Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec

About Slavica

Name: Slavica
Last Name: Štrukelj Kokoravec – KOKO
Date of Birth: 14. 5. 1963, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Education:
– ArtHouse of Visual Arts, Ljubljana
Thesis: The Power of Color in Painting, the Victory of Emotions over Reason
(Mentors: Associate Professor Mladen Jernejec, Dr. Ernest Ženko)
– High School of Design and Photography, Ljubljana

For a number of years, I have been asking myself if they exist. Is this possible?
Can they be something more than just pretty paintings?

I have spent a lot of time on this subject. My thoughts have been wandering through different areas,
from painting to healing and concern for fellow human beings in good and bad, in various life experiences,
which were either wonderful or sad. I have tested, verified, painted, healed people, and constantly researched
from inside out in thoughts, actions, gestures, dance, music, with relaxing the soul and the body, and in the end it worked!
As a graduated painter, fashion stylist, graduated biotherapist, healer, with a prominent touch for beautiful and
fellow human beings soul, spirit, body and mind, I have managed to merge all of this in my paintings.
Being an artist is a wonderful life journey. I paint spontaneously, and allow the energy flow through me.
My body and mind are connected with the earth and the universe.

My family, friends, acquaintances or just random people have reported to me many times, of strange sensation and influence,
which they sense around me or my paintings, even the next day. Those people who have, or have already had my paintings,
tell me about the oddities, which are occurring to them. Every person is a world unto itself and perceives a painting
completely differently, depending on what his soul needs in that very moment. Let it be love, better sales, better health,
absence of stress, meaning of life, creativity, better interpersonal relationships, peace of mind or something else.

We say that coincidences do not exist, and I think that this statement is completely true.
I tested the healing effect of my paintings of my self.

These paintings heal because they contain the vibrations of the universe, which, with the help of my thoughts,
colors, ability and sensation of healing people, are in the process of painting weaved to the canvas and radiate back
to space with its captured energy. Thought is energy and energy is thought, and that is why thoughts shape us and
the world, which surrounds us. A thought can change our insides, our thinking and change us even from the outside.
In the process of painting, my thoughts are transformed to colors, where every color, like an electromagnetic wave
contains a frequency record, which radiates back into space. I live through colors. They are my passion and my way of life.
The fact that I have chosen to write about ‘The Power of Color in Painting’ in my diploma is no coincidence.
The paintings are not all about a beautiful, colorful and balanced image or abstraction, but also about feeling something
different, like new emotions, truths, some kind of new dimensions of sensing and thinking. Changes happen, which indicate
new virtues, new feelings, we become more positive, more comprehensive and we reach a new state of consciousness.
Through the painting we can find ourselves, and we feel happy, unburdened and free.
The paintings liberate us from our earthly bonds. There is no sign of stress, because stress is nothing else
then a way of life! And what kind of life we live, is totally up to us, right?

On the Institute for Bio-electromagnetics and New Biology d.o.o. (BION), we have performed many tests on volunteers,
where I got, on the base of the results and very extensive report, an issued document, as a certificate for
Energy Influence of Copyright Healing Paintings. It says in the report that my paintings are extremely anti-stressful
with a power of revitalization for a human being, which means they have a really healing influence and impact on a person,
on elimination of stress, and that with their presence in space, they have the power to create a regeneration in the body
and mind of every individual.

A satisfied buyer of my painting wrote:
“Meeting you and your paintings meant to me a much more complexed dimension of experiencing colors and all of your energy that is connected with it. Intensive and glowing colors from your paintings have taught me to recognize their beautiful colorful energy elsewhere in the environment, where I live, work, cycle and dance. And when I sense and recognize this energy, my little worlds become more beautiful and complex.”

Slovene psychologist, theologian, and author Anton Trstenjak wrote:
“Man is a designer of the world according to colors. With colors he discloses his culturalism and spirituality.
The color exactly, is the conciliation element between the restlessness of the city bustle and the peace of unspoilt nature.”

All good, with love,
Slavica Štrukelj Kokoravec

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2025 – Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (8th edition)
2024 – Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (8th edition)
2023 – Gallery of Telekom Stegne, Ministry of Defence of Slovenia (MORS), Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (7th edition), Telekom Slovenia Center, Donatello Prize Florence, Venice Award Pegasus, Telekom
2022 – Carrousel du Louvre Paris, Lokarjeva Gallery, Castle Snežnik, Private Museum Andorra, Vrtna Razstava, Faculty of Economics Ljubljana Gallery, Piran Art Gallery, Terme Tuhelj
2021 – Ministry of Defence Gallery MORS, Galerija Črna na Koroškem, Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (6th edition, June), Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (5th edition, Sept), Luxemburg Art Prize
2020 – Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (4th edition), Miit Museum Torino, Lynx Trst Tivarnella Art Gallery, Kavarna Mozaik Ljubljana, G.H. Rogaška Slatina, Cultural Event Center Zalog (Slepa Grofica)
2019 – B&B Center Kranj, Salon Velana Living Ljubljana, Čajnica Zisha Ljubljana
2018 – Faculty of Economics Gallery Ljubljana, LuxArt Gallery Trieste, Gallery Etams at Castle Štatenberg, Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (3rd edition)
2017 – Gallery Korotan Vienna, Konzorcij MK Ljubljana, Gallery Café PopArt Ljubljana, Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (2nd edition), Gallery Café Pungert Kranj, Oton Župančič Library Ljubljana, Grosuplje Library Gallery, Salsa Dance Studio Ljubljana
2016 – Gallery of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Gallery MORS, Gallery Štekelj, Faculty of Economics Gallery Ljubljana, Gallery Pungert, Podutiška Hall, Art Garden Exhibition Logatec (1st edition), Salsa Dance Studio Ljubljana

Group Exhibitions
2024 – Jin Business Point ART (Murska Sobota), Selnica ob Dravi EkoDrava, ExTempore Ptuj
2022 – Carrousel du Louvre Paris (Modern Art Sale), Mix Art Gallery Belgium, Biennale of Watercolors Mini Castra Lokarjeva Gallery Ajdovščina, Watercolor Contest Castle Snežnik
2005–2022 – ExTempore: Piran, Ptuj, EkoDrava, Logatec, Brezovica, Duplje, Žetale
2009 – Painting Colony Zalaegerszeg (Hungary)
2008 – Painting Colony OGUS Srebrenik (BiH), Da Vinci – Žmavc
2010 – Painting Colony Sava Brčko
2006 & 2008 – Maribor General Maister Colony
– Municipality of Sv. Ana