Category: Events
02 May 2018
HDLU – Croatian Association of Fine Artists announces
the ANNUAL OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITING in 2019
within the program of Bačva Gallery, Prsten Gallery, PM Gallery and Karas Gallery
The rights to participate in the call have all the artists and experts in the field of fine arts.
THE APPLICATION CAN INCLUDE:
- exhibition proposals
- educational projects
- international programs, inter-institutional and regional collaborations
APPLICATIONS SHALL BE SUBMITTED BY COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM AND SUBMISSION OF REQUIRED DOCUMENTS. All the fields in the application form which are marked with * are mandatory. Application, which is not fully completed or does not contain the required documents, will not be considered.
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS TO THE APPLICATION:
– required examples of the artworks / exhibition / project
images/sketches of the work in JPG format up to 700kb per image
digital Video in DVD PAL or mp4 format (if applicable)
sound works in mp3 format (if applicable)
etc. (provide materials as much as possible for better insight into the project)
– CV (please download CV FORM here, fill it out and upload it to the on-line application form)
project applicant’s CV
artist(s)’ CV (if different from the applicant)
– spatial plan
on the gallery blue print (if applicable)
– for international projects and collaborations
list of countries and institutions engaged with the project
confirmation letter from the international institutions
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION:
– How to apply
Applications should be submitted through on-line application form only.
– Application deadline
June 10, 2018, midnight
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
– Contact for all issues related to the galleries and / or application form:
Galleries: Mia Orsag, galerije.hdlu@gmail.com, 099 2642 564
For international and/or educational projects: Miran Jurić, miran.juric@hdlu.hr
– Applications that do not contain the required fields filled or do not have the required documents will not be considered.
COMMUNICATION:
During the selection process, process of applying for funds and final realization of the program, HDLU will communicate only with the project applicant according to the contacts listed in the application form.
COPYRIGHTS:
HDLU reserves the right to use the selected applications for promotional material of the yearly program in all types of media, catalogues, invites, web and Facebook pages of HDLU.
SUBMISSION CONFIRMATION:
Please contact us in case if you don’t receive submission confirmation e-mail from galerije.hdlu@gmail.com within two working days from the submission.
ATTACHMENTS:
- EXAMPLE OF A FILLED APPLICATION
- APPLICATION FORM FOR EXHIBITING IN 2019
- CV FORM
- FLOOR PLANS OF THE GALLERY SPACES: Bačva Gallery, PM Gallery, Prsten Gallery, Karas Gallery
- VISUALIZATION OF GALLERY SPACE
27 April 2018
BRANKO LEPEN
Do Not Touch Works of Art
Karas Gallery
May 8 – May 30, 2018
Opening of the exhibition: Tuesday, May 8 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery
Exhibition Do Not Touch Works of Art, by Branko Lepen will be opened on Tuesday, May 8 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
“In his series of sculptures Do Not Touch Works of Art (Ne dirajte umjetnička djela). Lepen is engaged in a process of working on the form; this is an extremely rigorous process in all its stages, from the initial idea to the final realization, implemented with the maximum responsibility towards each, event a seemingly small procedure. He establishes the relationships arising from the character and function of the constructive material itself. Here, the sculptor relies on the experience of compressed form as a heritage of modernist reduction, and draws on the principal conciseness of constructive minimalism. (…)
These silent and restrained works are ripe fruits of an interesting sculptural thought and thinking, fruits grown from the artist’s hands, achievements that carry within themselves and preserve the warmth of the touch of those hands, that posses something intimate, close, distinctly individual. What is immanent to these constructs is the awareness that an artwork should be something special and individual, unique and responsible to itself alone, something that primarily meets and satisfies the artists needs.”
(From catalogue preface, written by Ivica Župan)
Karas Gallery program is financially supported by The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU).
Working hours:
Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm | Thursday: 3pm to 7pm | Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 12am
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until May 30, 2018
11 April 2018
Lana Stojićević
SUNNY SIDE
PM Gallery
April 19 – May 6, 2018
SUNNY SIDE solo exhibition of multimedia artist Lana Stoićević opens on Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 19.00 at the PM Gallery of the Home of the Croatian Association of Artists.
