Ruzica Zajec

Ruzica Zajec grew up in Beli Manastir, Croatia, and later moved to Germany to study at the College of Visual Art in Hanover and is currently a freelance artist. In Ruzica Zajec’s work she surprises us with sensitively posed questions of perception. She works with diverse materials and constructs spaces with her objects, she attracts and astonishes us by the multitude of differences one perceptible entity can create in art work. She shows us the apparent ordinariness in a new way. Looking retrospectively at her work it becomes clear that her commitment to painting and drawing and the awareness of the human presence in space, as they are brought up in images and spatial objects, are inseparable.
The artist’s reflection upon the essence of our being, the actual and visible and our selfawareness in the world, lead to finely modulated exhibits. Her enthusiasm for transparency and multi-layers, as well as the play with the light and of light itself, reflects her sensitivity in which she tells of magic and mystery and how they are seemingly effortlessly formed in her art.

1991-1997 M.F.A. studies at the College of Visual Art in Hanover, Masters degree under Prof. Peter Redeker, Germany
1983-1988 M.F.A. graphic arts design studies at the Academy of the Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia - Herzegovina

SOLO EXIBITION
2022 IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, ATELIERHAUS KAARZ
2021 THINGS DO NOT KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER, ATELIERHAUS KAARZ
2020 EPISODE, flz | SPACE #5, Lauterbach
2019 PARTS OF THE POSSIBLE, Kunstverein Paderborn
2014 Loreley, wolkenbank galerie, Rostock
2011 Kleine Windstille, wolkenbank galerie, Rostock
2009 Das Portrait der Linie, Kunstraum 22, Cologne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 ANONYMOUS DRAWERS, HYCP VEDDEL SPACE, Hamburg
- Material Thinking-1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, Tsinghua University & Haitian Sky Art Center, Qingdao, China
- Every day, never the same, ATELIERHAUS KAARZ
- ANONYMOUS ARTISTS 2022, Gallery in Körnerpark, Berlin
- Push & Pull – territories between land and sea, MECKLENBURGISCHES KÜNSTLERHAUS SCHLOSS PLÜSCHOW
- At home, Galerie wolkenbank kunst+räume, Projektraum Klein Warin
- das GRÜNE ZITAT/ Wild dreams, exhibition in the park of Kaarz Castle
2021 SPURENELEMENTE, scholarship holders of the Rostock-Kyoto Art Rainbow Project, Societät Rostock maritim e.V.
- TRIAL & ERROR, CIRCUS ONE, Putbus
- das GRÜNE ZITAT / Light or Shadow, exhibition in the park of Kaarz Castle
- SPACE SIGN, ART SPACE St. Georgen, Wismar
2020 das GRÜNE ZITAT / next to it, exhibition in the park ...