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 person...

Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb (Master of Sculpture, degree)

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 Projec...