Lena Kramarić
Artist
Lena Kramarić was born in Zagreb in 1982. After completing the School of Applied Arts and Design she enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (Department for Education, Section for Painting), where she graduated in 2008 and continued as a PhD student of painting. She completed a two-year education for a practitioner of expressive art therapy in 2020. She is a member of The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) and of The Croatian Association of Independent Artists (HZSU) and the leader of the artist organisation Geniator. Besides her artistic practice, she has worked as an art history teacher, designed and ran numerous art workshops, practiced graphic design, illustration and interior design. She’s currently living and working in Dubrovnik.
Selected solo and group shows and projects: 6th Days of Creative Cultural Industries 2019: Opening Space, installation; drawings solo show in Luža; multimedia project ‘How it is better to be a cat in Dubrovnik’, Art workshop Lazareti; ‘Lena Kramarić (35)’, Sebastian Gallery, Dubrovnik; ‘Reading Diary’ at Marin Držić House; ‘Atelieria - Open Studio’ Sebastian Gallery, Dubrovnik; multimedia project ‘Between Us, Art workshop Lazareti; ‘At the Beginning for the End’, Croatian Diaspora Organisation, Dubrovnik; ‘Works’, Exhibition spaces DPDS; ‘Almost Perfect * Lena Kramarić’, Gallery Sol+Luna; ‘New Structures and Other Conditions’, St Clara’s Monastery; ‘Seven’, Studio for Contemporary Art Let 777; ‘Design in Croatia Expo’, Luža; ‘Strategies of Survival’, Luža; ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Prijeko Palace; ‘What I Was Doing This Year’, Gallery Flora; ‘Rose, Yellow, Gray - A Look from Within’, Sebastian Gallery; ‘Dubrovnik Art Moment’, Art Gallery Dubrovnik; Art Zagreb, Technical Museum Nikola Tesla; 'InDesign Festival of Modern Home', Arena Zagreb; ‘Irresponsible’, ZPC; ‘Luxury’ Academia Moderna & ARL; ‘Boiling point’, Meeting contemporary painting; 45th Zagreb Salon, performance ‘How Much a Work of Art is Worth’, HDLU, Zagreb; solo show 'Selected Works 2016-2019', EGA: Frauen im Zentrum, Vienna, Austria; 'Croatia National Day', Fortress Builders,Valletta, Malta; ‘Croatia Collection’ Fabiana Milazzo & Lena Kramarić, São Paulo, Brazil; ‘Outdoor Walls’, AU Vienna and Steiner Gallery, Ega Frauen*Kunst Art Award 2017 i 2018, EGA Vienna,; Leupold Gallery, Germany; AAF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Milan, Italy; Amstel Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; AcquestArte, Ascona, Switzerland; 4th Croatian International Self-Portrait Triennial 'Notion of Self’, Prica Gallery, POU Samobor; ‘Prostor3’, Salon Galić, Split, Prica Gallery, Samobor and Razvid Gallery, Zaprešić; ‘Interzone-City’, video ‘Closer’, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica.
Lena Kramarić – "Erasing-Rewind", mixed media on canvas, 60x80cm, 2019
Lena Kramarić is known for her introspective and self-referential work that explores the outer world with regard to her inner world, relating the motives of real and unreal, factual, imaginary and subconscious in narrative scenes that leave room for viewer’s individual interpretation. Female figures are always present, as the motif of the painting at first glance, yet the second, more thorough look reveals them as a means to create an atmosphere, bringing the information and stimuli from the outer world on the canvas. Artistic expression is a way for the author to prevail over the own conditions and build own personal and artistic identity through the exploration of the unexplored. The painting "Erasing-Rewind" in its simplicity turns to be a powerful symbol of conscious and unconscious pursuits. It is a combination of the past (the dark part behind the back), present (the central part with the figure of a woman) and future (the area in front of the figure).
