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Marko Gutić Mižimakov is a performance, film and text based artist. Trained in animation and active within the performing arts, they began to consider how movement inscribes itself both in the inanimate and in the body. This inquiry spawned several recurring figures in their work: the hollow body, the conch shell and the non-orientable surface. Somatic and score-based practices inform the way they form collaborations and structure artistic processes. While centered on live performance and moving image, their work is slowly expanding to sculptural and object-based forms.

Growing up between Skopje and Zagreb, as well as their connection to queer and gay histories, has shaped their perspective through geographic, linguistic and temporal displacements that operate less as questions of identity and more as epistemic orientations. These displacements attune them to disappearance, opacity and contingent belonging as structural conditions of experience. They place desire, technology and embodiment against one another, producing forms that resist resolution.

Their practice is structured around mutual transformability: transformation not as formation of a new identity, but as a temporary relation among actants. A text becomes an intruder, a surface remembers too much, an algorithmic hallucination drifts like clouds in your coffee. Samuel Delany’s writing recurrently accompanies their thinking on sex, language and unworlding, offering a narrative matrix-a flickering network of relation as methodology. 

Marko Gutić Mižimakov is a performance, animation and text based artist, exploring ways of shaping sensory materials through intimate, collaborative and social processes. They took part in the artistic research programme a.pass in Brussels (2022–2023) and taught at Paris College of Art (2022–2025); they currently work as an external associate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Their performances, films and installations have been presented at various international exhibitions and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Beursschouwburg Brussels, V2 Institute for Unstable Media Rotterdam, Ostrale Biennale Dresden, Antimatter BC, City Museum of Ljubljana, the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Galerija Močvara Zagreb and Galerija Nova Zagreb. Their work has been recognised with awards including Zlatna Lubenica and the DENES Award, as well as a nomination for the Croatian Theatre Award.