Ismar Čirkinagić (Bosnia and Herzegovina / Denmark)
The House in a Forest on a Coast
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
July 22-August 22, 2021
The opening of the exhibition by ISMAR ČIRKINAGIĆ, THE HOUSE IN A FOREST ON A COAST will be on Thursday, July 22 at 8pm, in Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion).
“The House in a Forest on a Coast is a total installation composed of elements in various media of art. Horizontally, there is a representation of a house foundation covering the floor, whereas a large-scale representation of sails on a ship is vertically stretched out towards the ceiling, amid which a sound piece auditorily unites the two aces by veiling over all the exhibited components and resonating in the space between them. […] According to the artist, this systematic display of debris is a “re-enactment” of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) routine, which often appears as a consequence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Just as the debris convey memories about places that no longer exist in their original form, the clothes convey memories of bodies and persons who were once wearing them. The sails are, namely, sewn from the clothes that belonged to people who died as victims of violence with political backgrounds, such as armed conflicts, terrorist attacks and forced migration.
[…] The result is an artistic organisation of mnemonic elements from different geographical and historical contexts on display next to one another, which invites the viewer to interpret the exhibition from the transcultural perspective of humankind, rather than from specific national orientations. [The artist’s] desire is to show the universality of the human experience by focusing on similarities rather than differences among humans. […] Oneness with humanity is thus the key to unlocking The House in a Forest on a Coast. “
from the preface, written by the curator Tijana Mišković
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ismar Čirkinagić was born in 1973 in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was a part of the Socijalist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He came to Denmark in 1992, following the breakdown of the country and the brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in his region of Northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1997 Čirkinagić enrolled at the Copenhagen Art School and remained there until 2000 when he was admitted to The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Most of his artistic practice is thematically related to the socio-political themes and mainly produced in the form of a conceptual installation consisting of videos, photos, texts, and object-based elements. In recent years he has had exhibitions in museums and kunsthalle in Denmark and internationally. Čirkinagić’s artworks can today be found in several Danish public collections.
Wednesday – Friday: 11am – 7pm h
Saturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm h
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays closed
Exhibition will be opened until August 22, 2021.
Special thanks to:
Afghanistan: Guilda Chahverdi, Mohsin Taasha and Jawad Zawulistani from Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization, The Royal Danish Embassy in Afghanistan
Croatia: Udruga Kamensko
Egypt: Embassy of Denmark in Egypt, Khaled Ramadan and Yara Mekawei
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras: Marcela Turati from Quinto Elemento Lab, Analorena Delgadillo, Marisol Méndez, Alicia Moncada Acosta (Glenda Pineda, Eva Ramírez, Cecilia del Carmen Avalos Guillen) from La fundación para la justicia y el estado democrático de derecho.
Israel/Palestine: Parents Circle – Families Forum
Northern Irland: MAC and Paul ‘Donzo’ Donnelly from Dead Centre Tours
Serbia: Meris Mušanović and Ivana Zanić from Humanitarian Law Center
Syria: Zenia Bredmose Henriksen Ab Yonus and Hosam Aldeen Ghathwan
Uganda: Ndugwa Hassan from UMYDF
Ukraine: Embassy of Denmark to Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia, Iryna Polikarchuk from ARTSVIT
DOMAGOJ BURILOVIĆ
TERRAFORMING
Karas Gallery, Kralja Zvonimira 58
October 22 – November 3, 2020
Following all recommendations of the National Civil Protection Headquarters, exhibition TERRAFORMING, by Domagoj Burilović, will be opened on Thursday, October 22 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Kralja Zvonimira 58).
Terraforming is the hypothetical process of modifying a celestial body to make it as similar to the Earth as possible. In the 14 photographs of Slavonia, taken by Domagoj Burilović and exhibited in his solo exhibition at the Karas Gallery, mystical landscapes and alien, deserted lands emerge before us. They show something else as well, certainly something visible, but also something invisible: something like a trace. (Wittgenstein). Life has dematerialized before our eyes, but it has left invisible traces that make us or at least should make us question the real existential problems, the problem of the survival of an entire region. Golden Slavonia, the belly of Croatia, a historically rich region to which the people from other parts of Croatia used to move, leaving the sea view behind in search of fertile soil. The region that meets all the preconditions to become the richest, and not one of the two poorest regions in Croatia. Domagoj hints at these traces in the seemingly invisible, interrogates, exclaims….
