BIOGRAPHY
Ana Ratković Sobota (b. 1988, Zagreb, Croatia) is a visual artist and art educator specializing in experimental batik on silk and cotton. In 2013, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Art Education.
In 2024, she developed and carried out an educational and research project in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, centered on traditional batik techniques, stamp making using recycled paper, and plant-based dyeing.
Ratković Sobota's works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally. Notable solo exhibitions include Forest at Lauba (2018), Tokamachi Central Center-Danjuro, Japan (2018), Lakes at the Josip Račić Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art in
Zagreb (2022), Nature and Society at the Kazamat Gallery in Osijek (2023), Trace of Colour at the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb (2024), and Sun Garden at the SC Gallery in Zagreb (2025). Recent group exhibitions include the 37th Youth Salon at the Meštrović Pavilion (2024), the 42nd Split Salon at Galić Gallery (2024), Drava Art Biennale at the Koprivnica Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, and the Gallery of Fine Arts in Slavonski Brod (2024), and How to Look at Nature? - Art and
Capitalocene at the Meštrović Pavilion (2023).
Her works have been presented at international exhibitions such as I Have a Story at the Anadolu Hamidiye Tabyasi Hangar in Canakkale, Turkey (2022), Looping Reality at CSO Ada Ankara in Turkey (2023), and Known Unknowns at Westpol A.I.R. space, Leipzig, Germany (2019). In 2024, she exhibited works created during her residency in Indonesia as part of the Matra Kriya Festival at Taman Budaya in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
She has also contributed to public art projects, painting the KBC Rebro hospital in Zagreb as part of the Aestheticization and Rehumanization of Public Spaces project (2017), the closed ward of the Požega Penitentiary (2018), and the Karlovac Prison (2022).
Ratković Sobota participated in artist residencies at Omah Kreatif Dongaji, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2024), and De/Konstruction of Painting, Hafenkombinat, Leipzig, Germany (2019). In 2023, she conducted a series of visual arts workshops with inmates at the Zagreb Prison Hospital as part of the project funded by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia.