Ivana Fischer (b. 1982, Osijek, Croatia) is an artist working across animation, film, and visual arts. She graduated in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2008. She is the recipient of the ESSL ART AWARD CEE (2nd Prize) and the Academy of Fine Arts Award for outstanding academic achievement and her diploma project. In 2012, her film Room was broadcast on ARTE TV, selected for MoMA’s New Directors/New Films program, and awarded the Grand Prix at the Croatian Animation Film Festival. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions and at animated film festivals in Croatia and internationally. She is a member of HZSU and HDLU.
Ivana Fischer explores identity as a fluid and evolving process shaped by time, place, and human relationships. Working across installation, video, photography, collage, and film, her practice examines how history, migration, and cultural contexts influence both personal and collective experiences of selfhood. Through autobiographical elements and audience participation, her work opens space for dialogue, reflection, and questions of belonging, memory, and change.