Vanja is currently focusing on interiors and her New Naive Tableware collections in ceramics. Her other love is her wearable art collection: House on Mars.
After spending years splitting her time between designing and making objects and furniture, teaching and running special projects at The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. There, as a project coordinator, she worked on supporting student lead live projects and as an exhibition maker and curator of faculty-wide local and international exhibitions. She organised and ran traveling exhibitions across Europe and China. She has taught BA(Hons) Furniture & Product, Foundation and BA(Hons) Interior Design.
Vanja's experience spans from working as an architect, organising and curating exhibitions, events, working on interior design projects and building-size supergraphics to running her own studio and designing and making objects.
Vanja has worked on private commissions and commissions from companies such as Anthropologie, smaller independent shops such as Royal Academy Gallery and has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, design fairs and museums across Europe and the US. Among others in Anthropologie Rockefeller Centre Gallery in New York and most recently in the Fetishism Exhibition in Denmark, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano.
After finishing the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, Slovenia and working for 2 years as an architect, Vanja decided to pursue an MA in Furniture Design at Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design in London in 2010 and begin her own practice. Vanja was also a designer in residence at The Cass from 2010 to 2012 where she began her studio practice.
House on Mars Gallery is an award winning contemporary design gallery focusing on jewellery and objects for the modern lifestyle. The winner of the Brookfield Properties Craft Council Collection award 2021, the gallery had 2 pieces of the textile artist Anna Rays work acquired for the Crafts Councils permanent collection! And in 2022 we were the winners of the Outstanding display award at Collect art fair, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design in London.
