Bio

Ana Ivanovska (born in 1982 in Skopje, Macedonia) graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University) in Skopje, Macedonia (2006) at the painting department and course of conservation and restoration in the class of professor Blagoja Manevski. In 2007 she finishes the Pedagogical Department and in 2011 she received Master degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts — Skopje at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University (mentor, professor Blagoja Manevski).

Ana is a member of Association of Artists of Macedonia (DLUM) since 2006. She is also one of the founders of the art group and cultural alternative art exhibition space Art I.N.S.T.I.T.U.T. (2009 — 2011) in Skopje. In 2012 she became part of the seven members (founders) of the female artist group "MOMI" (LADIES) which is still active with new creative projects in the Macedonian art scene. She is now owner and manager of the company "Artist Workshop — Creative Puzzle" founded in 2014 and has a status as Independent Artist from Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia since 2015.

Furthermore, her work has been presented in various solo and group exhibitions, performances, art colonies, festivals and workshops in Macedonia and outside the country (USA — New York City, Canada, France, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Mongolia, China, Austria, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Monte Negro, Kosovo, Albania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Ana Ivanovska won the Young Visual Artist Annual Award, "Denes" by the Contemporary Art Center (2008), Award for sculpture awarded by the Association of Artists of Macedonia at the “Annual Exhibition of Association of Artists of Macedonia” (2017) and was representative of Republic of Macedonia in the international competition, the VII Francophone Games in the field of sculpture-installation in Nice, France (2013).

She took part in several artist residencies: Papradishte, mountin Solunska Glava, R. North Macedonia, Collective Windmill, Zadruga 5060, EK Green Power and Partisan Print (1 week), 2019; Tirana and Korcha, Albania, scholarship from Swiss Cultural Fund Albania (SCFA) and Gallery Kalo (2 weeks), 2019; Berlin, Germany at “Prima Center”, scholarship from Ministry of Culture of Macedonia (2 weeks) (2018); Paris, France at "Cite Internationale des Arts", scholarship from Ministry of Culture of Macedonia (2 mounts), 2014; Vienna, Austria, scholarship by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (3 months), 2011; New York City, USA, 6 weeks at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) as a winner of the YVAA (Young Visual Artist Award) "Denes", scholarship from the Foundation for a Civil Society (NY) in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Skopje, 2009.

Her artistic endeavors are characterized with working and exploring diverse media, combining them and openly moving between the productions of installations, objects, paintings, drawings, collages, video installation etc.

"Ana Ivanovska has inclination towards ambitious spatial situations based on the interpretation and presentation of various archetypal representations. The strongly expressed symbolism and spatial relations in her works are perceived at first glance, and regardless of whether they refer to the treatment of a certain topic, material, colour selection, etc., we are faced with an author who continually pays attention both to the sensory, as well as to the complete contemplative experience. The complex realizations of her works — ambient/installations, dominating with their large(r) dimensions — are differentiated through several focus points: the experience and treatment of space; the use of the material; the geometric and colouristic symbolism" — Maja Chankulovska-Mihajlovska.