Petra Brnardic

In my work I'm exploring themes like identity, sex, gender, feminism issues, as well as myths, religion, mythological and psychological archetypes, psychology, various emotional and mental states, and subconscious in general, mixing socially and politically more relevant issues with intimate narratives, self-analysis and introspection. I always draw from the principle of dark feminity, celebrating and channeling dangerous and seductive goddesses of night, magic, chaos metamorphosis and otherworldly realms, female demons and nocturnal, oceanic or subterranean mythological creatures, together with film noir (anti)heroines, which are all also present in my poetry. The most visible and tangible element in my work is eternal obsession with sex, death, fetishes and taboos. I am traveling to those dark and disturbing realms of human psyche and experience, challenging fantasies and borders of identities and experiences. In that investigation, I am diving into the oceans of Id to emerge with hybrid creatures that represent different facets of myself and I am trying to tame the demons inside, that omnipresent shadow that constructs the dark, unsettling and eerie part of everyone's self. And doing so, i prefer bold, dramatic and more raw exp...

2008. graduated at Algebra as a graphic designer
2004. graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of prof. Miroslav Sutej, painting section, as a professor of visual culture
1997. finished Grammar highschool in Sisak (universal education)

I was born in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia. I graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2004, in the class of professor Miroslav Sutej. I am engaged in visual arts (painting, drawing, photography, collage, glitch art, installations, animation, video, multimedia). I exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, in country and abroad (Zagreb, Sisak, Velika Gorica, Samobor, Varazdin, Cakovec, Karlovac, Duga Resa, Lovinac, Rijeka, Kastav, Pula, Porec, Split, Makarska in Croatia, Mostar and Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tolmin, Maribor and Ljubljana in Slovenia, Novi Sad and Subotica in Serbia, Betlehem in Palestina, Rosario and Santa Fe in Argentina, Szczecin in Poland, Napoli, Macerata, Padova and Rome in Italy, Edinburgh, Bradford and London in United Kingdom, Porto in Portugal, Forcalquier in France, Girona, Valencia and Alicante in Spain, Malmo in Sweden, Corvallis, Los Angeles, Roanoke, Florida and New York in USA, Bangalore in India, Valkenburg and Amsterdam in Netherlands, Tijuana in Mexico, Moscow in Russia, Thessaloniki in Greece; Berlin in Germany, Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Jakarta in Indonesia, Tokyo in Japan). I also write poetry. My work was presented in many printed and digital croatian and international ...