Mia Maraković

Mia Maraković



About The Artist


CV Mia Maraković was born on September 23rd 1990 in Zagreb. 2011 she enrolled in the undergraduate studies at the Art Education department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she graduated in 2014, earning a bachelor's degree in art education. She enrolled in the Master studies in the same year. So far she has had four solo exhibitions in Osijek, 2011 (OKO GALLERY) , Zagreb, 2016 (ACADEMIA MODERNA) in Zagreb, 2017 (GALLERY PIKTO) in Zagreb, 2017 (LAUBA) and has participated in over thirty group exhibitions in Zagreb, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Đurđevac, Samobor, Varaždin and Zaprešić. Of these, especially notable are the 33rd Salon of Young Artists (Zagreb), Osten Drawings Biennale (Skopje, 2014 and 2016), November Salon of Visual Arts (Serbia), Student International Art Biennial – SIAB (Skopje), Erste Fragments 12 (Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb), Neki Studenti ALU (Pikto, Zagreb), Passionic Heritage (Josip Račić Modern Gallery, Zagreb), FROM-TO; Amputation of the Non-Identity (Đurđevac City Museum, Đurđevac), New Amputations: The Living Dream (Đurđevac City Museum, Đurđevac), Paper Based Design (PM Gallery, HDLU), Slikomon (Đurđevac City Museum, Đurđevac). In 2016, she was presented with the Rector's Award for her „Life Beneath the Sun“ project. In 2017, she won a special award within „Student International Art Biennal“ , Skopje, Macedonia. Her works are part of about twenty private and several gallery collections (World Gallery of Drawings, Skopje), and as part of the „Erste Fragments 12“ project, hers was one of the bought off pieces. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists. She manages children's art workshops in Zagreb, Rovinj (Mare Center), Srebrenica (Cesvi Association and the Srebrenica Youth Centre), Potočari (children's boarding school Srebrenica and the Leptir Association of Parents of Handicapped Children and Youth), Construction School Čakovec, and the workshops at the Faculty of Law, social studies 2016. She created two pieces of temporary intervention art in 2016; „The Tree of Plenty“ and „The Tunnel of Good Wishes.“ Solo exhibitions - 2011 - Gallery "OKO", Osijek - 2016 - Academia Moderna, „Structures of reality“, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - Gallery Pikto, „Circles without divider“ , Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 – Showroom – LAUBA – „Oblici u nastajanju“, Zagreb, Croatia Group exhibitions - 2014 - „Media in a different way“ , A scientific university campus, Zagreb, Croatia - 2014 - „ Passionate heritage“ , Gallery „Kristofor Stanković“ , Zagreb, Croatia - 2014 -„Fire“ , Gallery Trenutak.39 , Zagreb - 2014 – Third Festival of art labels- Art walk, Cest is d' best, Zagreb, Croatia - 2014 - Sixth international festival of art flags, Cest is d' best, Zagreb, Croatia - 2014 - „Miniatures“ , Vršilnica, Zaprešić - 2014 - „Osten biennale od drawings“ , World gallery of drawings, Skopje, Macedonia - 2014 - „Contemporary interpretations oft he First World War“ , GMV Salon of palace Sermage, Varaždin, Croatia - 2014 - „HARVEST.abundance“ , Gallery Trenutak.39, Zagreb, Croatia - 2014 - „November art salon of visual art“, City gallery of associated artists and applied artists, Kraljevo, Serbia - 2014 - „Watercolor on the scaffold“, Museum of „Matija Skurjeni“, Zaprešić, Croatia - 2015- „From-In :Amputation without identity “ , Museum of city Đurđevac, Đurđevac, Croatia - 2015 - „Our land“, Gallery Prica, Samobor, Croatia - 2015 - „Paper based design“ , Gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia - 2015 - „ Slikomon“, Museum of city Đurđevac, Đurđevac, Croatia - 2015 – „Pictograms“, Gallery Galurija, Zagreb, Croatia - 2015 - „ On the first line of health“, Institute fot Health Culture, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „New amputations: Living dream“ , Museum of city Đurđevac, Đurđevac, Croatia -2016 – Passionate heritage, Modern gallery of Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „Erste fragments 12“; Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - “ A book about health culture“ Institute fot Health Culture, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „Some students of ALU“ , Gallery Pikto, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „Osten biennale of drawings“ , World gallery of drawings, Skopje, Macedonia - 2016 - „Fragmentologija 2/1“ , Gallery Živi atelje, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - “ Thirty-third salon of youth – BILL“ , Meštrović's pavilion, Hdlu, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „ Fragmentologija“ , Gallery „Art smiles“, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „ART pullover“ , Gallery Pikto, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - „Student International Art Biennial – Eight. SIAB“ , Skopje, Macedonia - 2017 - „From- In 3 – Without identity“ , Gallery Greta ,Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - „ Books for watching: books for reading“ , Gallery Šira, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - „In the world of arti-Communication and exchange of ideas“, Gallery Šira, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - „Black box project: Fall into the future“ , Mikser festival, Belgrad, Serbia - 2017 - „Ready made Ilica“ , Gallery Art garage Kamba“ , Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - „ Sketchbook station“, A map that travels the world - 2017 - „Differences“ , Gallery Stella Skopal, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 – Gifest, Subotica, Serbia Art colonies - Rovinj, Croatia, 2014 - Vis, Croatia, 2014 - Zaprešić, Croatia, 2014 - Gusakovec, Zabok, Croatia, 2016 - Oroslavlje, Croatia, 2016 - Plemenitaš, Gorski Kotar, Croatia, 2016 Prizes: - 2016 – Rectors prize, University of Zagreb - 2017 – Special prize within „Student international art biennale VIII“ , Skopje, Macedonia Realization oft he project: - 2016 - „Life beneath the sun“ in cooperation with Youth Center, Srebrenica, Bosnia Head of art workshops for children: -2015 - Cesvi, Srebrenica, Bosnia -2015 - Internat for children of Srebrenice, Potočari, Bosnia - 2015. Godina – Association of disabled children and youth – Butterfly, Potočari, Bosnia - 2015 - Center Mare, Rovinj, Croatia - 2015 – Library „Medvedgrad“, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - Youth center, Srebrenica, Bosnia - 2016 – Construction high school Čakovec , Croatia Head of art workshops for adults: - 2016 – Faculty of Law-direction of social work, Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 – Faculty of Law- direction of social work, Zagreb, Croatia Public installations - 2016 - „The Tree of plenty“ , Artistic urban installations; Zagreb, Croatia - 2016 - „The tunnel of good wishes“ – public installations, Zagreb, Croatia Murals - 2015 - Painting public panels, Maksimir, Croatia - 2016 - oslikavanje the hospital Rebro , Zagreb, Croatia - 2017 - Painting a sports center “ Ivo Petranović“, Nova Gradiška, Croatia - 2017 - Organizing and painting public panels, Maksimir ,Zagreb, Croatia Other activities: - 2013 – „Music tracks“ Setting a stage at the Concert hall Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb, Croatia -2014 – assistance to Jean Guy Lecat in the setup a scenography for show „ Petar Pan“, The Zagreb Youth Theater, Zagreb, Croatia