Ivezić Nikolina – Boom BoomBoom

About the author:She was born in 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia, 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. Eugen Kokot. She has exhibited in about thirty solo and a hundred group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 1st prize of DAAK, Carlsberg. She works in conceptual art, interior design, illustration, always with socially engaged themes – questioning and analyzing societal templates, criticizing globalization, mass media, and the commercialization of religion. She uses pop art and nudity to caricature society. She became well known for designing the ambiances of Zagreb’s Tvornica, the Melin café, and the Faculty of Philosophy café, and is recognizable by her reliefs of women with large breasts made using colored layered styrofoam and thin metal plates. She is a member of HDLU, HULULK, and ZUH. She lives and works in Zagreb.