Martina Moon Zelenika
Vibrating in Chaos
Josip Račić Gallery (Margaretska 3, Zagreb)
October 7 – November 2, 2025
Curator: Željko Marciuš

Visual artist Martina Zelenika presents a series of drawings at the Josip Račić Gallery — a body of work she has been developing for years and is now exhibiting in Zagreb for the first time. Through her artistic practice, Zelenika invites viewers into a space of shared reflection, exploring notions of existence and freedom in the posthuman age by merging art, science, and technology. Her work investigates human survival from a philosophical and theological perspective, with an emphasis on communication based on free interpretation.

She observes the world from the standpoint of a conscious witness, critically engaging with all aspects of society. Her art exists beyond traditional boundaries, embracing a variety of experiments, techniques, and tools. Zelenika visualizes the invisible and intangible, using drawing as her primary medium, while incorporating various technologies and data sonification — from X-ray imaging, biosensor signals, and satellite data to photographic imagery and more. With technical precision and playful curiosity, she dissolves the lines between the real and virtual, the traditional and digital, rendering rhythmic lines that form various kinds of attractors.

In her works, especially drawings, lines do more than represent tones or notes — they also express connections between the real and the virtual, past and present, technology and tradition, our world and the cosmos, the visible and the invisible, consciousness and the subconscious. By combining line and technology, Zelenika creates trans-lines, trans-surfaces, and trans-spaces — dimensions within us and around us.

Artist Biography
Croatian interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor Martina Moon Zelenika (b. 1978) employs a highly innovative, almost alchemical approach to creating artworks that encompass a broad range of techniques and media. Her work bridges art, science, technology, spirituality, and theology. Martina Moon emphasises human experience, exploring questions of existence and human freedom in the context of posthumanism. Alongside its visionary aspects, her practice is distinguished by a synthesis of traditional art techniques and latest digital technologies. She investigates invisible and intangible realms, which she then visualises, forms auditory connections from, transforms into the material world. Combining technical precision with a playful sensibility, she blurs the lines between the real and the virtual, and between traditional and digital, evident in her drawings featuring rhythmic lines used to generate various types of attractors. She is a pioneer of New Media Art, creating works that merge augmented reality with traditional drawing, including the sonification of images. Her innovative projects also explore the sonification of data obtained from biosensors (“Receptilium, MSSS”), X-ray analyses (Nova Europa), signals from the Earth’s magnetosphere (“ChORUS,” “ChORUS2”), and drawings (“The Sixth Sense, MSSS”; “Particles – Simulation of Matter”), among others.
Martina has held over thirty solo exhibitions and taken part in more than thirty group exhibitions both in Croatia and abroad, including new-media festivals (in Germany, Belgium, Spain, South Korea, Denmark, Austria, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and Italy). She has participated in numerous conferences on multimedia and science, such as the “RE:SOUND” conference at Aalborg University in Denmark in 2019 and the “POSTSENSORIUM-RIXC” festival in Riga, Latvia, in 2021. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb, in the class of Prof. Ante Kuduz, and earned her Master’s degree in 2006 in video and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana. She has received several scholarships, awards, and grants for her artistic work. Martina is a member of the Archive of Digital Art (ADA) in Austria and of ULUPUH in Zagreb. She currently lives in Zagreb and works as an Associate Professor of New Media at the Department of Digital Arts at Algebra University Bernays.

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Images: Martina Zelenika (1) Order from Chaos, attractor 4, 2023 – 2025 / drawing; graphite pencil on 230 g Academia paper / 108 x 78 cm original (1/1 ) (2) Order from Chaos 2, attractor 1, 2025 / drawing; white pencils on black 230 g Hahnemühle paper / 108 x 78 cm / original 1/1
(3) Order from Chaos, attractor 6, 2025 / drawing; graphite pencils on 230 g Academia paper, 78 x 108 cm / original 1/1
Cover Image: Order from Chaos 2, attractor 2 / 2025 / drawing; white pencils on black, 230 g Hahnemühle paper / 108 x 78 cm / original 1/1
Photo Martina Moon Zelenika