Dijana Iva Sesartic

A sculpture that expresses itself in all traditional sculptural materials as well as experimental new technologies. She is dedicated to portraiture, figure and abstract forms in new techniques. He finds inspiration in everyday life, but most closely through the permeation of man and nature in the path of growth and mutual acceptance in good and love. In particular, he builds the oeuvre of the name; Everything I Know About Woman / Discovering the Intimate Hidden World of Woman. More recent research is dedicated to the role of man in healing and preserving nature.

D. I. Sesartić is the author of a series of sculptures in public spaces, some of them in Split and the surrounding area; Woman with fish - Sućuraj on the island of Hvar; Angel Raphael - Vranjic near Solin; St. Domnius - Ethnographic Museum, Split; St. Liberan - Church in Mejaši (Split); St. Nicholas - Sućuraj on the island of Hvar; Bust of Marko Marulić - Archbishopric Seminary, Split; plaque Fabjan Kaliterna - Split Sports Museum; Portal of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes - Bijeli Vir; Bust of the Archbishop Frane Franić - Domus Croatia Ivan Mertz, Rome; Bust sculpture of the first rector of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, as well as in his native Celindof - Austria Lumin, sculpture dedicated to the Homeland War, Split Sculpture dedicated to students and professors at the fountain in front of the Faculty of Philosophy of Religious Sciences, Zagreb Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, Split Sports Association, Split She has held solo exhibitions for more than twenty years and has participated in numerous domestic and international, group, thematic and juried exhibitions, art colonies, sculpture symposiums, and art festivals. In the last two years she has completed the following exhibitions: - International Mask Exhibition, Krapina City Gallery, February 2018 - The Passion and Resurrection in the Works of Contemporary Croatian Artists, VII. triennial competition exhibition, Passion Heritage The exhibition, Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb, March 2018. - Exhibition and opening ceremony to commemorate the first rector of the University of Zagreb, Mr. Filip Kausic, in his native Celindof, Austria, June 2018. - Sesartić, Belobrajdić, Oroši, Juraj Klović Gallery, Rijeka, September 2018 - 13th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Gliptoteka, Gallery of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Zagreb, September 2018. - Group Exhibition / 40th SPLIT SALON - THE ART OF SURVIVAL, October-November 2018 - Heavenly Nativity Scene ISt. Arniro Chapel December 2018 - 6 January 2019 - All I know about women/Warmth of the south, Mali Lošinj Museum, Fritzi Gallery, March 2019. - Second Salon of Contemporary Christian Art, Gallery of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Milesi Palace, Split, April 2019

Dijana Iva Sesartić was born in Zagreb in 1966 where she finished elementary and high school. She studied at the art academies in Sarajevo, Prague, and Zagreb. She graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of Professor Stanko Jančić. She made study visits to Stuttgart, Rome, and Florence.