Danko Merin

Danko Merin was born in 1962. in Sarajevo. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is a member of HDLU and the Croatian Association of Artists of Zagreb.
He is engaged in painting, graphics, teaching, illustration, digital design, and art pottery. He lives and works in Križevčec, near Zagreb (CRO). From 2017.- 2019, the curator of Gallery "Kraluš" where are organized many notable exhibitions. Danko Merina's works of art are in private collections in Europe and other parts of the world.
Danko Merin, an artist that originates from a determined type of new figuration, from the echos of expressionist realism, expresses in his paintings stratified, complex structures of his individual experience, far from the mere description or explanation. In front of his work, an observer penetrates and directly explores the impersonal and sterilized purity of the artistic syntax. It is stimulating, it can refresh and humanize. Movements in these pictures represent the transmission of vibrating energy. They are like the waves of light in the center of a man; they meet at the subtle point where man's physical shape and nature meet. It is a force from which man sometimes gently moves away, but soon after, des...

Academy of Fine Arts- Sarajevo

Many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.
Danko Merina's works of art are in private collections in Europe and other parts of the world.