Nina Komel

Nina Komel (born in 1986 in Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a conceptual artist working in the field of contemporary visual art, exploring social, political, and cultural phenomena through installation, text, sound, performance, and multimedia practices. She graduated in Painting from the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka in 2010 and earned her MA degree from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2012.

Her work focuses on the absurdities of everyday life, social contradictions, and systems of values in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider post-transition context. Through irony, humor, and critical reflection, she examines the relationship between the individual, institutions, social norms, and mechanisms of power. Combining found objects, language, sound, and participatory elements, her projects create spaces for reflection on contemporary social experience.

Komel was the recipient of the Zvono Award 2016, the most prestigious award for young visual artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, presented by the Center for Contemporary Art Sarajevo (SCCA). As part of the award, she completed an artist residency at Residency Unlimited in New York.

She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and internationally. Living and working between Brod and Novi Sad, she continues to develop an artistic practice that critically engages with contemporary social processes, identity, borders, and the everyday forms of absurdity that shape modern life.