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Croatian Association of Fine Artists in collaboration with the Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs conducts an international visual arts competition The Victim of Vukovar 1991.
The aim of the international visual arts competition The Victim of Vukovar 1991 is to establish a dialogue with contemporary art practices based on the culture of memory and symbolism of war suffering of the city of Vukovar and generate artworks that will be inscribed in the collective memory.
Photography: Zoran Filipović Zoro
The competition will select four new works of art (that have never been presented to the public) to be exhibited in Zagreb in June 2020, on the occasion of the Croatian presidency of the Council of the European Union, after which the exhibition will be held at the Vukovar Municipal Museum until the end of 2020.
The selected artists will receive an artist’s fee of HRK 60,000 gross each. Artists will be provided with return transport of the artworks, insurance, and overnight and travel expenses for participation in the exhibitions.
Competition is open to professional artists, EU Member States citizens, working in the field of visual arts. Artists can apply individually, in pairs or as a part of an art collective. Deadline for submission is 9.4.2020.
Works will be selected by a jury consisting of: Tonko Maroević, academician, Branko Franceschi, art historian, Kristijan Milić, film director, Božica Dea Matasić, full professor of arts, Tomislav Buntak, associate professor of arts, Ana Holjevac Tuković, PhD in History, Mirela Buterin, LLB.
More details on the competition is available HERE.
Questions and answers for the INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS COMPETITION “THE VICTIM OF VUKOVAR 1991 HERE
NOTICE OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION
of the International Visual Arts Competition
“The Victim of Vukovar 1991“
Due to changes in the economic trends in the Republic of Croatia as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic which have led to the reallocation of funds to measures and activities aimed at combating the epidemic, as well as to changes in the planned budgetary activities to optimize the use of limited fiscal potential, the Ministry of Defence (The Client) has adopted the decision to temporarily suspend the International Visual Arts Competition “The Victim of Vukovar 1991“.
All the competition activities have been postponed until further notice, that is until the funds have been secured and the decision has been made to continue with the competition, about which all the artists who applied to the competition will be notified in a timely manner.
Artists who wish to withdraw their applications due to changes in the competition conditions can do so by sending an email to hdlu@hdlu.hr with the subject Vukovar Competition – Application Withdrawal.
Thank you for your understanding.
02 March 2020
PETAR KATAVIĆ
ARCHITECTURE
Karas Gallery
March 9 – March 22, 2020
Exhibition Architecture, by Petar Katavić, will be opened on Monday, March 9 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
“The exhibition presents the work of Petar Katavić, and here selected works are the continuation of the exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts in January this year. Since 2017 Petar has been developing and building on his ideas about shaping space with volume, which he also strives to show through his works. The reduction of colour, lines and surfaces, as well as simplicity in thinking about visual art, are the characteristics of the artist’s work, reflected both in the titles of his works and in the exhibition set-up. The exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts was titled Space, mostly because it was a site-specific exhibition creating bearing in mind the specific exhibition space within the gallery, and the title of this exhibition – Architecture – is a logical continuation that reveals the focus of the artist’s interests. (…)
(…) Although the aesthetics of Petar’s works is reduced, minimalistic and simple, each work reflects his dedication and devotion, which he sees as the most important factor in his work. In conclusion, I will again, just as in the preface to the Space exhibition, refer to Mies van der Rohe’s famous motto “less is more“, Petar’s guiding principle that very clearly illustrates the subtlety and meditativeness that I find in Petar’s works.”
From preface, written by Ivana Vukušić
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Petar Katavić was born in Split in 1985. In 2005 he graduated Painting at the School of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia. In 2012. he graduated Painting from the Arts Academy, University of Split, Split, Croatia. In 2014 he completed the program of pedagogical-psychological-didactic-methodical education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia. He had solo exhibitions in SC Gallery, Zagreb (Surface, 2020), Salon Galić Gallery, Split, Croatia (2019), Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (2019), Branislav Dešković Gallery of fine arts, Bol, island of Brač, Croatia (2018), Studio 21 Gallery, Split, Croatia (2015), Salon Galić Gallery, Split, Croatia (2014), Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (2012), and Loggia / Center for Culture and Lifelong Learning ‘Golden Gate’, Split, Croatia (2012). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions. Note worthily are: Golden watermelon 3,0. Pula, Croatia (2019), 54th Zagreb Salon, Zagreb, Croatia (2019), 40th Split Salon, Split, Croatia (2018), Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (2017) and 39th Split Salon, Split, Croatia (2015). He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Painting at the Arts Academy, University of Split.
