the first prize at Celebrate Originality - Adidas in cooperation with the Museum of Street Art (Zagreb, 2010) and the Grand Prix at the 30th Youth Salon (Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Zagreb, 2009). She has held a series of public lectures and workshops in cooperation with domestic and foreign cultural institutions, museums and galleries. Her further education also includes artistic residencies in Germany, Belgium, France, Finland and the USA. She is an assistant professor at the Academy for Arts and Culture of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek.

Woven patterns

Ana Sladetić

Ana Sladetić was born in 1985 in Vukovar. She graduated in 2009 from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, where she also defended her doctoral thesis in 2016 under the mentorship of full-time professor Ante Rašić and associate professor Leonida Kovač. She participated at numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and beyond. She has received a number of awards for her work, among others the one given by Gallery Kranjčar at the 35th Youth Salon (Zagreb, 2020), the prize for the best exhibit at the World Youth Art Festival (Seoul, South Korea, 2017), ex aequo at the 25th Slavonian Biennale (Museum of Visual Arts in Osijek, 2016),

"Woven under the skin – invisible woven patterns, transferred, recognised."

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson

"The recognition of behavioural patterns and modes of reaction is woven into our skin pores during our lives – with an invisible thread."

"Growing up is a constituent part of our lives. Observing a situation from a different perspective develops logical thinking, and thus also reasoning, which is necessary for overcoming the permanence and impossibility of change."

"What we feel is often not the reality which surrounds us. It is difficult to work on recognition and alternation of patterns we possess."

"My aim was to make an artwork by separating "me" (an older me – who observes realistically) and "me" (a pattern of a younger me - who I return to). The essence of the video is a trip to China, which I recorded in 2011, where the virus originated and which resulted in the isolation that initiated my growing up."

"Instagram story deleted by GIF. Instagram story has a 24-hour form, one day, i.e. one cycle. Since I perceive my work as a virtual event, a form of a video and Instagram format, I finish the story by "deleting" and "cleaning" the mental filter."