Sabina Mikelić
Sabina Mikelić is a Croatian visual artist, researcher, and film director based in Netherlands. She teaches at the master's course Arts in Education since 2021 where she is coaching 2nd year students in artistic research, gives classes about film as a method of research, and helps students in organizing their final show.
In her art practice she uses mixed media installations, documentary filmmaking and socially engaged practice in dealing with themes such as identity, belonging, social interaction, vulnerability and intimacy. Through a small, personal scope she often touches the edges of bigger socio-political themes. As a visual artist and filmmaker, she has a strong drive for research and exploration. As a researcher, primarily through moving image, she is looking for ways how to use image making for production of knowledge and to emancipate the ways of thinking about society in general, and how art can produce methods we can use not only in art but wider.
She started exhibiting in 2002 and by now had many national (Croatian) and international exhibitions (Eye Film Museum, T-com MSU, Transform, Sofia, VIG – SPECIAL INVITATION), film screenings (Days of Croatian Film, Liburnia Film Festival / Award for the Best Regional Film 2014, Etnofilm Rovinj / Award for the Special Contribution to Ethnographic film 2013). She won multiple prizes and scholarships, and her works are part of international collections (Baumax Vienna Insurance Group, ESSL museum and private collections). The experimental film she is currently working on won the prize for the best pitch in the Balkan Documentary Centre workshop in Prizren, Kosovo during Dokufest 2015. In 2019 she was nominated for the Radoslav Putar Award, the award for the best young visual artist in Croatia.