Natalia Borčić

Natalia Borčić was born on the island of Vis in 1989. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2013. She is a member of the Croatian Academy of Fine Arts and the Croatian Society of Artists. She has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad and has participated in several artist residencies. At the 7th Biennial of Painting, she received the award “Young Artist of the 7th Biennial of Painting” and the award“Kontrapukt Award Vladimir Dodig Trokut, Iva Vraneković – Artists to Artists“. Her artistic work is part of the project “Island Connect” in which she presents her work “Islands as a Military Fortress” in which she explores the similarities and differences of the military legacy of the island of Vis with the islands of Tenerife, Corsica and Ireland. She lives and works between Zagreb and Vis.

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AWARDS

2024.

  • Award “Young Artist of the 7th Painting Biennale”
  • Award “Contrapunct Award Vladimir Dodig Trokut, Iva Vraneković – Artist to Artist”

2012.

  • Commendation from the Dean and the Student Council for achievements in the Master’sProgram
  • INA Award for the triptych of paintings “Energy”

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026.

  • Zabok – City Gallery Zabok – “Rain Traces”
  • Velika Gorica – Galženica Gallery – “Lines That Remember”

2025.

  • Zagreb – Kranjčar Gallery – “Tunnels, bunkers, watchtowers”
  • Split – Emanuel Vidović Gallery – “Ješka”
  • Hvar – Arsenal – “Ješka”
  • Vis – Fort George Gallery – “Open Sea Islands”

2024.

  • Zagreb – “Svitnja” – Zen Contemporary Gallery
  • Novo Mesto – Miran Jarac Library – “Vis Tunnels”
  • Vis – Fort George Gallery – “Vis Tunnels”

2023.

  • Ljubljana – DLUL Gallery – “Ješka”
  • Zagreb – Oris House of Architecture – “Challenges of Diversity”
  • Vis – Fort George Gallery – “Artist Mother”

2022.

  • Bol, island of Brač – Branislav Dešković Art Gallery – “Stiniva”
  • Varaždin – Zlati ajngel Gallery – “Stiniva”
  • Zagreb – Oris House of Architecture – “Stiniva”
  • Vis – Fort George Gallery – “Illustrations for the book Forbidden Carnation”

2020.

  • Samobor – Bunker Youth Center – “In the Square Under the Clock”
  • Zagreb – Maksimir Center for Culture and Information – “In the Square Under the Clock”
  • Zagreb – SC Gallery – “In the Square Under the Clock”

2018.

  • Zagreb – Karas Gallery – “Keepers of the Hearth”

2017.

  • Karlovac – Zilik Gallery – “Keepers of the Hearth”
  • Omiš – Omiš Cultural Center – “Keepers of the Hearth”

2016.

  • Rijeka – Villa Ružić – “Personal Places”
  • Vis – Hotel Issa – “Personal Places”
  • Zagreb – Laval Nugent Gallery – “Alone with Myself”

2015.

  • Vis – Vis Cultural Center – “In the Network of Relationships”

2014.

  • Zagreb – Marija Jurić Zagorka Library – “Touch”
  • Vis – Fort George Gallery – “Touch”

2013.

  • Zagreb – HDLU, Meštrović Pavilion – “Touch”
  • Komiža – City Reading Room – “Touch”

2012.

  • Vis – Meštrović Gallery – “Between the Edges”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025.

  • Varaždin – City Museum Varaždin – “8th Biennal of Paintings”
  • Poreč – 65th Annale – “Melancholy of Seeing Things for the Last Time”
  • Zagreb – Gallery Forum – Memory of Victory – Marshal Tito Square”
  • Zagreb – Gallery Josip Račić – Krleža / Dialogues, 14th Miroslav Krleža Festival
  • Križevci – City Museum Križevci – “About Nature or Seeking Refuge”
  • Zagreb – Cultural Center of Dubrava – “ARTfanatik” – from the art collection of Emil Fuš
  • Vukovar – Museum of Vučedol Culture – “Vučedol Culture and Mirila”
  • Zadar – Archaeological Museum Zadar – “Vučedol Culture and Mirila”

2024.

  • Dubrovnik – Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik – “The Mediterranean in Croatian Paintingof the 20th and 21st Century”

2023.

  • Zagreb – HDLU, Meštrović Pavilion – “7th Painting Biennale”

2021.

  • Rijeka – Juraj Klović Gallery – “Being a Woman”

2019.

  • Zagreb – HDLU, Meštrović Pavilion – “Exhibition of Members”

2018.

  • Tivat, Montenegro – Museum and Gallery Tivat – “Towards Nature”

2017.

  • Zaprešić – Vršilnica, Novi Dvori – “20th Miniature Exhibition”

2015.

  • Palagruža – Lighthouse – “Art in Lighthouses”
  • Zaprešić – Vršilnica, Novi Dvori – “18th Miniature Exhibition”

2014.

  • Palagruža – lighthouse – “Art in lighthouses”

2013.

  • Leipzig, Germany – The Museum – “One sided story”
  • Leipzig, Germany – Spinnerai – “One sided story”
  • Zagreb – Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall – “Venientes”
  • Zagreb – HDLU, Maštrović Pavilion – 2nd Painting Biennale

2012.

  • Zadar – Church of St. Donatus – “Back to heritage”
  • Zagreb – ALU, Gallery – “Energy”

2011.

  • Zagreb – ALU, Gallery – “What is the echo?”
  • Komiža – City Reading Room – “Octagon”

Projects

In 2020, I created the project “In Third Gear” through which I conduct art workshops inHomes for the Elderly and Disabled in Zagreb and Vis.

Since 2021, I have been collaborating with the association “Svima” where I conduct art workshops with children with special needs.

In 2015 and 2016, I organized the project “Art in Lighthouses” in which, in collaboration withthe military navy, I organized group exhibitions at the lighthouse on Palagruža.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2026.

  • Kozika, Tenerife, Ireland – “Island Connect“

2023.

  • Leipzig – “Deconstruction of the Image“

2015.

  • London – Dulwich College Residency

2013.

  • Leipzig – Spinnerei – “One Side Story“
  • Belgrade – Project “Make a Step“

My painting narrative does not arise only from the motifs of Vis landscapes, but from sediment – here, the landscape is not viewed, but immersed in. It becomes a medium of introspective understanding, a scene of what remains after the space disappears: a feeling, a trace, an echo.

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