Petra Grozaj holds a degree in Painting and Education from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, as well as from the School of Apllied Arts and Design, Zagreb. She won a Rector’s Prize of Zagreb University, Award of Academy of Fine Arts and Grand of ‘Croatia- House Foundation’, Goethe Institut Kroatien, IFA Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, and others. She has been exhibiting since 1999. and has had many solo and group exhibitions. She represented Croatia at Biennial of Young Artists BJCEM in Naples, was at Residences Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, Glogau AIR Berlin, One Sided-Story Spinnerei Leipzig, where she had a studio on and off from 2012. until 2019. and De/ Construction of painting Hafenkombinat also in Leipzig. She exhibited at Kunslerhaus Bethanien, Spinnerei and Westpol Leipzig, Museum of Contemporary art Zagreb, Kunsthaus Graz. Her paintings are part of museums, galleries and private collections in Croatia and internationally.

“My work is mainly focused on personal and sometimes general experiences from near and wider surroundings. I usually connect things to myself so the work is mirroring contemporary life and society that we live in, and it’s also medium for reflection of situations, relations and introspection from particular ironic view.
My interest is transition and change, at one side, and constant repetition of everything at the other side. I use images of portraits as starting point, that i find the most reflective for certain thing I want to express. After base plan and sketch, my interest is on process of painting, where things are forming in its own way, combined with specificall symbols and surrealism.”