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Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (1980) is a contemporary artist from Croatia with a focus on drawing and printmaking.
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.
Kičinbači was honoured with the Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award by Contemporary Art Collectors in 2024. In 2023, she received the International Leonardo da Vinci Prize in Milan (Italy), the Contemporary Art Collectors Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize, the Effeto Arte Foundation International Career Art Prize, and the Circle Foundation's Artistic Excellence Award. In 2022, she received the International Jury Award at the International Art Competition Lounge in Germany, as well as the Amber Award for Print in 2021. She won the Bernstein Printmaking Prize in 2022.
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 works as an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb. She participated in many 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, France, and Italy), the United States, the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and Japan.
She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) and the Association of Print Scholars (APS).
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“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, while everything is reflected in hyper-aestheticized motifs of minimalist formal visual and artistic elements. They simply become and remain permanent symbols of the zeitgeist. The works, in the absence of figures and "saturated" content, reflect mystical, spiritual, and extremely personal experiences of the world, life, man, and nature, illustrated on a symbolic level.”
Asst. Prof. Enes Quien, PhD /Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb
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Article by Kičinbači on her artistic practice: Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View Religions 2023, 14(10), 1279; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101279 - 10 Oct 2023
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