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Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm
Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until March 22, 2020
04 February 2020
MARGARETA LEKIĆ
THE RUBBER CONCRETE
Karas Gallery
February 11 – February 23, 2020
Exhibition The Rubber Concrete, by Margareta Lekić, will be opened on Tuesday, February 11 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58). Exhibition is also the public presentation of the artistic part of the doctoral thesis “Redefining Sculpture Using Contemporary Materials” at the Postgraduate Study of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
Mentors: Prof. Damir Matausic and Ph.D. Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The development of technology and the desire to create new products also result in the creation of new materials. The Gumeni beton (Rubber Concrete) series of works and the new eponymous material were created as a reaction to the inability to access new and innovative solutions in the material manufacturing industry. Searching for an unusually flexible material, I came across a concrete called ConFlexPave, which is rubber under pressure but is not flexible to the extent that it can be restored to its original shape. Since ConFlexPave is not commercially available, I contacted Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), that is, NTU-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre (I³C) to obtain a sample of the concrete for the purposes of my artistic research. I did not get a reply, so I decided to create a new type of material myself, without having any scientific knowledge and expensive laboratory equipment. I created concrete that is rubber in both directions when pressed with hands. However, since I am not a scientist and the material has not been tested in the conditions under which materials are usually tested, I cannot conclude whether this material, a rubber concrete, will be equally flexible even after a certain amount of time has passed. The newly created material, that is, the new type of concrete, has all the characteristics of concrete as a composite material, it consists of cement, gravel, sand, water and additional components that make it flexible.
The Rubber Concrete series of works consists of three sculptures titled Rubber Concrete 1, Rubber Concrete 2 and Rubber Concrete 3. I use the word “rubber” because in everyday language it is common to say that anything flexible is like made of rubber, for example, a physically flexible person is often referred to as “a rubber man“. Therefore, the word “rubber“ in the work’s title does not refer to the physical structure but has a figurative meaning. All three sculptures are in equal proportions, in the correct size ratio. This structure, i.e. the order and correlation in the Rubber Concrete series of works is obvious because all three sculptures are placed in a certain ratio to each other; Rubber Concrete 1 is approximately 40% higher than Rubber Concrete 2, and Rubber Concrete 2 is 40% higher than Rubber Concrete 3. In doing so, I created a proportional relationship, not only between the dimensions of the sculptures but also between the dimensions of concrete slabs. The concrete slab in the work Rubber Concrete 1 is 40% longer and wider than the slab in the work Rubber Concrete 2, and the slab in the work Rubber Concrete 2 is 40% longer and wider than the slab in the work Rubber Concrete 3.
Rubber Concrete 1
– concrete slate: 25x12x1 cm
– sculpture: 140x40x40 cm
Rubber Concrete 2
– concrete slate: 35x17x1,5 cm
– sculpture: 98x48x40 cm
Rubber Concrete 3
– concrete slate: 45x24x2 cm
– sculpture: 70x55x40 cm
Accordingly, a calculation can be made:
SCULPTURE – height extension (h) by 40%
The second sculpture was extended by 40% over the third, i.e.:
h_2=h_3+0.4h_3
h_2=1.4h_3.
Since the first sculpture is 40% higher than the second, the following formula will apply:
h_1=h_2+0.4h_2
h_1=1.4h_2
h_1=1.4∙1.4h_3
h_1=〖1.4〗^2 h_3.
If there were n number of sculptures, formulas to associate their heights with the height of the nth sculpture would read:
h_(n-m) =〖1.4〗^m h_n,
where n is the maximum number of sculptures and m is a growing number of natural numbers.
In particular, if we applied the last mentioned formula to the dimensions of the sculptures in the artwork, it would be:
→for n=3, m=1: h_(3-1)=〖1.4〗^1∙h_3
h_2=1.4∙h_3
h_2=1.4∙70 cm
h_2=98 cm
which is the length of the height of the other sculpture.
The same would be true of the first sculpture as well:
→for n=3, m=2: h_(3-2)=〖1.4〗^2∙h_3
h_1=〖1.4〗^2∙h_3
h_1=〖1.4〗^2∙70 cm
h_2=137.2 cm ≈140 cm
CONCRETE SLABS – height extension by 40% and width extension by 40%
If x denotes the lengths and y the widths of the slabs, then for the 2nd concrete slab which is in relation
to the first one longer by 40% the following formula will apply: x_2=x_1+0.4x_1
x_2=1.4x_1.
