Category: Events
18 April 2023
ALEX BRAJKOVIĆ
EARTHLINES
Galerija Karas
25.4. – 16.5.2023.
On Tuesday, 25.4.2023. Alex Brajković opens his solo exhibition entitled Earthlines, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In his foreword, Davor Sanvincenti emphasizes:
Human progress and ecology do not share the same nature. Today, the human factor has been introduced into the ecological continuum through the conditions of resource exploitation conditioned by geo-economic and geopolitical dynamics. This happens on its own terms and does not privilege us above the way we think about life. The internal mechanisms of ecology are based on the dimensions beyond our human values, ethics, and vision. They are rooted in the ontological sphere with their own rules, where humans are not the sole relevant aspect, even at a time when our catastrophic actions endanger planetary collapse.
Biography:
Alex Brajković (b. 1992) is a multimedia artist from Poreč with a master’s degree in Live Electronics (Conservatorium Van Amsterdam). He works in the field of immersive multimedia installations in public spaces, digital art, multi-instrumental electroacoustic solo performances, electronic production, programming and complex interactive visual systems. In his previous work, he has created a number of site-specific works in the field of art installations and multimedia (“Dispersions” STRP Festival, Netherlands, 14th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, “Drumming 0.3” Device_art festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, “Stillness” Museum of Fine Art in Split, “Generative Contemplation” for Cycling74, Meijijingu Gaien 3D mapping festival, Tokyo). He has won the “Kožarić Digital” award for the work “Generative Contemplation – Cellular Automata” awarded by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2022. He is the founder of the multimedia studio – Immersive Studio.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 25.4. to 16.5.2023.
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The Karas Art Hub platform was designed for the purpose of developing different approaches to the presentation, experience and processing of works of art displayed to the public in Zagreb’s Karas Gallery, which are presented to the public with digital content on the gallery’s web platform, including 360° shots of installations and video miniatures.
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
06 April 2023
15 DANA – 20 years
PM Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović Pavilion)
April 13-May 5, 2023
Curators: Vanja Babić and Leila Topić
The opening of the exhibition 15 DANA – 20 years will be on Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 7pm., in the PM gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović Pavilion).
With the exhibition 15 DANA – 20 years, we mark twenty years since the editorial tandem Tomislav Brlek/Bruno Kragić took over the editing of the magazine 15 dana, published by the Public Open University Zagreb (POUZ), a press of cult status that is at the same time one of the oldest continuously published domestic magazine (since 1957) for literature and culture in general. Undoubtedly, the duo’s valuable editorial innovation is the concept according to which each subsequent issue of the magazine – including both its front cover and back cover – will be illustrated with the works of one or more prominent contemporary domestic artists, with the mandatory publication of an introductory text about his/her work and an appropriate interview. Such an innovatively designed approach provided additional visual compactness or roundness to each issue of 15 dana, without encroaching on the exceptionality and recognition achieved during the previous decades.
Artists: Barbara Blasin, Jasenka Bulj, Duje Jurić, Željko Kipke, Luka Kušević, Zoltan Novak, Ivan Picelj, Ivan Posavec, Nika Radić, Dubravka Rakoci, Milisav Mio Vesović, Zlatan Vrkljan, Danijel Žeželj
Opening hours of the exhibition:
Tuesday – Sunday 11 am to 7 pm
closed on Mondays and holidays.
The exhibition remains open until May 5, 2023.
How to Look at Natures? – Art and the Capitalocene
13.04. . 05.05. 2023
Prsten Gallery
Curators: Ivana Filip, Suzama Marjanić
Exhibition opening: Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 7pm
Artists: Maša Bajc, Alex Brajković, Nikolina Butorac, Tanja Dabo, Charlotte Dumas, Darko Fritz, Igor Grubić, Nenad Jalšovec, Lisa Jevbratt, Gustafsson & Haapoja, Olga F. Koroleva, Zvjezdana Jembrih, Alen Novoselec, Erez Nevi Pana, Olly & Suzi, Kira O’Reilly, Ivana Ožetski, Ana Ratković Sobota, Davor Sanvincenti, Nives Sertić, Pinar Yoldas, Vjeran Vukašinović, Otchuda Say.
