Anita Kapraljevic

Pepsi Generation

2010

Drawing is the path in which Anita Kapraljevic subconsciously encounter new image ideas. Another approach of finding image motives, is through research in art history. In Anita Kapraljevic paintings, the overlapping of signs, times and spaces is somewhat inspired by dreams. She works with a layering technique in which color is laid out and my style merges figuration and abstraction. New ideas emerging from a seemingly arbitrary combination of different contents: found pictorial materials, inspiration from reading ,experiencing and dreaming. Every new place, that Anita Kapraljevic work in, influences her creative process in ways that are unpredictable. From the experience and its processing, new images and ideas emerge for presentation. She work in the media drawing, painting, social sculpture and happening. In painting, she focus on figuration, portraying and the unconscious side of the human psyche. In order to broaden the boundaries of painting and make them tangible for others in their creative process, she merge performance and painting. For example, she portrayed the visitors of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in a copy of the "Last Judgment" by Hironymus Bosch 2012 and 2014. Anita Kapraljevic has developed a Multimedia Performance for the closing of the Festival of Literature and Urbanisam in devided City of Europe „Re-writing the Map“ which took place 2019 in Literarisches Colloquium Berlin - a founding program of the german goverment for culture Projekts in Berlin - the Performance under the Titel „Nothing comes closer“ was a audiovisuel allegory of humans lives marked by borders and conflicts with a glimp of hope for possible reconciliation. The piece showed painting as a process highlighting it‘s performativ potential a prominent aspect in other collaborative works of the Artist. Working with Anita Kapraljevic, she is passionate about her work, Open for dialogue and skilled enough to realize her unique and creative way. Bomb Gallery is an international artist collective founded by Anita Kapraljevic, Aleksandar Nesic and Friederike Ruff as social sculpture. 2014 they organize exhibitions in a bombed out building in Mostar Bosnia Herzegowina. 2015 Bomb Gallery take place in Dubrovnik Lazarete with exibitions and representative shows in Berlin. Anita Kapraljevic is born in Mostar and lives in Berlin. She studied in Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences for Art Therapyand Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with Peter Chevalier and Christian Jankowski, Institut of Social Research project of California Collage of Arts San Francisco and Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart by Christian Jankowski and Brian Conley, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna by Daniel Richter and China Academy of Art Hangzhou. She was represented in Group Shows in Europe, USA and Solo Show in Germany.