Nayara Romero, known artistically as VJOLLK, is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist, performance artist, and visual artist. Her practice encompasses contemporary dance, performance art, visual arts, digital art, and illustration, investigating the body as a symbolic territory, an expressive channel, and a tool for transformation. Her work explores the boundaries between the physical, the emotional, and the perceptual, integrating elements such as costume, makeup, stage presence, and visual intervention to construct immersive and tangible performance experiences.
She is a graphic designer, a graduate of the Politécnico Metropolitano, a background that allowed her to develop a solid visual eye and a deep understanding of communication through images. Simultaneously, she became a certified dance and movement instructor at the Lucy Tejada Cultural Center, enriching her artistic vision from human, performative, and emotional perspectives. Her academic journey thus combines design, dance, and art as part of a single personal language.
Her artistic research focuses on bodily and plastic memory, the body’s resilience, and its capacity for transformation. Her recent works include Umbral del viento (Consulate of Colombia, Pride Week 2025), Vals de Máscaras (La Parcería, 2025), Cuerpo Travesía (Matadero Madrid, 2024–2025), and Transducción Híbrida (Sala Siroco, 2025). She has collaborated with Colectivo Espacio Basto, and her illustrations have been published in the feminist magazine Espacio Rebeldía (2025). She is also the founder and artistic director of Nómade Lab, the dance and movement laboratory of Madrid For Refugees, which since January 2026 has received more than 40 applications from participants from over 50 countries.
She is an active member of Movimiento NEOS, a cultural and artistic collective created by Latin American, racialized, and migrant artists. Their performances aim to viscerally showcase the cultural value to which society is exposed but which often goes unnoticed, giving voice and perspective to each artist through their individual practice to raise awareness within communities. The collective presents NO Cabaret at MFR on May 30, 2026. At MFR, she participated in the group exhibition Entre el pincel y el color (September 2025), where she presented acrylic work, and in the production of Diosas sin rostro (November 2025). She continues to develop artistic and educational projects within the organization. Her lived experience of the asylum process is central to her work methodology.
Nayara Romero has been an artist-in-residence at Madrid For Refugees since 2025.