Branka Ridicki

Branka Ridicki (b. 1966, Zadar, Croatia) earned her BA and MA in History of Art and Italian Literature and Language at the University of Zagreb. She has worked as an independent documentary film producer and film-maker since 1991, and began her career as an artist in 2001. She is based in Zagreb, but divides her time between Croatia and Sri Lanka. Branka is best known for the itinerary and cartographic elements in her paintings marked with fragments of urban architecture. This stems from the cultural framework she grew up in, within the historical urban architecture of her native town, Zadar. She preserved this inclination and reinforced it in the context of multicultural experiences, throughout her constant relocations to New York, Cairo and Colombo.

In Faces of the Town, her paintings develop the theme of a town that is not a megalopolis, but a place where space and time are perceived on a small scale. She combines different viewpoints, presenting the town from a bird's eye view, while the houses appear in a two-dimensional profile. With this approach she creates a disengaged space which opens the way to different variations of a single story. Addressing public spaces through poetic and creative play on the concept of town...

BA and MA, Art History and Italian Language and Literature, Zagreb University, Croatia

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Nov 2016: Faces of the City, Vladimir Filakovac Gallery, Zagreb, HR
Aug 2016: Vrata grada/City Gate, Kapetanova Kula Gallery, Zadar, HR
Oct 2015: Colombo Fashion Week, Frame in partnership with ARTRA, Galle, SL
Aug 2015: Faces of the Earth, three persons exhibition with Jasna Barisic and Andrea Musa, Branislav Deskovic gallery, Bol, island Brac, HR
July 2015: Faces of the Earth, three persons exhibition with Jasna Barisic and Andrea Musa, Forth George, Town Vis, island Vis, HR
Aug 2014: Traces, two persons exhibition with Jasna Barisic, Hvar Heritage Museum, Town Hvar, island Hvar, HR
July 2014: Stories About Cities, Saskia Fernando Gallery, Galle, Sri Lanka
May 2014: Stories About Cities, Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, SL
Jul 2011: Urban Traces, Captain's Tower Gallery, Zadar, HR
April 2010: Viaggio (installation) Museum of Ancient Glass, Zadar, HR
Nov 2007: Viaggio, (installation), Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Mahmoud Mokhtar Cultural Centre, Cairo, ET


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
May 2017: International Visual Arts Exhibition 2017, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, SL
June 2016: Imago Mundi Sri Lanka, Benetton Foundation, curator Amanullah Mojadidi, SL
April 2016: Untitled, Bearfoot Ga...