Bio – Nikolina Žabčić

Biography

Hi! I'm Nikolina Žabčić

Nikolina Žabčić is an animator, illustrator, art director and designer and so far, she has had the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, and some of the larger and more well-known are: T-com, Fashion HR, Jgl, T-com, Hanza Media, Artupunktura and 01 Content & Technology.
Here you can find some of her professional works as well as her private illustrations, graphics and posters.

Awards

2018 / Two winning illustrations applied to Animafest festival badges
2018 / Winning visual for the "Perforacije" festival
2019 / Rector's Award / Great team artistic work Gustav Mahler's opera performance "From the Wonderful Boy's Horn", collaboration between the Academy of Music, the Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts
2019 / third place in the public competition for the creation of the main visual of the Festival of World Literature
2020 / Rector's Award / "Ghandi 100" Project
2021. / Rector's award / "Art against fear" project
2021 / Rector's Award / Opera "Sour Angelica"
2021 / Creation of the winning visual for the World Literature Festival poster
2021 / Direction for the production of an animated credits for the student category of the festival "Animafest"
2022 / Special award "Sheep in a box" for popularizing the Croatian picture book / "I am a child" picture book
2022 / Rector's Award / Opera "Animal Farm" / project of the Academy of Music, Academy of Fine Arts and Drama Academy in Zagreb
2023 / ASIFA International Animation Day Award - category: best student film “Ma” Love is a Color!”
2024 / ASIFA Student award - category: best student film “Ma” Love is a Color!”

Publications

2019. – projekt Fashion DNA – INTERVJU

2019. – Projekt ”Pogled u budućnost” Večernji list

2019. – Express intervju – INTERVJU

2020. – Dalmacija danas – INTERVJU

2020. – Projekt ONI

2020. – Arteist – INTERVJU

2020. – Culturehub – Kultura na pauzi

2021. – GRAZIA Intervju – INTERVJU

2021. – Zagreb Info – INTERVJU

2021. – HRT – INTERVJU

2021. – Dnevno Hr

2021. – FASHION HR

2021. – Osmi hrvatski biennale ilustracije

WORKS IN PUBLIC PLACES

2019 / I want to break free" - mural - Zagreb, billboards in front of the Zoo
2019 / "Martini party" - mural - Zagreb, billboards in front of the Zoo
2019 / "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" - mural - Zagreb, panels in front of the Zoo
2020 / "Sun slide" - mural - painting of the office for students with disabilities in the Stjepan Radić dormitory
2021 / reinterpretation of Murtić's work in front of the Academy of Fine Arts - mural - Zagreb
2021 / "Sea harmony" - mural - painting as part of the Art project Academy - panels in front of the Zoo - Zagreb
2022 / “Devil on vacation” – mural painted as part of the “Indirekt” Music Festival - Umag
2023 / "Dance of life" - mural - interior painting of "KBC" hospital - Zagreb
2023 / "Hell's team on annual vacation" - mural - Indirekt festival - Umag
2024 / “Zekaona” mural in the working area of the children's playroom for preschoolers

Experience

Inependent exhibition

2017 / Library of the city of Zagreb Špansko / Zagreb / "If only we had them all at home"
2019 / Hostel Tresor / Ljubljana / "KNOCK KNOCK, What month is it today"
2019 / Galerija Crta / Zagreb / "I am a windmill that looks at the sun"
2019 / Info zone / Split / "Little distractions"
2021 / Galerija Šira / Zagreb / "Snovonoša"
2022 / Cloverfield Gallery / Zagreb / solo exhibition of illustrations and promotion of the picture book “Love, more love, the most loveable”
2022 / Kinoteka / Zagreb
2022 / Cloverfield Gallery / Zagreb / Večernji list project on the topic of “Neanderthals”

