2023
April 24 - May 04 -' Digital Paradise' - Neal Digital art gallery, Art-Tech Experience, Sanya, Hainan, China
TBA Beijing Contemporary Art Expo , Art in transformation, Beijing, China
February - Cult Crypto, Iham gallery & NFT Paris, Gran Palais Ephemere, Paris, France
2022
November 08 2022 - Feb 10 2023, 'Overgrown' - SOLO exhibition, Galerie Boris, Paris
DANY 2023, New Year, Beijing, China
Art Basel, Fake Basel, Miami, FL, US
October 08 2022 - January 15 2023, DYOR, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Stratosphere by Sabet - Samsung HQ - NFTNYC, New York, US
NFT Liverpool, Adelia Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The Westport Fine Art Festival, CAMP gallery, US
Adidas, Art Attack, Illustration Exhibition, brought by Creativedebuts, Adidas flagship store, London, UK
Fiarte XII Edición, Feria Internacional de arte, Churriana de la Vega, Centro Municipal de Cultura, Grenada, Spain
Impeller series, CAMP Gallery, Westport, CT, USA
Emaar Square, NFT ArtHUB, Istanbul, Turkey
LAi Museum, NFT, Gijon, Spain
2021
Art Fair Marbella - November, Galerie Boris, France
Wow x wow gallery, virtual, 'WOW² (Volume V), The Swan Chronicles, September
Goldenmark Gallery, Gentle Giants exhibited at galleries at Katowice, Gdańsk, Łódź, Olsztyn and Szczecin, Poland
Artup, Lille Grand Palais Art fair, France
11 year edition, International Surrealism, Art & culture centre, Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Out of The Wild - virtual, Artsy, The Contemporary Art Modern Project
2020
Nature and the Artifice: Other Worlds - online, Artsy, The Contemporary Art Modern Project
Fiarte XI edicion, Asociación Cultural Feria, Internacional del Arte de Granada, Centro Municipal de cultura, Churriana de la Vega, Granada, Spain, postponed
2019
SOLO show, November, 'Tale of the Blue Pear, Galerie Boris, Paris, France
Surrealismo da California, Coimbra Business school, Portugal
Lishui Photography festival, Tale of the Blue Pear, Zhejiang Province, China
Surrealism of Goa, Zagreb, Lisbon and Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Kombinart, Sabac, Serbia
Salon Internacional del arte contemporáneo, Melilla, Spain
Fiarte X, Churriana de la Vega, Spain
International Surrealism Now, 13th edition, Municipal Gallery Antonio Vitorino, Vieira de Leiria,
Portugal
2018
Fotoklub Zagreb, exhibition of awarded photographers, museum Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia
International Surrealism Now, Coimbra, Portugal
ImageNation Paris (Paris Photo Days) / Galerie Joseph Turenne / Paris / France
Tale of the Blue Pear/ Yixian Photo Festival / Huangshan / Anhui / China
Through art ~ resist and recover, Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, US
Fiarte IX, Calle San Ramón, Centro Municipal de Cultura / Granada, (España)
Bookill Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017
Poros Museum, International Surrealism Now, Condeixa Nova, Portugal
Pamali Festival, Pamart, Passo San Boldo, Italy
Circle Seven, Callas Bremen, Germany
Kombinart, Noć Muzeja, Square of Sabac Victims, Sabac, Serbia
Surrealism Moscow, Zagreb, Lisbon, Coimbra, Museum House of Fernando Namora, Condeixa-a-Nova, Portugal
Real - Surreal - Unreal' / Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen / Germany
Münchner Science & Fiction Festival, Munich, Germany
Feria international del arte de Granada / Centro Municipal de Cultura / (España)
Reality we live in, Square of Sabac victims, Sabac, Serbia
BookiLL fest, Novosadski Sajam, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016
Surrealism Zagreb, Paris, Lisbon, Coimbra - Coimbra , Portugal
Museum of city Sibenik, Sibenik, Croatia
Zagreb Salon, museum Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia
Phototek, Esbjerg, Denmark
Citylab Bremen, Germany
Circle Seven, Callas Bremen, Germany
International Surrealism Now, Espaço Partícula, Coimbra, Portugal
Crossover, Art Central Bremen, Germany
2015
"Mixed up" Flora Expo Centre, Burgas, Bulgaria
Circle Seven" ,Callas Bremen, Germany
AWARDS
2022 - TIFA awards, Gentle Giants, Honorable mention
2022 - IPA awards, In the Shadows, Honorable mention
2022 - Beautiful Bizzare - Honorable Mention
2022 - LICC - Storie Di Seta - Ferragamo project - shortlisted
