17/01/2026
We had an amazing night last night at the inauguration of 'El mar hirviendo' by Gordana Zikic at The Local Air Valencia
It was great to meet up with some amazing artists, view Gordana's fabulous exhibition, and also get a behind the scenes tour of the great space created by Dr Theresa Wilshusen
About the Artist
Gordana Zikic - Gotza Gotza is an interdisciplinary artist, community builder, and curator based in Barcelona, working internationally. Her artistic practice moves fluidly across painting, drawing, photography, installation, performance, video, and material-based processes, grounded in long-term research and embodied experience.
Her work draws on ecology, archaeology, spirituality, and ritual practices, often referencing ancient symbolic systems and reinterpreting them through contemporary forms. Rather than reproducing traditions, she approaches ritual as a living process-something that can be adapted, fragmented, and reimagined to speak to present-day realities.
Water and the sea recur throughout her practice as both material and metaphor: sites of reflection, instability, memory, and transformation. These elements function as thresholds-spaces where personal narratives intersect with collective histories, and where identity is understood as fluid rather than fixed.
Alongside her artistic practice, she is deeply engaged in building artistic communities and collaborative frameworks. She is the co-founder and director of the art association Center 424, co-founder of Belgrade Artist in Residence, and initiator of Virtual Studio Groups (VSG), creating spaces for exchange, support, and shared inquiry among artists across borders.
She holds a Ph.D. in Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2018) and is a member of ULUS (Serbia) and La Escocesa (Spain).
