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NIKŠA SUZIĆ

Belgrade-based sculptor Nikša Suzić works primarily with plaster, wood, metal, concrete and stone, developing sculptural forms that translate psychological pressure, bodily memory and uncertainty into physical presence. Rather than illustrating specific emotional states, his practice focuses on experiences that are difficult to name but are nevertheless registered through the body.

His works often bring apparently soft, organic forms into contact with rigid structures, producing a tension between vulnerability and control, protection and confinement, stability and disruption. Through casting, subtraction, repetition and accumulation, Suzić explores the ways identity is shaped by pressure, limitation and adaptation.

Across his practice, familiar objects and bodily associations are transformed into ambiguous sculptural situations in which permanence and fragility coexist. His works frequently remain suspended between completion and instability, treating uncertainty not as something to resolve, but as a productive condition from which new forms and meanings can emerge.

Artist Biography

Nikša Suzić is a Serbian sculptor based in Belgrade. He completed his BA in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, in 2017, followed by an MA in Sculpture at the same institution in 2018.

Alongside his independent artistic practice, Suzić has extensive experience in scenography, fabrication and creative production. His professional work has involved the development and installation of large-scale museum, exhibition and spatial projects, combining conceptual thinking with material knowledge and hands-on production.

His selected international production projects include the Museum of the Future in Dubai, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Visitor Centre in Abu Dhabi, the Serbia Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka and the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi.

Suzić has presented two solo exhibitions, Gut Feeling in 2022 and Nothing to Declare in 2025, and has participated in group exhibitions at venues including the Belgrade Youth Center, the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Heritage House and ULUS Gallery in Belgrade.

Artist Statement / Practice

Suzić’s practice begins with psychological tension and bodily experience. Feelings of insecurity, repression, vulnerability and not belonging are translated into sculptural forms that appear simultaneously soft and rigid, familiar and unsettling, controlled and close to collapse.

Material is central to this process. Plaster, wood, metal, concrete and stone are used not simply as formal elements, but as opposing physical conditions through which pressure, resistance and adaptation become visible. Smooth organic forms are often compressed within rigid structures, creating situations in which protection can become restriction and stability can begin to resemble confinement.

Processes of casting, accumulation, subtraction and repetition allow Suzić to transform bodily associations, childhood references and everyday fragments into sculptural traces. Rather than resolving these forms into fixed narratives, he allows them to remain unstable and open, occupying the space between identity as something constructed and identity as something still in formation.

Selected Exhibitions

2025, Nothing to Declare, solo exhibition, Belgrade.

2022, Gut Feeling, solo exhibition, Belgrade.

2021, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade.

2021, Heritage House, Belgrade.

2021, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade.

2018, Gallery of the Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade.

2017, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Belgrade.

2016, Gallery of the Belgrade Youth Center, Belgrade.