Alem Korkut rođen je 1970. u Travniku (Bosna i Hercegovina).  Osnovnu i srednju školu završio je u Banjaluci te 1991. upisao studij kiparstva u Sarajevu. Nastavio studij kiparstva na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu gdje je diplomirao 1997. godine. Autor je više javnih skulptura, među kojima i Karijatida u Pazinu (2002.), spomenik biciklu u Koprivnici (2005.), spomenik palim braniteljima Domovinskog rata u Šibeniku (2006.), Karlovcu (2009.),  Koprivnici (2016.) te onoga u Bihaću (2020.). Dobitnik je i Velike nagrade 27. salona mladih u Zagrebu, godišnje nagrade HDLU-a za mladog umjetnika 2004. godine, Velike nagrade Splitskog salona 2009. godine, treće nagrade na izložbi T-HT Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite. 2011. godine te jedne od tri jednakovrijedne nagrade Trijenala hrvatskog kiparstva 2018. godine. Izlagao na pedesetak  samostalnih i  oko dvjesto skupnih izložbi u Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu. Od 1998. do 2007. član HZSU u statusu samostalnog umjetnika. Od 2007. predaje kiparstvo na ALU u Zagrebu. Predsjednik je Umjetničke organizacije Atelieri Žitnjak.

Alem Korkut was born in 1970 in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He completed his primary and secoćndary education in Banja Luka and enrolled in sculpture studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1991. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, graduating in 1997. He is the author of several public sculptures, including the Caryatids in Pazin (2002), the bicycle monument in Koprivnica (2005), the monument to the fallen defenders of the Homeland War in Šibenik (2006), Karlovac (2009), Koprivnica (2016) and of the one in Bihać (2020). He is also the recipient of the Grand Prize of the 27th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the annual HDLU award for a young artist in 2004, the Grand Prize of the Split Salon in 2009, the third prize at the T-HT Ova e-mail adresa je zaštićena od spambota. Potrebno je omogućiti JavaScript da je vidite. exhibition in 2011, and one of three ex-aequo awards at the Triennale of Croatian Sculpture in 2018. He exhibited at about fifty solo and about two hundred group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. Between 1998 and 2007, he worked as an independent artist affiliated with the Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU). Since 2007, he has held a teaching position in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He currently serves as the president of the Art Organization Atelijeri Žitnjak.

Alem Korkut
Meltdown, 2024.
prostorna instalacija (aluminij, željezo, drvo) / space installation (aluminium, iron, wood)
dimenzije promjenjive / dimensions variable

Ovaj rad se nastavlja na moje istraživanje karakteristika materijala, omekšavanje onoga što se obično smatra čvrstim, hvatanje prolaznih trenutaka, kao i ispitivanje odnosa među elementima. Raspad materijala i njegovog prirodnog oblika, koji se javlja u interakciji s geometrijskim elementima u prostoru referiraju se na nesigurnost, nestalnost i nepredvidivost suvremenog stanja prirode i društva, gdje čovjek zbog profita i/ili nezainteresiranosti uništava svoje društveno i prirodno okruženje. Pritom gubi osjećaj stabilnosti i očajnički se drži za ostatke sistema koji po svemu sudeći nikada nije bio u potpunosti pouzdan. „Meltdown“ ilustrira ovaj civilizacijski trenutak, otapanje, gubljenje obrisa, pokušaj pronalaženja sustava u kaosu, sugerira degradaciju starog svijeta i potencijalno stvaranje novog.

This work continues my exploration of the characteristics of materials, softening what is typically considered solid, capturing fleeting moments, and examining the relationships between elements. The decay of materials and their natural forms, which occurs in interaction with geometric elements in space, refers to the uncertainty, instability, and unpredictability of the contemporary state of nature and society, where humans, due to profit and/or disinterest, destroy their social and natural environment. In doing so, they lose a sense of stability and cling desperately to the remnants of a system that, by all accounts, has never been entirely reliable. Meltdown illustrates this civilizational moment, the melting, the loss of outline, the attempt to find order in chaos, suggesting the degradation of the old world and the potential creation of a new one.