Petrunjela Coven Books
I was born in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia. I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2004. I am engaged in visual arts (painting, drawing, photography, collage, glitch art, installations, animation, video, multimedia). I also write poetry.
I exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, and film festivals in country and abroad (Zagreb, Sisak, Velika Gorica, Samobor, Varazdin, Cakovec, Karlovac, Duga Resa, Lovinac, Rijeka, Kastav, Pula, Porec, Novigrad, Split, Makarska, Sućuraj, Dubrovnik in Croatia, Mostar and Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tolmin, Maribor and Ljubljana in Slovenia, Novi Sad, Belgrade and Subotica in Serbia, Betlehem in Palestine, Rosario and Santa Fe in Argentina, Szczecin in Poland, Napoli, Macerata, Padova, Perugia and Rome in Italy, Edinburgh, Bradford, Buckinghamshire and London in United Kingdom, Porto and Vila Nova de Famalicão in Portugal, Forcalquier in France, Girona, Valencia and Alicante in Spain, Malmo in Sweden, Corvallis, Los Angeles, Roanoke, Bisbee, Florida and New York in USA, Bangalore in India, Valkenburg and Amsterdam in Netherlands, Tijuana in Mexico, Moscow in Russia, Thessaloniki and Athens in Greece; Berlin and Kassel in Germany, Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Jakarta in Indonesia, Tokyo in Japan, Taipei in Taiwan, Chiang Rai in Thailand).
Four of my drawings were included in the Anthology of Croatian Erotic Drawing, „Eros and Pornos“, 2004. In 2006 my first poetry book was published ( „Posjekotine“). In 2023 came the second poetry book, „Black Mamba“. My work was presented in many printed and digital Croatian and international publications, among others, in A5, Gestalten, Make8elieve, Poezija, Zarez, Rijeci, Vijenac, Self-As-Subject: The Multiple Exposure Project Zine, Stigmart10 Videofocus- special edition, Il corpo solitario III and IV (Solitary body: the self-timer in contemporary photography) – antology by Giorgio Bonomi, Point Pleasant Publishing. My photography is part of four Saatchi Art Gallery collections. My drawings „Butterfly Effect“ and „Black Siren“ became a part of Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, Arizona, USA, among works of Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Banksy, Marina Abramovic and other great artists). I received ten awards and acknowledgements for my work.
As a graphic designer, I created numerous book layouts. As a seasoned illustrator with more than 25 years of experience, I illustrated and visually equipped more than 30 books of various genres for children, teens, and adults for the publishing house Naklada Ljevak in Zagreb, Croatia. Many of those books come from awarded authors. One of them is a Nobel Prize winner, Norwegian author Jon Fosse.
