doc. art. Nikola Vrljić

He was born in 1980 in Zagreb, where he graduated from the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2007.
He has been exhibiting since 2003, and some of his recent exhibitions are The Siege of Oz (Bačva Gallery, HDLU House, Zagreb, 2021, Meštrović Gallery, Split, 2022, Božidar Jakac Gallery - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki, 2024) and Take Everything Life Gives You 2 (Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb, 2023).
He has been awarded several times in competitions for public works and monuments and has performed a dozen public sculptures.
He is the winner of the HDLU Award for the best exhibition in 2021 (The Siege of Oz).
He works as an assistant professor at the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

Through the media of sculpture and drawing, I explore the human condition and the role of man in society. Using classical disciplines such as modeling in clay or drawing on paper, through humor and (auto)irony, I try to react and comment on contemporary man. It always seemed clearest to me to communicate this through figuration.

Since we, humans, are our bodies, it seems quite natural to deal with our own image.

The subject Sculpture 1 consists of two teaching units:

1st semester modeling portraits according to a live model with the aim of getting to know the technique and interpretation of nature in sculptural or visual language.

2nd semester modeling by memory and imagination on the topic of portraits/heads with an emphasis on the introduction to the development of one's own sculptural or artistic expression.

Classes:

Sculpture 1,

Modeling optional