Nikola Sarić (b. 1985, Bajina Bašta, Serbia) is a German-based artist living and working in Hannover. Trained at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, he developed an early interest in Byzantine and early Christian art, later refining his knowledge of fresco painting and iconography within the tradition of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Encounters with medieval frescoes, as well as Armenian, Coptic, and Byzantine visual cultures, became a lasting foundation for his practice.

Working across painting, objects, and installation, Sarić explores themes of faith, power, and human relationships through a language that merges sacred tradition with contemporary sensibility. His work draws on stylised, graphic forms influenced by Eastern antiquity, Art Nouveau, early modernism, and even comic aesthetics. Fragmented motifs, such as skulls, hands, windows, and broken circular structures, recur as symbols of incompleteness, reflecting the difficulty of achieving closure in personal and collective experience.

While rooted in iconographic traditions, Sarić’s practice moves beyond preservation toward transformation. Through unconventional techniques and softened chromatic palettes, he reimagines the visual vocabulary of sacred art, creating images that are at once meditative and unsettling. His works often operate in a space between devotion and critique, where historical narratives and contemporary realities intersect.

Sarić has exhibited widely, primarily in Germany, with additional presentations across Europe, maintaining a steady presence in the contemporary art scene.