MIRJANA VODOPIJA (b. 1963) is visual artist who employs motifs from nature to problematize the notions of consciousness, identity and perception of time and space, often making use of different media: drawing, graphic art, photography, objects, installation, video installation and ambients.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1987 and has since exhibited in 42 solo exhibitions and participated in over 250 group exhibitions, curatorial concepts, artistic symposia, residential projects and professional training programmes around the world.
She is the recipient of 15 art awards, including the 1st Award at the 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Prague, 2001 (III. mezinárodní trienále grafiky, Praha), and the most recent include the Vladimir Nazor Award of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia (2020) and the Annual Award of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (2019) for her solo exhibition The Wandering Landscape, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2019.
Vodopija is a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of University of Zagreb where she has taught since 2007. She is also the author of numerous scenographies, set designs and visual identities for television shows, theater performances and concerts.
More important international exhibitions from 2000 onward include:
2024 SúnPoíēsis: From Ego- to Eco-Centrism through Art, Kunsthalle Trier
2021 ZAGABRIA, la città delle artiste, Museo Revoltella, Trieste
2019 WRO Media Art Biennale Human Aspect and Musica Electronica Nova Festival, National Forum of Music, Wroclaw
2018 Device_art festival 6.018: Machines Are Not Alone, MSU, Zagreb
2017 Comme les chutes d’eau déjà tremblent dedans la source, artistes de la collection, Espace arts plastiques Madeleine – Lambert, Venissieux, France
2015 In the Absence of Self, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2014 Structures of the invisible, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
2013 Zero Point of Meaning – Non-functional, Non-representational, Elementary, Experimental and Conceptual Photography in Croatia, Camera Austria, Graz
2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Echigo – Tsumari region, Japan
2007 Contemporary Croatian Art, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India / 2006 10. International Cairo Biennale, Kairo
2005 MATERIKA, Aspetti della scultura contemporanea tra Austria, Croazia, Italia e Slovenia, Castello di Gorizia, Gorizia, Italia
2005 Linear Structures, Drawing in Contemporary Croatian Art, Riga Gallery, Riga
2004 Exhibition of prize winners of the 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague
2001 8. International Cairo Biennale, Kairo.
Her works are included in the collections of major Croatian museums and galleries and private collections as well as some abroad, such as Print Inventory of the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Prints were realized during two one month residency projects in Tamarind Institute and Santa Fe Art Institute in Albuquerque: Connections (2002), and Re Connections, 2004).
Her work was written about by art theorists, in exhibition and project publications, books, domestic and foreign professional and art magazines, and in the cultural sections of numerous magazines, as well as in the daily press. An extensive monograph on her artistic work by art historian Branko Franceschi was published in 2004 by the publishing house Fraktura, Zaprešić.
www.jesenski-turk.hr/en/mirjana-vodopija-2004-ur-branko-franceschi-1
Other selected publications: Mirjana Vodopija:The Wandering Landscape,,, artistic project and exhibition publication, texts: Martina Munivrana (curator), Mirjana Vodopija, Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019 / Mirjana Vodopija: Irreversible, artistic project and exhibition publication, Mirjana Vodopija, texts: Janka Vukmir (curator), Mirjana Vodopija, Zagreb: Art Pavilion, 2013.
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