About The Artist
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ( then Yugoslavia ) in 1981, Dunja Knezevic did not grow up in the art world. As a ten-year-old refugee,the idea of becoming an artist was not just unlikely - it was unimaginable.
And thirty-four-years later, she still doesn´t call herself one. Dunja is not an artist in the traditional sense. She has no formal training, no gallery exhibitions, and no allegiance to convention. What she has is fire, curiosity, and copper.
The Work
Entirely self - taught, Dunja creates works using materials rarely associated with fine art: copper, liver of sulphur, ammonia, and heat. Through layering, experimentation, and chemical reactions, she transforms raw copper into evolving, living surfaces - artworks that change with time, light, and air.
She refuses to seal them. To preserve them would be to freeze them, and that contradicts everything they represent. These pieces are not made to last forever in their original form. They´re designed to breathe, to change - just like us.
Living Art
Copper itself is not neutral.It´s active, antimicrobial - drawing in microbes from the air and destroying them. Her artworks don´t just occupy space; they purify it. They live.
For the past five years, Dunja has quietly honed here craft, fulfilled commissions, and brought here creations to markets - not galleries - to witness how people truly respond. Now, she´s ready to share this work with a wider world.
No labels.No pretension. Just elemental beauty, shaped by flame and alive with purpose.
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