{"id":5512,"date":"2025-09-24T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:27:05","slug":"exhibition-tonka-malekovic-sophia-freidhoff-compositions-of-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2025\/09\/exhibition-tonka-malekovic-sophia-freidhoff-compositions-of-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITION: Tonka Malekovi\u0107 & Sophia Freidhoff – COMPOSITIONS OF FLOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

TONKA MALEKOVI\u0106 & SOPHIA FREIDHOFF<\/strong>
\nCOMPOSITIONS OF FLOW<\/strong>
\n1.-12.10.2025.<\/strong>
\nME\u0160TROVI\u0106 PAVILION PROGRAM<\/strong>
\nETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IN ZAGREB<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We continue the Me\u0161trovi\u0107 Pavillion Program with solo exhibition of Tonka Malekovi\u0107 and Sophia Freidhoff \u2013 COMPOSITIONS OF FLOW<\/strong>, which will open on Wednesday, October 1st at 7PM at Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb<\/strong> (Trg Ma\u017eurani\u0107a 14). The exhibition remains open until 12.10.2025.<\/p>\n

In her foreword, Martina Miholi\u0107<\/strong> emphasizes:
\nThe project is based on a two-year research of migration movements in the Danube region, carried out in collaboration with scientist Sophia Freidhoff, and through an interdisciplinary approach it intertwines artistic practice with the methodology of social sciences. Compositions of Flow investigates the interwoven effects of migration on both social and individual levels, addressing diverse groups affected by migration, and connects symbolic, geographical, cultural, economic, and phenomenological aspects with the aim of encouraging dialogue on an empathetic level and shifting the understanding of this complex phenomenon.
\nThe video installation Compositions of Flow (2023) invites viewers to look from Regensburg\u2019s historic Stone bridge toward the Danube, where water streams past a massive pier\u2014suggesting motion and change while the pier itself remains firm and stable. This visual metaphor articulates the inner tension and ambivalence many migrants experience when contemplating the decision to leave their homeland \u2013 how their lives change, to what extent they improve, and which alternatives remain open. The installation, inherently site-specific, strategically links the historic bridge, a symbol of transition and movement, with Maximilianstra\u00dfe, the main pedestrian and traffic axis of the contemporary city, underscoring the ways in which migration generates and reshapes the dynamics of urban space. Project participants actively contributed to the installation by donating or lending personal items \u2013 suitcases symbolizing transition, travel, and the baggage of life \u2013 which were later transposed into the video format.<\/p>\n

Preface<\/a><\/p>\n

Biographies<\/strong>:
\nTonka Malekovi\u0107 is a visual artist and a planner of socio-spatial transformations toward sustainability. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2003, she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, received several awards and grants, and participated in various artist-in-residence programs. She is a co-founder of Loose Association, the City at the Second Glance project, and the outdoor gallery for ephemeral interventions LiberSPACE. Malekovi\u0107 often works collaboratively, creating site-specific, participatory actions and temporary installations in public space. In her projects, she reassembles existing contexts to uncover hidden narratives.<\/p>\n

Sophia Freidhoff holds a master\u2019s degree in eastern european studies and a bachelor\u2019s degree in history, classical philology, and southeast european studies from the university of regensburg. She has lived and studied in Romania and is currently based in Erfurt, Germany, where she works as a Counselor on Labour and Employment Rights for EU migrants. Her research interests include migration and the freedom of movement in the EU, and in 2023 she co-conducted in collaboriation with the artist Tonka Malekovi\u0107 a sociological study on labor migration as part of the socio-artistic project Compositions of Flow.<\/p>\n

Organizer<\/p>\n

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Partner<\/p>\n

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Supported by<\/p>\n

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Realizes as a part of: AiR Interventions 2023, donumenta e.V. Regensburg
\nSpecial thanks to the organisation Novi prostori kulture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TONKA MALEKOVI\u0106 & SOPHIA FREIDHOFF
COMPOSITIONS OF FLOW
1.-12.10.2025.
ME\u0160TROVI\u0106 PAVILION PROGRAM
ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IN ZAGREB<\/p>\n

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We continue the Me\u0161trovi\u0107 Pavillion Program with solo exhibition of Tonka Malekovi\u0107 and Sophia Freidhoff \u2013 COMPOSITIONS OF FLOW, which will open on Wednesday, October 1st at 7PM at Ethnographic Museum […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}