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Artist Statement<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I make art because it enables me to express my real authentic self \u2013 my feelings, my imagination and thoughts as well as my visions about the society I would like to live in. My vision is to contribute to cultural diversity with my creative energy and inspire others to express their creative potential too. In this way everybody can participate in shaping a more tolerant, open and emphatic society of creative and responsible individuals. I see this goal as major purpose of art in general and of my art in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Anita Kontrec (born 1954, Zagreb, Croatia) moved to Cologne, Germany in 1989 short before the war in her country. Being herself a nomadic artist, the topic of migrations, cultural identity and communication have become a recurrent theme in her work. In cooperation with Museum Ludwig, Cologne, she dedicated her second solo exhibition in Cologne (\u201cEarth-War-Ashes\u201d ,1992) to the problem of refugees and devastation of cultural heritage. Having both academic and artistic background Anita Kontrec often combines the language of science and literature with the language of visual arts.
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In her exhibitions and art projects she is working interdisciplinary using different media of visual arts (conceptual works with text, sculpture, painting, installation and performance) to express her artistic vision. Her vision is to use art as means of communication which is beyond ideology, communication which treats cultural diversity as enrichment and not as source of conflict in the society. Her most recent project \u2013 \u201cHouses and Dreams\u201d has started in 2017 and has been shown in Venice ( in context of 57th Biennale Venezia), London (Dulwich College), Paris (Cite international des arts) and in some other European cities. After her retrospective in Zagreb in 2016 Anita Kontrec moved back to her home town but continues with her artistic career in Europe and USA. She had her first solo exhibition in USA in John David Mooney Foundation in Chicago in 2019.
\nArt is for me an act of freedom to articulate my personal as well as collective experience, memory and vision by means of visual art: sculpture, painting, installation and performance. In my art projects, talks and workshops my recurrent topics since mid 90s are migrations, communication and questions of personal and cultural identity. I am convinced that authentic works of art do have an impact on personal and social life. Art does make a difference. My goal as visual artist is to make this difference visible. <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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