Dobrajc Tina
Tina Dobrajc - Silence Is The Color Pink
233 cm x 187 cm
2021
Tina Dobrajc (1984) is an artist who devotes her painting practice to the issue of environmental protection and questions of geopolitics, burning issue of identities and social labelling in relation to the position of women in modern society. The bases of her works are imaginary forest scenes, which in their mystery allude to the images of the Alpine foothills and the Škofja Loka region. Instantaneously recognisable are the author’s female protagonists, who are in the foreground in her older works, while in the context of the newer production, these are slightly reduced and placed into the background for the sake of anonymity, adorned by different masks. By depicting local iconography as well as national and folklore symbols, Dobrajc refers to folk mythology, cultural identity, and issues of social gender, thereby commenting on the contemporary socio-political situation in an extremely critical, dark, yet dreamlike manner. Most of her paintings are created with acrylic on canvas, and her impressive oeuvre also includes performance, video, the use of textiles, theatre set design and literary illustrations.
Tina Dobrajc - Prejšnjo zimo sem doma postala nevidno dekle (Last Winter at Home I Became so Invisible Girl)
270 cm x 180 cm
2019
Biography
Tina Dobrajc graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2007. In 2011, she obtained her master’s degree in painting under the mentorship of Herman Gvardjančič. The artist’s works are part of public collections, and are housed, among other locations, in the Loka Museum, the Nova Gorica City Art Gallery, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML), Miklova Hiša Gallery, Velenje Gallery, and the Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec. She has showcased her works at solo exhibitions, including in the Equrna Gallery (2015), Božidar Jakac Gallery in the monastery’s church (2017), KiBela Gallery in Maribor (2018), Kresija Gallery (2020), Nova Gorica City Art Gallery (2020), Miklova Hiša Gallery in Ribnica (2022). Dobrajc also participated in several group exhibitions; Beautiful painting is behind us, UGM (2012), Biennale of Young Artists ArtExYu, Centre for Modern Arts in Podgorica, Montenegro (2018), Time Without Innocence at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana (2019), Returning the Gaze in Cukrarna (2022), Monsters are People in the Nova Gorica City Art Gallery (2022), Art Stays (2023), Roški kvartir, the Art salon Kočevje (2023), Figuralika in Cukrarna (2023). Dobrajc lives and works in Škofja Loka.
Tina Dobrajc - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
20 cm x 20 cm
2022
Tina Dobrajc - Art of Violence
40 cm x 50 cm
2021
Exhibitions
Tina Dobrajc - Owls Are Not What They Seem
Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica
10 February — 13 April, 2022
Tina Dobrajc - I’m an Animal, Trapped in Your Hot Concrete
Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana
29 June — 1 September, 2020
Tina Dobrajc - PUSSY RIOT
Galerija Ravne, Ravne na Koroškem
21 August — 18 October, 2019
Tina Dobrajc - Big Girls Don't Cry
Galerija Božidar Jakac - Samostanska cerkev in novi prostori
19 May — 10 September, 2017
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Tina Dobrajc - Državni sovražnik (Enemy of the State)
152 cm x 190 cm
2019
Tina Dobrajc - Vešča sem, ki si želi tvoje svetlobe (I am a Moth. Who Just Wants to Share Your Light)
118 cm x 188 cm
2020
Awards & recognitions
2016
Plaketa Hinka Smrekarja
Plaketa Hinka Smrekarja za ilustratorski projekt: Kurent, MK
Ljubljana
Delovna štipendija Ministrstva za kulturo
Prejemnica delovne štipendije Ministrstva za kulturo na področju vizualnih umetnosti za projekt Velika Dekleta ne jočejo/Big Girls don't cry
Ljubljana
2015
Priznanje Riharda Jakopiča
Priznanje Riharda Jakopiča za mlade umetnike
Ljubljana
2011
ESSL Art Award Nomination
Nominiranka za nagrado ESSL art award
Ljubljana