The exhibition programme How to See Natures? – Art and the Capitalocene documents visual practice, and its responses to possible green initiatives that can detect the consequences of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, which treat Nature only as a resource. Perhaps it suffices to remind us of the fact that merely a hundred years ago all our food was organic, and today we buy it in specialized stores of neoliberal market capital. Or that the original economic system was based on the gift economy, and not on market predation that leads to global Geocide and apocalyptic climate changes that threaten the sixth extinction, as warned by Elizabeth Kolbert, for example.
The works exhibited in this collective green exhibition talk about relationships with Others (non-humans), those whose voice is different from the human one, such as all the Natures – Animals, Plants, Twigs, Sun, Seas, Oceans, Waters, Paths, Forests, Flowers, Stones, all those that are neglected and vulnerable in the anthropocentric image of supposed progress. The idea behind the exhibition is to show all that makes a human being a fascinating and inexhaustible source of discoveries and creations, which is created in co-creation with Others.
04 April 2023
BRAD DOWNEY
I AM YOU, YOU ARE ME
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
April 13 – May 5, 2023
The opening of the exhibition by BRAD DOWNEY, I AM YOU, YOU ARE ME will be on Thursday, April 13 at 7 pm, in Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion).
In the exhibition I AM YOU, YOU ARE ME, Downey presents a work on ‘forced collaborations’ with other artists, manipulating their works to update and extend their discourse, synchronising them in the contemporary status of art. Downey’s work forces us to rethink the subject, space, time, and language, dissolving the subject in interaction, measuring space in potential actions rather than centimetres, disintegrating the timeline of art history, and manipulating language to test the understanding of art. His work challenges the determination of Arthur Danto that art is the history of art, and instead suggests that art is the understanding of art.
Downey’s art embodies Deleuze’s idea of the power of the virtual to transform the actual, subverting and transforming the everyday to create new possibilities for thought and action. He invites viewers to question the meaning and purpose of the spaces they occupy, and consider alternative ways of imagining and inhabiting those spaces. At the heart of Downey’s art is a desire to create a dialogue between the urban environment and its inhabitants, encouraging viewers to rethink their relationship to their surroundings and imagine alternative futures.
Forced-to-collaborate artists:
- 1. Dieter Roth
“He is the artist from whom I learned the most, discovering new dimensions”
- 2. Robert Smithson
“Feel the place, more place than artwork”
- 3. Banksy
“It’s a restored piece”
- 4. Luke Tuymans
“It’s a complicated work about broken plates and fractured identities”
- 5. Jože Plečnik
“Plečnik is Ljubljana’s architect his work is as transcendent as Brâncuși’s”
- 6. Alexander Brener
“He was jailed in 1997 for painting a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich’s painting Suprematisme”
- 7. Roman Signer
“It’s about slow cancellation”
- 8. Maxi
“He’s the sculptor who I commissioned to make the Melania monument”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The Artist Brad Downey is an American artist based in Berlin whose art challenges conventional ideas of public space and urban environment, inviting viewers to rethink their relationship to their surroundings. He often repurposes everyday objects in unexpected and sometimes humorous ways, expressing the subversive potential of everyday life. Downey aims to create a dialogue between the urban environment and its inhabitants with emphasis on difference and multiplicity. His work opens up new possibilities for thought and action, inviting us to imagine alternative futures for ourselves and our world. Brad Downey’s art explores becoming more than being, and in this way restructures and challenges basic conventions such as identity and time.
EXHIBITION WORKING HOURS:
Tuesday – Sunday: 11am – 7pm
Mondays and holidays closed.
Exhibition will be opened until May 5, 2023
27 March 2023
SANDA ČRNELČ
EXPERIMENT ON HOW MUCH MY HANDS CAN TAKE / EXPERIMENT ON HOW MUCH DAMAGE A BRICK CAN MAKE
Karas Gallery
4. – 18.4.2023.
