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Ekarasa Mara Doblanovic
Ekarasa Doblanovic is a Italian/Croatian-born, New Zealand artist. Graduated in 2014 with Master Degree (Honours) in Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, NZ. Her creative practice encompasses painting and installation with collaborative and participatory projects "Imagine the Land", working across New Zealand and Australia as well as internationally. “Tocca la terra” at the MACRO ASILO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome was one of her latest major collaborative work, was a finalist at The Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy and most recently produced a number of intergenerational projects in west Auckland including a mural on Age Concern building in Avondale and “Whanui” in conjunction with Auckland Arts Festival.
Doblanovic’s works embody a strong sense of materiality in which the tactile and haptic quality of colour and organic earth materials heighten the sensation and affect of colour and its material nature. She uses pure pigments and fabricates her own colours to activate a consideration of colour in its truest state as the primary voice of her works. Additionally, her work investigates the collaborative and participatory and social practices where notions of space, ecology, impermanence and human interactions are explored with the aim to create an empathetic interaction between people, art and nature.
Solo exhibitions/projects
2020 Intergenerational collaborative paintings and pen pal project, Green Bay, Auckland, NZ
2019-2020 Avondale Intergenerational Tile mural project and Whau Arts Festival
2018 Whanui, Auckland Arts Festival, an intergenerational project in conjunction with Lynfield College and Age Concern, Auckland, NZ
2016 Oneone , Te Uru Contemprary art Gallery (Learning Centre) Auckland, NZ
2016 Modulated, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2015 Chroma, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2014 Chroma, St Paul St Gallery Three. AUT Auckland, NZ
2012 Big Blue, solo painting exhibition, Wallace Morrinsville Gallery , Morrinsville NZ
2007 Cycles Small Dog Gallery, Devonport Auckland, NZ
1999 Utisci, Photo Art Gallery "Batana", Rovinj, Croatia
1996 Gallery "Ronz" Roc, Croatia
Collaborative exhibitions
2021 Molly Morphet Canaday, Whakatane, NZ
2020 Mairangi Arts Centre, Tutors annual show, Auckland, NZ
2020 Studio One Toi Tu, Tutors annual show, Auckland, NZ
2019 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award Finalist. Auckland, NZ
2019 13th Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, Venice, Italy
2019 Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, NZ
2019 “Out of the box” Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2016 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards Finalist in the Travelling Show
2015 Molly Morphet Canaday Art Award, Whakatane, NZ
2014 AUT Grad Show, St Paul st Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2013 Trasforming Topographies Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery ,NZ
2014 Glaistor Ennor MA Graduate Award Exhibition, Sanderson Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2008 Ethnicity, Upstairs Gallery, Titirangi, NZ
2003 Mundial Photofestival, Museum Rovinj, Croatia
2001 Mundial Photofestival, Museum Rovinj, Croatia
2000 Mundial Photofestival, Museum Rovinj, Croatia
1998 Gallery San Tommaso with Association "Block" Rovinj, Croatia
1998 Saloon of Photography, Osijek, Croatia
1996 International of Photography F.K. Maribor, Slovenija
1996 International of Photography, Pieve di Soligo (Treviso), Italy
Imagine the Land participatory projects
2019 Tocca la terra/Imagine the Land participatory art installation at MACRO ASILO Ambiente #2 Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
2019 13th Arte Laguna Prize Finalist, Venice, Italy
2018 Whanui, Auckland Arts Festival, an intergenerational project in conjunction with Lynfield College and Age Concern, Auckland, NZ
2016 Oneone , Te Uru Contemprary art Gallery (Learning Centre) Auckland, NZ
2014 Rebirth Day Project, in collaboration with Third Paradise by Michelangelo Pistoletto Woodford Folk Festival,Brisbane, AUS
2013 La Rosa Park daylighting project, Auckland, NZ
2013 What Lies Beneath, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland NZ
2012 Nelson Rhythms, Evolve Festival, Nelson NZ
2011 Death and Diversity, Museum of City and Sea, Wellington NZ
2012 Global Elders Gathering ,Cairns, AUS
2011 Earth Rhythms/ Rebirth Day Project in collaboration with Third Paradise by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Wallace Morrinsville Gallery, NZ
2011 Sky Above, Earth Below, Waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Hamilton NZ
2011 Kaipara Sculpture Park, Auckland NZ
2011 E-Scape, Waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Hamilton, NZ
2010 Papatuanuku, Pacifica Grandmothers Council, Auckland, NZ
2010 TINA Art Festival, Newcastle, AUS
2009 Weaving the Circle, The Fringe Festival, Wellington, NZ
Ambassador for the Terzo Paradiso - Rebirth-day in collaboration with Michelangelo Pistoletto Imagine the Land Project has been presented in:
2019 Rebirth Day annual event at MACRO ASILO Contemporary Art Gallery Rome, Italy
2019 The Rebirth Day Forum- Art and Social impact, MACRO ASILO 2018 Third Paradise- Terzo Paradiso YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
2017 The Forum Rebirth Geografias de la transformacion. Havana, Cuba, Exhibition of Terzo Paradiso ambassadors projects.
2013 Third Paradise & the Rebirth Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Michelangelo Pistoletto’s; Year 1: Earthly Paradise.
2013 The Rebirth-day soiree at the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Artist residencies
2015 Group Matters Module-Unidee-The University of Ideas, Cittadellarte, Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2013 Lines in the Sand, Artist Residency, Imagine the land, Strandbroke Island,AU
Publications
2015 Bhoomi, The Living Soil, Published by Navdanya/Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology India
2012 Michelangelo Pistoletto. “Année 1, la paradis sur terre” Published by Musee de Louvre, France
Collections
Sir James Wallace Collection, New Zealand
AUT , Auckland University of Technology, Auckland,NZ