Rođena je u Zagrebu 1966.
1990. diplomirala je kiparstvo na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti. Posljednju godinu na Akademiji provela je u klasi prof. Miroslava Šuteja.
U svom umjetničkom djelovanju koristi razne medije izražavanja (skulptura, performans, happening, eksperimentalni film i video, tekst) istražujući dodirne točke i relacije među njima.
Njeni performansi, izvedeni pred publikom i dokumentirani videozapisima ili izvedeni samo pred kamerom, izravan su odraz umjetiničnog osobnog, intimnog iskustva stvarnosti. Kako subjektivnost nije fiksna i stabilna kategorija svijesti, sve su subjektivne emocije, iskustva, spoznaje, artikulirane u umjetničku formu, isprepletene u konkretnim odsječcima osobne povijesti, naracije o vlastitom životu, autobiografije. No,
iako autoreferencijalni, samim medijem tijela ukazujući na subjekt iskazivanja, njeni radovi nisu artikulirani u jednu od autobiografski ispovjednih ili dokumentarno faktografskih formi iskaza, niti su u funkciji autoportretne reprezentacije.
U pitanju su tjelesno kodirane, trenutne konceptualizacije različitih unutarnjih dimenzija subjektivnosti, čija kronologija ne strukturira nacrt uspostavljanja ili razotkrivanja autobiografskog, nego uspostavlja niz autoreferencijalnih postupaka u kojima je stvarnost subjekta transponirana u prostor i vrijeme događaja koji privremeno upisuje u iskustvo tijela energiju i oblike simboličkog manifestiranja i prenošenja iskustva vlastitog Ja.
Dosad je realizirala 25 samostalnih izloæbi u Hrvatskoj i inozemstvu, te izlagala na
mnogobrojnim skupnim.
Živi i radi u Zagrebu.

Born in Zagreb in 1966.
Graduated from the department of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In her artistic activity she uses various media (sculpture, performance, happening, experimental film and video, text), seeking the connecting points and relations among the former. Her performances, live, documented by videotapes or performed only in front of the camera, reflect the artist’s personal, intimate experience of reality. Since subjectivity is not a fixed and stable category of consciousness, all subjective emotions, experiences, insights
become articulated into artistic form, and intertwined in the concrete segments of a personal history, in narrative of one’s life, in autobiography. While self-referential, by the fact of the body-as-a-medium directly pointing to the expressed subject, her works are not articulated in the autobiographically confessional or documentarily factual forms of expression; neither do they function as representational self-portraits. They are various bodily coded, temporarily conceptualized, inner dimensions of reality. Their chronology does not give structure to the project of establishing or revealing the autobiographical, it rather establishes a set of auto-referential modes in which reality of the subject becomes transposed in space and time through an event that it temporarily inscribes through the bodily experience, the energy and shapes of the symbolic demonstration, and through transfer of the experience of Self. Vlasta Žanić had participated in twenty-five individual and many collective exhibitions both in Croatia and abroad.
She lives and works in Zagreb.

Performans “Svijeća za Editu” izveden je na 8. trienalu hrvatskog kiparstva i nagrađen je jednom od tri jednakovrijedne nagrade.

CANDLE FOR EDITA
I approach wide, white candle that reaches to my shoulders. I light it. Circling it, gradually and evenly I begin to thin it until its middle becomes so thin that the candle breaks; the upper portion falls to the ground. The flame dies... This performance is dedicated to Edita Schubert. The idea occurred to me on a night, after the news of Edita’s death, two years ago. Shocking, final and irrefutable news caused the reaction. The news impacted me directly, like a lightening bolt, brooking no delay. It was the first time I saw myself as a performer.
At the same time I was having severe doubts about making sculpture, my native medium of expression. After many years in which I mostly took care of children, I ventured into, until that point, my biggest sculpture exhibition. However, instead of the expected sense of fulfillment and satisfaction, emerged the sense that something was amiss... Soon it had fixed itself in the realization that I could not continue where I have stopped six or seven year ago. Suddenly, within me I recognized massive revolt against everything I had learned, appropriated, everything that was instilled preconceived -in a word -against everything sculptural. I have reached the ground zero, but still having the desire to express myself. I had a feeling that, at that moment, Edita whispered to me which path to follow. Still, more than a year had to pass before I’d be ready with my first performance. Since then, I had accomplished several and, presently, they seem like the most natural way of
self-expression. Because of their immediacy, spontaneity, and of a direct connection between me, what I wanted to say and those to whom I want to speak. When Janka Vukmir proposed that I take part of her selection in this year’s Croatian Sculpture Triennial, I’ve decided to perform Candle for Edita. Even though, I’ve played the performance out in my mind many times in my mind, for a decision to actually do it, it obviously took time. Carving the wax with chisel and mallet I constantly take away, or rather change the form of the candle. Simultaneously, the new one emerges. The terms “positive” and “negative” cancel each other; loose their meaning, their borders. At any moment, the form can be (found) anywhere. As I circle the candle, thinning it in order to get to its gist, to the answer, through my mind passes Edita who also often circled and by circling completed... shapes, spaces, going inside and out, making circles for the act of seeing, seeing herself in the circles... possibly also searching for the answers.

Vlasta Žanic, May 2003.

Candle for Edita was performed at the 8. Croatian Sculpture Triennial and had received one of the three ex
aequo prizes. The results of the performance -the broken candle as piece of sculpture, together with the video-document of the performance, were included in the Post sculpture exhibition curated by Zvonimir Maković in HDLU in 2005. The work is now part of The Filip Trade Collection of Contemporary Art.

Performans "Ja sam otok" izveden je u okviru manifestacije “Otočna karta”, Zlarin, 2007.

I AM THE ISLAND
The performer stays motionless in the sea for about ten minutes with her head over the
water’s surface. Her passive, quite stance alludes to the classical sculptural idea of a
head /bust. In other words, the island sees the submerged head/bust in the sea representing
itself as an island a head/bust in the sea.
Performed as part of the Island Ticket event, Zlarin 2007.
Photo-document of the performance was displayed at the eponymous exhibit at Gallery Klovicevi dvori, 2008.