Mario Mu
area: Visual Arts
Key Facts
nationality
Croatiaarea
Visual Artsresidence
Mlinirecommending institution
tranzit.org/ERSTE Foundationtime period
March 2026 - April 2026Mario Mu is a visual artist and filmmaker, born in 1987 in Metković, Croatia. He holds an MFA from the University of the Arts Berlin (2017), a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2015), and an MA from the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Zagreb (2013). He has received scholarships and awards from MuseumsQuartier (2026), the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (2025), Northern Sustainable Futures (2023), the 34th Ljubljana Biennale (2021), and the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media (2021). His works have been presented internationally at institutions such as the Singapore Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Lombardi—Kargl Vienna, Nova Gallery with WHW, MGLC Ljubljana, and Seager Gallery London, as well as in collaborative projects shown at Fondazione Prada Milan, the 60th Venice Biennale, MAAT Lisbon, TAP—Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Galerie Grund, and Silent Green Kulturquartier.
During his residency at MQ, Mario Mu will explore how individual and collective narratives are reconstructed through virtual environments. He transforms digital space into a cinematic experience and examines the architecture of the border checkpoint as a site of differentiation — a place where things are defined, shaped, and formed, where passage is granted or denied. Events become personal myths when different testimonies overlap, and each addition measures the distance between history and individual memory. MuseumsQuartier, itself a spatial experiment in social permeability, provides the suggestive framework for this work, anchoring his digital investigation within Vienna’s cultural and architectural fabric.