doc. art. Marina Bauer

She was born in Zagreb in 1972. She graduated in 1998 from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2023 she received her PhD with the topic "Body Perception in the Experience of a Sculptural Work". He has been exhibiting since the mid-1990s at solo and group exhibitions and participates in sculpture symposiums and art projects in Croatia and abroad. His works include "Memories II", included in the traveling exhibition of the Ministry of Culture Contemporary Croatian Sculpture in 2009, "Introverts", awarded at the XII. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2015, "Digging", created in the program Contemporary Artists in the Permanent Exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019 (and now part of the permanent exhibition of the Ružić Gallery in Slavonski Brod) and the intermedia work "Performance that is touched" (co-authored with Z. Šimičić Mihanović), awarded at the XIV. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2022. She is the author of several public ambient sculptures and installations, among which the sculptures "Sleepers" set up as part of the project LandArt - Park und Au Schloss Gleinstätten in Austria stand out. From 2002 to 2016, she taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the Department of Sculpture and Teaching (external associate, assistant, assistant professor). Since 2016, she has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts as an external associate, on the elective course Introduction to the Psychology of Art, which she initiated together with psychologist dr.sc. Iva Šverko. She has presented her joint and independent research of the creative process and the experience of a work of art at several psychological and scientific-artistic conferences and symposia (XIX and XX Days of Psychology, 22. Days of Ramir and Zoran Bujas, ACE 2020, Artfulness 2023, CA2RE of the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb 2023, Thesaurus of Sculpture - Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec 2023). Since 2019, she has been collaborating with dance artist Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović on interdisciplinary projects (co-authored work "Performance that is touched", collaboration on the project "Good Water" and the Somahut festival) and the design and implementation of tactile-kinesthetic workshops that they conduct with marginalized social groups in collaboration with the Typhlological Museum and the Zagreb City Museum.

In her artistic work, she pays special attention to the embodied experience of a work of art. Her work is characterized by a shift away from the question of formal design of an object towards the design of appropriate methods for communication with visitors, which she tries to include actively, i.e. interactively, in her works. She designs and shapes sculptural installations with which she carefully builds a tactile and kinesthetic experience in visitors, and explores the themes of embodied experience and the functioning of the body as a cognitive apparatus through focus groups at her exhibitions.

The course Introduction to the Psychology of Art deals with topics related to understanding the process of creating and experiencing art (motivation, creative process, perception, artistic experience). The course is based on the collaboration of psychologist Iva Šverko and visual artist Marina Bauer, who approach these topics each with their own knowledge and experience, encouraging students to think and discuss.

2025 – "Body Perception in Sculpture", presentation at the symposium Thesaurus of Sculpture of the Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec, article in the Annals of the GAA – "Bodily Perception in the Experience of a Sculptural Work", doctoral thesis – "Tactile Metaphors", ambient sculptural installation, Gallery 90-60-90, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb 2019 – "Digging", interactive sculpture, MUO, Zagreb; Ružić Gallery, Slavonski Brod – "A Performance That Touches", co-authored with Z. Šimičić Mihanović (performances at the Academy of Fine Arts in Jabukovac, XIV Triennial of Croatian Sculpture and Somahut Festival) – "Introverts", interactive installation, ZILIK Gallery, Karlovac; MH Gallery, Zagreb; XII. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture 2005 – "Sleepers", LandArt - Park und Au Schloss Gleinstätten, Austria – "Memories II", interactive installation, Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Hall, Zagreb; Kazamat Gallery, Osijek; St. Chrysogonus Gallery, Šibenik; Stadtmuseum, Graz, Austria