Anica Govedarica

Croatian artist living in Portugal. Since her first individual exhibition in 1997 she's been dedicating herself completely to art.
She's been exhibited individually both in Croatia and Portugal and participated in numerous group shows.
Her work is included in “Artist to look out for”, a publication released by the Starry Night Retreat in 2014.

Through my paintings I want to interpret the world as I see it, feel it or think about it. With the interaction between colors I’m searching for new shapes and also to create a dialogue among them. My intention is to transmit to the observer different emotions, involve him into my inner dialogue. What is very important for me in the creative process of each work is to generate harmony. Even when I want to express despair, injustice or sorrow I need to find balance and harmonic rhythm. Although we live in a fast changing environment and being surrounded by suffering and most of us have had some kind of extreme experience, there is a kind of constant line witch extend all through human existence. In my paintings I’m not trying to imitate nature, I want to create some kind of a narrative beyond obvious appearances, the kind I can’t express with words or simply represent with familiar fa...

Studied painting between 1992-1997 with Croatian painter E.R.Tanay in Zagreb.

Individual exhibitions, duo/trio exhibition:
2021 : Municipal Gallery Artur Bual, Amadora, Portugal
2019/20 - Galeria Cascais and Estoril Parish Council, Portugal
2019 - Espaço Artever, Associação de Artes Plásticas da Amadora
2019 : FOLIO, Internacional Literary Festival Óbidos
2018 - Casa da Cultura dos Olivais, Lisboa
2018 - FOLIO, Internacional Literary Festival Óbidos, Casa José Saramago, exhibition in honor of Croatian writer Predrag Matvejevitch and his work “ Breviário
Mediterrânico”
2018 -Venteira Parish Council, Espaço Delfim Guimarães, Amadora
2017 : Ler Devagar, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 : Centro de Cultura e Desporto do Crédito Agricola Mútuo, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 : El Pep Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 : Centro de Arte Contemporânea da Amadora, Portugal
Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
Espaço Santa Casa, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 : Samoborski Muzej (City Museum), Samobor, Croatia
Dvorac Gredice, Zabok, Croatia
2003 : Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisbon, Portugal
2002 : Quebra Costas, Coimbra, Portugal
Gallery Chora Musica, Almada, Portugal
2001 : Loreto, Lisboa, Portugal
2000 : Art Gallery Santa Rita, Colares, Portugal
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