BIOGRAPHY

Marina Bauer (Zagreb, 1972) graduated in 1998 from the  Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. She has been exhibiting since 1994 at individual and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad and participates in art symposia and workshops. She is the author of several public ambient sculptures and installations and the winner of several awards for her work. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, she received her doctorate in the postgraduate doctoral study in sculpture on the topic "Body perception in the experience of a sculptural work".

She is the author of several public ambient installations - Tragovi, Delnice (2018); Habitat, Kornica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017); Reclining figure, Sculpture Park in Jakovlje (2007); Vrata, Montraker Sculpture Park in Vrsar (1994) and the sculptures Ancient Sleeper I, Ancient Sleeper II and Footprints within the LandArt - Park and Au Schloss Gleinstätten in Austria (2005). It was included in the Contemporary Croatian Sculpture exhibition, which was presented in Vienna, Berlin, Bratislava, Trieste, Budapest, Pécs, Ljubljana and Zagreb from 2009 to 2011.

Since 2002, she has been working as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb at the Sculpture and Teaching Departments, first as an assistant, and then as an assistant professor (since 2015). Since 2016, as an external associate, she has been teaching the elective course Introduction to the Psychology of Art, which she designed and launched together with psychologist Ph.D. Ivo Šverko. She is a member of HDLU, HZSU and the European Sculpture Network.

Since 2017, she has been the coordinator of the European Sculpture Network for Croatia and, as part of the projects of this international network, she organized a number of professional events in Zagreb, such as START'17 (Centar kulture Knap), START'18 (Gliptoteka HAZU) and START' 19 (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, round table Society starved of touch.).

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