Dekorativni detalj

Siniša Majkus, HRV

(Rijeka, 1962)

Born in Rijeka in 1962. He graduated in 1989 from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, in the class of Miroslav Šutej. He began exhibiting as a student in 1984. He has received several awards, most notably the 2nd prize at the Biennial of Young Mediterranean Artists in Rijeka (1995), an award at the 6th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture (1997) and the 1st prize at Grisia in Rovinj (1999). In 2004 he received the Vladimir Nazor Annual Award for visual and applied arts.

In 2001 he joined the Fine Arts programme at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. He helped create the programme of the Department of Drawing at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, where he has taught since it was founded and holds the rank of full professor.

His work has been shown in exhibitions of contemporary Croatian art in Europe and around the world – in Valencia, Beijing, Cairo, Lisbon, New Delhi, Berlin, Budapest, Prague and elsewhere. He has created public sculptures and permanent museum displays in Split, Krapina, Šibenik, Zagreb, Jakovlje, Pula, Roč, Opatija and other places. He is a contemporary sculptor who uses metal wire to create sculptures that work like drawings in space. He lives and works in Matulji.

Title: The Chimney
Year: 2021
Location: Vinež, Krvova placa