Nikola Ojdanic - Biography

Nikola Ojdanic was born in Belgrade (Serbia).

He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. He is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and designer, who has exhibited in many

exhibitions at home and abroad.

In periods from 1995-1997 and from 2008-2010 he was publishing his illustrations in the most famous Serbian daily newspapers, Politika,

and others. His main area of work and interest is painting. His motifs and vision transform and grow through drawings, oil on canvas,

acrylic, combined technique and digital art. He finds inspiration in the human body, anatomically so perfect, but also so expressive in a way

it can show states of mind, emotions and relations between people. Nikola discovers in it numerous possibilities to relate to the essential

social issues through human soul prism, through the existential restlessness of a living being. Other motifs he constantly turns to are dogs

and horses, as well as the sights of cities burdened with that same tension. He lives and works in Belgrade (Serbia).

Exhibitions:

2024

• 4th International Cartoon Exhibition "ZeGeBOOM!", Zagreb (Croatia) - Catalog

• 57. PJER 2024, National Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia) - The First Prize - GOLDEN PIERRE Award - Catalog - info 1|info 2

• International cartoon contest "Full Batteries - Empty Land", SHARA WATCH, Belgrade (Serbia) - Catalog

• International Festival "FAMOUS PERSONALITIES FROM WORLD HISTORY - 2024", Ploieşti (Romania)

• 19th International Cartoon Festival "Solin 2024'', Solin (Croatia)

• 9th International Cartoon Festival "Kolašin 2024'', Kolašin (Montenegro)

• International Cartoon Contest - Boycott Genocide, Tehran (Iran)

• The 23th International Olive Humor Festival - Municipality Of Kyrenia, (Cyprus) - The Special Prize - info

• World Cartoonists Day - International Cartoon Exhibition, Ege University Faculty Of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture (Turkey)

• 31st Cartoon Contest "RISTO PEJATOVIĆ", Pljevlja (Montenegro) - The First Prize - GRAND PRIX Award - info

• International Cartoon & Caricature Exhibition "Gaza, silent cry" - 2024, Tabriz (Iran)

• Illustration & Cartoon Exhibition "Silence is a crime!", Novi Pazar (Serbia)

• The 2nd "CARPE VINUM" INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST 2024, Tg-mureş (Romania) - The Second Prize - Gallery

• The International festival TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT WRITERS OF THE WORLD - 2nd edition, Ploieşti (Romania)

• The International exhibition - MIHAI EMINESCU AND THE POEM "Evening Star" (Luceafarul), Ploieşti (Romania)

2023

• International art competition ''30 x 30'', Zrenjanin, Belgrade, Pančevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Novi Sad (Serbia)

• 56. PJER 2023, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• 3rd International Cartoon Exhibition "ZeGeBOOM!" - Award of the expert jury - TOP 10, Zagreb (Croatia) - Catalog

• International Exhibition Of Portraits "GREAT WRITERS OF THE WORLD", Ploieşti, Timişoara (Romania)

• 30th Autumn Art Salon, Gallery of the Cultural Centre "Masuka", Velika Plana (Serbia)

• 8th International Cartoon Exhibition ''Čakovec 2023'', Čakovec (Croatia)

• 18th International Cartoon Festival "Solin 2023'', Solin (Croatia)

• The 10th Art Competition “BeoGrad - GRAD U KOME STVARAM” (Belgrade - the city where I create), Belgrade (Serbia)

• The 29th Mail Art International Exhibition "The Women - symbol of Life", Aiud (Romania)

• 8th International Cartoon Festival "Caricature Portrait of UROŠ TOŠKOVIĆ'' - Honorable Mention Prize, Kolašin (Montenegro)

• The Exhibition of portraits of Raša Popov, Gallery of the Cultural Center, Mokrin (Serbia) - Catalog

• 2nd International Cartoon Competition, Diogenes of Sinope 2023, Sinop-Ayancık (Turkey)

• The International Exhibition "CARITOON Kochi, 2023", Ernakulam, Kerala (India)

• 53th Edition of the International Exhibition of Humor, Bordighera (Italy) - Gallery

• International Exhibition Of Portraits And Caricatures "ION LUCA CARAGIALE", Ploieşti (Romania)

• 15th International CARTOON Exhibition OSCARfest, Osor (Croatia)

• The 8th International Cartoon Festival "Tapír 2023", Most (Czech Republic) - Catalog

• 2nd Welt Heimat International Cartoon Exhibition, cartoons were exposed in different countries such as Germany and Turkey

• The International Apartment Culture Cartoon Contest, Tehran (Iran)

2022

• International art competition ''30 x 30'', Zrenjanin, Belgrade, Pančevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Novi Sad (Serbia)

• 55. PJER 2022, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• 10th International Salon of Press Cartoons and Satirical Visual Arts 2022, Timişoara (Romania)

• 9th art competition “BeoGrad - GRAD U KOME STVARAM” (Belgrade - the city where I create), Belgrade (Serbia)