On Tuesday, 4.4.2023. Sanda Črnelč opens her solo exhibition entitled Experiment on How Much My Hands Can Take / Experiment on How Much Damage a Brick Can Make, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Marta Radman emphasizes:
“By incorporating her own experience of living within an atypical geopolitical and sociological reality of the Chinese communist regime, the artist raises possibilities of questioning a broader discourse of this mutually exclusive and paradoxical system. The insistence on traditional values is associated with a concept of pressure that suffocates us when we are constantly faced with impositions. To recreate such psychological pressure, Črnelč puts a concrete physical pressure on designated places throughout the gallery. By choosing bricks, which is one of the oldest building materials beside wood and stone, but also the first that was created by man, the artist uses literal meaning to represent the traditionality defining the identity of the community. She does not explore the possibilities of the space, but her own possibilities to faithfully present the complexity of the relationships of institutions intended for development and presentation of art with art itself. In this process, the brick represents one of such institutions, and the artist represents art.”
Biography:
Sanda Črnelč (b. 1997, Zagreb) is a second-year student at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, Art Education Department, in the class of assistant professor Marko Tadić. Since 2018 Črnelč has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in and outside Croatia (Experimental Self-Portrait, VN Gallery, Zagreb, 2022; Gentle Gallery, Autumn Exhibition of ULUS – Cvijeta Zuzorić Pavilion, Belgrade, 2022; Matrices: Information, SC Gallery, Zagreb, 2022; Ground Zero: Ideal place, LEX ART, Zagreb, 2022; VGA 03, Knifer Gallery, Osijek, 2021; Undecidable Matters, Gallery 8, Hangzhou, 2020; Integrity, Small Gallery OF POU, Vrbovec 2019; Garden and Other Beasts, Garaža Kamba, Zagreb, 2018, etc.) In her work, Črnelč uses mixed multimedia techniques where she puts the relationship between the artist and the object into conflict, with the aim of questioning the concept of mutual intolerance within a space.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 14.4. to 18.4.2023.
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The Karas Art Hub platform was designed for the purpose of developing different approaches to the presentation, experience and processing of works of art displayed to the public in Zagreb’s Karas Gallery, which are presented to the public with digital content on the gallery’s web platform, including 360° shots of installations and video miniatures.
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
07 March 2023
Antonio Pozojević
Still Life
Karas Gallery
14. – 25.3.2023.
On Tuesday, 14.3.2023. Antonio Pozojević opens his solo exhibition entitled Still Life, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Maja Flajsig emphasizes:
“In this sense, Antonio Pozojević’s series of photographs titled Still Life is a continuation of this civilizational fascination with dead and decaying animal bodies. His photos show his intrigue with the textures and shapes of animal carcasses when creating artistic compositions, which he emphasizes by enlarging film negatives. By not showing the positive of a photograph, the artist denies the possibility of literal interpretation and opens up a field for thinking about motifs that go beyond the spectrum of topics that appear at first glance. By looking at the negatives, one can discern the kind of animals they feature from the textures and shapes, which provides different insights when thinking about these animals in general. Some of them represent archetypes and symbols ubiquitous in the collective consciousness. Therefore, it is unusual to discern the potent and powerful body of a horse, the archetype of time and memory of the world, lying lifeless, in stark contrast to the usual representation of a galloping horse inscribed in the visual code of Western culture.”
Biography:
Antonio Pozojević was born in Zagreb in 1984. He is a member of the Filmmakers Association of Croatia and the Croatian Association of Artists. He has been engaged in photography since enrolling in the cinematography programme at the Academy of Dramatic Arts (2010). Filmmaking is his primary activity, and he engages in photography on a non-commercial basis. In 2019, he enrolled in the Viewfinder programme in Budapest, Dublin, and Tallinn as an Erasmus scholar, which ended in 2021.
The exhibition will be open in compliance with all measures and recommendations of the National Headquarters of Civil Protection, and you can view it in the period from 14.3. to 25.3.2023.
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The Karas Art Hub platform was designed for the purpose of developing different approaches to the presentation, experience and processing of works of art displayed to the public in Zagreb’s Karas Gallery, which are presented to the public with digital content on the gallery’s web platform, including 360° shots of installations and video miniatures.
