During October we are hosting an international residential program KARAS+KVART, in which artists Luana Lojić (HR) and Karl Iaro (DE) participate, as part of the EU project CreArt 3.0 where HDLU is one of the partners.

The Karas+Kvart program aims to observe the gallery space in the wider context of the public urban and social space in which it is located, with emphasis on engagement and research approach, considering the following: How does the art communicates and responds to the needs of the community? What does the gallery as a general term (but also a specific example of Karas gallery) represent in urban tissue of the city and social evolution in the neighbourhood in which it is located? What is and should be the extension of the gallery and its activities into the public space and social structures surrounding it?

This year’s artists in residence recognized as particularly interesting the nearby Kvatrić market, as well as the building above it, which hosts various functions: from the city library, to a variety of bigger and smaller businesses, to the gym and cafe integrated in it. In the same building (entrance from Martićeva street 67), on the second floor they founded and launched their own agency – Transparency Agency, in the manner of con event, which in a playful and dashing way explores the innovative and artistic use of space.

During three weeks of intensive residence, two artists strive to explore and get to know the market and the building, its inhabitants, customers, their mutual needs, as well as they seek to point out (artistic) potentials hidden in two locations. In this context, Karas Gallery is the starting point that spreads and dissolves to the north, as a space for recording reflections, found and newly created, and as one of digital but tangible extensions of intertwined spaces, ideas and plays.

Join us for the series of events through which you will be able to meet the artists themselves, their Agency, co-existence of public and private space of the building, market and surroundings, as well as segments from the past and the speculated future.

 

Program

Saturday, 19th October
17-22: join the Gallery Rally at the Karas Gallery, where you will get a glance at the research segments of two artists
21-24h: join the DJ session on the second floor of the building (Martićeva 67) with the program of three guest DJs

Monday 21st October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join the tour through the building and surrounding area led by architect Mirna Udovčić

Tuesday, 22nd October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join Karl’s experimental workshop

Wednesday, 23rd October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join Luana’s experimental storytelling beginning in Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58)

 

Details of the program will be released shortly.

 

About artists

Karl Iaro
Karl Iaro is a visual artist based in Regensburg, Germany. Many of his works evolve around playful explorations of light and motion phenomena and the mechanisms connecting them. He earned a BA in Industrial Design in Regensburg, completing his Erasmus studies in Barcelona, followed by an internship in industrial design at Porto’s studio ideia.m and another one at opo.lab. He has been developing his independent artistic practice since 2018. His work springs from a joyful and loving perspective which blasts beauty as an agent for engagement. n the process he likes to apply an hands-on approach, embracing any kind of material, medium or technical device. After focusing mainly on objects and installations he further implemented multimedia, social events, interventions and stage design to the scope of his exerted artforms. As part of a collective „Kulturviertel“ in Regensburg, managing a sociocultural space, he gathered experience in cultural organizing, curating, event management and also political action. Recently he started taking his practice out of his incubator Regensburg, availing himself to the opportunity of hitting a bigger playground.

Luana Lojić
Luana Lojić is an artist and experimental factographer based in Croatia whose practice orbits around narrative texts, spatial playlists and multimedia installations. She imagines sensory data as a wide, autonomous, free, chaotic, elastic and promiscuous being. In her work she often explores topics of geomotionality, object empathy and sensuous waste. She turns to media translations, wordsmithing, dialogues and delicate visual entities as love gestures in times of crisis. She shares her life with her companion dog Ulla and constitutes one sixth of the art collective The Lovers.

 

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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]

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