MIHAELA PODBOJ
PERSIST
10.-31.3.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Tuesday, 10th of March Mihaela Podboj opens her solo exhibition entitled Persist at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword artist emphasizes:
“The project began in 2022 as a personal exploration of everyday life, habits and grieving processes, and by channeling all-consuming concepts, each work becomes a record of introspective moments, like a checkpoint.
The research explores how a product emerges from scarcity, only for that product to return to scarcity once more. It is a repeated cycle of banal everyday life, the traces we leave behind, and transformation. Through an interactive and non-linear exhibition layout, the audience actively participates in the creation of the narrative, which emphasises the importance of spontaneity and the release of the narrative into something unknown and still unexplored.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Mihaela Podboj (b. 1998) completed her secondary education at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Osijek before graduating from the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek with an MA in Visual Arts, specialising in Printmaking. She participated in a semester-long exchange programme at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and a year-long exchange programme at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, among which the most notable include the International Student Biennale, GrafičaRi, BIOFILIJA, Ispreplitanje: pleter, and One su tu. She was a finalist for the Zlatna Lubenica 7.0 Award with her work Mirror Me, which also secured first prize in the Fine Arts category at the 2023 Da! Festival. In Stuttgart, she exhibited as part of the reintheoretisch! – Ideenskizzen module and in the exhibition Neukalibrierung der Realität. She has participated in numerous international workshops and artistic gatherings, and she is a member of ULUPUH (the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and the Professional Media Presence (Culture Hub Croatia).
In her artistic practice, Mihaela explores and deconstructs everyday life and subjectivity. She frequently combines techniques in her creative process, and in recent works has primarily used textile and printmaking techniques, while also incorporating poetry, video, and alternative photographic processes.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 10. to 31.3.2026.

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