Binasa Memic

Binasa Memić is a Bosnian abstract painter whose practice explores the intersection of geometric abstraction and expressionism. Her work investigates the dynamics of color relationships, the symbolism of structure, and the psychological weight of form. Through a balance of calculated geometry and emotive, expressive backgrounds, Memić constructs visual fields that oscillate between order and rupture. Her paintings often engage with themes of human limitation, technological imposition, and the fragile boundary between natural instinct and external control.

Influenced by both modernist traditions and the rich visual culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina—including the motifs of the Bosnian kilim—Memić creates compositions that are at once rigorous and intuitively felt. She considers each piece a philosophical fragment, a silent architecture of thought translated into chromatic rhythm and tension.

Memić earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. She has exhibited in Sarajevo, Mostar, St. Petersburg, Velika Plana, Karlovac, and Srebrenik, among others. Her work has been shown at venues such as the Collegium Artisticum, Galerija Roman Petrović, and the Novi Hram Gallery as part of t...

October 2023 - September 2024
Master of Fine Arts - Painting
Academy of fine arts Sarajevo;
September 2019 - July 2023
Bachelor of fine art - painting / Academic painter
Academy of fine arts Sarajevo
VI semester, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 2022.;
September 2015 - June 2019
Art technician for applied painting
High School of Applied Arts Sarajevo

Solo Exhibitions:

Exhibition "Winter Peak", Sarajevo Winter 2025, Gallery Novi Hram, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025.

Exhibition "Olympic Dream and Reality", Sarajevo Winter 2025, Mountain Lodge "Trebević", Trebević, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025.

Solo exhibition "Rhythm of Geometry", SPKD Gallery “Prosvjeta”, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024.

First solo exhibition "Abstract Dialogues", Municipality of Novi Grad Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024.

Group Exhibitions:

Easter Exhibition, ULUHKD Napredak, Gallery of the St. Anthony Monastery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025.

Traditional Annual Selective Group Exhibition on the occasion of April 6 – Sarajevo City Day, “Collegium Artisticum” Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025.

Remembering through Art, online exhibition of the No-oblivion project, 2025.

Exhibition of the 26th Spring Art Salon, CZK “Masuka” Gallery, Velika Plana, Serbia, 2025.

Master Degree Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025.

International Festival “Around the World: Art Without Borders,” exhibition “The World Through the Eyes of Artists”, Stieglitz Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2025.

Počitelj Story, exhibit...