About
Maja lives and works in Amsterdam. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and Conservation and Restoration, a Master's Degree in Fine Arts, and a PhD in Art History. Her work draws inspiration from travel, everyday experiences, and her grandmother's poetry. The colors in her paintings are drawn from nature, often bright and rich, applied with spontaneity. She focuses on creating positive representations of life through the visual. Maja has held eight solo exhibitions and won three awards. Her work has been included in many international exhibitions and is held in art collections worldwide.
Maja holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, as well as in Conservation and Restoration, a Master’s degree in Fine Arts (2009), and a PhD in Art History (2018). She lives and works in Amsterdam, one of the cities that inspire her the most.
Her professional background includes experience in the field of higher education, teaching and research, parallel with working on her own art, exhibiting paintings and prints internationally, and organizing and curating various art projects and exhibitions.
The city is a constant reoccurring subject in her artistic research. The cityscapes she creates are not an exact replica of reality, but a reflection of it, transformed by the artist’s sensibility, color palette, vision, and emotions. Through her identification with the urban space and time, Maja creates impressions of the infinite discoveries offered by the city. Her artworks show the beautiful side of the visual, creating new and positive representations of life.
Maja paints with acrylics and oils on canvas, birch panels, and paper, but she also uses colored pencils, graphite, and pastels. Her creative process involves drawing, monotype, and addition and subtraction of layered paint. The colors she uses are inspired by nature. As a printmaker, she creates multicolored linocuts, monotypes, and artist’s books.