Visual Art

As a young girl I used to pull back into my room to be drawing in peace. I was enchanted by the world that was appearing on paper, the world that seemed to have its own laws. I can recall the glowing of the blues and reds, and the details to which I dedicated all my sweet patience.

Later, when I landed on the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana I got dizzy when I realized what kind of a world I was getting into – a world painting – a world of visual parallel realities – a world of abstraction, purified of literal – a world of colourful and mysterious laws, which are best integrated when you allow yourself to fall prey to them. Since then I adore this dialog, this two-way giving and taking, which ends up with a painting, made through me, and yet alive on its own.

Painting is a game; it’s a privilege; it is sometimes lonely and even laborious work. Yet, it is, like every art, rewarded with irreplaceable gift of self-discovery, exploration of the unknown, mesmerizing worlds. Sometimes I’m really not sure – are the paintings here because of me, or am I here because of them?

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

• 1993 – Romantics, KUD F.Prešeren, Lj.
• 1995 – Findings, ŠKUC gallery, Lj.
• 1995 – Ending Space, Equrna gallery, Lj.
• 1995 – Ending Space 2, A+A gallery, Madrid, Spain
• 1996 – Heritage, Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana
• 2001 – Silk paintings, Hiša kulture v Pivki
• 2003 – Landscape – No Man's Land, Domžale gallery
• 2004 – Magmas, Ivan Grohar gallery, Škofja Loka
• 2006 – Darkness Over the Mediterranean, ZDSLU gallery, Ljubljana
• 2006 – Somewhere in Time, Kresija gallery, Lj.
• 2007 – Fleeting Life, Galerie Schloss Glarisegg, Bodensee, Svica
• 2008 – Fleeting Life II., Galerija Institut J. Stefan, Ljubljana

GROUP EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

• 1993 – Carpe Diem, galerija WTC, Lj.
• 1995 – The Biennal of Youth, Rijeka, Croatia
• 1997 – The Sublime and Romanticism in contemporary slovenian art, gal. Meduza, Koper
• 1998 – Opening of the A+A gallery, Venice, Italy
• 2000 – The sublime and romanticism..., Mestna galerija, Lj.
• 2001 – The Surreal Worlds, GLU, Slovenj Gradec
• 2002 – Less than 35, Rihard Jakopič gallery, Lj.
• 2004 – POP, Rihard Jakopič gallery, Lj.
• 2005 – Small format, Ivan Grohar gallery, Škofja Loka
• 2005 – Year 2005, Hest gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

ILLUSTRATIONS

• 1996 – Čebele iz Bachov, Pavle Zidar, založba 2000

SCENOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY

• 2004 – Gott im Quadrat, theatre performance, Zurich

REWARDS

• 1995 – Lions Club scholarship