Nikolina Butorac

In my artistic activity, I re-examine own responsibility towards social and environmental events that surround me, and research about possibilities of overlapping individual and collective experiences. The focus of my work is on migration-transition and climate change narratives. Within them, I’m materializing a trigger that will turn on and amplify dominant characteristics in spectators, such as altruism, empathy, kindness and community feeling. As an elementary school art teacher, I can see the emotional burden of climate change in children. Talking to younger generations about climate changes narratives, gives a fresh perspective on the absurdity of doing so little about the climate emergency, highlighting the troubling disconnection between what politicians say and what they do in reality.We have to find a way to face our vulnerability, painful truths, collective denial, grief and loss, developing the emotionally informed and sustainable actions desperately needed.

Graduated with a Master in New Media(2012) at the University of Zagreb. She completed a Bachelor in Graphic (2010), and Teaching (2012).

Butorac has undertaken residencies in Finland; Rauma (2014) where she created a participatory installation of herbs in collaboration with elementary school children. In 2016, she participated in the Art Research Lab Ars Kozara in BiH, with land art installation: „A moment now“. In 2017, she was on a residency programme at Cultivamos Cultura, in São Luis, Portugal, where she made interventions in public spaces titled ‘’ When did you fall in love with knowledge?’’

International Residences:

2015; Rauma Artist in Residence Community Art Program, Finland, Installation ”Mother Earth”
2016; Ars Kozara, Artist in residence program, Bosnia and Herzegovina, land art, ”Moment now”
2017; Artist in Residence, Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal, installation in public space: ”When did you fall in love with knowledge?”


Exhibitions and Performance pieces:
2013; HDLU Gallery, project Taktile Form of the Past, performance ”Slapping”.
2013; Days of Performace in Osijek , Performance ”Plants of Strength”
Days of Perfomance in Rijeka, Performance ”Teas Against”
2014; Perforations Festival, Zagreb ” Teas against ”
2016; Performance: ”Notes on Scent”, Artum Exhibition, Umag town Museum
My land Štaglinec, Vlasta Delimar’s International Meetings for Artists, Participatory Performance:
”Trifolium Vincit Omnia”
2017; Performance: ”Recipe for noticing living elements in the city”, island Krk
2018. Performative Case Studies, Performance:” Rights of Students”
2018. Festival Perforacije, Rijeka, Performance:” Behind the Red”
2018. 16th.Festival of Firsts, The Age of Emptiness, Edible / sound installation in space and
performance: ”Home of Emptiness ”
2019. Summer in MSU, Participatory Performance: Absorbed home
2019. Grisa...