Tanja Zupančič (b. 1985) is a visual artist exploring the space between reality and perception. Her paintings are quiet thresholds. Invitations to slow down, question what we see and notice what might exist beyond the visible. They are also a way of remembering what is already here.

With a background in art therapy, her practice is embodied and guided by attention before language. She works primarily with natural pigments, made from crushed rock and earth. Form and color emerge through presence rather than concept.

Nature is both teacher and companion. It offers another way of seeing. One in which reality is not fixed, but constantly changing, depending on where we stand and how we look. It also reveals a way of being in which nothing resists its own existence.

Her paintings move between the recognisable and the imagined. They invite the viewer into a space that feels familiar yet slightly other.

Her work has been exhibited in India, where she lived for almost a decade – a period that deeply informed her relationship to material and perception.

She currently lives and works in Slovenia.

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

2019 - Selected participant, Ravnikar Gallery Space 1:1 Mentorship Programme, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2019 - Solo exhibition, Hrepenenja, BARKavarna.net, Ankaran, Slovenija

2018 - Selected artist, Displate Art Collection, original poster designs published by Displate

2017 - Solo exhibition, Babas, Bunti, Palolem, Goa, India

2016 - Art Therapy & Painting Training with Meera Hashimoto, Amallura Centre, Artzentales, Spain

2014 - Solo exhibition, Postcards from Goa, Zest, Patnem, Goa, India