Lena Kramarić

Exploring the world around me in relation to my own inner world in an introspective and autoreferential way I am trying to connect motifs of the real and surreal, of the actual, imaginary and subconscious in the narrative scenes, leaving enough space to observers for their individual interpretation.
I reflect while I paint. Preparation for paintings are sketches that emerge inside my head around the clock. When I get hold of my tools I work spontaneously and fast, very often on more works simultaneously. Amongst my works there are those that are obvious and easily comprehensible and yet there are those that are less easily decipherable, there are symbols and elements from the real world that surrounds us, which together make a collage of emotions, states and words. Collage as an art technique is an integral part of my work, as well as drawing, which comes at the beginning and at the end of everything I do.
Colour and drawing supercede and complement each other in the working process while the paint roller with white tempera partially annuls them, creating transparency or dimness. Vanishing turning into new creation. A painting is created in layers, using trial, error and success to achieve the desired final effect. Taking off an...

● 2010: Academy of Fine Arts (PhD), Zagreb, Croatia
● 2002-2008: Academy of Fine Arts (MA), Zagreb, Croatia, Department of Art education and Art history//course: Painting
● 2006-2007: Pro-anima school, Zagreb // Graphic design
● 2001-2002: Philosophical faculty of arts, Zadar, Art history and Italiano language
● 1997-2001: School of Applied Arts and Design, Zagreb, Graphic design, print and drawing department

selected solo exhibitions / projects
2017
- Outdoor walls, AU Viennau, Vienna, Austria
- Outdoor walls, Gallery Steiner, Vienna, Austria
- Ateljerija – Open studio, Gallery Sebastian, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- multimedia project Between us (Između nas), Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia (with Martina Tomić and Ivana Đula)
2016
- At the beginning for the end (Na početku za kraj), Hrvatska matica iseljenika Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- The Works (Radovi), Exhibition space : The Society of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiques, Old city Dubrovnik, Croatia
– Almost perfect * Lena Kramarić (Skoro savršena * Lena Kramarić), Art Gallery Luna+Sol, Dubrovnik, Croatia
– New structures and other conditions (Nove strukture i druga stanja), Monastery S. Klara (Visia Hall), Dubrovnik, Croatia
2015
- Strategies of survival and other combined techniques (Strategije preživljavanja i druge kombinirane tehnike na platnu), Gallery Luža, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2014
- Though the looking glass, Art week at Prijeko Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- The Irresponsibles (Neodgovome) – Presentation of a work in progress , ZPC _ Zagreb Dance Centre, Croatia (with M. Tomić, I. Pipal and H. Brkušić)
- What I have been doing this year (Što sam radil...