For the third slab, which is 40% longer than the second, the following would be true:
x_3=x_2+0.4x_2
x_3=1.4x_2
x_3=1.4∙1.4x_1
x_3=〖1.4〗^2 x_1.
In general: x_n=〖1.4〗^(n-1) x_1,
where n is the number of the concrete slab and x_n the corresponding length of the same slab.
A similar consideration can be applied to the widths of the slabs which we will denote by y, and so for these dimensions a following formula would apply: y_n=〖1.4〗^(n-1) y_1, where n is the number of the concrete slab and y_n the corresponding width of the same slab.
Applying formula to the specified dimensions of concrete slabs in the artwork, we get the following: →for n=2: 〖 x〗_2=1.4∙25 cm=35 cm
〖 y〗_2=1.4∙12 cm=16.8 cm ≈17 cm
→for n=3: 〖 x〗_3=〖1.4〗^2∙25 cm=49 cm
y_3=〖1.4〗^2∙12 cm=23.52 cm ≈24 cm.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Margareta Lekić was born in Osijek in 1982. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists – Osijek and Croatian Association of Artists – Zagreb. She graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the same department. She works as an artistic associate at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. She has won numerous awards and grants. She has studied in the USA, Austria and France. Since 2005 she has had 22 solo exhibitions and has participated in 55 group exhibitions. Margareta has exhibited in Croatia, Europe, the USA, Japan and China.
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Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm
Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until February 23, 2020
30 January 2020
A Game of Sports and Art – Towards a permanent exhibition of the Croatian Sports Museum
February 6 – March 22
PM and Prsten Gallery
Home of HDLU
Opening: Thursday, February 6, 2020
The Croatian Sports Museum, in collaboration with the Croatian Association of Artists and the Academy of Fine Arts from Zagreb, presents a comprehensive exhibition project titled A Game of Sports and Art that announces the permanent exhibition of the Croatian Sports Museum.
Through the exhibition in two parts, the Home of the Croatian Association of Artists becomes a meeting place for sports, education, culture and art, which testifies to the connection between art and sports.
The first part of the exhibition shows the development of applied arts in the field of sports since the beginning of organized sports in Croatia, whereas the second part of the exhibition presents sports as a profession and widespread healthy recreational activity, as well as inspiration for the creation of artworks by contemporary artists.
The exhibition features a wide range of exhibits – from museum ones, which combine traces of history and tell the story of the development of sports, to artworks that comment, describe personal experiences and speak of the possible combinations between various creative sports games and art.
28 October 2019
THE DE/CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAINTING
Karas Gallery
November 5 – December 8, 2019
Exhibition The De/construction of the Painting, by Croatian artists/residents in Leipzig, will be opened on Tuesday, November 5 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
Artists:
Miran Blažek, Martina Grlić, Petra Grozaj, Nenad Jalšovec, Helena Janečić, Marija Koruga, Velibor Mačukatin Lav Paripović, Pavle Pavlović, Ivan Prerad, Ana Ratković Sobota, Marijan Richter, Maja Rožman, Damir Sobota, Stjepan Šandrk, Alma Trtovac
Preface in Croatian and German
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Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday and Sunday: 10 am to 1 pm
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until December 8, 2019
07 October 2019
DOMAGOJ ROGINA
FROM THE SHADOW
Karas Gallery
October 15 – October 27, 2019
Opening of the exhibition: Tuesday, October 15 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery
Exhibition From the Shadow, by Domagoj Rogina, will be opened on Tuesday, October 15 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).
“The From the Shadow Cycle of Domagoj Rogina is a cycle of still life in undefined, non-geographic spaces in which spreads of solid masses of teapots break through the layers, on sunny days, strands of toothed mountain peaks show one after another, and the cat’s soft-eared heads open their large jaws under the indifferent condemnation of shadowy lying kittens. The title (From the Shadow) stems spontaneously from the atmosphere of the cramped atelier in which the artist creates the attic and the sound of the occasional train, but also the elements of separation from the roaring world outside, in the face of separation from the safe situations of the artist on the Academy. For the idea of an artist as a hermetic who creates metaphorical gold in his alchemical laboratory of lead surrounding him is a wonderful story told by centuries-old annals of populist characterization of an artistic personality, but in reality, it is a constant conflict with the material demands of everyday life and himself. In this sense, Rogina’s paintings are filled with inner turmoil through the alternations of night and day, smooth and rugged, shiny and matte, cool and warm, light and shade. And precisely the heavy shadow, the element of material construction, becomes a place of conflict, becomes a being, as lively and important as other motives, in the rhythmic alternation of concentration – chaos – concentration – chaos, in the form of a dream (or nightmare) and a dark gap at the legs of the wrapped shape.”
