EDUCATION & TEACHING

2003-07 | Artist-in-Residence, The Art Academy, London

1987-89 | City & Guilds of London Art School, London (Post-graduate Sculpture Department)

1982-87 | Academy of Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia (Sculpture Department)

1978-80 |Art College, Split, Croatia

MAJOR COMMISSIONS

2002-ongoing | Dakawa Project, 3 sculptures in granite, each approximately 4 metres high. Donated by Klapez to the Dakawa Parish in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania 

2008 | Portrait of Eduard Stemplinger, Plattling, Germany

1996 | Head of Mythological Horse, bronze, GMS Estates Ltd, London
Unity, bronze, 1.9 metres, MEPC plc Property Company, London

1992 | Trust, bronze, 1.85 metres, Daring, bronze 1.85 metres, TSB Bank plc, Birmingham, England

1991 | Liberty, bronze, Commissioned by The Aims of Industry for The Margaret Thatcher Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 | Studio Exhibition, London

2008 | ‘Ivan Klapez’, Miller’s Academy, London

2007 | ‘Ivan Klapez’, Cultural Centre, Plattling, Germany

2005 | ‘Glazba & Dakawa: Ivan Klapez’, The Crypt Gallery, Saint Pancras Parish Church, London

2000 | Studio Exhibition, London

1997 | ‘Metamorphose at Chenies Manor by Ivan Klapez’, Chenies Manor, Chenies Village, Buckinghamshire, England

1995 | ‘Ivan Klapez: First of Spring’, curated by Giles Auty, Rebecca Hossack Sculpture Garden, London

1993 | ‘Ivan Klapez’, Atrium Gallery, Coopers & Lybrand, London
‘An Exhibition of Works of Sculpture by Ivan Klapez’, Studio Exhibition, London

1991 | ‘For Croatia: An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Ivan Klapez’, Crypt Gallery, London

1990 | ‘An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Ivan Klapez’, Crypt Gallery, London

1989 | ‘Exhibition of Sculpture and drawings by Ivan Klapez’, Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth, England
‘Ivan Klapez’, Crypt Gallery, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 | London Art Fair, Roman Black Gallery, London

2008 | ‘Stephen Goddard & Ivan Klapez’, 102 Alderney Street, London
Group show, Cultural Centre, Plattling, Germany

2007 | East African Biennale, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
London Art Fair, Roman Black Gallery, London

2005 | ‘Stephen Goddard & Ivan Klapez’, Pimlico, London
‘Face: 2005’, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, London

2004 | ‘Face: 2004’, The Society of Portrait Sculptors, London

1999 | Kings Road Gallery, London

1997 | All the World’s a Globe’, Gallery 27 in Cork Street, London
‘Croatian Horizons’, Jezuitski Trg Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
‘Synaesthesia’, Danan Gallery, International House, London

1996 | Albemarle Gallery, London

New Cork Street Gallery, London

1995 | ‘Images of Animals’, Danan Gallery, International House, London
John Martin Gallery, London
The Synergy Gallery, London

1994 | ‘Islington Art Fair’, Waterman Fine Art Limited, London
‘Summer Exhibition’, Waterman Fine Art Limited, London

1993 | ‘The Critics’ Choice: New British Art’, Christies, London
Oxford Art Week, outdoor exhibition, Lockbund Sculpture, Oxfordshire, in
association with
Danan Gallery, London 
Islington Art Fair, curated by Steven Goddard                 

1991 | ‘Critic’s Choice: Giles Auty’, Beaux Arts, Bath, England

1990 | ‘Charity Auction in aid of The Florence Trust’, St Saviour’s Church, London
‘The Discerning Eye’, The Mall Galleries, London

1987 | ‘International Sports Festival’, Zagreb, Croatia

1986 | ‘Exhibition of Competition Work for Monumental Sculpture’, Umjetnicki Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia

1985 | Gradska Knjiznica Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, ‘Exhibition of Competition Work for Monumental Sculpture’ Zagreb, Croatia