artist statement

Outlining different narratives of more-than-human species, I want to materialize the puzzle of all life’s entanglement. My art practice comes from inviting participation and rediscovering ways of living (not just surviving) in a time characterized by political, economic, and climate crises, including the destruction and extinction of the world as we know it. I focus on migration-transition and climate change narratives.

Deliberated through the social and political prism, my works are aimed at the void left by incompetent and corrupt authorities, in lieu of a detailed plan of economic, social, environmental and cultural progress, and of the deliberated instructions for its implementation.

The medium of performance, eat-art & prose poetry, which I use in my work, has a lively, activist, revolutionary momentum, the momentum of transferring the mimetic changes in mentality. This energy is a trigger with which I decode the space and the visitor, since the audience – particularly the accidental one – is the seed of reality that processes the artistic act, thereby growing together with the artist.

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education: 2005-2012; Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, 2013; Faculty of Philosophy, Osijek, pedagogy and didactics degree

awards: 2024. Winner of the Gwaertler Grant for a socially engaged research project on mental health and assertiveness among young people; Moving Horizons–Mental State of Time 

socially engaged performances and projects:

2024. Group exhibition The Visible Ones, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb/Gallery of Art in Split, collaborative performance with artist selma banich “Caressing”

2023. CEKAO Gallery, in collaboration with artist Gail Hocking, Erosions of Future Memories; Rivers in Us, Rivers Around Us

2023. Blurred in their non-existence, the public actions of collecting statements, eat-art actions, and wrapping monuments Zagreb, Cvjetni Square, 2023.

2023. The night of Performance by Domino, Zagreb, AKC Medika, Her unstitched silence

2022. Gallery Događanja, Zagreb: A Reverse Line Game, exhibition and performance

2022. Prozori Gallery, Zagreb: Pacify of Shivers,  exhibition and participatory performance

2019. Summer at Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb event, participatory performance: Eaten Home

2019. Festival of Firsts: The Right to an Apartment and Housing Policy, an installation with mirrors and a video work The probability of effort .

2018. Festival of Firsts: The Age of Emptiness, Events Gallery, Edible/Sound Installation in gallery space, and Performance: Emptiness of Home

2018. Perforations Rijeka, Club Filodramatica, performance piece: Behind the Red

        Performance art festival OPTIMISM, Osijek, Kazamat Gallery; Behind the Red 

2018. International competition: Social Art Award, commendation of the commission for the work Blind spot Adaptation

 group exhibitions/projects

2023-2024. Drava Art Biennale, Erosions of future memories; Rivers in us-rivers around us, video and installation piece “Erosions of future memories; to accept the new means to enter the fight”

International group exhibition How to Look at Nature: Art and Capital, Zagreb, HDLU

2021. Adelaide, Australia, FeltSpace gallery, group international exhibition, collaboration with artist Gail Hocking; Erosions of future memories 

Group exhibition at Myyälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Relational Art Week, video performance: The Probability of Effort

residences:

RAUMARS; Finland, Rauma (2014)  participatory land art installation Äiti Maa, in collaboration with elementary school children

 Art Research Lab Ars Kozara in BiH 2016, land art installation: A moment now

Residency programe at Cultivamos Cultura, in São Luis, Portugal, where she made  interventions in public spaces titled When did you fall in love with knowledge?

experimental film and multimedia art workshops:

2023. Volunteer workshop on expressive graphics with mental disorders children from Mali dom/Little Home, Zagreb 2021/2022.

Workshops of The River in Us; Rivers Around Us, with residents of the old people’s home Slavoljub Penkala, Trešnjevka

2022 Workshop with students, Eco-Performance, as part of the performance course at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek

Workshop cycles of experimental graphics with Syrian and Ukrainian refugees, Gustav Krklec School Garden

2022. Pacify of Shivers series of multimedia workshops with users of the libraries of the City of Zagreb, 2021. Cycles of multimedia workshops at Gustav Krklec elementary school with children of parents of asylum seekers from Hotel Porin in 2020.

 

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