Martina Vrbljanin
Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia
About Martina Vrbljanin
I am a sculptor and medal maker from Croatia. My artwork focuses on people and their perception of themselves. The different versions of seeing yourself and seeing other people, several variants of displaying the inner state.
Fine plastics have a more personal relation with the observer. The possibility to take an artwork in your hands, feel it and connect with it is much more natural and significant. The most fulfilling part of art projects is working in clay. Making something completely new, by using just your hands is a special privilege only artists can experience.
In my work everything is based on drawings, therefore I tend to recreate it in an expanse drawing. For the illusion of brush strokes or thick pen lines I use wool and different thicknesses of threads with a sculptural association, creating a see-through 3D graphic installation. The monumentality of installations always interested me. The basic idea to create a piece in the exhibition room, only for the purpose of one space, makes the whole project unique.
Although I have a love for installations my current occupation is the interpretation of the human perception of themselves through figurative a small plastics. My tendencies lay in the visualizations of a persons view in the mirror. Expressing the viewers reflection I try to focus them, not only on the fisical, but the emotional part of the mirror in front of them.
Education:
Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb (Master of Sculpture, degree)
Events:
2016
• Workshop for medal manufacturing at the Croatian Monetary Institute Ltd. Of the Croatian National Bank, Sveta Nedelja, Croatia
• Collaboration with the Faculty of Tourism in Brežicah and the Zagreb Tourist Board in purpose of a tourism based research for the University of Maribor Slovenia, in: Brežicah Slovenia, Zagreb Croatia, Novi Sad Serbia
• Casting bronze workshop at the Art Foundry of the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2015
• GLOBAL ART CENTER Art residency Lanaken, Belgium
• 4th Sand sculpture festival (winner of the 1st place), Lopar, Croatia
• Casting bronze workshop at the Art Foundry of the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2014
• Scenography for a Television company "TV Student". Cooperation with the Faculty of Political Science Zagreb
• Scenography for a concert „ Music tracks: BAROQUE / JAZZ " Concert Hall Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb, Croatia
• Medal making workshop Varaždins mint Sorlini, City Museum Varaždin, Croatia
• Casting bronze workshop at the Art Foundry of the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2013
• Ceramic Art Colony "Hinko Juhn", Našice, Croatia
• Medal making workshop within the exhibition Croatian Triennial of medals and small scale sculpture, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
• 1st Sand sculpture festival (winner of the 1st place), Lopar, Croatia
2010
• Moulding art Colony, Plemenitaš, Croatia
Exhibitions:
2016
• Museum of Croatian Zagorje, Gallery of Antuna Augustinčić, Klanjec, Croatia (solo exhibition)
• XXXIV Fidem Art Medal Congress – Ghent, Belgium
• "XII. Memorial Ivo Kerdić - Trienniale of Croatian medallic art and fine sculpture", Gallery of Fine Arts Osijek, Croatia
• "Contemporary Croatian medal" Modern Gallery Studio "Josip Racic", Zagreb, Croatia
• 19. International exhibition of „Miniatures” New Courts Zaprešić / Vršilnica, Croatia.
• International medallic project „Civilization“
• „ International exhibition of miniatures in Kursalon“ Kursalon Lipik, Museum of Pakrac City
• „OUT-IN : Amputation of un-identity (New amputations)“ Museum of City Đurđevc, Đurđevac, Croatia
2015
• 18. International exhibition of „Miniatures” New Courts, Zaprešić / Vršilnica, Croatia.
• International medallic project „Heritage“
• AKT-FAKT Gallery Galurija, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
• ArtiParti vol.4. Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
2014
• International medallic project „Bonds“
• 17. International exhibition of „Miniatures” New Courts, Zaprešić / Vršilnica, Croatia. House gallery of Đure Jakšića, Beograd, Serbia. Culture centre (Art salon) Novi Sad, Serbia.
2013
• International Medallic Project "Freedom"
• XI. Ivo Kerdić Memorial - Triennial of Croatian medallic art and fine sculpture, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
• Biennial of mosaic, Gallery Bruketa 2, Gallery Garbas, Maritime and History Museum of Croatian coast, Rijeka. The cellars of Diocletian's Palace, Art Gallery, Split. Amphitheatre Gallery, Pula. Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2012
• “Neue Kroatische Kunst 3” Gallery AKC Medika, Zagreb, Croatia
2011
• “Park in a park” (public sculpture), Žumberak, Croatia
