"Recalling memories of places from her childhood, Branka Ridicki travels through her own imaginary cities, from those already experienced, to those yet to come. She walks down cobbled streets, reviving an ancient town and shaping an innovative structure for additional formulation. Thus embraced cities exist in her thoughts, colored by the light of the Mediterranean, washed in the atmosphere of the permanent and the imperishable. Columns, towers, fortifications, rows of houses, dwellings and walls make up the matter of untold history of a city's heritage, narrations of past architectural structures that witness lasting changes and returns. She revives, lives through and remolds the complexity of her journeys through time and space, expanding them with new migrations and life adventures. By combining the past and present, she creates her own iconography of the abstract and recognizable, universal and personal."


Marijana Paula Ferenčić, 2016






Branka Ridicki is a visual artist, curator, educator, and cultural practitioner whose practice connects painting, curating, international artistic exchange, and documentary work. She holds degrees in History of Art and Italian Language and Literature (MA in Art) from the University of Zagreb.
Her artistic practice is rooted primarily in painting and mixed media and has been presented extensively in Croatia and internationally. Her exhibitions and projects have taken place in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions across Europe and beyond, including Croatia, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Greece, Germany, Italy, Jordan, the USA, and Réunion. She has participated in international biennales, art festivals, thematic projects, and artist residencies, including the 10th Cairo International Biennale, the Mediterranean Biennale, Art Zagreb, and the 49th ZILIK Winter Art Colony.
Ridicki is the founder and curator of Three Little Birds Artist Residency in Janja Gora, established as a platform for artistic exchange and creative research. Her curatorial and collaborative projects include Manifestations of Space, Faces of Earth, Viaggio, Dialogues, and Connecting People, Connecting Cultures.
Her practice also extends into documentary film, where she has worked as researcher, writer, director, associate producer, and executive producer on projects addressing art, culture, history, religion, and intercultural dialogue. Across these fields, she develops a practice grounded in artistic encounter, cultural exchange, and engagement with different places and communities.




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