Sebastijan Dračić was born in 1980 in Zagreb where he graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. So far he has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Croatia, Austria, Germany, Poland, China, Italy). His works belong to a number of museums, galleries, private and corporate art collections in Croatia and abroad. He has been awarded several times for his work so far. He works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Sebastijan Dračić has imposed himself with his work to-date as one of the most significant and interesting representatives of his generation and the Croatian art scene. His artistic expression is characterized by unique painterly precision, great care for details, studiousness, true creativity, outstanding talent. He is best known for his monumental figurative oil paintings, depicted in rich colour, presented some mystical, enigmatic atmosphere almost on the boundary between the reality and illusion. As the artist himself once said: “My paintings depict a world that exists on the edge of dream and reality.”
In his art works different topics run from empty interiors, depictions of destroyed and abandoned architecture, different landscapes, green forests to mystical scenes. Through the medium of painting, Dračić quite suggestively speaks of everything that surrounds us, of the relationship between civilisation and nature, he is concerned with the state of the present-day civilization, nature and its cycles as well as about the future of the our planet. In all the complexity and splendour of his talent, on his magically beautiful paintings he would let everyone see what they want or can see.
2018. “Paintings”, Gallery Zlati Ajngel, Varaždin
2015. “Unseen”, Greta Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. “No limit”, Winarts Gallery & Zen Contemporary Art Gallery, La Biblioteca Umanistica, Milano, Italy
2014. “Gray”, Kranjcar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. “The beginning and the end of the world”, Marisall Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2010. “Every man for himself”, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. “8 X 8”, SC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. “Interiors”, Vladimir Filakovac Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Selected group exhibitions
2019. “Iconography of the city”, Modern Gallery, Zagreb
2019. “Art Today”, Zen Contemporary Art Gallery / Art Salon Zagreb
2019. 5.th Biennial of painting, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2019. “Landscape spaces”, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb
2019. “Let them eat cookies?”, Art Pavillion, Zagreb
2018. 18. triennale of Croatian paintings, Kneževa Palača, Zadar
2016. “Junge kunst aus Kroatien”, Galerie Maringer, St. Polten, Austria
2016. “(re)thinking Space&Place”, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Germany
2016. “Exporting Zagreb”, National Museum Gdansk, Poland
2015. “Silences”, NHOW, Milano, Italy
2015. 3. Biennale of Painting, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. “Nepokorena šuma i Radovan Ivšić”, Museum of Contemporary art Zagreb, Croatia
2015. “2nd CEE Countries Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China
2014. “Better than reality”, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia
2014. “Have a heART”, Kranjcar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. “Danube dialogues”, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014. Erste Fragmenti Ten Editions, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2014. T-HT Award, Museum of contemporary art Zagreb, Croatia
2013. 53. Annale “Art must be beautiful”, Istrian assembly Hall, Poreč, Croatia
2013. 2nd Biennale of Painting, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. “Only a number”, Museum Lytke Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2013. Apathy, Klović Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. Apathy, Museum of contemporary art Istria, Pula, Croatia
2013. One sided story, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. Boilling point 2, Zagreb, Croatia
2013. Rundgang, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2012. 31th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. “The Other Reality: Croatian emerging painters”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2011. 1st Biennale of Painting, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2011. “Tertium organum”, St Donat, Zadar, Croatia
2011. T-HT Award, Museum of contemporary art Zagreb, Croatia
2010. “Tu smo 2” Museum of contemporary art Istria, Pula, Croatia
2010. 30th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2010. 45th Zagreb Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2010. “I Avoid Places Where I’m Expected”, Galženica Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2009. “Grenzenlos”, Exhibition for the 20th anniversary of KulturKontakt Austria, Museum of Modern and Contemporary art Rijeka, Croatia
2009. Croatian selection for 14. Biennale of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Museum of modern and contemporary art Rijeka, Croatia
2009. 14 th Biennale of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean, National Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia
2009. “A tribute to the Baroque”, 49 th annale, Istrian assembly Hall, Poreč, Croatia
2009. Artists in Residence 2009, ArtPoint Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2008. “New fragments 5”, Barrel Gallery, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2008. “New fragments 5”, Museum of modern and contemporary art, Rijeka, Croatia
2008. “Tu smo” Museum of contemporary art Istra, Pula, Croatia
2008. “Nemam karticu za bodove” WHW Start, Nova Gallery, Zagreb,Croatia
Artist-in-residence program
2012. “One-sided Story”, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2009. KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria
Grants
2012. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Art Fairs
2015. Affordable Art Fair, Milano, Zen Contemporary Art Gallery