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
20 February 2023
Dalibor Martinis
I Don´t Have Time
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
March 1 – March 26, 2023
The opening of the exhibition by Dalibor Martinis, I Don´t Have Time will be on Wednesday, March 1 at 7 pm, in Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion).
“Dalibor Martinis titled his video installation, with strongly ambient characteristics – specially designed for the Bačva Gallery – I Don´t Have Time. Such a title is by no means surprising to anyone familiar with his work. Namely, we are talking about an author in whose artistic strategy the time factor plays a very important – some would say a key – role, from his formative years about half a century ago until today. For Martinis, time represents a physical dimension, to which he will often attach formal and substantive connotations. In extremely simplified terms, his relationship with time represents a kind of multimedia, or rather transmedia, conditioned equivalent to the way classical painters and sculptors approach color or volume, as well as eventual motifs or content. (…)
(…) As one of the basic motifs of the video installation I Don´t Have Time, the shape of a circle, but also of circular movement, is unmistakably imposed. The projections are thus dominated by different aspects of such movements, the space of the Bačva Gallery is also circular, and the same applies to the entire Meštrović pavilion in which they are placed. In addition, the building of Meštrović pavilion as such is very much present in the projection – the name of that part of it is HdluhdluldH – and there is also a continuous car ride around the Arc de Triomphe on Place Charles de Gaulle called the Champs Elysees… Recalculating! (The GPS system has the Champs Elysees avenue as its default destination, so it will persistently and in vain, repeat the instructions with its electronic voice where and when to turn and thus leave the circular traffic flow) and video displays on the rotating stage of the installation/scenography And I’m Not Here even for a minute. The motif of the circle, just like the movement, in Martinis’s video-installation I Don´t Have Time also has an emphasized symbolic meaning. Namely, the circle represents a perfect shape without beginning and end, that is, without any direction, which undoubtedly suggests the artist’s non-linear approach to time. On the other hand, it is movement that defines the space-time continuum. Speed (which means movement) is determined precisely in such a way that the distance travelled (through some space) is set in relation to the time spent for that purpose. And to conclude: Martinis’s latest video installation I Don´t Have Time does not only refer to an everyday and pert phrase, but opens up numerous scientific and philosophical questions from which he generates a large part of his amazing oeuvre. Who knows, maybe the name of Martinis’s next project will be I Don´t Have Space…”
Vanja Babić
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
DALIBOR MARTINIS was born in Zagreb in 1947. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He has been exhibiting since 1969 and since 1973 he has been working as a video author. He has held numerous solo exhibitions, performances and screenings and participated in numerous international exhibitions. (Biennials in Venice, São Paulo, Kwangju, Thessaloniki, Cetinje, Cairo and Ljubljana; Documenta Kassel, Triennale Riga, etc.). His films and video works were shown at video festivals in Berlin, Tokyo, Montreal, Locarno and at international short film festivals in Oberhausen, Bogotá, Vienna, Seattle, Nice, Montreal, Ljubljana, etc. He was a Canada Council/Canada scholarship holder in 1978. Jaica/Japan 1984, Artslink/USA 1994 and 2010.
He taught at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (1987/91), at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto 1991/92. and at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka (2007-2012). He holds the title of prof. emeritus of the University of Rijeka.
He won several international awards (Tokyo Video Festival 1984, Locarno 1984, Alpe/Adria Film Festival Trieste 1996, Short Film Festival in Bogota 2014). He is the winner of Vjesnik’s award “Josip Račić” in 1995, the City of Zagreb Award in 1998, the HDLU Annual Award in 2009, the 1st T-HT Award in 2013, and the “Vladimir Nazor” Award in 2016.
His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Zagreb, The Museum of Modern Art/New York, Stedelijk Museum/Amsterdam, ZKM/Karlsruhe, New York Public Library, Kontakt/Erste Bank, Vienna and others.
He lives in Zagreb.
EXHIBITION WORKING HOURS:
Tuesday – Sunday: 11am – 7pm
Mondays and holidays closed.
Exhibition will be opened until March 26, 2023
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