Suzana Brborović (b. 1988) is an insightful young artist, winning two prestigious awards while still just a student: the ESSL Award for young artists from Central and South-East Europe in 2011 and the Student Prešeren Award in 2012.
In 2013, Brborović graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana; this year she begins a two-year postgraduate program at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig, where she now lives and works. Her work is included in the collections of the Essl Museum and the Božidar Jakac Gallery. Over the past three years her art has also been featured in several solo and group shows. Her more prominent solo showings include Saturation Limit at the Alkatraz Gallery, Distortion at the Meduza Gallery, andReflected Shift at the Bežigrad Gallery 1. This year she also took part in the group show Contemporary Slovenian Painting (First Generations in the 3rd Millennium).
Brborović's point of departure is the everyday: she paints scaffolding, timberwork, and bricks, alluding to documentary photographs of building sites she's found in family photo albums. As a member of a generation that was early on introduced to the rude reality of the economic crisis she's well aware of what it means to be an artist today, and understands the importance of a range of critical social issues and the problems inherent in modern urbanization.
