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Return to Yourself
An inward-facing figure held between fragility and strength — a quiet invitation to return to one’s essential self.
Sculptor · Visual Artist
Contemporary figurative sculpture, relief and painting shaped by silence, memory and the meeting of material and spirit.
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“I seek to reduce the visible until what remains can be felt rather than explained.”
Selected works
Figures emerge from material as carriers of inward states — memory, vulnerability, stillness and return.
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An inward-facing figure held between fragility and strength — a quiet invitation to return to one’s essential self.
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A meditation on beauty, transience and renewal, expressed through the human figure and the fleeting presence of blossom.
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The figure becomes a vessel for what remains: traces of experience held beneath a surface of stillness.
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A suspended moment of trust and tenderness in which gesture, light and silence carry the narrative.
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A poetic encounter between the human figure and the animal presence — an image poised between wakefulness, memory and dream.
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From the Music cycle. Here silence is not the absence of sound, but the interior space from which meaning and presence emerge.
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From the Music cycle. Rhythm is translated into carved movement: the body, drum and repeated line become a single visual pulse.
Sacred space
Sculpture and relief are not decoration added to architecture, but elements that shape the spiritual experience of a space.
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Nine hand-carved oak reliefs with gilded elements form a complete Marian cycle conceived for the intimate architecture of the chapel.
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Fourteen carved oak reliefs with gold leaf create a continuous contemplative path through the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer.
Selected stations
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A unique authorial work in carved oak and gold, uniting the cross, the figure of Christ, angels and a gilded halo into a single sculptural whole.
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Light does not merely illuminate the sculpture. It enters the glass, revealing the figure through colour, depth and texture. Corpus Christi explores the encounter between material and light, where the sculptural image becomes a quiet presence within sacred space.
Detail & sacred space
Permanent works
Three decades of practice spanning monumental sculpture, architectural relief, bronze portals and complete site-specific environments — from artistic authorship through fabrication and installation.
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Monumental outdoor sculpture commissioned by the Franciscan Province of Split for the Church of St. Roch, Vinjani Gornji, Croatia.
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Five monumental bronze portals integrating sculptural relief with large, functioning architectural entrances.
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Original plaster model conceived for a monumental execution in marble.
The artist
Jasenka Kapitanović is a Croatian-born sculptor and visual artist based in Bavaria, Germany.
She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Restoration in Split in 1996 and has developed a multidisciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, relief and painting. Her work is rooted in the human figure and explores inner states, memory, silence and the relationship between the material and the spiritual.
Her practice includes independent sculpture and painting as well as large-scale commissions and complete artistic interventions for architectural and sacred spaces. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Croatia, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Carved wood · Bronze · Gold leaf · Mixed media · Oil painting · Architectural integration
Studio enquiries
For public art, sacred and architectural commissions, exhibitions and artwork enquiries.
Bavaria, Germany