About Hanna Dujmović

Hanna Dujmovic (1994) is an academic painter and sculptor based in Sarajevo and Belgrade (Balkans). During her artistic career she received many recognitions and awards for her work. Her works have a record of more than twenty group and several solo exhibitions around the world - USA, UK, Japan, Serbia, BiH.In October of this year, she created a spectacular collaboration with a colleague at the exhibition "Two painters - One love", which was visited by more than 600 ppl on the opening night. Her works are present in more than 400 private collections around the globe and she is known for one of the bestselling artists from Balkans. Interesting thing is that she is an ambidextrous so she can paint with both hands. 

ARTIST STATEMENT: The works of Hanna Dujmovć introduce us to a new dimension of life on earth. Through fluttering and dancing patterns, she gives lightness to the compositions. Artist focuses on the woman as a motif that has been very present throughout the history of painting, but mostly in the sense of beauty. As a somewhat younger artist who has previously perfected sculpture according to her academic vocation, Hanna incorporates many elements sculptural in her painting inspired by one of those key themes in the history of art: a it is the primal nature, beauty and strength of the Woman. Starting with late 19th century art that is brought a renewed interest in works of art inspired by sensual imagery of female heroines and anti-heroines (for symbolists mythological and fatal, for impressionists trapped in intimate scenes from everyday life or sunny afternoons at the Moulin de la Galette, and in the oils of painters such as Monet, Degas, Lautrec or Gauguin, women are depicted in somewhat more provocative spectrum of roles that they occupied in the then still repressive and dominant patriarchal society: from tired ballerinas, dancers and cabaret girls, to celebrated courtesans, decadent muses and notorious "queens of the night"), a construct of what male painters were attempting presented under the "concept of women in art" begins to change. Undoubtedly, that transformation contributes to the presence of some colossal female authors in the literature and art of the late 19th and early 19th century half of the 20th century in Europe and America. It is enough to mention artists such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Rosa Bonheur, Camille Claudel, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka or Hilma af Klint, to make the originality and spaciousness of a new landscape clear which began to be born in painting and other spheres of visual arts. Since art is always in a certain way, a dramatic "reflection, allegory and anastasis" of the inner and outer life itself authors, the life stories of these artists are especially fascinating, and often deeply moving women who created at one time the destruction of the "old world", but also the birth of a completely different one a future before which everyone felt a bit of that fear or apprehension. Therefore, the works of modernity the arts that women gave us are often marked by that dramatic intersection between deeply intimate and personal representation of the inner world, and the desire to open to charms the outside world, its beauties, adventures, loves and hidden secrets of being. It is precisely in this section that one of the central thematic determinants of Hanna Dujmović's painting rests. Dujmović present her works through different psychological and symbolic relationships, vivid color tones, surreal elements imaginary world, as well as playing with anthropomorphic characters that come from different spheres of the animal kingdom, popular culture and avant-garde art – it thematizes the peculiar the area of ​​hidden desires, dreams, aspirations and aspirations that every woman carries within herself. Motives everyday life (lounging on comfortable couches, socializing and chatting with smiling women in colorful dresses, playing the guitar or playing billiards in a house whose interior resembles something exotic ambience in Morocco or Algeria) are shown in lavish interiors in which women occupy the role of "those who enjoy", and through a series of vividly painted moments of hedonism, recreation or mutual communications. Special attention is drawn to sensuality woven into voluminous forms of a woman's body under airy nightgowns or dresses with floral motifs, or freely, through dynamically painted female nudes in different actions and positions. As a conscious artist of the beauty found in differences, on the canvases of Hanna Dujmović we meet different women ethnicity, origin, skin color or type of beauty, indicating the aspiration towards universal humanism code in her creation...