Alem Korkut (Travnik,BiH, 1970) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1991 and continued it at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, where he graduated in 1997. He is the author of several sculptures in public spaces, among others the “Carijat” sculpture in Pazin (2002), the Bicycle monument in Koprivnica (2005), the monument to the fallen defenders of the Homeland War in Šibenik (2006), Karlovac (2009), and the in Koprivnica (2016). He is the author of the monument to the defenders and liberators of Bihać (2020). Among others, he won the Grand Prize of the 27th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the HDLU’s annual award for a young artist in 2004, the Grand Prize of the Split Salon in 2009, and the third prize at the T-HT nagrada@msu.hr exhibition in 2011., and one of the three equivalent Awards of the Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2018. He is the winner of numerous awards in competitions for sculptures in public spaces. Exhibited at about fifty independent and about two hundred group exhibitions. From 1998 to 2007, member of HZSU in the status of an independent artist. Since 2003, member and then president of the artistic organization Atelijeri Žitnjak. Since 2007, he has been teaching sculpture at the ALU in Zagreb.
