JOSIP KRESOVIĆ
THE SHIFT
27.5.-14.6.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Tuesday, 27.5.2025. Josip Kresović opens his solo exhibition entitled The Shift, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword, Antonela Solenički emphasizes:
“In the exhibition The Shift, Josip Kresović exposes the complex interplay between two seemingly distinct domains – his psychological practice and his artistic work. As a psychologist who spent years working at the Centre for Sexual Health, Kresović witnessed firsthand the emotional tensions, the silence of shame, and gestures of caution that permeate everyday medical practice. The idea that professional sterility remains confined to the workplace is an illusion, and in this series, the artist reveals that the boundaries between work and art are not only fluid but also substantive. What is experienced in the Centre – the colours of tests, the texture of cotton wool, the smell of disinfectant, eye contact – translates into a visual language in which the material and the emotional, the personal and the systemic, become inseparable.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Josip Kresović (Zadar, 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and psychologist. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Zadar in 2018, focusing on the psychology of art, with a particular interest in visual-aesthetic sensitivity and the relationship between art and mood. Alongside his studies, he developed his own artistic practice, in which he explores the relationship between the individual and their environment and how this relationship shapes identity, through a personal iconography. His work spans a range of media, including sculpture, collage, installation, and performance. Since 2017, he has had solo and group exhibitions and performances in Croatia and, on two occasions, he has received support from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia for visual artists (Roller, 2021 and Plivati kao ti ne može svatko / Not Everyone Can Swim Like You, 2023). In 2023, in collaboration with the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, he won the ICOM Award for his work Sun Worker. In 2024, following his participation in the Situation exhibition at the Youth Salon, he was awarded a special recognition from the Croatian Association of Fine Artists for his work 11. In 2025, he was selected for the Takeover 2025 (CreArt 3.0) project, through which he exhibited at the Brigada studio in Zagreb, and in parallel, he also began an artistic collaboration with the Forum för levande historia in Stockholm (Sweden), where he exhibited a site-specific installation as part of the museum’s educational programme. Kresović is also active in the fields of stage and graphic design.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 27.5. to 14.6.2025.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb