Maja Vrzina

Maja Vrzina is a Croatian-born artist based in London.
Her practice spans installation, object, drawing, and text, working with silence, memory, breath, and spatial reduction as primary materials.

Rather than constructing narratives, Vrzina develops perceptual structures — environments in which duration, restraint, and spatial sequencing shape the viewer’s encounter. Her work does not illustrate meaning; it establishes conditions in which meaning is registered physically, as embodied recognition rather than representation.

Her research examines how silence operates as both spatial field and material presence, and how memory is held and activated through the body.

Central to her recent practice is the handwritten book The Tree Knew, conceived not as a literary object but as an originating artefact. The book functions as the structural and conceptual source for the spatial installation of the same name.

Vrzina is currently developing The Tree Knew as a two-room spatial installation that approaches silence not as absence, but as perceptual ground and field of return.

Her work Time Is Precious is held in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts (MUO), Zagreb.

Solo exhibitions include The Rule of Three at the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), Zagreb, and XXXIX at Strand Gallery, London