FAMOUS ARTIST

OLJA IVANJICKI

 Olja was a well-known Serbian contemporary artist, in fields such as sculpture, poetry, costume design, architecture and writing, but was best known for her painting. She had no fewer than 87 individual exhibitions at home and abroad. She was born on 10 th May in Pančevo. EARLY YEARS

MEDIALA  Active since the 1950s, she came to prominence in Serbia with Mediala, a group of painters, writers, and architects, founded in 1959, which had a significant impact on Belgrade's public and cultural life in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Ivanjicki was the only female painter in the Mediala group.

AT HER GALLERY…

 She was a member of ULUS, a Belgrade artists' association, and a one-time Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Institute and a Deputy Director General of the International Biographical Center based in Cambridge, England.

„ Уопште не знам колико знам. Знам и оно што ми још није пало на памет.” — Оља Ивањицки

THANKS FOR WATCHING!  Olja Ivanjicki died on 24 June 2009 in Belgrade, aged 78, from undisclosed causes. RIP