10 April 2018
NATALIA BORČIĆ
Travel Guardians
Karas Gallery
April 17 – April 29, 2018
Opening of the exhibition: Tuesday, April 17 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery
Exhibition Travel Guardians, by Natalia Borčić will be opened on Tuesday, April 17 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
After the series of paintings “Dodir“ [Touch] and “Samo sa sobom“ [Just with Myself] the series “Čuvari putovanja“ [Travel Guardians] comes as the continuation of the previous ones, but also as a change and shift in the focus of the painter Natalija Borčić. All of these series are characterized by intimism, painting meditation that establishes a relationship with the outside world manifested in the internal one and corresponds to it, as well as by an individual relationship with colours and the painting surface. Borčić relates her painting motifs: the nude and antique coins, as well as amphorae that are not exhibited on this occasion, with travel. Although one could assume that travel, represented with a human body, is primarily physical in nature, it is closely related to essentially more important emotional and spiritual knowledge, which the painter visually represented with her own nude, a theme present in her previous series as well. (…)
The nude, or the body and money, are the motifs that the artist unites in the role of “guardians of the energy of life“. View of the body is the view of “guardian of the soul“. (…)
(From catalogue preface, written by Nevenka Šarčević)
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm | Thursday: 3pm to 7pm | Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 12am
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until April 29, 2018
28 March 2018
MARTINA GRLIĆ
Memory and conflict
Karas Gallery
April 4 – April 15, 2018
Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery
Exhibition Memory and conflict, by Martina Grlić, the winner of the HBP Award for Young Artists at the 4th Biennial of Painting last year, will be opened on Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
A series of paintings by Martina Grlić titled Memorija i konflikt [Memory and Conflict] comprises two groups of works that are connected both by their theme and by the manner in which they explore the medium. The first group includes paintings created on the basis of archival footage from the last Day of Youth in 1987 (1) (the polyptych Lice iz gomile [A Face from the Crowd] and Vatromet [Fireworks], 2018). The second group consists of works based on archival footage showing the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Vođa [Leader], 2018), his wife Jovanka Broz (Prva dama [First Lady], 2018) and ideological memorabilia; wreaths and medals that mark the space and time of socialist utopia (Vijenac [Wreath], 2018 and Ordenje [Medals], 2018). (…)
(…) For seven more years after having been relocated to the starry crevice, the complex strategical situation of Josip Broz Tito (the power) exercised its power using symbols, commemorative festivities and inscriptions of memories and remembrance into time and space. In her series Memorija i konflikt [Memory and Conflict], the artist does not deify that time and space, but in fact shows the complete iconography of one of the potential cultures of memory. Martina Grlić acts as an artist-ethnographer,(2) recording and transforming fragments of past times that are more and more disappearing in the virtual society. In our interview she emphasised that she liked the finite nature of photography (factography) and the possibility to radically alter it through a painting. The fact that she imitates photography, as does Gerhard Richter, using a medium (painting) that is older than photography (3) is just another piece of the mosaic in her examination of the past. Within it, one can simultaneously gaze upon the starry sky and stand in a queue for a holiday- novella at Makhinjauri.
(From catalogue preface, written by Josip Zanki, PhD)
(1) The Day of Youth was a commemorative festivity from the era of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which commemorated the birthday of the lifetime president Josip Broz Tito (1892 – 1980). It also continued after his death.
(2) Cf. Foster, Hal “The Artist as Ethnographer”. In: Foster, Hal The Return of the Real. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1996
(3) Cf. Belting, Hans An Anthropology of Images. Picture, Medium, Body. Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford, 2011, p. 31
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm | Thursday: 3pm to 7pm | Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 12am
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until April 15, 2018
14 March 2018
MIHAEL PUNTARIĆ
Paintings in space
Karas Gallery
March 20 – March 31, 2018
Opening of the exhibition: Tuesday, March 20 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery
Exhibition Paintings in space, by Mihael Puntarić will open on Tuesday, March 20 at 7pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
(…) In his most recent work of art, Mihael Puntarić has broken entirely free from all content, context, and even expression. In the true sense of minimal art, the author strives towards the affirmation of paintings as art objects by consciously aligning with the work of authors such as Malevič, Reinhardt or the artists gathered within New Tendencies, and their comprehension of art. In this case, Mihael Puntarić practices a highly material manner of painting, i.e. constructing an art object – one that rules out symbolic and referential dimensions of painting. (…)
(…) The deliberation of reductionism present in the work of Puntarić has enabled him to deconstruct the painting as an art object, thereby generating an extension of the established approach to displaying art. His Paintings in Space invite us to stop before the said paintings/objects while bringing into question the two dimensions of a painting and the three dimensions of a sculpture exhibited in the gallery space. (…) As interpreted by Puntarić, art is materialized through conscious and consistent reduction to its fundamental constituents. All the while, his distancing from emotion and from the risk of entrapment by pathos, aims to accomplish the exact opposite – the author’s attainment of the essential conclusions reached by his predecessors in order to explore the possibility, like the ones before him, to raise new questions in art about art.
