Trobić Vanja – Towards the Sun

Vanja was bom in Zagreb in 1987. She graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and became a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) in 2012. She has exhibited her works in ten individual shows and participated in several group shows, festivals and painting workshops, including the Second Biennial of Painting 2013, where she was one of the ten artists invited by an expert jury, Miniprint exhibition in Finland, Fountain Art Fair in New York and the exhibition Young Croatian Art in Neuelsenbuig in Germany in 2014. She has been an associate of the Street Art Museum (Zagreb) since 2010 and is an author of about a dozen murals in the public spaces of Zagreb, Pula and Rijeka. From 2010 to 2013 Vanjawas a co-oiganiser and moderator of the drawing workshop C.R.TA In November 2012 she stayed in Kiev (Ukraine) as a participant of the Residential Artistic Programme organised by the Croatian Association of Artists. Some of her works belong to Erste Bank collection, Arts Gallery of SlavonskiBrod, as well as several private collections in Croatia and abroad. She is also a member of the Croatian Association of Artists and Art Critics (HULULK). Vanja lives and works in Zagreb. She is primarily a painter, although she is attracted to other visual artistic media. Her paintings are constructed of apparitions and personal myths, focusing on spirituality and the relationship between man and nature.