Artist Biography
Born in Maribor and based in Lendava, Slovenia, Sabina Šinko is a painter, costume, set and puppet designer, and Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor. Exhibiting internationally, her practice explores the interplay between reality and fantasy, popular culture and intimacy. Working with ink, watercolour and acrylic, she creates dreamlike, theatrical compositions that blend human, animal and natural forms. Her work often responds to global concerns, including migration and ecological disasters. Through fluid colour, layered techniques and expressive imagery, Šinko balances control with spontaneity, inviting viewers into imaginative worlds rich with emotion, symbolism and surreal detail.
“My artistic work as is focused mainly on painting watercolour, ink and acrylic techniques on canvas, paper and silk. For me, creativity is a play between control and freedom where subjects display their feelings, moods and emotions. My research topics are relationships between reality and fantasy, mass, popular culture and intimacy. The portraits, my favourite motif, represent my experience with perception of an individual face through the process of painting. The flowing watercolour technique allows me to create an image, that consists of the visible and invisible of an individual, which can be transferred to the community in general and is also a self-reflection.” – Sabina Sinko
Solo exhibitions
2018- Haute couture S/S 18 : fashion illustration, Showstudio collections, London
2018-Bannfy Center Lendava, Slovenia 2017-Puppet Theater Maribor, Slovenia 2016-Bežigrajska Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016- Forrás Gallery Budapest, Hungary
2015- Gallery – Museum Lendava, Slovenia 2013 –Lenart Galery, Slovenia 2012 – Csak képek, MMIK Szombathely, Hungary 2011 – Celldömölk, Hungary 2011 – ZKPL Lendava, Slovenia 2010 – UKM Maribor, Slovenia 2006 – Orczy galéria, Budapest, Hungary 2005 – Banffy center, Lendava, Slovenia 2003 – Art Caffe, Murska Sobota, Slovenia 2002 – Synagogue Lendava, Slovenia 2001 – Gallery in Castle Murska Sobota, Slovenia 2001 – Tulpika hram Lendava, Slovenia 2001 – Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Group exhibitions
2025 Two of a Kind International Group Show, 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Australia
2019 – Galerie Varnegyed Budapest: Woman artist from Lendava
2019 – 100 women : exhibition within SHOWStudio project to honour the centenary of women’s suffrage, London
2019 – Mednarodna likovna kolonija : razstava udeležencev kolonije v sklopu Ljubljana Festivala, Viteška dvorana Križank
2019 – Tagsmart artist of the week : spletna razstava, London
WHY WE LOVE IT?
Highly emotive portrayals of human essence. Delicate, ethereal and meta-physical representations of colour and energy.