(From catalogue preface, written by Petra Šlosel)
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm | Thursday: 3pm to 7pm | Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 12am
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until March 31, 2018
07 March 2018
REOPENING OF THE KARAS GALLERY IN A NEW LOCATION
Kralja Zvonimira 58
15.3.2018. at 7pm
VIDEO INVITATION (by Luka Hrgović)
Opening Ceremony: Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 7pm
The Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), the largest and oldest art association which gathers over 1,800 visual and multimedia artists from all over Croatia, was established in 1868 at the session of the Art Society at the National Hall in Opatička St. No. 18. This year the Association marks the 150th anniversary of its foundation and the 80th anniversary of the construction of the Home of Croatian Association of Artists, which was based on the design of the great Ivan Meštrović.
The Croatian Association of Visual Artists (ULUH), the historical successor to the Art Society, which created an exhibition space called the ULUH Salon on the ground floor of Starčević House, was established after the end of WW2. The Salon opened in 1948 with the Exhibition of Prints. From 1951 onwards, the ULUH Salon continued its work at Praška St. No. 4.
ULUH (Croatian Association of Visual Artists) changed its name to HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) in 1972. In the early 1970s the Association decided to open a new gallery and the preparations resulted in the opening of Karas Gallery on the first floor of Starčević House in 1975 with the exhibition The Beginnings of the Croatian Association of Artists within the 10th Zagreb Salon. At the time, Starčević House also housed a smaller exhibition space, Karas Gallery Studio, which hosted solo exhibitions, and the exhibition space in Praška St. No. 4 bore the name of Karas Gallery Salon.
The Gallery was named after Vjekoslav Karas, the first academic painter from continental Croatia of the 19th century, whose work is seen as pioneering in terms of the national modern art.
When HDLU returned to Meštrović Pavilion in 1993, the exhibition programme was held at the Prsten and Bačva galleries and at the Extended Media Gallery, whereas Karas Gallery Salon in Praška St. No. 4 continued its activity under the name of Karas Gallery.
In 2015 the Croatian Association of Artists was forced to relocate Karas Gallery from Praška St. No. 4 due to the sale of the building, and for the following two years the programme was held at the Prsten Gallery of the Home of HDLU.
The Croatian Association of Artists recognises the historical value of Karas Gallery which has become and remained a platform for presenting an overview of contemporary art production. While smaller solo exhibitions were held at the Studio and Salon, Karas Gallery hosted problem-oriented, thematic exhibitions and concepts developed in cooperation with art critics. Wanting to establish a continuous operation of galleries that were active under this name, this year the Croatian Association of Artists decided to use its own revenue to restore and equip the space in Zvonimirova St. No. 58 as the new Karas Gallery, which will, on 15 March at 19.00, open its doors to visitors and young artists who will be presented here.
Visitors will have an opportunity to learn about the history of Karas Gallery (lecture by Ivana Mance, PhD, and Petra Šlosel), witness the unveiling of the sculpture Genius of Education (a smaller replica of sculpture from the top of Starčević house, by unknown Austrian author from the end of the 19th century). that was previously positioned above the entry gate of the exhibition space in Praška St. No. 4, and enjoy a half-hour audio-visual performance by a multimedia artist of a younger generation, Tin Dožić.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
20 – 31 March 2018 MIHAEL PUNTARIĆ: SLIKE U PROSTORU [PAINTINGS IN SPACE]
4 – 15 April 2018 MARTINA GRLIĆ: MEMORIJA I KONFLIKT [MEMORY AND CONFLICT]
17 – 29 April 2018 NATALIA BORČIĆ: ČUVARI PUTOVANJA [TRAVEL GUARDIANS]
2018 Karas Gallery programme has been implemented with the financial support of the City of Zagreb and Croatian Association of Artists.
Karas gallery working hours:
Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm
Thursday: 3pm to 7pm
Saturday and Sunday 9 to 12pm.
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays closed.
MEŠTROVIĆ PAVILION CLOSED DUE TO RENOVATION
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