acknowledgements, including the international awards: IMAF award, OSTEN Biennial of Drawin, Macedonia 2012; Grand Prix for Graphic Arts at INTERBIFEP, International Gallery of Portraits, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011; Award of the Croatian Association of Artists at the 6th Croatian Graphic Triennial in 2012. Melinda Šefčić was born in Subotica, Serbia in 1986. In 2012 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Painting. She is currently a PhD student of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She is the organizer and moderator of the art project C.R.T.A. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including Build a Broken Utopia – Burn What You Cannot Steal, Nova Gallery; Inter imago 3, MC Gallery, New York. She is a member of the Board of the Croatian Association of Artists. Ana Sladetić was born in Vukovar in 1985. In 2009 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She is currently a PhD student of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has participated in residencies in Germany, Belgium, France and the USA, also as a guest lecturer. She has exhibited in several solo and 105 group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has received a Special Recognition of the Jury at the 6th Croatian Graphic Triennial, the Croatian Association of Artists; First Prize of Celebrate Originality, Adidas in cooperation with the Museum of Street Art, GRAND PRIX of the 30th Youth Salon, the Croatian Association of Artists, and the Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Ivan Tudek was born in Zagreb in 1983. In 2010 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Art Education. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia, including: Die Markierung, Academia Moderna Gallery; Ja sam ograda, VN Gallery; 3rd Biennial of Painting, Home of the Croatian Association of Artists; XI Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Mario Udženija was born in Metković in 1987. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Berlin. He has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including Labin Art Republic, Labin; Mixer Festival, Belgrade; Skup. na, VN Gallery, Zagreb; He won the Essl Art Award and FOHS Croatian Student Benefactors Foundation Award, as well as the special awards of the University of Zagreb. Josipa Vranjković was born in 1990 in Vinkovci. She graduted from the Sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her works have continually been exhibtied at home, as well as abroad, taking part in exhibtions such as Mala Bronca and the international and interdisciplinary conference From State Art to Creative Industries / Transformation of Gender, Political and Religious Narratives. Ana Vuzdarić was born in 1983 in Zagreb. In 2009, she graduated from the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb, majoring in fashion design, and in 2015 she graduated from the New Media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her works have continually been exhibited home, as well as abroad, taking part in exhibitions such as Mediterranea 16 Errors Allowed Young Artists Biennial, THT Award finalists and Animation goes MSU. She has won the video performance award from the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, the Erasmus Mundus scholarship at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
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