2021 - IPA awards, Jury Top 5 Selection, Gentle Giants
2021 - Bronze medal, IPA awards, Digitally enhanced, PRO
2021 - Muse Awards, Gold medal, In the palace, digitally enhanced
2021 - Siena awards, 'Green Tendencies' shortlisted
2021 - BBA gallery, Art prize, longlisted
2020 - Top 5 Jury selection, IPA awards, Professional, Lollipop
2020 - 2nd Place Winner, Lollipop Series, IPA Awards, Digitally enhanced
2020 -1st Place Winner Single image, 'The Smuggler of Happiness', The 15th Pollux Awards, Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention, The 15th Pollux Awards, 'The Tree House', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - Honorable mention , The 15th Pollux Awards, 'Green Tendencies', Digital manipulation & collage
2020 - BBA Gallery Berlin, Photography contest, Longlisted
2020 - PX3 - Honorable mention, Professional, Fine Art, Digitally enhanced
2020 - Nominee, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Professional
2019 - Gold medal, ND Awards, Professional fine art
2019 - BIFA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Collage professional
2019 - IPA AWARDS, Honorable mention, Special PRO
2019 - Finalist, Donggang festival
2019 – Bronze winner, FAPA FineArt Photography Awards, Finart, PRO
2018 – Bronze winner, PSA, Fotoklub Zagreb
2017 – March – best photo illustration, Bookill fest , Novi Sad, Serbia
2017 – March – 1st award - art competition - 'Reality we live in', Kombinart, Šabac, Serbia
PUBLICATIONS
Florida Design - November 2022 - editorial print feature
Art of Nature gallery, Hong Kong, July 2021, 'Her power' project and online publication
Noblesse Magazine, Hong Kong, Issue, 2021
Dodho Magazine - Issue 16, 2021, Gentle Giants magazine feature
OnSpec magazine of fantastic arts - Fall 2020, Issue 114 - cover art and interview
Artysta i Stuka - Issue 32, April 2020, magazine feature and interview
Miroir Magazine, Legende, January 2020, magazine cover and interview
Saatchi Fall 2019 Catalog Vol I, Vol II
Arkansas International, Issue 7, Fall 2019, magazine cover
Adome Chroma magazine, 2018, magazine feature
Infusion Art Magazine, 2018, interview
Master of contemporary fine art, vol III, 2018, Pedro Boaventura, book feature
Get inspired magazine, May 2018, feature
Toner magazine, March 2018, interview feature
Lexicon of phantastic arts, Gerhard Habarta, December 2018, book feature
Panorama magazine, October 2017, magazine feature
Emboss magazine, March 2017, magazine feature
Str8home, February 2017, online feature
Highlark, January 2017, online feature
Inspades magazine, 2016 December, printed, interview and feature
Cultartes Magazine, online feature and interview
ProGetti Smarriti, November 2016, online feature
Ladder & Key, October 2016, online feature and interview
Get Inspired Magazine, October 2016, magazine cover and feature
Above Art, 2016, Illusory Worlds, online feature
Portfoliobox, April 2016, online feature and interview
Times of Youth, September 2015, online feature
Revista Falacia, August 2015, spread, magazine feature
Adore Chroma, September 2014, magazine cover and feature
Visual Artistry, July 2014, magazine feature
Imaginarium, May 2014, Tribute to Photography, feature
Komorebi Magazine, April 2014 , magazine feature
Dark Beauty Magazine, July 2014, online feature
BIO
Inspired by nature, societal observation, and the world of fantasy, Croatian artist Nikolina Petolas opens the door to secret places where memories, desires, and the subconscious converge, existing somewhere between real life and imagination.
Through allegory as a means of expression, she discovers a parallel world woven into dreams and disrupts our perception of reality. In her symbolic visual stories, Nikolina creates a deep narrative with profound compositions in her unique style by blending contemporary digital techniques with photography or through traditional painting.
Nikolina's distinctive artistic style has captured the attention of prestigious clients such as Ferragamo and Marriot, with whom she has collaborated closely. Her signature Blue Pear series has gained worldwide recognition, earning numerous international art awards. Her impressive portfolio has been widely acclaimed and exhibited in galleries and museums across Europe, the United States, and Asia.