Ana Sladetić was born in 1985 in Vukovar. She graduated in 2009 and in 2016 took a doctor’s from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She has taken part in more than 105 collective exhibitions and had 11 solo shows in Europe and elsewhere, including the Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2016; PRIX DACOS 2015, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liège, Belgium, 2016.; New Prints 2014 – Summer, Christie’s, New York, USA, 2014.; Ae...read more
Ana Sladetić was born in 1985 in Vukovar. She graduated in 2009 and in 2016 took a doctor’s from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She has taken part in more than 105 collective exhibitions and had 11 solo shows in Europe and elsewhere, including the Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2016; PRIX DACOS 2015, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liège, Belgium, 2016.; New Prints 2014 – Summer, Christie’s, New York, USA, 2014.; Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK, 2013. She has been awarded several prizes for her work, the most important being: Ex Aequo, 25th Slavonian Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek, 2016; 1st prize, Celebrated Originality, Adidas in association with the Museum of Street Art in Zagreb, 2010; Grand Prix of the 30th Young Artists Salon of HDLU, Zagreb, 2009. She has been on artists’ residences in Germany (Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; I-A-M, Berlin; Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden), Belgium (Frans Masareel Centrum, Kasterlee), France (Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris) and the USA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst; The Artist House, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland).
Nika Jurlin was born in 1990 in Brežice, Slovenia. She is currently in her final year of a course in physics at the Natural Science and Mathematics Faculty in Zagreb, after which she will take a post-graduate course at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of Groningen University, the Netherlands. She began to be interested in astrophysics at university, where with the mentorship of Associate professor Vernesa Smolčić she began a research career studying very distant galaxies. During her studies, she spent several months at the astronomical institute Astronomico di Bologna in Italy, at Oxford University, UK, and at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in France, where she worked on scientific projects from the domain of astrophysics, from optical to radio-astronomy.
