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Kristian Ujhelji
Illustrator & ComicartistKristian Ujhelji is an artist and designer working primarily with artist books and experimental comics. His practice explores abstraction as a form of visual thinking, using the language of comics while deliberately avoiding traditional narrative, characters, or explanation.
Through self-published books, zines, and small-edition projects, he investigates how sequential images can function without storytelling, instead creating immersive visual systems driven by rhythm, repetition, and free association. His work draws on science fiction aesthetics, spontaneous drawing, and graphic experimentation, often limited to black-and-white imagery and minimal or absent text.
Rather than conveying meaning through plot, Kristian’s books operate as experiential objects. Panels, symbols, and abstract forms are used to suggest movement, transformation, and states of consciousness. The body frequently appears as a symbolic or spatial element rather than a literal figure, and natural or cosmic motifs recur as anchors within otherwise unstable visual environments.
Format and material choices are central to his practice. He treats the book as a physical space to be navigated, using unconventional layouts, changing structures, and interludes of sketches and design elements to disrupt linear reading. Many projects intentionally shift or dissolve in structure over time, mirroring themes of immersion, perception, and disorientation.
Kristian’s work sits at the intersection of comics, drawing, and artist publishing, engaging with contemporary experimental comics while questioning their underlying assumptions. His books are not meant to be decoded, but encountered — inviting readers to slow down, wander, and construct their own meaning through sustained visual engagement.
His work has been presented in exhibitions and book fairs focused on artist publishing, experimental comics, and independent print culture. He has exhibited in group shows and curated contexts that highlight the book as an artistic medium, with his publications displayed both as readable objects and as part of exhibition installations. Through these presentations, his work engages audiences interested in contemporary comics, abstraction, and alternative approaches to sequential art.
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Email: kristian.ujhelji@yahoo.com
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