Artist Statement
When you think you can do great things, you do them, whatever they are. Perhaps we should sometimes pause in our struggle to create masterpieces. We should ask ourselves many questions and answer them with creations. All our works are on the way to becoming masterpieces. It is about never giving up and working. It is about progressing in our personality, in our lives and in our art. Reading, learning, traveling, listening to music, doing anything is a source of inspiration. I love to paint. I feel free to use my imagination. With it, is easy to create a story. When I paint, I want to express narrative.
My creation process starts with creating compositions. When I find myself in front of a blank paper with a brush or charcoal in hand then arises a relationship with the colors and drawing. Painting becomes a game where I follow my own, subconscious instructions, then form a battle with the colors and coping with myself. Most often I focus on movements, psychological states, facial expressions, experiences, figures and completing the entirety. Any day, any moment, any situation is something that is new and irretrievable. Something that happens all the time and never is the same and never could be the same. Such things as these moments and feelings I turn into an art form. I give them a new life, journey full of charms to each viewer to experience differently and in their own way.
Curriculum vitae
Profession : Artist
Date of Birth : 13.03.1994.
Nationality : Montenegrin
Contact Information : branka.art.markovic@gmail.com
Mobile : +382 69 821 349
Education:
2017 -2020 B.F.A. Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
2009 -2012 Painting Certificate, High School of Art "Petar Lubarda", Cetinje, Montenegro
Scholarships:
03.2020 - 07.2020 Erasmus + Mobility Program, École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine ÉSAL Metz-Épinal, 1 semester, France
09.2014 - 07.2016 Türkiye Burslari Program, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 4 semesters, Turkey
Exhibitions:
Solo
2012 “Branka, Cetinje-Belgrade I” Irish Pub, Podgorica
2013 “Branka, Cetinje-Belgrade II” Don Bosko Center, Podgorica
Group
2022 NordArt, Büdelsdorf
2021 Exhibition and art residency "škART REZIDENT", Tivat
2020 International Virtual Engravist Printmaking Biennial, Istanbul
2019 Exhibition of works by participants of the "Short Course of Cutting the Patriarchy" Center for Women's Rights, Podgorica
2018 30th Annual Student Exhibition - Petrovic Palace, Podgorica
2017,2019 Open Gallery Exhibition - Podgorica Art Festival, Podgorica
2017 EBRU Paintings - Yunus Emre Institute, Podgorica
2014 Florence-Shanghai International Prize Exhibition - Present Art Festival, Shanghai
2013 Milan Art&Events Center - Present Contemporary Art, Milan
2014 “First EX YU Biennale for the Best Drawings” – Memorial Gallery, Smederavska Palanka
2010-2018 20+ local and regional student exhibitions
Awards:
2014 Florence-Shanghai Prize, Present Art Festival, 2nd prize, Shanghai
2011 Slovak XI Biennial of Contemporary Art Alternatives, Diploma, Považská Bystrica
2011 KUM FEST Student Art Festival, mixed techniques, 2nd prize, Podgorica
Public Art - Mural painting
2019 Mural painting at the Secondary Vocational School in Cetinje
2019 150 m2 mural “Borka”, Podgorica
Publications:
Link 1: Outsider Art Magazine
https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1745537
Link 2: Interview in the international art magazine "ARTiculAtion".
https://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/articulaction_art_review_june_2014_/78
Link 3: Blog story about my second solo exhibition "Branka, Cetinje-Belgrade"
https://salezijanec.blogspot.com/2012/12/branka-cetinje-beograd.html
Link 4: Florence-Shanghai Prize, Present Art Festival
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qAcJtAwdcbqvwHZ_pKuDXUvejdM6DnSO/view
Volunteer Experience:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CueH1I7Blm2frjHshOzp-Rh2biMa1wKc/view?usp=sharing