Marta Katavić:

little marta

 Opening: March 4, 2024, at 7:00 PM at Lauba

The exhibition runs from March 4 to March 13.

 

Lauba continues with the “Pass it On” project, giving young artists, students, the opportunity to exhibit their works in the gallery. It’s a series of pop-up exhibitions that alternate in a dynamic rhythm. The game begins when the artists whose exhibition is set up choose the next author themselves, and after five exhibitions, Lauba selects one artist, and so on in a circle.

The first artist in this year’s cycle of the “Pass it On” platform is Marta Katavić, nominated by Katarina Kocijan.

Marta Katavić finds inspiration for her works in childhood memories. By reliving moments from the past, when memories turned into a “living picture” of that distant day, the artist had the opportunity to feel parts of her childhood again. She found a cassette with a recording of one of those moments and spent hours “chewing” that memory, observing it from different perspectives. However, she realized that the memory is just that – a memory. No matter how much she observed it, it remained trapped in the past. Still, a strong surge of energy welled up inside her, pushing her towards painting. In this way, she relived memories, materialized them, and ultimately captured them in the present.

The artist, with her smudges, breaks the solid constructs of figuration, always seeming to hide the true motive just beneath them. Beneath her childhood monologue and a few skilled facial expressions, there stood little Marta who wanted to say something – that something is now spoken through the works of painter Marta, and without prejudice, using colors and brushstrokes. The alternating game of painting something familiar, like a face and expression, and something abstract, and intuitive, opens up an area for the artist where she accepts things as they are and includes the new, as it could be.

 

BIOGRAPHY
Marta Katavić was born on December 26, 2000, in Križevci, where she completed the general program at Ivana Zakmardija Dijankovečki High School. She published a children’s picture book “Heavenly Factory” in 2015, and 2019 she began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she later enrolled in the graduate program in painting in Matko Vekić’s class. During her studies, she participated in several group exhibitions in Belgrade, Karlovac, Križevci, Rijeka, San Luis Potosi, Slavonski Brod, Zlatar, and Zagreb. In the academic years 2019/2020 and 2021/2022, she received praise for her successful work at the Academy, and in 2023 she received the Rector’s Award and the Audience Award as part of the “Erste Fragments 19” competition.

 

Exhibition Hours:
MON-FRI 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM
SAT 11:00 AM – 05:00 PM
SUN closed

The entrance is free of charge.