Olga Jančić

Olga Jančić (Bitolj, 1929 — Beograd, 25.10.2012)

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She alternately studied sculpture in the classes of prof. Lojz Dolinar and Tom Rosandić (1950 to 1955). In 1955, the master workshop was visited by the famous Henry Moore, who was in Belgrade on the occasion of his exhibition in the “Cvijeta Zuzorić” Pavilion. Four years later, she herself visited Moore, as part of a scholarship to stay in Paris and London. Olga Jančić was one of the founders of the Prostor 8 group, which organized an exhibition in an open space for the first time in Belgrade, in the Tašmajdan park, in 1957. Olga Jančić had her first solo exhibition in Belgrade in 1959. In the early 60s, she exhibited and received awards at the first Fine Arts Triennial in Belgrade and the Mediterranean Biennial in Alexandria. In 1962, she participated in the 31st Biennale in Venice. In the mid-70s, she was invited to the International Symposium in Vancouver. At the beginning of the 80s, she exhibited in Labin, Pula, Karara, Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, and in 1984 she received an award for sculpture at the 25th October Salon in Belgrade. In 1993, Olga Jančić presented the Belgrade Assembly with a bequest of 90 sculptures from her oeuvre (74 in bronze and 16 in plaster).
Olga Jančić was a participant in the International Terracotta Terracotta Sculpture Symposium in 1996.

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