Marijana Đaković was born on May 20, 1999 in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated in Intermedia Art at the Academy of Arts and Graphic Engineering at the Faculty of Technology in Banja Luka.
She exhibited at several collective exhibitions, including the annual exhibitions of the Academy of Arts in 2021, 2022. and in 2023. She participated in the international exhibition “Should I stay or should I go?” in Limanski Park in Novi Sad, Serbia, as part of the Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture 2022 project, where she won the main prize. The exhibitions in which she also participated in 2022 are: “On the quiet side of the street” at the Bitef Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, “Superexposure 02” at the Cultural Center in Trebinje, BiH and the artistic intervention in the public space “Traffic Signs” in the Petar Kočić Park in Banja Luka, BiH. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka award for the best intermedial work in 2023 and 2024, as well as the “Vagon” gallery award for the most promising work in 2023. She participated in the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts program in 2023. In 2024, she was awarded the Plaque of Banski dvor, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In her work, she expresses herself through multimedia, predominantly using installation, text, and drawings. Her artistic practice is deeply informed by experiences from various trades, such as tailoring and sewing, and explores space and materials drawn from mechanics, construction, and crafts. Her creative process often begins with her immediate surroundings, where she weaves broader social themes through the lens of individual stories.

Her work seeks to balance opposing forces—combining gentleness with violence, and aesthetic appeal with rawness. A central aspect of her artistic identity lies in the deconstruction of stereotypes and embracing ambivalence.