IVANA GALIĆ
ICICLES AND GLASS BEADS
2.6.-23.6.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Tuesday, 2nd of June Ivana Galić opens her solo exhibition entitled Icicles and Glass Beads at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her forward, artist emphasizes:
“ In Icicles and Glass Beads, I explore the material of glass through the media of light, texture, form, movement and sound, creating new environments – visual, auditory and tactile; material and digital; calm and harmonious; spontaneous and planned. (…)
Glass, also described as an amorphous solid, a rigid liquid or a supercooled liquid, is characterised on the molecular level by an unusual and irregular arrangement of atoms that prevents it from being classified as either solid or liquid, becoming a category of its own instead. This elusive state of glass prompted me to reflect, through this work, on polarities and the in-between states they open up. The space between, within which this work moves, includes the relationship between the natural and the digital, security and insecurity, stability and instability, ease and anxiety, chance and predetermination, rigidity and freedom, as well as control and surrender. Like glass, which neither settles into a solid, clearly defined substance with fixed boundaries nor yields entirely to the free drift and flow of water, I too swim somewhere between these polarities, resting at the intersections of their tensions and entanglements.”

Preface

Biography:
Ivana Galić (b. 1997) graduated in New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb. In her work, she draws inspiration from everyday life, which she experiences as both ordinary and filled with fantasy and wonder, carrying within it the potential for imagining new realities. The real and the surreal intertwine, creating a new, third space of imagination. She finds inspiration in her own experiences, in different states of consciousness such as daydreaming and meditation, in various emotional and perceptual states, as well as in favourite books, stories told by people around her, internet culture, her playlists and fantastical worlds. She describes her genre as ethereal wave–post-internet romanticism. Dreamlike atmospheres and nostalgia are often present in her work. She is interested in the relationship between nature, technology and the human being, as well as in themes of slowing down and resistance through rest. She enjoys connecting the digital and the natural, creating dreamlike worlds, safe zones and micro-utopias.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 2. to 23.6.2026.

Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb