Ivana Gagić Kičinbači

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• Publications

  Selected Publications:

  → Gagić Kičinbači, I. Attempts to Communicate the Transcendent in Contemporary Art: An Artist’s Point of View. Religions, 14(10), 1279, 2023.

  → Gagić Kičinbači, I. The Quest for Inner Freedom: An Artist’s Perspective. Religions, 16, 169, 2025.

  → Cordaro, Beatrice. The Ethereal Potential of Digital Media. In Brushstrokes Act II—The Journey into Artistic Technique, 2025.

  → Cordaro, Beatrice. The Lightness of the Invisible—Ivana Gagić Kičinbači’s Digital Technique. In Brushstrokes—The Technique as Narrative of Contemporary Art, 2025.

  → Abrams, Daniella. Transcending Boundaries: The Metaphysical and Existential Art of Ivana Gagić Kičinbači. Contemporary Art Collectors, 2024.

  → Art Investment & Collectors’ Guide 2025: Most Investable and Prominent Artists. Art Market Experts, 2025.

• Exhibitions

  Selected Exhibitions:

  Active internationally since the early 2000s.

  → Insights (solo), Espace Vision’ Art Gallery, Paris, 2025

  → Soglie / Thresholds, Galleria Tilde, Palermo, 2025

  → Spazi Fluidi, Galleria Tilde, Palermo, 2024

  → Visual Perspectives, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, 2025

  → La Sublime Ossessione, Spazio SV – San Vidal, Venice, 2025

  → New York, I Love You, Agora Gallery, New York, 2025

  → Wonder, curated by Beatrice Cordaro, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome, 2024

• Awards

  → El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes, 2025 (ICM Gestora Cultural, Barcelona)

  → First Prize – Landscapes for the William Turner Award, 2025

  → The New Great Masters in New York – International Prize, 2025

  → Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award, 2024

  → International Prize Leonardo da Vinci, 2023 (Milan)

  → Career Art Award, Effetto Arte Foundation, 2023

• Links

  Official website →https://ivanagagickicinbaci.com.hr

  Saatchi Art →https://www.saatchiart.com/kicinbaci

  Circle Foundation for the Arts →https://circle-arts.com/member/ivana-gagic-kicinbaci/

Calming the Storm, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Venice, 2023. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Touching the Earth, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 100 x 70 cm

The Thin Line, Not So Far Away, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Scenery, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

In the Midst of Cosmic Shift, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Stirred Water, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Well, 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 30 x 30 cm

Poem (Ps 63), 2025. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 80 x 80 cm

Hommage for Love, 2024. Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin, 70 x 100 cm

Ivana Gagić Kičinbači (b. 1980) is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose work explores inner landscapes, presence, and transcendence through abstraction. Working at the intersection of digital drawing, minimalism, and conceptual depth, her practice is defined by restraint, gesture, and atmospheric clarity.

She holds a PhD in Art and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the United States, South America, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. Her work has received significant international recognition, including the El Greco – Premio de las Bellas Artes 2025 and First Prize in Landscapes for the William Turner Award.

Kičinbači’s practice demonstrates consistency, conceptual maturity, and international visibility, positioning her work within a contemporary art context of sustained cultural and long-term collector relevance.

My work is rooted in an exploration of presence and inner experience through abstraction. Using digital drawing and restrained formal language, I focus on gesture, atmosphere, and the balance between movement and stillness. Rather than narrative representation, my practice invites a contemplative engagement, allowing the work to unfold gradually and resonate over time.