Marina Bauer - Finding Balance

In the Studio of Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec, the exhibition Marina Bauer: Finding Balance has opened and will last until 8 April 2024.

Marina Bauer was born on 6 January 1972 in Zagreb. After completing a secondary school in her home city, in 1998 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, at the University of Zagreb. In 2023 she received a PhD degree from the same Academy for her thesis entitled “Bodily Perception in the Experience of a Work of Sculpture”.

She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions since the mid-1990s and participated in sculpture symposiums and art projects in Croatia and abroad. Her artistic work is characterised by consistency in the development of methods of kinaesthetic and tactile experience of works of art as well as a distance from the principle of formal object modelling.

Her works include a number of installations. Prominent among them are Memories I and Memories II, which have been exhibited in four solo exhibitions and a number of group ones; Introverts, for which she received an award at the XII Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2015; Delving, designed in 2019 as part of the program “Contemporary Artists in the Permanent Exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb”; an intermedia work A Tangible Performance (co-authored with dance artist Z. Šimičić Mihanović), for which she received an award at the XIV Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2022; and a 2021 experiential project entitled Sculpture in Online Format. Marina Bauer was selected as one of the authors whose works were included in the Contemporary Croatian Sculpture travelling exhibition, which was organised by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and staged in a number of European cities in the period between 2009 and 2011.

Bauer has created a number of public ambient sculptures and installations, most notably Gaia (Fingers) (2022) in Dubrova sculpture park near Labin, Door (1994) in Vrsar’s Montraker sculpture park, and Ancient Sleepers (2005) displayed as part of the LandArt – Park und Au Schloss Gleinstätten project in Austria. In the period between 2002 and 2016 she taught sculpting as a lecturer at the Department of Sculpture and the Department of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb University. Since 2016 she has been teaching the “Introduction to the Psychology of Art” course as a part-time lecturer at the Academy. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists, Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association, and European Sculpture Network.