Zana Luna Bajic

photo by: Slavko Čizmić | Slobodna Dalmacija

ŽANA BAJIĆ

Born 15.12.1961. in Kotor
Higher education Assenza Art Academy
Member of HDLU Split (Croatian Association of Visual Artists)
Founder and president of Croatian Artist Association “Nanael”
Exhibited at numerous independent and group exhibitions in the country and abroad

INDEPENDENT EXHIBITIONS IN CROATIA

  • 2005. European Movement, Split
  • 2008. Gallery of the Conservation Institute, Split
  • 2009. City Museum, Imotski
  • 2009. Milesi Palace, (HAZU) Split
  • 2012. Exhibition at the International Children’s Festival, Šibenik
  • 2014. Exhibition in the library of Marko Marulić
  • 2015. Exhibition on the Marco Polo ship as part of the premiere screening of the film “The Blue Cage”, Split
  • 2016. Exhibition at the Marko Marulić library in Split as part of the opening of the World Literature Festival
  • 2020. Prokultura Peristil Split
  • 2021. Exhibition in the library of Marko Marulić

INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

  • 2007. Museum of Literature and Theater Arts – Sarajevo
  • 2007. Bashimi Art gallery – Salzburg
  • 2008. Cultural Center, Gallery “Buća” – Tivat 
  • 2005. “IL DUOMO INCONTRA L’ARTE – Milano
  • 2008. “IMAGINARY JOURNEYS”-An Exibition of International Art – Ferara
  • 2011. Cultural Center Gallery “Buća” – Tivat 
  • 2017. Center for Fine Arts, GUARNERIUS Gallery of violinist Jovan Kolundžija, Belgrade
  • 2017. MAHAR-Budva, KATHARSIS SEFARDICA

2010. As creative director, she organizes the Native American festival RED ROCK & CRAFTS FESTIVAL in Split (founded by the Croatian-American Society, Zagreb). As part of the festival, she brings musician Melanie Stormm (performed at the inauguration of President Obama) to Split and organizes her concert at the Youth Theater with guest Goran Karan.

In 2011, she brought two directors, Chris Eyre (member of the jury of the Sundance Film Festival) and Niles Diamond, to the Academy of Arts in Split, where they held a lecture. In the same year, she brought Ann Filemyr, dean of the Academy of Arts in Santa Fee, as part of the festival.

In 2011, she brought Tom Jones, a photographer, director and lecturer at the Department of Photography at the University of Wisconsin, as well as Patsy Phillips, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, at the Institute of American Indian Art in Washington, to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split.

In 2008, she founded and started the multimedia project “We speak a universal language”, which was held in Tivat with the ambition to merge different cultures and traditions and find harmony in unity.

As part of the same project, in 2014 she published a children’s song book titled ” Pjesma moja, boja tvoja (My song, your color)” as a cultural link, illustrated by children from kindergartens “Flower of the Mediterranean” in Split and “Joy” from Kotor. The two became friend-kindergartens through this project. The promotion of the book was held in Split at the Youth Theater through musical performances adapted from the book itself.

She is the producer of two documentaries:

  • 2011.“CROATIAN RHAPSODY-MAKSIM MRVICA” (duration 54 ′) – a documentary about our eminent pianist. (Along with the film, she painted an opus of paintings inspired by Maksim’s music). The film was shown last year on HTV2.
  • 2015.“MODRI KAVEZ (THE BLUE CAGE)” (duration 95′), a documentary about seafaring and the lives of seafarers