Group exhibition

2018 / Zagreb / Exhibition of drawings and paintings based on literary motifs as part of the Festival of World Literature - Račić Gallery
2018 / Zagreb / Pay and carry – Bačva
2018 / Slavonski brod / "Sava" Watercolor Colony – Ružić Gallery
2019 / Zagreb / The future in 2068 – Journalist House
2019 / Zagreb / Anniversary of Ghandi's death - Vatroslav Lisinski
2019 / Zagreb / Pasionska baština - Galerija Šira
2019 / Samobor / 2nd Samobor Salon - Prica Gallery
2019 / Rovinj / Grisia
2019 / Zagreb / Books of our streets – Archaeological Museum
2019 / Zagreb / Exhibition of drawings and paintings based on literary motifs as part of the Festival of World Literature - Račić Gallery
2019 / Zagreb / Exhibition of posters made for the Festival of World Literature - Šira Gallery
2019 / Zagreb / Pay and carry – Bačva
2019 / Slavonski brod / "Sava" Watercolor colony - Ružić Gallery
2020 / Zagreb / HDLU's virtual exhibition The Challenge of Freedom
2020 / International project "We are" based in New York
2020 / Zagreb / Exhibition of drawings and paintings inspired by literary works as part of the Festival of World Literature - Galerija Šira
2020 / Zagreb / Project Ilica
2020 / Zagreb / Anti salon – Galerija Siva
2020 / Zagreb / Art against fear – Šira Gallery
2020 / Zagreb / Art Zagreb – Technical Museum
2020 / Nova Gradiška / All faces of Croatia
2020 / Slavonski brod / "Sava" Watercolor Colony - Ružić Gallery
2021 / Belgrade / Ilustrofest
2021 / Zagreb / Project Ilica
2021 / Zagreb / Exhibition of illustrations on the occasion of Mother's Day - King Cross
2021 / Samobor / International Student Illustration Biennial - Bunker
2021 / Zagreb / Artupuncture
2022 / Karlovac, Slavonski Brod, Zagreb / Watercolor Triennial 2022.
2022 / Osijek / Knifer Gallery - “How I See the Future”

Art projects

2016 - Design Week (#tdzg#), Lauba - custodian of exhibited design works of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, Zzid community
2017 - Little Engineers" project - holding workshops with Lego blocks for lower grades of primary schools in various locations in the city of Zagreb
2018 - Večernji list project "FUTURE IN 2068" - creation of illustrations for articles written on a given topic that were published in the Večernji list newspaper on a weekly basis
2019 - Project "Calling all creators", which is a collaboration between Projekt Ilica and Adidas - Participation with an illustration called "Your city, your playground", which won 2nd place
2019 - Project "Books of our streets" - making an illustration for the song "Blue Rivers" by Mako Dizdar
2019 - Gustav Mahler's opera "From the Wonderful Boy's Horn" - production of the main visuals of the opera, brochures and visuals for the website of the Academy of Music
2019 - The dictionary "Brotherhood" - illustrating a word chosen at random from the dictionary Brotherhood, which I ultimately had the opportunity to illustrate
2019 - Fashion DNA - creation of an illustration entitled "Date of the 21st Century"
2020 - Q"ART because WE ARE THE CITY, Project Ilica - from Frankopanska to Primorska, sale of works at stands from 07.06. to 14.09.2020.
2020 - The international project "We are" of the MATRIZ organization based in New York, as part of which a virtual 3D exhibition of selected works of 34 female artists around the world was created
2020 - "ONI" calendar - one of 13 illustrators who participated in illustrating the calendar made for humanitarian purposes and donating the collected money to the Fireworks Association
2021 - published the 1st independent picture book "The Dream Bearer" by Igor Rajki, published by Little Bells
2021 - Q"ART because WE ARE THE CITY, Project Ilica - from Frankopanska to Primorska, sale of works at stands
2021 - animated credits of this year's Animafest for the student category - production of animated credits under own direction
2021 - Empowering dance project - main coordinator and mentor of students during the creation of an animated video under his own direction
2021 - "Fairytale of the 21st Century" workshops at GKM - conducting a workshop for the elderly and the younger, where the entire process of creating a picture book that will ultimately be produced at the beginning of 2022
2021 - EU+ project, coordination of students, organization and production of animated announcement credits"