Suzana Brborovic

My artistic practice takes architecture as the main subject to recreate and rethink spaces built around us. Often very concentrated, my paintings explore the term saturation to its highest. Layering the realities of our surrounding, I want to create an outlook on the themes dealing with architecture and ideas about it, showing the past and present problems in evolving urbanism and how architecture defines our personal space. My artistic process takes me through researching of neglected, decayed and controversial buildings and what impact do they have on me and my setting.

I am interested in how a painting can reflect a disorder or a dystopic view with emphasises on bending perspectives and settling in in pre-designed grids of our everyday life. The key elements in my work are dealing with transparency and intertwinement of objects with a feeling of lightness and flotation. Geometrical and linear expressions combined with organic under-layering explore the world of rules, utopias and great ideas that present themselves today as practices needing re-evaluation and critical observance.

The carefully chosen colour palette for each series demonstrates the overall feeling of the works and can be intentionally disorientating to the view...

2007 – 2013 Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana
2014 – 2016 Postgraduate study of painting (Meisterschüler) Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB)

AWARDS
2019 Rihard Jakopič Recognition
2019 Acknowledgement of the important artworks by University of Ljubljana
2012 Academy Prešeren Award for Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana
2011 ESSL ART AWARD CEE, First prize for Slovenia

COLLECTIONS
Albertina Museum
Bayer Kultur
Božidar Jakac Art Museum
City Gallery Nova Gorica
Gallery of Lottery Slovenia
Slovenian Ministry of Public Relations
Riko collection
Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana
Collection of City Ljubljana
Talum collection

Solo exhibitions

2024
COLLECTIVE ILLUSION, House of culture Pivka
PANORAMA, Janez Puhart Gallery, Kranj
2023
PLANS WE MADE, with Susanne Wurlitzer, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
OBSERVATORY, Nova Gorica City Gallery
2022
CONNECTIONS, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana
2021
THIS APPEARANCE IN THE AIR IS CALLED A MIRAGE, together with Peter Cvik, Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana
THERE IS SOMETHING CAUGHT IN HERE, together with Lucijan Prelog, Kibela Maribor
2020
THE COLOUR OF OVERTHINKING, together with Lucijan Prelog, Gallery ŠKUC Ljubljana
2019
BONES, Kommunalka, Leipzig
2018
BREAK THE RULES!, ABTART Gallery, Stuttgart
MATRIX, together with Uroš Weinberger, Gallery DLUL, Ljubljana
MULTILAYERED: ENCOUNTERS IN LEIPZIG, together with Peter Cvik, Gallery 60, Feldkirch
CENTRALISATION, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
2017
MADE IN GERMANY, Gallery Equrna, Ljubljana
FLAGS AND FLAKS, Archic Massiv, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
2016
IDEALS AND SECTIONS, Anette Müller Gallery, Düsseldorf
2014
TRIPLE SECTION, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana
ENCLOSURE, Bükü, Leipzig
SATURATION LIMIT, Gallery Alkatraz, Ljubljana
ID grad.: BB/SB 14 – n. 3/3, (together with Boris Beja), Museum of Art Božidar Jakac, Kostanjevica n...