From the preface, written by Marija Kamber
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Domagoj Rogina was born in Varaždin in 1989. In 2017 he graduated in Painting from the Department of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of prof. Damir Sokić. So far, he has exhibited in thirty group exhibitions like 32nd Youth Salon, 4th and 5th Biennial of Painting and 13th and 15th Erste Fragments, to name a few. He had solo exhibitions in 3.14 Gallery, Vladimir Filakovac Gallery, Greta Gallery and SC Gallery. He participated on an art residency in Belgium in 2015 and in the 2019 in fine art colony of Počitelj (BiH). He has received 0 awards for his work so far. Since 2018 he has been working as a professor of fine arts and technical culture at the Slava Raškaj Education Center in Zagreb.
Phone: 099 501 8068
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Wednesday – Friday: 3 pm – 8 pm | Saturday and Sunday: 10 am to 1 pm
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.
The exhibition will remain open until October 27, 2019
17 September 2019
On October 2, 2019 in Home of HDLU, popular Meštrović Pavilion, opens the fifth edition of important cultural manifestation The Biennial of Painting, which will remain open until December, 8. Through the works of 40 selected artists and 5 invited artist a cross-section of the prominent Croatian painting scene in the last two years will be represented.
Traditionally, within The Biennial of Painting, the exhibition of foreign authors is also hosted, which, according to the guest curator’s concept, represents the cross-section of the painting art scene of one of European cities (2011, “I am Berliner”, Berlin; 2013, “Vienna Calling”, Vienna; 2015, “Exporting Gdańsk”, Gdansk, Extended Painting Prague). This year’s Biennale hosts the exhibition THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION under the curatorial concept of Mark Gisbourn. The exhibition reveals a rich variety of works that are meritorious for the international status of four generations of prominent Leipzig artists.
Recognizing the growing number of artists who express themselves in the medium of murals, represented in numerous public locations, and the importance and quality of works this This year, the Biennale introduces novelty and introduces this form of artistic expression.
Additionally, in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb at the Šira Gallery, the most prominent student works will be presented as part of the accompanying program.
Pavle Pavlović, Red Baron, 2019
The Biennial of Painting was established by Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) in 2011 with an idea of presenting the current state of Croatian painting scene with an exhibition that represents a wide section of artworks from generations that actively shape it.
The Biennale follows the development and current achievements of Croatian painting scene, featuring recognizable performances and authors in the last two years. The Biennial of Painting provides the wider public with the opportunity to meet different generations, heritage and poetics employed by the painting scene in one place.
Selection committee of The 5. Biennial of Painting: Tomislav Buntak, Danko Friščić and Zlatan Vrkljan selected 40 artists to be represented on 5. Biennale of Painting:
Aleksandar Bezinović, Anabel Zanze, Andrej Tomić, Damir Sobota, Domagoj Rogina, Đuro Seder, Emanuela Lekić, Fedor Fischer, Gordana Meštrović, Grgur Akrap, Ivan Marković, Ivan Prerad, Jasmina Krajačić, Josip Tirić, Jurica Pušenjak, Katrin Radovani, Lea Popinjač, Luka Kušević, Maja Bachler, Marija Matić, Marko Zeman, Martina Fabijanović, Matej Pašalić, Matko Vekić, Milić Zdravko, Monika Meglić, Nataša Vuković, Nikica Jurković, Pavle Pavlović, Predrag Todorović, Radovan Kunić, Sebastijan Dračić, Sibel Latin, Stipan Tadić, Stjepan Šandrk, Tara Beata Racz, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Viktor Daldon, Zlatan Vehabović, Željka Cupek
and invited 5 artists:
Bojan Šumonja, Martina Grlić, Vatroslav Kuliš, Zoltan Novak, Željko Kipke.
The involvement of Croatian Postal Bank as the general sponsor of The 5. Biennial of Painting has made possible to grant two monetary awards for outstanding artists: HPB Grand Prix (15.000,00kn) and HPB award for young artist (10.000,00kn). At the initiative of the anonymous philanthropist, inspired by the opus of the young artist Iva Vraneković, in her memory and as a stimulus for work and production of young artists a monetary Award Iva Vraneković – artist to the artist will be given.