This series is in line with Domagoj’s interest in social and political issues, serious topics and transience and history – both of an individual (Post Factum exhibition) and of an entire region, in this case, his native Slavonia.
From preface, written by Nika Šimičić
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Domagoj Burilović
Born in 1987 in Vinkovci. He graduated in painting in 2012 at the Academy of Arts in Split.
He is engaged in conceptual art photography. Through artistic work he deals with social and political topics.
Selected group exhibitions: 2019 HT Award – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2019 Triennial of Extended Media, Belgrade, 2017. Photodays finalists – Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, 2016 3rd Biennial of Croatian Young Photography, Zadar, 2013. Split Salon, Split, 2012. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, 2012. Galić Gallery, Split,…
Solo exhibitions: 2020. Galić Salon, 2019. PIK Gallery, Rab, 2019. Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, 2018. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, 2018. Italian Community of Rovinj, Rovinj, 2013. Rovinj Homeland Museum, Rovinj, 2012. Art Gallery, Split, 2007. Multicultural Center, Županja.
Awards: 2017: Grand Prix Rovinj Photodays, 2017. 1st place for the artistic concept Rovinj Photodays, 2017. 2nd place at the Vinkovci Photography Salon, 2012, Award for the young artist, Rovinj Homeland Museum, Rovinj.
Work “Post Factum” included in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Organizer:
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm
Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until November 3, 2020
*Remark*
At the entrance to the Gallery there is a bottle with a disinfectant for visitors, which are obliged to disinfect their hands when entering the Gallery.
The security guard at the entrance to the Gallery will have a protective mask and gloves and control the number of visitors. The Gallery can hold up to 5 people at a time.
Visitors are required to maintain a distance of 2 meters.
Touching the exhibits is not allowed.
Doorknobs and any other surfaces that are frequently touched by visitors will be regularly disinfected.
ANĐELA ZANKI
THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE
Karas Gallery, Kralja Zvonimira 58
September 29– October 11, 2020
Following all recommendations of the National Civil Protection Headquarters, exhibition THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE, by ANĐELA ZANKI, will be opened on Tuesday, September 29 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Kralja Zvonimira 58).
(…) “The artist focused on questioning the spatial relations and interactions between objects and subjects, invites the viewer to look at himself, inner self, and re-examine its substance, its history, and notions by observing these “empty objects”. How many hidden emotions of happiness, but also fear and worries, did he hide in himself and carry that burden every day? The artworks thus become a copy of ourselves, in an uncertain situation of constant anxiety, they are an illusion of our reality. The illusion of depth collides with the emptiness of these objects, as well as the symbolism of their forms. The circles that “float” and that we first encounter when entering the gallery are a symbol of the spirit, they represent wholeness and homogeneity, perfection without beginning and end. They are also a symbol of the sky (which is also blue), the celestial, and the transcendental. The shape of the circle connects it to the wheel, a symbol of a time that is infinite and eternal. For Jung, the circle is a symbol of the wholeness of the psyche, therefore, a symbol of the self. In the second room, we come across a “broken” square – a symbol of land, foundations, home, security, the four corners of the world, and the four basic elements. Its fragmentation points to the insecurity we face, to the gaps outside and within us that we struggle with, but also to the opportunity to build a “new world” on a better and more mature foundation.
Johannes Kepler said that we need to know geometry in order to understand philosophy because: “Geometry existed before Creation. It is eternal with the mind of God (..) Geometry has offered God a model for Creating (…) Geometry, it is God Himself.”
From preface, written by Nika Šimičić
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anđela Zanki (1992, Zadar) graduated Painting from the Department of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2018. She is the winner of the Rector’s Award in 2017 for the project Color to Health at the Rebro Clinical Hospital Center. She has exhibited in several solo exhibitions, of which it is worth mentioning: 2019, Stanja Plave II, Zilik Gallery, Karlovac; 2018, Vibracije, Greta Gallery, Zagreb; 2017, Apsurdom protiv otuđenja (Nikolina Kuzmić, Martin Šatović, Anđela Zanki), Academia Moderna, Zagreb, 201, Mali formati (Marta Tuta, Anđela Zanki), Studio of the Poola Gallery, Pula. She has participated in about forty group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (2018, Zagrebška akademija – Best Forehand, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia). She uses minimal expression in her work. She collaborates on international projects (2019, Associate on the project The Leipzig connection, 2017-2018 assistant of the Residential Program in Leipzig, Germany, within the project De/construction of painting, in cooperation with the Croatian Association of Fine Artists and Hafenkombinati; 2015, assisted at the Trešnjevka Cultural Center in the organization of the exhibition Zagreb Ex tempore / international exhibition of ceramics) and art colonies. As part of the project Humanization of Public Spaces through Art Interventions, she is the author of a public work located at the Rebro Clinical Hospital. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Arts artists in Zagreb since 2017. She lives and works in Zagreb.
