hrvatski

Bio

Born 1965 in Zagreb, Croatia.  Lives in France since 1989.

 

Graduated at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb,1987

Graduated at the Art Department (DNSAP) of the École des Beaux Arts in Lyon, 1992

 

Along with her artwork exploring light and spatial perception, she practices literary translation, writing, and poetry publishing (L'Ollave editions)

Exhibitions

2016

Galerie Denise René (Paris, FR) - Transparences

 

2015

Un lieu une oeuvre (Menerbes, FR) - Penrose Stars

Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, HR) - Croatian contemporary art - T-com annual exhibition

 

2014

Kubus Galerie (Hannover, DE) -  French Connection (with Antje Smollich)

Galerija Klovićevi Dvori (Zagreb, HR) - Structures of the invisible

Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence, FR) - Structures of the invisible

 

2013

Ackenbush (Paris/Malakoff) - Accrocher lumière

Gradska galerija (Osijek, HR) - Diffractions 2

 

2012

Maison de Brian (Simiane la Rotonde, FR) - Microevents

Atelieri Žitnjak (Zagreb, HR) - Diffractions

 

2011

Atelier visuel (Apt, FR) - States of Listening

Un lieu une oeuvre (Menerbes, FR) - Permeable Limits

Artmandat (Barjols, FR) - From one State Another

 

 

 

 

 

2010

Galerija Kranjčar (Zagreb, HR) - Matter of Sight

 

2009

Artboretum (Argenton sur Creuse, FR) - Dots and Debris

 

2008

CEA - Comissariat à l'énergie atomique (Cadarache, FR) -Transition

 

2007

Université des lettres (Nice, FR) - Before the Word

 

2004

L'Atrappe-couleurs (Lyon, FR) - Glimpse

Galerie Ucher (Cologne, DE) - Durch das Echo

 

2003

Galerie Annie Lagier (L'Isle sur la Sorgue, FR) - Reflexions

Galeria Miejska (Wrocław, PL) and Galeria Krzysztofory (Kraków, PL) - Spread

 

2002

Galerie Pignon Nord (Strasbourg, FR) - Crossing

Galerija Otok (Dubrovnik, HR) - Spyglasses

Galerie Ucher (Cologne, DE) - Shapes of Junction

 

2001

Galerija Klovićevi dvori (Zagreb, HR) - Between

Galerie Koma (Mons, BE)  - Dazzled Eye

 

 

 

2000

Galerija Klub Ghetto (Split, HR) - Ramifications

 

1999

Galerija PM (Zagreb, HR) - Inaudible Steps

 

1997

Tate Gallery St Yves (St Yves, UK) - A Quality of Light

Galerie Ollave (Lyon, FR) - Diverted Walls

 

1995

Galerie Lydie Rekow (Crest, FR) - Limits

Venice Biennale, Croatian pavillion (Venice, IT)

 

1994

Galerie Koma (Mons, BE) - Red Light

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, PL) - Painting Installation

Galerija Karas (Zagreb, HR) - Inside / Outside

 

1993

Galerie l'Ollave (Lyon, FR) - Curved Space

 

1991

École Nationale des Beaux Arts (Lyon, FR)  - Four Installations

Galerie l'Ollave (Lyon, FR) - Standing Paintings

 

1989

Galerija SC (Zagreb, HR) - Paintings

Curated exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects

2014

Structures of the Invisible – artworks based on light, space, movement, related to scientific forms or concepts. International project gathering nine artists and five scientists (physics / mathematics).

Exhibitions in Klovićevi dvori gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, and the Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, France. Conférences, collaborations, debates.

Catalogue tracing dialogues between artists and scientists, with artworks from the exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

2011

States of Listening / Getting Far From the Noise to Hear – creations on dark matter : poetry, performance, painting, installation. Discussion with a physicist specialised in research of dark matter in Laboratoire de Bas Bruit Rustrel. Short essays.

Exhibition in Atelier Art visuel FB, Apt, France.

Publication with all works (pubished by la Ville d'Apt) .

 

2010

Matter of Sight – crossing views on Martina Kramer's artworks, including poets, physicists, a sociologist, a dancer, a writer, a biologist, and other artists.

Exhibition, conferences and debates – in Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, Croatia

Publication with essays and artworks. (published by Gallery Kranjčar)

2004

Un morceau d'air – three conversations about the invisible (with artists and a physicist)

artists residency, meetings, exhibition in Atelier expérimental residency Clans, Nice, France and a book (published in 2005, L'Ollave editions)

Residencies and stays

2011 - Montréal, CA - three months

2008 - Zagreb, HR - three months

2007 - Barcelone, ES - two months

2006 - Paris, FR - one month

2005 - Koppelo, FI - Inari Artist Residency, one month

2004 - Clans, FR - L'Atelier Experimental, one month

2004 - Buenos Aires, AR - two months

2002 - London, UK - Gaswork Artists Studios, two months

1999 - Ligurie, IT - Atelier privé, six months

1998 - Dublin, IE - Fire Station Artists Studios, five months

1993 - Sablons, FR - Moly Sabata résidence d'artistes, two months

Permanent installations - public commissions

2002

Ramifications - Installation à London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, GB

Special projects

2008

Transitions, quand la peinture fait signe à la physique

Comissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre de Cadarache, FR, Bibliothèque scientifique

 

Avant le mot

Exposition à l'Université de Nice, FR

2006

Points sensibles

Installation à O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, PT

 

2004

Portraits

Installation à la vitrine du Plaqu'Art, Apt, FR

© Martina Kramer, 2014

martinakramer@orange.fr

photographs: Jean de Breyne, Jacques Huissoud, Martina Kramer, Fedor Vučemilović (pour Galerija Karas), Boris Cvjetanović (pour Galerija Klovićevi dvori); site realisation: Darko Kramer