Nikolina Petolas
Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
About Nikolina Petolas
Nikolina is a visual artist from Zagreb, Croatia. She works in various techniques, such as photo collage, oils and acrylics.
Nikolina feels a profound fascination with human behaviour: with her works she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and effects that endless soul searching has on our lives.
In her metaphorical presentations, from dreamlike landscapes and fantasy scenery to strange and dark characters, creatures and environments, she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.
Nikolina's work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and several art projects.
Her work is included in the largest exhibition of contemporary surrealism art in the world "International Surrealism Now" and is also represented in the prestige "Lexikon phantastischer Künstlerinnen" by Gerhard Habarta.
Events:
Publicatons:
2019 - Klassik magazine, interview
2018 – Adome Chroma magazine, feature
2018 – Infusion Art Magazine, interview
2018 – Master of contemporary fine art, Pedro Boaventura
2018- May - Get inspired magazine, feature
2018 - March, Toner magazine, interview
2017 – December – Lexicon of phantastic arts, Gerhard Habarta
2017 - October, Panorama magazine, interview & magazine feature
2017 – Ferbuary, Str8home, online feature
2017 – January, Highlark, online feature
2017 – Jonathan Levi, Krachtenspel, book cover
2016 – December, Inspades, magazine and online feature
2016 – November, Cultartes Magazine, online feature and interview
2016 – November, ProGetti Smarriti, online feature
2016 – October, Ladder & Key, online feature and interview
2016 – October, Paul Kalanithi, När andetagen blir till luft, book cover
2016 – October, Get Inspired Magazine, magazine cover and feature
2016 – Above Art, Illusory Worlds, online magazine feature
2016 – April, Portfoliobox, online feature and interview
2016 – February, James Oswald, The Damage Done: Inspector McLean 6, publisher Michael Joseph, book cover
2016 – June, Oliver Sacks, Een Antropolog op Mars, publisher De Bezige B, book cover
2016 – June, Lisa Chaplin, The Tide Watchers, publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks , book cover
2015 – October, Saskia Sarginson, Eva 17, izdavač Newton Compton Editori, book cover
2015 – September, Times of Youth, online feature
2015 – September, John Mason, Proverbs Prayers , publisher Baker, book cover
2015 – August, Simona Toma, Mi chiamano Ada, publisher Sperling & Kupfer, book cover
2015 – August, Revista Falacia, magazine feature
2014 – September Adore Chroma, magazine cover and feature
2014 – July, Visual Artistry, magazine feature
2014 – May, Imaginarium, Tribute to Photography, feature
2014 – April - Komorebi Magazine – feature
2014 – Kelley Armstrong, Visions, book cover
2014 – May - Scott Ostrfld, Ugly, publisher Graf Publishing, book cover
2014 - Patricia Harman, Fra hjertet - en jordemoders rejse, publisher “Cicero”, book cover
2014 – July, Dark Beauty Magazine, online feature
2014 – January, Rachel Urquhart, The Visionist, publisher “Simon & Schuste”, book cover
Exhibitions:
My work is included in Saatchi collections including:
"Best of year 2018"
"New this week" 4-30-2018
"Contemporary takes on Surrealism""
"Contemporary Photography"
"Hot Shots: New Photography"
2019 - 19th January - International Surrealism Now, 13th edition, Municipal Gallery Antonio Vitorino, Viera de Leiria
2018 - 21st November - 02nd December - 38th Salon Zagreb, exhibition of awarded photographs, Croatia
2018 - 17th November - International Surrealism Now, Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 8th - 12th November - Yixian International Photo Festival, Xidi, China
2018- 9th - 11th November - ImageNation Paris, Paris, France
2018 - 25 May - 1 July - Through art ~ resist and recover, Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, US
2018 - 06th April - 20th April - Fiarte IX,Churriana de la Vega, Spain
2017- December 23rd - January 5th, Poros Museum, International Surrealism Now, Condeixa Nova, Portugal
2017 - August 5th - 10th - Pamali Festival, Treviso, Italy
2017 - July 1st - 5th August - Circle Seven, Callas Bremen, Germany
2017 - May 20th - June, Kombinart, Noć Muzeja, Square of Sabac Victims, Sabac, Serbia
2017 - May 13th - 11th June - 'Real - Surreal - Unreal' / Villa Berberich, Parkstrasse 1,D 79713, Bad Säckingen / Germany
2017 - April 28th - 30th - Münchner Science & Fiction Festival, Einstein Culture Einsteinstraße 42, 81675 Munich, Germany
2017 - March - FERIA INTERNACIONAL DEL ARTE DE GRANADA - Spain-
2017 - March 25th - 25th April, Reality we live in, Square of Sabac victims, Sabac, Serbia / exhibition opening 25th March, 17h
2017 - March 06th - 12th - BookiLL fest, Novosadski Sajam, Novi Sad, Serbia
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2016 - December 21st - 31 January, Surrealism Zagreb, Paris, Lisbon, Coimbra - Coimbra , Portugal
2016 – December 5th – 08th – museum of city Sibenik, Sibenik, Croatia
2016 – November 9th - 24th – museum Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 - September 24th - 20th November, Phototek, Esbjerg, Denmark
2016 - September, 9th - 10th, Citylab Bremen, Germany
2016 - April, 2nd - 24th, 'Balance', Callas Bremen, Germany
2016 - February, 11th - 28th, Espaço Partícula, Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - February - 5th - 20th March, "Crossover", Art Central Bremen, Germany
2015 - June - 12th - 30th , "Mixed up" Flora Expo Center, Burgas, Bulgaria
2015 - February - 07th - 21st March, "Circle Seven" Callas Bremen, Germany
