Marina Bauer graduated in 1998 from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.

She has been active on the art scene since the mid-1990s. From 2002 to 2016 she taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the Department of Sculpture and the Department of Art Education.

Since 2016 she has taught the course Introduction to the Psychology of Art at the same academy as an external lecturer. She is preparing a doctoral thesis titled “Bodily Perception in the Experience of a Sculptural Work”.

She has created several public site-specific installations: Tragovi (Traces), Delnice (2018); Stanište (Habitat), Kornica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017); Ležeća figura (Reclining Figure), Jakovlje Sculpture Park (2007); Vrata (Door), Montraker Sculpture Park in Vrsar (1994); and the sculptures Praspavač I, Praspavač II (Primordial Sleeper I and II) and Stope (Footprints) for LandArt – Park und Au Schloss Gleinstätten in Austria (2005).

She was selected for the travelling exhibition “Contemporary Croatian Sculpture”, organised by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and shown in several European cities (2009–2011). In 2015 she received an award at the 12th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture for her multimedia sculptural installation Introverti (Introverts).

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian coordinator of the European network Sculpture Network.