Frieze Seoul 2026: Djordje Ivačković

Double Q is delighted to announce its first participation in Frieze Seoul with a solo presentation of the late Serbian-French artist Djordje Ivačković (1930 – 2012) in the Spotlight section.  Curated by Wonseok Koh., the Spotlight section is dedicated to solo presentations of 20th-century artists. 

An abstract painter and avant-garde jazz musician, Ivačković was associated with post-war American abstract expressionism and French lyrical abstraction. At the early stage of his artistic career, Ivačković had already developed a recognizable visual expression – the monochromatic paintings experienced primarily as the results of the physical and gestural act of the body, painting signs and symbols inspired by jazz music.

Born in Horgoš, Yugoslavia in 1930, Ivačković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1955 and lived and worked in Paris, France from 1961 until his passing in 2012. His works have been widely exhibited in France and Serbia and can be found in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.