Anto Kajinić 

1953–2023

Hommage

May 11–27, 2023

Opening: May 11 at 8 p.m.

Exhibition dedicated to the recently deceased academic painter and professor Anto Kajinić.

“The National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina lost three dear friends in a relatively short period of time, and the art scene lost three great artist. Jagoda Buić and Franjo Likar left recently, and now unexpectedly, too soon, Anto Kajinić also left.
Dear friend, collaborator, man who marked the art scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A painter with a rare modern sensibility, an art activist, initiator and long-time dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, founder of the magazine Akademija and art theoretician, excellent art pedagogue.
He exhibited at numerous solo and collective exhibitions, was the founder and active member of the art group KAMMEN, head of the post-graduate study Ars Sacra at the Academy in Široki Brijeg, head of the PULS colony…
He built bridges between artists, Academies, friends…
He will be fondly remembered by all of us who had the privilege of knowing him and being friends with him.” Strajo Krsmanović, director of the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anto Kajinić (Modriča, BiH, 1953 – Zagreb, Croatia, 2023) graduated in 1977 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, in the Department of Painting. He was a member of the group KAMMEN (Kajinić Anto, Mirko Marić, Edin Numankadić). One of the founders and managers of the sculptor’s colony in Zenica in 1991. Since 1996, he works as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg. Since 2005, he has been a professor of Drawing at the University of Dubrovnik. Anto Kajinić had many solo and group exhibitions and he is a recipient of several significant awards and recognitions.⁠