• 7th International Cartoon Exhibition ''Čakovec 2022'', Čakovec (Croatia)

• 7th International Cartoon Festival "Kolašin 2022'', Kolašin (Montenegro)

• 14th International CARTOON Exhibition OSCARfest, Osor (Croatia)

• International Cartoon Festival "Tapír 2022", Františkovy Lázně (Czech Republic)

• The XIV International Contest Snail Graphic Humor, Lleida (Spain)

• The 15th International Salon Of Car Caricatures, Zagreb (Croatia)

• International Exhibition "Great Romanian Personalities", Ploieşti (Romania)

2021

• International art competition ''30 x 30'', Zrenjanin, Belgrade, Pančevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Novi Sad (Serbia)

• The 6th International Contest Animal Cartoon, Belgrade (Serbia)

• 8th art competition “BeoGrad - GRAD U KOME STVARAM” (Belgrade - the city where I create), Belgrade (Serbia)

• International Salon Of Press Cartoons And Satirical Visual Arts - 9th EDITION, Timişoara (Romania)

• The 15th HumoDEVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST, Deva (Romania)

• 54. PJER 2021, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Izmir Metropolitan Municipality International Cartoon Contest "GENDER MAINSTREAMING", Izmir (Turkey)

• International cartoon contest "Mini Hydropower Plants - Maximum Destruction", Belgrade (Serbia)

2020

• International Salon Of Press Cartoons And Satirical Visual Arts - 8th EDITION, Timişoara (Romania)

• 53. PJER 2020, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• The 14th HumoDEVA INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CONTEST, Deva (Romania)

• 1st International Online Exhibition - "White nights", Majdanpek (Serbia)

• Exhibition of alternative first pages for the weekly newspaper NIN - "Black on white", Belgrade (Serbia)

• "Art on climate" - international illustration competition on climate change (merit) , Madrid (Spain)

2019

• “This is the Earth for us”, Cartoon Contest, ULUS gallery, Belgrade (Serbia)

• X International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek (Serbia)

• 52. PJER 2019, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

2018

• 51. PJER 2018, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• “Best from The Factory 2017”, Gallery “Petak”, Belgrade (Serbia)

2017

• 50. PJER 2017, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• VIII International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek (Serbia)

• Illustration Contest, Serbian edition of Le Monde diplomatique, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Mini FORMArt, Gallery “Petak”, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Impulse, Gallery “Petak”, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Diploma 2016, Gallery “Petak”, Belgrade (Serbia)

2016

• 49. PJER 2016, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Autumn Art Salon 2016, Gallery of the Cultural Centre “Masuka”, Velika Plana (Serbia)

• VII International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek / Belgrade (Serbia)

• 5th EGALLERY, Executive Group and S.U.N.D. Belgrade (Serbia)

• THE MAN OF CAPITALISM, KIC Farbara, Bezistan (Art Intervention in Public Space), Belgrade (Serbia)

• XIII International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac (Serbia)

• Impulse, Gallery “Petak”, Belgrade (Serbia)

• “BEOGRAD - GRAD U KOME STVARAM” (Belgrade - the city where I create), Gallery SINGIDUNUM, Belgrade (Serbia)

• Spring Art Salon 2016, Gallery of the Cultural Centre “Masuka”, Velika Plana (Serbia)

2015

• 48. PJER 2015, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• “23. Art Market”, 8 rooms, 8 artists + 2 stowaway , Belgrade (Serbia)

• VI International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek / Petrovac na Mlavi / Belgrade (Serbia)

• QUANDO L`ARTE UNISCE I POPOLI (When art unites people), ICLAB, Florence (ITALY)

• Portrait of Danilo Kiš, “Skladište” (Foundation "Danilo Kiš"), Subotica (Serbia)

• “22. Art Market”, Socially Engaged Art, Belgrade (Serbia)

2014

• 47. PJER 2014, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• V International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek / Petrovac na Mlavi / Belgrade (Serbia)

• Contest / Exhibition “Year of Cortázar 2014”, Instituto Cervantes, ULUPUDS and the Embassy of Argentina in Belgrade (Serbia),

(Portrait of Cortasar “Cronopian Childhood” is printed on the catalogue)

• XII International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac (Serbia)

2013

• 46. PJER 2013, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

• IV International Exhibition “Art in Miniature MajdanArt”, Majdanpek / Belgrade (Serbia)

2012

• 45. PJER 2012, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

2008

• International Cartoon contest “Great Romanian Personalities”, (Romania)

2007

• “Gabriel García Márquez y el Humorismo Mágico” International Cartoon Contest,

Gallery Jorge Martínez, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

• 40. PJER 2007, Cartoon Contest, Belgrade (Serbia)

1997

• Decorative Prochrome Vessels Design, Furniture saloon, Belgrade (Serbia)

1994

• Wooden Nailed Furniture Design, Furniture saloon, Belgrade (Serbia)

1992

• VID gallery, FAA Students`Exhibition, Belgrade (Serbia)