Black mountains, 2024

Ivana Olbricht  

An established internationally collected abstract artist born in 1978 in Slovakia. Ivana Olbricht is well known mainly for her statement and bold artworks. Her unique technique is applied in various subjects and styles from the abstract landscape, vivid and colourful expressionism to clean minimalism. Thanks to layering and spontaneous colour blending her paintings are full of details, texture and movement. Not only her paintings give a viewer the visual experience but they bring along a message and positive emotions.

Ivana Olbricht graduated from analytical chemistry, but she exchanged the lab for a studio. She sees the world as a spectrum of colours, breaks the reality into the pieces, she looks under the surface, she highlights the important fragments and brings them to the surface.

She doesn't believe in mistakes and doesn't plan the outcome of the artwork. Many years of experience have taught her to listens to her intuition. She stops painting once she feels satisfied with the piece. Her work on canvas is innovative and experimental. Ivana observes life and situations from ''a distance'' and adopts it into her works.

She is inspired by her travel experience around the globe, meeting different cultures, by the positive and the negative experiences, the magic of the forest, quiet seashores, children's laughter, lights of the cities, the sweetness of candies – simply by everything.

Education: Self- taught.

Awards & Distinctions:

Publication - Featured in the printed home design magazine- ''Moj Dom'' ( My home) - 2018

Publication - an interview with the founder of Leoneli Art - 2018

Exhibitions:

The Other Art fair London 2022 - West Handyside Canopy, Kings Cross - London, United Kingdom

Solo exhibition - Gold in art - 1.10.2020 - 15.11.2020 - Museum of Kremnica - Slovakia

Red Dot Miami - Miami - December 2019

Hyatt design plus - Miami - December 2019

Represented by Galerie du Monde, Haslemere, Surrey UK - ongoing

Group exhibition - Gallerie Style - Bratislava - March 2018

International Contemporary Art / Luxembourg Art Fair - Luxemburg, Luxembourg 2018

A mountain hotel - Solo Exhibition - What's left from the Glacier'' - September 2017

Group exhibition - Gallerie Style - Bratislava - March 2018

Artistic Influences:

I am influenced by the need of sharing the positivity, trying to point on the importance to look at everything from a higher perspective, just to enjoy simple things around us tangible as well as spiritual.