Natalija Seruga

Natalija Seruga was born in Maribor (Slovenia), in 1971. She graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1999, and in 2003 obtained MA there. She lives and works as a free-lance artist in Radenci, Slovenia. I Want to Pass Through the Woods at the Darkest Night.There is no mysticism and I still believe that I create because I do not know other way of seducing. In order to get rid of solitude, to which a birth condemn me to, I am prepared to nurture this scorned and compassion worth desire.If I dedicate myself to all technical preparations faithfully like a dog, I will catch what I am hunting for. And exactly this I am persistently dogged by, makes the most of me. That, what I have a premonition of and I can smell it is for sure in same others places and totally evasive. Approximations and their imitations I am capable to catch, I throw as bait. All what is created have a secret background; you can see only a surface, non-essential side. There is an access to what is expressed, but the essence always snatches away from me. So, I am offering myself.You know, during hunting only love or downfall can disturb me.Presents from the sky disturb routine in which I am caught day after day. I have deep wrinkle between ...

EDUCATION

2003 MA Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1999 BA Academy of Fine Arts ( Painting ), Ljubljana, Slovenia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
-Risicare, Gallery Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009
-Vrnitev v domai kraj ( The Return of the Native ), Mestna galerija Nova Gorica ( Municipal Gallery Nova
Gorica ), Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2009
-Orpiment, Umetnostna galerija Maribor ( Art Gallery Maribor), Maribor, Slovenia
2008
- Pokrajina iz voska ( Landscape of the Wax ),Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007
- Armamaxa, Gallery Miklova hia, Ribnica, Slovenia
2006
- Triptih ( Triptych ), Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, (Municipal Gallery ), together with M. Gregori and N. Ribi, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005
- Plastenje podob ( Laying of Images ), Gallery HIT Nova Gorica, together with M. Zlokarnik and K. ere, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2004
- Slike ( Paintings ), Web Gallery Media Nox , MKC, Maribor, Slovenia
- Z vsei omi zre bivajoe ven, v odprto ( With all Eyes the Existingis Looking out, into Openness ), Gallery Museum Radenska, Radenci, Slovenia
2003
- Z vsei omi zre bivajoe ven, v odprto ( With all Eyes the Existingis Looking out, into Ope...