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Organizer:
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm
Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until October 11, 2020
*Remark*
At the entrance to the Gallery there is a bottle with a disinfectant for visitors, which are obliged to disinfect their hands when entering the Gallery.
The security guard at the entrance to the Gallery will have a protective mask and gloves and control the number of visitors. The Gallery can hold up to 5 people at a time.
Visitors are required to maintain a distance of 2 meters.
Touching the exhibits is not allowed.
Doorknobs and any other surfaces that are frequently touched by visitors will be regularly disinfected.
i.j.PINO
H.Ister.i.ja TouR mitt h*man preselitev 2000 – 2020
Karas Gallery, Kralja Zvonimira 58
September 15– September 27, 2020
Following all recommendations of the National Civil Protection Headquarters, exhibition H.Ister.i.ja TouR mitt h*man preselitev 2000 – 2020, by i.j. PINO, will be opened on Tuesday, September 15 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Kralja Zvonimira 58).
(…) “Uljanik is a brother.
Once you get a job and experience all aspects of working in a collective – everyday, persistent and productive (within the limits of your abilities) you do not need much to realize that your best intentions and efforts do not differ in the slightest from those of your colleagues in any other collective.
In positive things we are all equal, and in negative things we turn into completely different monsters – depending on our imagination, the quality of stomach acid, and the level of moral numbness.
Uljanik is a brother who was killed by monsters.
Unfortunately, he is not the only one, and there are plenty of mortally wounded – unaware of their terminal condition, they walk through Pula like an army of zombies in an invisible apocalypse.
They are not dangerous, but if you look a little closer, they will break your heart.”
From the preface, written by Boris Vincek
ABOUT THE ARTIST
performer, visual artist, musician. He has been known to the alternative cultural scene since the beginning of the seventies when he entered the conceptual and performance circle. At that time he created ‘mental spirit music’ with friends, and under the influence of Beuys, he opened processes for creating so-called ‘social sculpture’, with which he begins to belong a small group of conceptual artists who engaged in questioning socialist value systems, primarily the meaning of work and the position of workers.
i.j.PINO’s position outside the center and his experience as a worker at the Uljanik shipyard secured him the ‘right’ to further radicalization in the field of art. During the eighties, he realized his artistic interests by combining the media of music, performance, and fine arts (alter rock group GustapH y njegovi dobry duhovi, and since the nineties, the public knows him as one of the most provocative Croatian performers, but also as an alternative new media experimenter (telephone concert Netz/Mreža, for Radio ORF).
Proud record holder for attendance at one event/performance (approx. 40,000 visitors, ´Theater like a Life / Life like a Theater or Life is hot pepper…´ Pula / Cro a Ti
All other stupidities can be read in the daily, weekly, and periodical newspapers of this area….
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Exhibition closing event
PERFORMANCE
…GRAN kacata finale, un Gran fumakajo., smo ga pofumali…
26.9. 12PM
Organizer:
Supported by:
Working hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm
Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until September 27, 2020
*Remark*
At the entrance to the Gallery there is a bottle with a disinfectant for visitors, which are obliged to disinfect their hands when entering the Gallery.
The security guard at the entrance to the Gallery will have a protective mask and gloves and control the number of visitors. The Gallery can hold up to 5 people at a time.
Visitors are required to maintain a distance of 2 meters.
Touching the exhibits is not allowed.
Doorknobs and any other surfaces that are frequently touched by visitors will be regularly disinfected.
ORGAN VIDA IN KARAS GALLERY
Katarina Juričić – Orange&Blue
3.-13.9.2020.
Karas Gallery | Ul. kralja Zvonimira 58, Zagreb
11.th ORGAN VIDA International festival of photography – Neodlučne slike | 02/09 – 04/10/2020
Katarina Juričić: Orange&Blue
OPENING: 03/09, 18h