CREART 3.O. / KARAS+KVART
VANA GAĆINA & ALYONA FUTSUR
21.-24.5.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

We invite you to join the exhibition of Vana Gaćina and Alyona Fustur, which is the result of three weeks of intensive research and work as part of the residency program Karas+kvart, on Thursday, 21st of May at 7pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

The exhibition brings the new works of Croatian multimedia artist Vana Gaćina “FluctuHood” and Ukrainian artist, videographer and performer Alyona Futsur “Unwanted Voices”, which are based on revealing the hidden potential of urban and natural remains of Karas’ and nearby neighborhoods.

Installation “FluctuHood” (Vana Gaćina) is a research project based on the consideration of energy availability in a contemporary urban context, viewed through the prism of interdisciplinary artistic practice. The focus of the research is the Karas Gallery neighbourhood viewed as a microecological system within which neglected material flows – such as biowaste, soil, sediments, and wastewater – can be identified and which have the potential for transformation into useful energy forms.
Locally available materials from the environment of the aforementioned city district are used for the experimental production of bioelectrochemical batteries. The energy obtained from these batteries serves as the main source for the installation and is translated into a sound structure through algorithmic processes, forming an interactive sound installation.
The sound structure is designed as an interactive system adapted to visitors, which allows them to actively participate and ‘play’ using the energy of their own environment, with each of its segments generating a recognizable sound expression.

Audiovisual project “Unwanted Voices” (Alyona Futsur) explors the hidden sounds of environmental and social pollution in Zagreb. Using hydrophone (underwater microphone) and geophone (analog sensor that converts ground vibrations into electrical signals), Alyona Futsur recorded underwater sounds of city fountains and lakes, as well as low-frequency vibrations from urban and natural locations marked by garbage and noise pollution. The project investigated whether polluted environments have a “voice” that cannot be heard without specialized equipment, and it found… they do.
Alongside the recordings, Alyona interviewed residents about these places. Their emotions and associations influenced the color palette, scene titles, and editing process, making the public co-authors of the final film. Through both technology and human testimony, the project gives voice to overlooked spaces, invisible tensions, and collective emotional landscapes of Zagreb that remain silent and overseen.

Artists’ biographies:
Vana Gaćina is a Croatian visual artist whose practice bridges painting, video, and multimedia installation. After graduating in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, she continued her education in video art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. Her work explores the evolving relationship between contemporary art and technology, with a particular focus on how artistic expression transforms within new media environments. Through multimedia installations, Vana integrates traditional visual practices with digital tools, investigating expanded models of perception, representation, and interaction. Currently a PhD candidate in visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, her research focuses on the aesthetics of artificial intelligence. Her doctoral work critically examines the role of algorithmic systems in contemporary artistic production. Vana has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Croatia and internationally. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU).

Alyona Futsur is a multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine, based in Slovakia, working across performance, photography, video, and music.
With a foundation in psychology, transformational coaching, and somatic practices, her work explores the intersection of art and healing through raw, improvised, and emotionally charged expression. Alyona’s methodology centers on mind-free experimentation, intuition, and embodied experience—favoring imperfection, spontaneity, and unconventional aesthetics such as distorted imagery, non-linear video, experimental sound, and expressive embodiment.
Performance and film serve as key mediums for translating inner processes into shared, real-time experiences, while sound and music deepen emotional connection beyond language. This approach has been shaped by Alyona’s projects, including experimental films, live performances, and the music album Garage Renaissance, in which she embraced improvisation as a core creative force.
Drawing from personal experiences, including trauma and neurodivergence, her work challenges perception and invites reflection on identity, emotion, and societal conditioning. Her art has been exhibited and screened internationally across Europe and the Americas. In 2025, Alyona published the self-coaching memoir 365 Days of Love: How to Self-love Without Money, Mission, and Myself, which she wrote during one of the most difficult periods of her depression, further expanding her practice into writing as a tool for transformation.

