Ivana Fischer
Ivana Fischer (1982, Osijek) graduated in Animation Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2008. In her practice, she works across video, photography, collage, and installation, exploring how history, migration, cultural contexts, and interpersonal relationships shape personal and collective perceptions of identity. Her work often incorporates autobiographical elements, exploring questions of belonging, memory, and personal transformation.
Her film Room (2012) was broadcast on ARTE TV, awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival of Croatian Animated Film, and selected for New Directors/New Films at MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Since then, her films have been shown at more than thirty international festivals, including Animafest Zagreb, KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, the Bogota Short Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, the Holland Animation Film Festival, Fantasporto in Portugal, VIDEOEX Zurich, Animateka Ljubljana, and the Anibar International Animation Festival in Kosovo.
Ivana Fischer (née Jurić) has also exhibited widely in solo and group shows; selected venues include the National Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb, Varaždin City Museum, the Kazamat Gallery in Osijek, Rundgang, Spinnerei in Leipzig, and the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, Vienna.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Wild Gene (solo), Trotoar, Zagreb, Croatia
2026 In the Footsteps of Strossmayer (with Fedor Fischer), Gallery Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2025 Unusual Newspaper, illustrations for the picture book by Dubravko Detoni, KIC Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2025 Are We Hungry for a Tribe? (Jesmo li gladni plemena?), Poola Gallery, Pula, Croatia
2024 The Tribe (s Fedorom Fischerom), Artdepot Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
2018 Face Blindness (Nevidljivo lice), National Museum of Modern Art – Studio Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Red Book (Crvena knjiga), CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 KO’LAŽ, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2016 Collapse & Collage (with Fedor Fischer), Artdepot Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
2016 Films (Retrospective), Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia
2016 KO’LAŽ, Ring Gallery (Galerija Prsten), HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 Animal Planet (as JUFI), Town Museum of Šibenik, Šibenik, Croatia
2011 Let Us Entertain You (as JUFI), Marisall Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Ivana Jurić, Marisall Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Ivana Jurić, Kazamat Gallery, HDLU Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
2008 Trag Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 8th biennial of painting, Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
2025 8th biennial of painting, GMV Sermage Palace, Zagreb, Croatia
2020 WIKAM, Palais Ferstel / Palais Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria
2018 7th Croatian Biennial of Illustration, Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2018 4th Biennial of Painting, Sermange Palace, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
2017 4th Biennial of Painting, Home of HDLU (Meštrović Pavilion), Zagreb, Croatia
2017 Festival of World Literature Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art – Studio Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 Artdepot Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
2016 Exhibition of Croatian Design 1516, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Maringer Gallery, St. Pölten, Austria
2016 Festival of World Literature Exhibition, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 UNUNSEPTIUM 117, Artdepot Gallery, Innsbruck, Croatia
2014 Festival of World Literature Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art – Studio Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia
2014 Red Carpet Art Award: Royal Dreams – Glorious Future, Opatija, Croatia
2014 32nd Youth Salon,Meštrović Pavilion, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 48th Zagreb Salon: Identity, Meštrović Pavilion, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 Rundgang, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Open Field, Marisall Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010 30th Youth Salon, Meštrović Pavillion, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Women, Marisall Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2009, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria
2009 ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2009, Glyptotheque HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 OSTEN – World Gallery of Drawings, Skopje, Macedonia
2009 Video Barik, Meštrović Pavilion, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Croatian Photography 2009, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
Selected Press
Les Nouveaux Riches. “Ivana Fischer. Interview.” Interview, February 2026. [Link]
Journal. “Kontrolirani kaos umjetnice Ivane Jurić na zanimljivoj izložbu u Zagrebu” Exhibition announcement. Zagreb, Studio Josip Račić, 2018. [Link]
Jutarnji list. “Htjela sam da ljudi razumiju kako ponekad nije riječ o lošem pamćenju, nego poremećaju”, Interview, Zagreb, 2018. [Link]
Kontura Art Magazin 137/138. Interview, Zagreb, July 2017. [Link]
Vizkultura. “Ko’laž”, Press release, 2016. [Link]
Vijenac. “Danas je individualnost postala imperativ”, Interview, Zagreb, 2012. [Link]
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar. Short animated film. “The Room by Ivana Jurić”. Zagreb: Kinorama, 2012. Screened at New Directors/New Films Festival, New York, 2012. [Link]
Publications
Fischer, Ivana. Are We Hungry for a Tribe? Solo exhibition catalogue. Pula: Poola Gallery, 2025. Exhibition. 2025.
Oraić Tolić, Dubravka. Citatnost u književnosti, umjetnosti i kulturi (Kolaž i srodni oblici)/Citationality in Literature, Art, and Culture , 2019. Zagreb, Izdavač: Naklada Ljevak. Ljevak
Marciuš, Željko. Fischer, Ivana. Face Blindness. Solo exhibition catalogue. Zagreb: Modern Gallery Studio “Josip Račić”, 2018.
Croatian Association of Art (HDLU). 4th Biennial of Painting. Group exhibition catalog. Zagreb: Meštrović Pavilion, 2017.
Gavrilović, Feđa. KO’LAŽ. Solo exhibition catalogue. Zagreb: Meštrović Pavilion, 2016.
Počanić, Patricia. Ivana Fischer, Patricija Purgar and Fedor Fischer. Beyond the content. Exhibition catalogue. Poreč: Zuccato Gallery, 2016.
Fischer, Ivana, and Fischer, Fedor. UNUNSEPTIUM 117. Group exhibition catalogue. Innsbruck: Artdepot Gallery, 2015.
Gavrilović, Feđa. 32nd Youth Salon. Group exhibition catalog. Zagreb: Meštrović Pavilion, 2014.
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Miss Anxiety
Welcome Home
Do You Pray
Big Foot
Animan
1991
Deja vu
Family Planning
The Face Is Mine, The Soul Is Theirs
Dark Perception
Woman of a certain age
Hello Doctor!
Little red riding hood
