Tanja Perišić (HR)

Tanja Perišić was born in 1982 in Split. In 2006 she graduated from the Academy of fine arts in Zagreb, sculpture department. She exhibited her works at several collective and individual exhibitions in Croatia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Turkey and the USA. In 2003 she was granted student scholarship in Belgium and the USA, in 2007 Kultur Kontakt's residency scholarship for Vienna and in 2008, Donumente, Regensburg. She was also awarded Rector's prize in 2005 and the prize of the Academy of fine arts, Zagreb in 2006. She lives and works as a freelance artist in Zagreb. Her light installations are based on contextual research of perception and experience deriving from correlation between body and space. She uses her works to explore ways in which combination of light, form, proportions and social impulses shapes our physical perception, mental understanding and emotional experience of space.