Štimac Goran – Paradiso V

Born in 1959 in Rijeka. In 1981, he enrolled at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka, majoring in fine arts, choosing sculpture specialization under Prof. J. Diminić, and in 1984 he moved to Zagreb to study sculpture at ALU, graduating in 1988 under Marija Ujević. Since 1986, he has been a member of HDLU and ZUH. At the end of 1992, he went to Vienna where he enrolled in the College of Applied Arts and studied scenography. He participated in creating numerous scenographies for about twenty productions of the Austrian theater. He is also involved in organizing exhibitions of current Croatian art. In 1996, he was employed at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka as an assistant, then a lecturer, and in 2006 was appointed dean of the Rijeka Academy. He has organized around fifty solo exhibitions of recent cycles of drawings, paintings, and sculptures and has participated in over a hundred juried conceptual, thematic, biennial, and triennial exhibitions. He lives in Opatija.