Nadija Mustapić (Rijeka, Croatia, 1976) is an artist working primarily with immersive video and sound installations. Her practice also encompasses documentary and experimental film, installation, and collaborative projects.

Her work investigates the subjective and political dimensions of space through an expanded approach to audiovisual documentary. Combining poetic texts, non-linear editing, spatial composition, and documentary material, she constructs immersive environments that transform specific sites into experiential narratives. Rather than treating documentary as a fixed category, Mustapić uses abstraction, fragmentation, fiction, and psychogeographic strategies to explore places where past and present, memory and perception, intersect. In her installations, space becomes both a carrier of social and political meanings and a site of encounter between the viewer’s body and moving images.

Mustapić has presented her work in more than 40 solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions, festivals, and screenings in Croatia and internationally. Her work has been shown at institutions and events including the Hippolyte Gallery (Helsinki), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rijeka), Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), Cecile R. Hunt Gallery (St. Louis), the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Si Festival of Video Art & Performance (Ramallah), Directors Lounge (Berlin), Instants Vidéo (Marseille), Contemporary Art Ruhr Media Art Fair (Essen), and Faulconer Gallery (Grinnell), among others.

Collaboration forms an important part of her artistic practice. Since 2012 she has collaborated with Toni Meštrović on large-scale site-specific video and sound installations, and she is a founding member of the artist collective The Moving Crew.

Mustapić has received numerous awards, scholarships, and residencies, including the UNIRI Foundation Award, Saari Residency (Kone Foundation), Headlands Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence, Capital City Arts Initiative Visiting Artist Residency, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Assistantship, and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum Internship.

She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Rijeka in 1999 and earned her MA (2004) and MFA (2005, cum laude) from the University of Iowa. Since 2006 she has lived and worked in Rijeka, where she is Full Professor at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka.