memory, and place—an interval between what was seen and what remains.

Endi Poskovic

Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Endi Poskovic is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work explores memory, place, and transformation through print media and works on paper. Educated in the former Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States, he has exhibited extensively worldwide at international biennials, triennials, and major curated exhibitions.

His work has been recognized with numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a United States Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, a John D. Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Bellagio Center, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Norwegian Government Fellowship, a Camargo Foundation Residency, a Flemish Ministry of Culture Award, an Artica Svalbard Residency, a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, a MacDowell Fellowship, an Arctic Circle Residency, and an Art Matters Foundation Grant, among others. He has also been nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award—one of the foremost international honors in contemporary printmaking—and the United States Artists Fellowship.

His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Fondation Fernet-Branca, France; Alive Jincheon Printmaking Museum, South Korea; the Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa; and many others.

Endi Poskovic is Professor of Art and Design at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
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