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Associates: Miodrag Gladović and Ur Institu (FluctuHood project)
Thanks: Tin Dožić, Margita Grubiša, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

Gallery working hours:
Friday-Sunday: 10am-6pm

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Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2023-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.
[Project number: 101128499]
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs

DAVID WILHELM
PRESENCE, UNKNOWN: PHASE V
7.-28.4.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Tuesday, 7th of April David Wilhelm opens his solo exhibition entitled PRESENCE, UNKNOWN: PHASE V at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword Iva Jurić emphasizes:
In the work PRESENCE, UNKNOWN: PHASE V, artist David Wilhelm continues to explore ritual and apotropaic practices, examining their physical and digital potential within a contemporary context through a series of iterative developments. Starting from their traditional function as protection against evil and misfortune, the artist relocates these practices into a speculative space situated between archaeology, fiction, and the digital imaginary. (…)
The installation combines video with a series of phallus-shaped amulets made of red clay. The amulets appear as pseudo-historical objects without a clearly defined provenance, simultaneously archaic and timeless. Their materiality evokes tradition—specifically archaic techniques of making and archaeological remains—while the context of the installation situates them within a speculative narrative that the artist develops in parallel in the video. Their spatial arrangement suggests that they belong to a broader, yet unfinished system of belief.

PREFACE

Biography:
David Wilhelm (2000) studies at the Department of Animated Film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. In their artistic practice they explore the relationship between the digital and the physical, queer identity, and experimentation with sound, text, and video. Most of their time is spent playing video games or working on scaffolding at building restoration sites.
They exhibited their work in group exhibitions in Vienna, Pula, Split, Zadar and Zagreb, as well as solo exhibitions in Split and Zagreb. They participated in residencies Garden of Eden in Bale (2022), What’s Masc? in Berlin (2022) and W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research – Co_Lab #1 in Split (2023).

The exhibition will be open during the period from 7. to 28.4.2026.

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

JELENA BOGDANIĆ
VENDING MACHINE
4.-24.2.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 4th of February Jelena Bogdanić opens her solo exhibition entitled Vending Machine at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her forward, Mihaela Zajec emphasizes:
“Bogdanić’s Vending Machine is therefore neither the first nor certainly the last attempt to explain the world from the perspective of one’s own and the general artistic role and position, yet it remains one of the most direct expressions of this endeavour in contemporary Croatian art. It is an “installation” that approaches the theme both literally and with ironic distance, absurdist and ethical in its emphasis on contradictions, while simultaneously blurring their boundaries and frameworks.
Essentially, this self-service machine is a reflection of modern and contemporary society, its need for the quick and easy, for technological advancement and optimisation, for efficiency and consumption, but also for a return to simpler times. By subversively appropriating this proto-robot creature, the artist presents her sculptural works as equally hollowed-out content, but with the aim of opening a dialogue. A dialogue about time, about society, about artistic value, about apathy.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Jelena Bogdanić (1998, Zagreb) graduated in 2022 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Art Education Department, in the class of Associate Professor Vlasta Žanić and co-mentor Professor Ines Krasić. She spent the fifth semester of her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Mileta Prodanović, as part of the Erasmus+ exchange programme. Through objects and installations, she explores the materiality, aesthetics, and poetics of single-use plastic, achieving its unpredictable transformations through melting. She has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Zagreb, Labin, and Dublin. She is currently employed as a teacher at the School of Applied Arts and Design.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 4. to 24.2.2026.

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

LUKA KUŠEVIĆ
TELLURIC CURRENTS
12.1.-27.1.2026.
KARAS GALLERY

On Monday, 12th of January Luka Kušević opens his solo exhibition entitled Telluric currents at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In his foreword Luka Kušević emphasizes:
“In my work, I trace the movements, gestures, and vibrations from which earthly scenes are composed. It is not the scene itself that interests me, but the processes that precede it: the motions, flows, and transformations unfolding beneath the visible surface. In this sense, landscape serves as a starting point rather than the goal of the painting. I try to avoid lapsing into landscape painting, as it often immobilises movement and thereby closes off space for the unpredictable and aleatory. Instead of a stable image, I am interested in space in the making, space that is built through the very act of painting, through the constant mobilisation of colour and form.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Luka Kušević was born in Zagreb in 1993, where he completed his secondary education at the School of Applied Arts and Design. In 2017, he graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Zoltan Novak. He has been exhibiting solo since 2018, with notable solo exhibitions including those at Forum Gallery (2018), Matica Hrvatska Gallery (2022), SC Gallery (2022), PM/Extended Media Gallery (2024), and Kranjčar Gallery (2024). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Erste Fragments 16 (2020), the 57th Zagreb Salon (2022), the 7th Biennial of Painting (2024), and the exhibition Y to Z: Construction Site of a New Generation at the National Museum of Modern Art (Octagon). At the 6th Biennial of Painting, he was co-awarded the Iva Vraneković – Vladimir Dodig Trokut Award. He lives and works in Zagreb.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 12.1. to 27.1.2026.

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

DOMAGOJ BURILOVIĆ
DORF
19.11.-6.12.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 19th of November Domagoj Burilović opens his solo exhibition entitled Dorf at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In his foreword Domagoj Burilović emphasizes:
„The current emigration of the population most directly contributes to the destruction of villages, as they do not provide an adequate quality of life. Post offices, health centres, shops, and schools are closing… houses are abandoned, yards overgrown with weeds. Historic architecture is the first to decay. Most of these structures are deserted and dilapidated, and some of the photographed buildings collapsed shortly after being photographed.
Inscribed in the rural architecture of Slavonia is the historical prosperity of the region, but also its present-day decline, a thread connecting two opposing migratory waves. The irony of history lies in the fact that Germans once settled Slavonian villages and improved the quality of life, and now it is precisely the rural population who are largely moving to Germany in search of a better life. ”

PREFACE

Biography:
Domagoj Burilović is born in 1987 in Vinkovci. Graduated in Painting from the Academy of Arts in Split in 2012. Through photography, he addresses political and social themes, and in recent years has focused on the current emigration from Slavonia. He has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. His works have received awards and have been included in various collections.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 19.11. to 6.12.2025.

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

JIAO GUO
THE GRASS IS STALKING YOU
29.10.-16.11.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 29th of October Jiao Guo opens her solo exhibition entitled The Grass is Stalking You at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword, Petra Galović emphasizes:
“The intermedial installation titled The Grass Is Stalking You by the artist Jiao Guo is a kind of case study of such an experiment in re-imagining and remapping the meaning of a non-human entity – ordinary grass. (…)
By dissecting the models of existing and possible perceptions of grass in a branched intermedial installation, Guo takes the position of a subtle storyteller who poses a series of questions to the viewer and sets out a spectrum of possibilities of what grass is and what it could be. By juxtaposing different media – from original and modified photographs, collages, objects found in nature, wood engravings, her own poems and those of canonical authors, printouts from web pages to an interactive projection – Guo questions our perception of such concepts as the natural and artificial, analogue and digital, organic and geometric structures, as well as our need to inscribe certain meanings into them and occasionally obscure their boundaries.

Preface

Biography:
Jiao Guo (Shenyang, 1987) is an intermedial artist based in Zagreb. She currently focuses on materiality, the ways in which narratives about nature are constructed, the overlaps between geology, ecology and contemporary life, and how bodily experience intertwines with technology and non-human entities. Her practice is often process-oriented, and she creates assemblages using materials gathered both from nature and from everyday environments – often recycling objects that have lost their original function.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 29.10. to 16.11.2025.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb

LAURA STOJKOSKI
STADIUM
10.-25.9.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 10.9.2025. Laura Stojkoski opens her solo exhibition entitled Stadium at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword, Monika Sinković emphasizes:
“This exhibition is based on the idea of creating a unique space where art and football converge, two spheres that shape identities and communities in different yet deeply interconnected ways. The gallery is transformed into a place that evokes the atmosphere of a stadium, conveying the dynamism, passion and sense of togetherness that characterise football culture. (…)
The exhibition invites us to reflect together on how the collective energy of the stadium is translated into artistic expressions, and how new forms of understanding culture and community emerge in this transition.”

PREFACE

Biography:
Laura Stojkoski (1998, Zagreb) is a student of Art Education, majoring in Sculpture, under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Vojin Hraste at the Art Education Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. Her work centres on the exploration of collective identities and their interrelations, while her artistic practice is focused on the exploration of colour in sculpture. She has participated in group exhibitions and is a three-time recipient of the Rector’s Award.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 10.9. to 25.9.2025.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb