biography
Solo Exhibitions:
1992: "Fruits and Vegetables", VN Gallery, Zagreb
1993: "I am buying it all", Studio Forum Gallery, Zagreb
1994: " Grapes" , NONA Gallery, Zagreb
1995: " Sweet things", Karas Gallery Salon, Zagreb
1998: "Out of Landscape" CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb
2000: "Out of Landscape", Atelier Lučko, Lučko
2001: "Beyond Consciousness", SC Gallery, Zagreb
2002: "Out of Landscape", Koprivnica Gallery, Koprivnica
2003: "Beyond Consciousness", Kristofor Stanković Gallery, Zagreb
2005: "Beyond Consciousness", Izidor Kršnjavi Salon, Zagreb
2006: " Mandala", Zlati Ajngel, Varaždin
2006: " Stranded", Lapidarium of Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia
2007: " Mandala", HAZU Glyptotheque, Zagreb
2007: " Mandala", Zilik Gallery, Karlovac
2014: " Half a Life", Faculty of Teacher Education Gallery, Zagreb
2015: Femininology, Kristofor Stanković Gallery (with Anita Parlov and Emilija Duparova)
2015: " Half a Life", Bačva Gallery, Mestrovich pavilion, Zagreb
2025: "Mapping Paris Emotionally", Cite des Arts Internationales, Paris, France
2025: "Unspoken words", The Muisca Gallery, Paris, France
Antonija Balić Šimrak was born on August 24, 1969 in Patna, India. Since 1976, she has been living in Zagreb. In 1983. she enrolled in the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb after that she graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1992 at the Sculpture department. In 2017 she defended a doctoral dissertation titled Soft Sculpture and its Anthropomorphical Transformationat the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. Since 2009 she has been employed at the Faculty of Teacher Education at the University of Zagreb, first as an assistant professor and since October 2013 as an associate professor.
She has exhibited at fifteen independent and numerous group exhibitions both at home and abroad, winning several awards and recognitions for her art work. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rijeka, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Koprivnica Museum, Art Gallery of the City of Slavonski Brod, City Assembly of Zagreb, Collection of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Bozidar Jakac Gallery in Kostanjevica on Krka (Slovenia). She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists and Croatian Association of Researchers in Children's Literature.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1991: "Art Youth for Croatia," Karas Gallery Studio, Zagreb
- "First Time Together - Second Time," Spektar Gallery, concept by Ivo Šimat Banov
- Exhibition of ALU Students' Works, VN Gallery
- IV Croatian Sculpture Triennial, HAZU Glyptotheque, Zagreb
1992: "ALU Students for Croatia," Gradec MGC, Zagreb
- ALU Students Exhibition, SC Gallery, Zagreb
- XXXI Annale, People's University Poreč
- XXIII Youth Salon
1993: Drawing Salon, HAZU Graphics Cabinet, Zagreb
1994: XXXII Annale, People's University Poreč
- V Croatian Sculpture Triennial, HAZU Glyptotheque
1996: Frankfurter Hof, Mainz, Germany
1997: VI Croatian Sculpture Triennial, HAZU Glyptotheque
1998: Burgstein, Austria
2000: VII Croatian Sculpture Triennial, HAZU Glyptotheque
- "Return to the Culture of Ceramic Thinking," Izidor Kršnjavi Salon, Zagreb
- "LOBOL" Art Colony, Bol, Brač Island
2003: 9th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
- "Ceramics Plus," Izidor Kršnjavi Salon, Zagreb
- "Ceramics Sisak 1700," Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb
2004: "Open Studios Day," A-Z Gallery, Zagreb
- "Earth," Studio Gallery, Zagreb
2006: "Format," Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
- "Graphics from A-Z," HAZU Graphics Cabinet, Zagreb
2007: Participants' Exhibition, 34th Zilik, Zilik Gallery, Karlovac
- 28th Zagreb Salon, HDLU House, Zagreb
2009: "The Price of Art," Žitnjak Atelier Gallery, Zagreb
- Art Symposium Exhibition, ECNSI Congress, Zadar, Zadar Glass Museum
2013: "My Hlapić," Faculty of Teacher Education Gallery, Zagreb
2016: International Exhibition of Visual Artists - University Professors, Čakovec Cultural Center
- "Life is Beautiful," Wagrain Art Colony, Wagrain, Austria
2018: 13th Croatian Sculpture Triennial, HAZU Glyptotheque
2020: 55th Zagreb Salon of Applied Arts
2021: Group Exhibition "Femininology," Škrlovec Tower Gallery, Kranj, Slovenia
- Group Exhibition with Danijel Žabčić, Boyd Gallery, Lovran
2022: World Literature Festival, "Artists & Literature" Exhibition
2024. - "From the periphery to the center", Ateliers Žitnjak – Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb
2025. -"Self-portrait of apupett", ULUPUH Gallery, Zagreb
- "Daddy's building blocks", Chocolate Museum, in collaboration with ULUPUH, Zagreb
- "Terra Incognita 2025", Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Sućuraj, Hvar
- "Hour, Year, 100 Years", Salon of Sermage Palace, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin
- 60TH ZAGREB SALON, Choreography for the final line, HDLU, Zagreb
- 15TH Triennial Of Croatian Sculpture, MSU and HAZU Glyptotheque, Zagreb
- "Christmasgiving", Church of St. Leopold Mandić, Zagreb, HULULK