Dubravka Duba Sambolec works with sculpture, installation, video, performance, drawing and photography. She has exhibited extensively in a number of international venues such as Aperto, La Biennale di Venezia; São Paulo Biennial; MUMOK, Vienna; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and many others. Parallel to her activities as an artist she teaches at Art Academies such as the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KIT), Trondheim, Norway and The National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo. She has been a guest artist and teacher in several international institutions such as The Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana and The College of Art, Xian, China. Sambolec is a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant and The Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York.
Since the beginning of her artistic activity in the mid70s, Duba Sambolec has questioned the visual perception and language of the three-dimensional medium of sculpture, problematised social reality, and asked philosophical questions about human survival and the role of art. Sculpture Leaning is one of the works from her earlier period, in which her approach was distinctly metaphorical; relying on the viewer’s subjective perception and attempting to tackle the relation between basic sculptural materials and forms. In this way, Duba Sambolec’s work can be defined as “minimalism with the twist” since she doesn’t want the viewer to respond only to what is in front of them, but also to make relation to social reality.