Estera Mihaela Peruzović

Estera Mihaela Peruzović was born in Zagreb in 1998. In 2021, she completed her undergraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under the mentorship of academician Igor Rončević. In 2022, she graduated from the class of Professor Duje Jurić and earned the title of Master of Painting. She is a graduate of the Zagreb School of Economics and Management’s specialist professional MBA program in Management. She participated in an international exchange at the Luiss Business School in Rome, where she refined her knowledge in the field of cultural management. In 2019, she took part in a workshop as part of the Edo Murtić Days event in Velika Pisanica under the guidance of academician Zlatko Keser. As part of the ACADEMY ON THE GO project, she completed a workshop for acquiring managerial and entrepreneurial competencies for students – Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries, held by Simona Goldstein. In collaboration with the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, she designed and realized the set design for four music shows and a theater play. She created the visual solution for the University of Zagreb School of Medicine's poster for the international conference BFHA2020 and designed the poster for the concert "Cijepljenje sve u 16," part of the "Think of Others, Get Vaccinated" campaign organized by the Croatian Institute of Public Health and the University of Zagreb. In 2023, she led an art workshop on the occasion of 100 years of organized tourism in Bol. She served as an expert associate in the organization and execution of the Josip Botteri Dini retrospective exhibition at the Branislav Dešković Gallery in 2023, and the RETROSPECTIVE – JOSIP BOTTERI DINI at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, the Old City Hall, and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Split in 2024. Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Mostar, the Gallery of Small Formats in Bol, the Slavonski Brod Art Gallery, and in public spaces—most notably the work Zdravi bili (To Your Health) at the Clinical Hospital Center Split—as well as in numerous private and public collections. She exhibits her works at the Botteri Ateliers in Bol and Split.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 · Vissi d’Arte, Gallery of Small Formats · Bol

2024 · Croatian Reading Room Bol

2025 · Vladimir Bužančić Gallery · Zagreb

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 · 2018 · Art Colony Grude · Gorica – Sovići (BiH)

2017 / 2022 · Final Student Exhibitions · Academy of Fine Arts · Zagreb

2018 · Art Colony „Vitez“ · Ovnak Gallery · Vitez (BiH)

2019 · Križevci-Vugrovec Art Statutes · Križevci City Museum

2022 · 42nd Convocation of the Watercolor Colony „Sava“ · Ružić Gallery · Art Gallery of the City of Slavonski Brod

2023 · „Maranatha”, HULULK exhibition · Gallery of the Green and Blue Sesvete Association · Zagreb

2024 · „HULULK 10“ · ARTCeRZe Gallery · Zagreb

2024 · „Lux aeterna“ · Exhibition space of the Pastoral Center of the Parish of St. Leopold Bogdan Mandić · Zagreb

2024 · Exhibition on the occasion of International Women's Day at the residence of the Norwegian Embassy · Zagreb

Excerpt from the text by Stanko Špoljarić

The core idea of Estera's painterly world grows from a realistic treatment of the figure which, in the actualization of the creative process, is "liberated" through the persuasiveness of a freer expressionist stylistics, "irradiated" by the flicker and eruption of the emotional. The painterly frames are designed with a dynamic balance, but also with a symmetrical arrangement across a range of perspectives. Views from above, openings toward the depths, the approaching of the foreground, concentrating on a fragment, emphasizing spatial breadth... Beauty, life, art are concepts of self-sufficient, magnificent meaning, simultaneously forming the strength of an unbreakable unity. They are woven with their naturalness and supernaturalness into the layers of well-known Latin maxims – “Ars longa, vita brevis” and the one directed toward the transcendental: “Ars longa, vita aeterna”.