Murals
At the Ring Gallery, for the first time, a selection of the most significant street art creations and a cross-section of the most prominent recent murals from Croatia will be presented.
Following artists will be presented: Damir Sobota, Goran Rakić, Jelena Bando, Lav Paripović, Melinda Šefčić, Miron Milić, Sanja Stojković (Tifany Rubi), Slaven Lunar Kosanović, Stipan Tadić, Tomislav Loncarić (Lonac), Tomislav Buntak, Vladimir Tomić (Mosk).
Exhibition of students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
Šira Gallery
October 9 – 29, 2019
The Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb at the Šira Gallery will present an exhibition of works by students of the graduate study of the Art Department and works of students of the graduate study of Fine Arts in the Art Education department realized within the main artistic subject of Painting.
Guided tours of the exhibition:
During Biennial, every Thursday at 5.30pm a guided tour of the exhibition will be organized. Meeting point is in front of Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU, Trg žrtava fašizma 16, Zagreb. The tours are free of charge with presentation of the exhibition ticket.
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GUEST EXHIBITION
THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
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Matthias Weischer, Bau 2, 2019
COURTESY OF PRIVATE COLLECTION
A show of paintings by artists trained in Leipzig over the last twenty-five years represents something of an aesthetic phenomenon. Entitled The Leipzig Connection the exhibition reveals a rich diversity of works representing the international status of four generations of important artists. While in the current presentation the pictorial focus has been placed on the post-communist painting generations. That is to say beginning with those who studied at the Leipzig Academy, in the 1980s and through the end of the GDR (German Reunification took place in 1990). However, visual insights into the progenitors of the School, and material to its development, have also been included. From the 1960s onwards what began primarily as a Book and Graphic Arts Academy became a major painting tradition within Eastern Germany. Whether speaking of the early Communist masters such as Heisig, Tübke and Mattheuer, and following on through the “second generation” students Rink, Stelzmann and Gille, a significant and long-lasting figurative tradition of painting was established in Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. With the eventual end of Communism and official determinist “socialist realism” art policies, forces of creative diversity allowed the Leipzig School to induct a rich diversity of young potential artists from across Germany throughout the 1990s up to today. As a consequence the painting practices (free of ideology) in figurative painting became extended in many diverse and innovative directions. Whether speaking of the transitional 1980s to the period immediately post-Communism student-practitioners (Rauch, Aichinger, Krause and Schröter) and later the “third generation” of independent Leipzig trained painters, Weischer, Schnell, Baumgärtel, Kobe, Ruckhäberle, et al., new avenues of inventive realism, experimental narrative, and essays in pictorial fantasy came into focus garnering many international exhibitions and collectors across the world. Hence, and since that time, continuous contemporary forms of figuration have developed in many directions, the magic realism of Krüger, the collage paintings of Hofmann, the personal existential realism of Brandl, or the optical realist semi-surreal fantasies of Gernegross. Over four generations an extraordinary range of figurative painted images and creative material practices has been transmitted. The aim of The Leipzig Connection exhibition is therefore to introduce the rich diversity of Leipzig-trained figurative painter-practitioners to the public in Zagreb, and to do so in the context of the Croatian Biennial of Painting. The fact that HDLU has a permanent residency programme in Leipzig witnesses a continuous connection, and in doing so opens the two places to different painting traditions to further stages of fruitful interaction and hybridisation. Commensurate in both size and scope Zagreb and Leipzig represent in other aspects a shared history of related Communism manifested in subtlety different ways of exigency. As an exhibition The Leipzig Connection is should to be seen as an overview of half a century of creative expression, yet at the same time it should be read as an example of liberation, an institutional regeneration from the false hypotheses of ideological painting.
©Mark Gisbourne
Curator “The Leipzig Connection.”
Curator: Mark Gisbourne
Artists:
Hans Aichinger, Tilo Baumgärtel, Christian Brandl, Falk Gernegroß , Sighard Gille, Rayk Goetze, Bernhard Heisig, Julius Hofmann, Martin Kobe, Axel Krause, Markus Matthias Krüger, Corinne von Lebusa, Akos Novaky, Gudrun Petersdorff, Ulf Puder, Arno Rink, Johannes Rochhausen, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Rigo Schmidt, Annette Schröter, Volker Stelzmann, Miriam Vlaming, Matthias Weischer, Doris Ziegler.
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