Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth.

An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality lie at the core of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the relationship between soul and body, the spiritual and the material, space and time, and the ongoing search for inner freedom within the contemporary condition.

Kičinbači holds a PhD in Art. Her dissertation, Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent, examines drawing as a means of articulating spiritual and metaphysical dimensions within contemporary visual culture. She earned her doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mostar. She previously completed an MA in Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, followed by postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including across Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), as well as in Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. She has participated in a wide range of juried printmaking competitions and biennales, encompassing both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices.

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Circle Foundation for the Arts (France), Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal (Italy), and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth.

An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality lie at the core of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the relationship between soul and body, the spiritual and the material, space and time, and the ongoing search for inner freedom within the contemporary condition.

Kičinbači holds a PhD in Art. Her dissertation, Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent, examines drawing as a means of articulating spiritual and metaphysical dimensions within contemporary visual culture. She earned her doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mostar. She previously completed an MA in Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, followed by postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including across Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), as well as in Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. She has participated in a wide range of juried printmaking competitions and biennales, encompassing both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices.

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Circle Foundation for the Arts (France), Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal (Italy), and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth.

An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality lie at the core of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the relationship between soul and body, the spiritual and the material, space and time, and the ongoing search for inner freedom within the contemporary condition.

Kičinbači holds a PhD in Art. Her dissertation, Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent, examines drawing as a means of articulating spiritual and metaphysical dimensions within contemporary visual culture. She earned her doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mostar. She previously completed an MA in Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, followed by postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including across Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), as well as in Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. She has participated in a wide range of juried printmaking competitions and biennales, encompassing both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices.

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Circle Foundation for the Arts (France), Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal (Italy), and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth.

An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality lie at the core of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the relationship between soul and body, the spiritual and the material, space and time, and the ongoing search for inner freedom within the contemporary condition.

Kičinbači holds a PhD in Art. Her dissertation, Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent, examines drawing as a means of articulating spiritual and metaphysical dimensions within contemporary visual culture. She earned her doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mostar. She previously completed an MA in Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, followed by postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including across Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), as well as in Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. She has participated in a wide range of juried printmaking competitions and biennales, encompassing both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices.

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Circle Foundation for the Arts (France), Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal (Italy), and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth.

An intuitive search for knowledge and an intuitive experience of reality lie at the core of Kičinbači’s work. She explores the relationship between soul and body, the spiritual and the material, space and time, and the ongoing search for inner freedom within the contemporary condition.

Kičinbači holds a PhD in Art. Her dissertation, Drawing in Contemporary Art as a Medium for Expressing the Transcendent, examines drawing as a means of articulating spiritual and metaphysical dimensions within contemporary visual culture. She earned her doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mostar. She previously completed an MA in Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, followed by postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb.

Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including across Europe (Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, and Italy), as well as in Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan. She has participated in a wide range of juried printmaking competitions and biennales, encompassing both traditional and contemporary printmaking practices.

She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU), Circle Foundation for the Arts (France), Spazio SV – Centro Espositivo San Vidal (Italy), and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).

Selected Critical Text

“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis… They become permanent symbols of the zeitgeist.”

Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s writing on her artistic practice

Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View   

The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective

Selected Critical Text

“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis… They become permanent symbols of the zeitgeist.”

Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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 Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s writing on her artistic practice

Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View

The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective

Selected Critical Text

“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis… They become permanent symbols of the zeitgeist.”

Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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 Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s scholarly writing on her artistic practice

Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View 

The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective

Selected Critical Text

“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis… They become permanent symbols of the zeitgeist.”

Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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 Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s writing on her artistic practice 

 Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View  

The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective. 

Selected Critical Text

“Her works captivate with their subtlety of diffuse light, attentiveness of performance, layered meaning, rendering the entire network of existence and evanescence, degradation, and genesis… They become permanent symbols of the zeitgeist.”

Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD
Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s writing on her artistic practice 

Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View 

The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective