{"id":5622,"date":"2026-01-28T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:02:24","slug":"jelena-bogdanic-vending-machine-in-karas-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2026\/01\/jelena-bogdanic-vending-machine-in-karas-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelena Bogdani\u0107 – VENDING MACHINE in Karas Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

JELENA BOGDANI\u0106<\/strong>
\nVENDING MACHINE<\/strong>
\n4.-24.2.2026.<\/strong>
\nKARAS GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 4th of February Jelena Bogdani\u0107<\/strong> opens her solo exhibition entitled Vending Machine<\/strong> at 7 pm in Karas Gallery<\/strong> (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).<\/p>\n

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In her forward, Mihaela Zajec <\/strong>emphasizes:
\n\u201cBogdani\u0107\u2019s Vending Machine is therefore neither the first nor certainly the last attempt to explain the world from the perspective of one\u2019s own and the general artistic role and position, yet it remains one of the most direct expressions of this endeavour in contemporary Croatian art.\u00a0It 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.
\nEssentially, 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.\u00a0By 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.\u00a0A dialogue about time, about society, about artistic value, about apathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

PREFACE<\/a><\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong>:
\nJelena Bogdani\u0107 (1998, Zagreb) graduated in 2022 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Art Education Department, in the class of Associate Professor\u00a0Vlasta \u017dani\u0107 and co-mentor Professor\u00a0Ines Krasi\u0107.\u00a0She spent the fifth semester of her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Mileta Prodanovi\u0107, as part of the Erasmus+ exchange programme.\u00a0Through objects and installations, she explores the materiality, aesthetics, and poetics of single-use plastic, achieving its unpredictable transformations through melting.\u00a0She has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Zagreb, Labin, and Dublin.\u00a0She is currently employed as a teacher at the School of Applied Arts and Design.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will be open during the period from 4. to 24.2.2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working hours of Karas Gallery
\nWednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm \u2013 8pm
\nTuesday, Saturday 10am \u2013 1pm
\nOn Sundays and Mondays closed.
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\nhttp:\/\/karasarthub.eu<\/a>
\nOrganizer: HDLU
\nWith the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JELENA BOGDANI\u0106
VENDING MACHINE
4.-24.2.2026.
KARAS GALLERY<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 4th of February Jelena Bogdani\u0107 opens her solo exhibition entitled Vending Machine at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In her forward, Mihaela Zajec emphasizes:
\u201cBogdani\u0107\u2019s Vending Machine is therefore neither the first nor certainly […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,1102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}