Tina Bikić (1987) is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Berlin.
Tina works as a filmmaker and poetical digital storyteller, developing Poetical Digital Storytelling (PDS) as a practice of imaginative poetics that builds upon digital storytelling, screenwriting, artistic research and poetic film. She expands her artistic vision beyond the text-based script into an embodied, solo-authored process. In this, she takes on the roles of writer, director, narrator, and editor to create unified artistic works. Her practice emerges from the synergy of image and language, imagination and experimental narrative, transforming memory into film and opening affective cinematic spaces for audiences. Through this praxis, she explores themes of home, displacement, and in-betweenness, approaching them as spatial and experiential layers of memory, rewritten and re-enacted in the search for belonging.
At the core of her practice-based research project Imaginary Architectures of Belonging, Knowledge, and Care: Poetical Digital Storytelling as a Practice of Imaginative Poetics, lies the idea of transformation. It aims to position poetical digital storytelling as a practice of artistic self-realization and as a methodological contribution to artistic research, foregrounding imagination, play, and introspection as essential to authorship. The project proposes a transferable framework that empowers future artistic identities, rewrites memory into future imaginaries, and safeguards creativity as a value and form of care, in contrast to the automated acceleration of creativity in a cultural landscape shaped by AI-generated content. In this sense, she understands this research as a form of creative resistance, giving back creativity the time that it needs.
As part of her artistic practice she explores the intersection of art and education by extending the PDS methods into dialogue and collective imagination. She is the founder of Digital Stories Berlin, a platform offering courses and workshops for artists, universities, and cultural institutions, with a mission to create and celebrate new forms of artistic knowledge production.
Tina holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, complemented by coursework in film studies. Before relocating to Berlin in 2018, she served as the cultural director of the Matica Hrvatska branch, where she was responsible for creating the artistic program and developing innovative educational projects, which steered the modernization of the Croatia´s oldest cultural institution. Her projects Rethink the Future – Reinvent the City and Digital Stories Berlin were both recognized by the European Commission as examples of good practice.
BIO
SELECTED PROJECTS
2025
Imaginary Architectures of Belonging, Knowledge and Care: Poetical digital storytelling as a practice of imaginative poetics (PhD research exposé)
Alles Anders, Film treatment (Pre-production, Work in progress) A poetic exploration of the collective reimagining of memories, towards architectures of belonging.
Worldthreading Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, Poetry Film Section
Cinestesya Film Festival, Gato Vadio, Portugal, Official Selection
2024
Audience research, developing methods to define target groups for future educational formats in poetical digital storytelling.
Artist Educator, Course: AR School Radio, Podcasts, and New Media as Educational Tools (Course), Europass Teacher Academy, Berlin, Germany. Designed and taught a course that explored storytelling and collective expression through sound, linking digital media with poetic and participatory approaches to learning.
Lingua Materna, poetical digital story, 7'54"
2023
Being Together, Poetical Digital Story, 5'51"
Artist Educator, Poetical digital storytelling lecture, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Roccascalegna & Pennapiedimonte, Italy. Part of the Back to the Rural project, supported by the U.S. Embassy in Italy.
Artist Educator, Learning Through Collaboration and Cooperation, Europass Teacher Academy, Berlin, Germany. Designed and delivered a course fostering group-based learning experiences, directly resonating with community-oriented artistic practices.
2022
As I Bury My Face into My Hands, Poetical Digital Story, 6'26"
Artist Educator, Creating New Centres: Urban Regeneration and Civic Engagement, Tech Camp Rome (USA Department of Education), Rome, Italy.
Bloomsday Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland, Offical Selection
Venere in Teatro Dance Festival, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy, Film Screening & Artist Talk
Because We Cannot Do Otherwise, Poetical Digital Story, 4'17"
Artist-in-Residence, Hurja Piruetti, Ekenäs, Finland, Part of Sustainable Development Project (2021–2022), a collective exploration of space, memory, and improvisation at Villa Skeppet, the last private home designed by Alvar Aalto.
2021
La distanza di sicurezza, Poetical Digital Story, 6'03"
Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, Selected for International Audience Award section
U kvadrat: “Spaces of Necessity, Movement!”, Film Festival, Kinoklub Split, Croatia, Film Screening & Artist talk
Artist-in-Residence, Perzpezye Urbane, Faenza Italy. Part of DanceMe-Up Project, supported by Creative Europe.
Der Schatten, Poetical Digital Story, 5'51"
2020
Artist Educator, Body Metaphors: Metaphors of mind. Tellings personal stories, creating contemporary dance identities: From body to somebody - poetical digital storytelling workshop, Turku UAS Arts Academy, Finland.
In Be(tween)aches of Berlin, Artistic research project exploring diversity and the poetics of space, focusing on places of belonging and the state of in-betweenness.
Abandonment, Poetical Digital Story, 2'07"
Excitement, Poetical Digital Story, 2'28"
Fear, Poetical Digital Story, 2'45"
Nostalgia, Poetical Digital Story, 5'07"
Desire, Poetical Digital Story, 2'47"
Belonging, Poetical Digital Story, 8'22"
2019
Film.Architecture. Empowerment., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Malmö, Sweden. Part of an international research group exploring intersections between film and architecture
Future Knowledge, Video / Digital Art (Mixed Media), 2019
Spatial Belonging, Cultural Heritage Values and Innovative Educational Engagement through Landscape, Film and Digital-Based Artistic Interventions (Horizon2020 EU proposal).
Artist Educator, Digital Storytelling in Adult Education, MitOst e.V., Berlin, Germany
Do You Have a Story to Tell?, Installation and Screening, Mediagrammi e.V., Berlin, Germany. A site-specific work displayed in the public: office window, inviting for contribution of collective stories
2018
Artist Educator, Digital Storytelling Workshop, Berlin Metropolitan School, Käthe-Kollwitz Gymnasium, Leibniz School, and Carl-von-Ossietzky Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany
Unfinished, Poetical Digital Story, 3'11"
Digital Stories Berlin: Young and Adult Education via Digital Storytelling, Erasmus+ funding, European Commission (94/100, Example of Good Practice). publication (Ed. Mediagrammi e.V., Author: Tina Bikic). [Read booklet → link]
Unseen, Mini Film Festival, Cavtat, Croatia, Official Selection
University of Houston (Online via Coursera), Certificate in “Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling.
2017
Not Even Once, Poetical Digital Story, 2'44"
Artist Educator, Project leader Rethink the Future – Reinvent the City: Artistic Interventions in Public Space, Erasmus+ funding, European Commission (92/100, Example of Good Practice). Publication (Ed. Matica Hrvatska, Author: Tina Bikic). [Read booklet → link]
Artist Educator, Educational Programme for Ta-da! Fairytales Festival, Matica Hrvatska, Orebic, Peljesac Peninsula Croatia. (Through workshops, scriptwriting, and collective performance, participants experimented with imagination and storytelling as a creative and collaborative process.
BRIGHTS Project Training, CTK Rijeka, Croatia, Completed certified training within the Erasmus+ funded BRIGHTS initiative, focused on applying the Story Circle Methodology to Global Citizenship Education through Digital Storytelling
2016
Unseen Realities, Essay / Digital Art (Mixed Media)
Revitalisation and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage – Potentials for the Future (Draft proposal for cultural investment projects), Matica Hrvatska, Orebic, Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia.
Arts Programmer, Researcher, Curator, Culture days & We Want Cinema on Peljesac, Matica Hrvatska, Orebic, Peljesac Peninsula, Croatia (Curated and coordinated a cultural program as a site of artistic research in a rural context, experimenting with how artistic practices can shape collective belonging and memory.
2015
Artist-in-Residence Digital Exchange Croatia 01 (DECro01), International Artistic Program, Korčula, Croatia.
The Wait, Poetical Digital Story, 4'45"
2015-2025
