Ivezić Nikolina – Hands Up

She was born in 1970 in Zagreb where she also completed the School of Applied Arts and Design. She then enrolled in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, graduating in 1998 in the class of Prof. E. Kokot. She has exhibited in about thirty solo and one hundred group exhibitions at home and abroad. She has received several awards, including the 1st prize from DAAK, Carlsberg. She engages in conceptual art, interior design, illustration, always with socially engaged themes – questioning, i.e., analyzing the patterns imposed by society, criticizing globalization, mass media, and commercialization of religion. She uses pop-art and nudity to caricature society. She became known for decorating the ambiances of Zagreb’s Tvornica, Melina, and the Faculty of Philosophy café, and is recognized for her reliefs of women with large breasts made using colored layered styrofoam and thin metal plates. She is a member of HDLU and ZUH and lives and works in Zagreb.