EXPORTING ZAGREB 

GROUP EXHIBITION OF CROATIAN FINE ARTISTS IN POLAND 

National Museum in Gdansk, Poland

February 20 to April 3, 2016.

                Opening: February 20 at 6:00pm                 

                                                                                                

                                   Rene Bachrach Krištofić, Reconstructing Dotrščina, 2014.

From February 20 to April 3, 2016. a group exhibition Exporting Zagreb, Constructing the Present Memory is being held at the National Museum in Gdansk, presenting 19 Croatian visual artists, under the curatorial concept of Polish curator Katarzyna Kosmala.

The exhibition presents the following artists: Gordana Bakić, Ana Bilankov, Siniša Bovcon, Ines Matijević Cakić, Sebastijan Dračić, Danko Friščić, Martina Grlić, Sanja Iveković, Helena Janečić, Rene Bachrach Krištofić, Andreja Kulunčić, Davor Mezak, Pavle Pavlović, Edita Schubert, Stjepan Šandrk, Igor Taritaš, Zlatan Vehabović, Davor Vrankić, Nataša Vuković.

                                                                                            Zlatan Vehabović – Untitled 1, 2015.

With the aim to demonstrate the rich context and diverse cultural heritage of different parts of Croatia, curator Kosmala wanted to emphasize the formation of ‘new’ histories, while recognizing the region’s remarkable contribution to contemporary cultural and artistic creation. Through the title of the exhibition, Kosmala stresses the importance of recent history in the construction of memories on the present and the key points in the transformation of the practice that takes place today, contextualised back to the 1970s and 1980s, acknowledging technological innovation and visual language of transgression in pioneering works of Edita Schubert (1947-2001) as well as early video experimentation and social activism by Sanja Iveković. Several artists explore and comment on the politics of memory in the context of on-going negotiation with the Europeanization project vis a vis distancing from the Central-european historical grand narrative and cultural identity. Others enter into a more personalised dialogue with the private, exploring reticent spaces of remembrance, politicising the forgotten and the silenced, as well as analysing a construction of memory via a more autobiographical approach, or engaging private archives. The construction of memory and the related processes of rewriting, recalling, remembering, commemorating, exalting as well as forgetting, are ultimately realised by merging the personal with the collective lens.

                                                                                               Davor Vrankić – Interior, 2008.

Opening of the exhibition was held  on February 20. and was attended by the Croatian ambassador in Poland, E. PhD. Andrea Bekić and Croatian artists Gordana Bakić, Danko Friščić, Helena Janečić, Davor Mezak, Pavle Pavlović, Zlatan Vehabović.

Exporting Zagreb exhibition is the result of an international cooperation between the Croatian Association of the Fine Artists (HDLU) and the National Museum in Gdansk courtesy of curator Kosmala established within  third Biennial of painting, when the Polish artists were presented to the audience in Zagreb with an exhibition Exporting Gdańsk.

                                                        Stjepan Šandrk – The Spectacle (excursion), 2015.

 

 

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