Lara Badurina (Rijeka, Croatia, 1968) is a multimedia artist. She graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 1993, and completed a master’s degree in 2003 at the same university. Badurina has been exhibiting her works, created in different media, since the end of the 1980s. She was awarded for her work at the 9th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture in 2006 and at the Ljubljana MEMEFEST, the International Festival of Radical Communication and Art, in 2002.

Since the end of the 1990s, Lara Badurina has been focusing on projects with the topics of everyday life, becoming an “archaeologist of everyday life”. Using an amalgamation of methods, which often involve collecting, cataloguing and processing of different items or information, she creatively investigates different aspects of urban everydayness, cultural production and, generally, the relationships of labour, production and consumption amid transition and globalisation. In her latest works, she poses questions about the originality of an artwork and national frameworks of artistic creation. Badurina has presented her works at 27 solo and 47 group exhibitions (http://www.larabadurina.net). Beside visual art, she also engages in set and light design, where she has created 35 original works so far. 

Lara Badurina is one of the founders and authors of the nationally recognized, independent theatre project called TRAFIK (Rijeka, Croatia).  Since 2008, she has been an active leader and organiser of numerous workshops on stage set design, which are held on specific locations. In 2010, in collaboration with VN Gallery in Zagreb, Badurina initiated a curatorial project that consisted of organising the exhibitions of the graduates of the Rijeka Academy of Applied Arts. In 2017 she launched an art workshop program with students, called Experiment Platform, aimed at bringing together visual and performative areas of art.  Lara Badurina is a full professor at the University of Rijeka Academy of Applied Arts. 

Role in the Biennale 2022.

Collab Commons

Participant at International Symposium