Tomislav Topić

Born in 1985 in Hannover, Germany, Tomislav Topić is an artist whose practice delves into a comprehensive inquiry into colour and colour theory. After studying Colour Design at the University of Applied Science and Art, Hildesheim, Germany, as well as at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA, his curiosity was piqued by encounters with non-representational and American Expressionist art. Combined with a history of graffiti writing in his youth, this led Tomislav to develop an agile and rhythmic approach to painting — one that unites and transcends the boundaries between academic art and urban art.

His process involves a calculative approach to colour combinations, working across canvas and wall, diffusing a sharp gestural style with gradients created using a variety of paints. Colour and form are elevated to the sole and primary content of his work, enabling him to create paintings and installations that allow the viewer to experience art in a direct and immediate way. 

While painting, Tomislav enters a state of deep immersion, almost a meditative act of control and letting go. He states, "The process is a play between chaos and clarity, between turmoil and ecstasy. I allow my intuition to guide the gestures that make marks onto a surface, colliding two states of being the child who resists rules and seeks to preserve an untamed sensation and the adult who has absorbed colours, experiences, and moments, now distilling and merging into a united singular expression."

Tomislav's oeuvre as an independent artist and as part of the duo Quintessenz until 2020 includes numerous site-specific installations and murals worldwide. For more than a decade, his work has received increasing international recognition, having been exhibited with ArtNow Gallery, Berlin; DANYSZ Gallery, Paris; Straat Museum, Amsterdam; and Fondation Fiminco, Paris, among others. His work has been presented at public art festivals and artist residencies across Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Mauritius, Qatar, Georgia, the USA, China, and India, where with Gallery XXL, he presented his first solo exhibition Temperatures in 2025.

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