Ivana Gagić Kičinbači
Website: https://ivanagagickicinbaci.com.hr/
Country: Croatia
Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (1980) is an ultra-contemporary artist from Croatia with a focus on drawing and printmaking. Her work reflects mystical, spiritual and profoundly personal experiences of the world, life, man and nature, illustrated on a symbolic level. An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality are at the heart of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the interference and coherence of soul and body, spiritual and material, space and time, and the struggle for inner freedom in the contemporary realm. She participated in a number of juried printmaking competitions and biennales in both the traditional and contemporary printmaking disciplines. Her works were shown at solo and group exhibitions in Europe (including Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, and France), the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. After obtaining an MA in graphic arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), she earned a master's degree from the postgraduate study of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She is working as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb. Kičinbači was awarded the International Prize Leonardo da Vinci in 2023 at the National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo da Vinci" in Milan, Italy. She received the International Jury Award (2nd place) at the International Art Competition Lounge 2022 in Germany as well as the Amber Award – Print in 2021. In 2022, she was awarded the Bernstein Prize for printmaking.
Blessed are Those Who Endure in Peace, 2022. Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin, 70 x 70 cm
Noosphere, 2023, Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Satin, 100 x 100 cm, 2023
Memory, 2022. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 70 x 70 cm
View from Above, 2019. Digital print on Canvas, 110 x 130 cm
Direction, 2019. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre, 100 cm x 100 cm
State 2, 2022. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin,100 x 100 cm
Vestibul, 2019. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 100 x 100 cm
Lucca, 2023. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 70 x 70 cm