MONIKA ELIETTE JANDL I LUKA TOMIĆ
MOVING PARTICLES
15.-28.7.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Tuesday, 15.7.2025. Monika Eliette Jandl and Luka Tomić open their solo exhibition entitled Moving particles. at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In his foreword, Josip Zanki emphasizes:
„In 2024, a collaboration was initiated between the Austrian art collective Gruppe 77 and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU). The collaboration takes the form of a Double Act – joint exhibitions featuring one Croatian and one Austrian artist, first at the PLÜ23 Gallery in Graz, followed by a second-year exchange at the Karas Gallery in Zagreb. Luise Kloos, a member of Gruppe 77, and Josip Zanki, Vice President of HDLU, selected the first two artists for this project: Monika Eliette Jandl and Luka Tomić. Their work was first showcased last autumn at the PLÜ23 Gallery in Graz as part of the Moving Practicels exhibition, and the collaboration now continues under the same title at the Karas Gallery in Zagreb. (…)
The works of Jandl and Tomić communicate through contrasts: while Jandl creates imagined fragments, parts of hypothetical ruins, Tomić intervenes in an actual ruin, using fragments and also exhibiting them in the gallery; while Jandl avoids meanings and starts from the negation of the image – iconoclasm, Tomić builds everything on meaning and the narrativity of images; while Jandl uses the whiteness of the wall by exhibiting reduced formats, Tomić uses the floor and disrupts that same whiteness of the wall with a screen. In the most wondrous part of the poetics of these two vastly different works, the artists touch upon the temporality of ruins and the beauty of fragments. After emptiness, wars, destruction, misunderstanding, and transience, all that remains are the remnants that record time, amorphous and temporal fragments that are cleansed but also imbued with meaning.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Monika Eliette Jandl is an Austrian artist working across various media. She studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Her artistic practice encompasses ceramics, textiles, performance, installation, and drawing. Since 2020, she has been a member of Gruppe 77. She has participated in several exhibitions in Austrian cities, including Graz, Salzburg, Vienna, and Dornbirn.

Luka Tomić (b. 1995) is a multimedia artist from Zagreb who completed his undergraduate studies in New Media and Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2023. His artistic practice includes drawing, painting, illustration, street art, tattooing, graphic arts, performance, installation, and land art. He has had two solo and numerous group exhibitions and projects both in Croatia and abroad. He has been a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) since 2020 and of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU) since 2024.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 15. to 28.7.2025.
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