Location: Museum of Fine Arts (Ulica kralja Tomislava 15)

Date: July 9 - August 23, 2026

In her new cycle of works presented under the exhibition title Atelier+, the young Osijek-based sculptor Josipa Stojanović identifies as her central thematic axis the relationships between body, material, and space, positioning the exhibition itself as the materialisation of that inquiry. In parallel with this theoretical strand, her artistic research employs experimental sculptural methods, focusing not only on strict formal concerns but also the interdisciplinary interpretations of medium. One such method is the collection and mapping of soil samples from geographically distinct areas of comparable geological character, particularly those rich in clay, a process which, in her own words, “will allow me to connect the material, cultural, and symbolic layers of a space and to explore how material becomes a witness to history and movement.” A second mode of working-artistic cartography, closely related to the first, involves the transposition of one space into another. In this instance, the dimensions of the artist’s studio are reconstituted within the exhibition gallery as a spatial drawing, its contours rendered in clay at the scale of the sculptor’s working environment.

Josipa Stojanović was born in 1993. She graduated from the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. Since 2018, she has been working at the Academy as an assistant in the field of sculpture. She is a recipient of the University Scholarship and the Rector's Award, as well as the Ljevaonica Art Prize for her work "Self-Portrait" at the 34th Salon of Young Artists. She is an active member of HDLU Osijek, has participated in art residencies and Erasmus+ programs in Austria, Hungary, and Jordan. She has had five solo exhibitions and more than fifteen group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. In 2023, she was a finalist for the Golden Lubenica Award in Pula for her work "Nedoumica" (in collaboration with Marijo Stojanović).

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