MARA BRATOŠ
HIDDEN PLACES OF THE CITY
9.-29.9.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 9th of September Mara Bratoš opens her solo exhibition entitled Hidden Places of the City at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her forward, Anite Ruso Brečić emphasizes:
“A dialogue about time, memory and space unfolds between the two series of photographs. What was a photograph of an abandoned city in 1995 is now a photograph of a city whose parts are hidden in a different way. Once they were marked by emptiness; today, by inaccessibility. Mara Bratoš’s photographs record not only changes in architecture or the landscape, but also changes in our relationship to public space and to our own memory.
This exhibition is therefore not only an encounter between two photographic series created thirty years apart; it is also an encounter with two Dubrovniks – one recovering, the other continually reshaping itself – and with a single artistic gaze that, in both periods, finds the same, almost cinematic, fissures in everyday life. Mara neither offers a nostalgic vision of a lost Dubrovnik nor attempts to compare what was better and what was worse. She observes how the City changes its face and how, with those changes, our experience of space changes too. Photography thus becomes a medium of memory and a witness to something difficult to record in any other way – the moment when spaces we remember as shared gradually enter a regime of controlled access, when the boundary between public and private is not always visible at first glance but is nevertheless keenly felt.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Mara Bratoš was born in Dubrovnik. She completed primary school in her hometown and graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in Philadelphia in 1992. That same year, she enrolled in the Department of Cinematography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, graduating in 1998. Bratoš is an award-winning photographer (Croatian Photography Award, 1995; AICA Award, 1999) and a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH), the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU), the Filmmakers Association of Croatia (HDFD) and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists Dubrovnik (HDLU Dubrovnik). She has exhibited continuously since 1995 in solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 9. to 29.9.2026.

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, City of Dubrovnik