Category: Events
14 May 2024
CreArt 3.0: SEMINAR “GREAT EXPECTATIONS”
Club HDLU / Home of HDLU
May 17, 2024
2.30 pm – 7 pm
May 17, 2024
2.30 pm – 7 pm
SPEAKERS: Tjaša Pogačar (SI), Michal Stolarik (SK), Natalija Paunić (RS), Una Mathiesen Gjerde (NO), Mijoo Park (KR)
Moderators: Lovro Japundžić and Jelena Šimundić Bendić
Moderators: Lovro Japundžić and Jelena Šimundić Bendić
The seminar, supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, within the CreArt 3.0 project, gathers international curators and artists from the exhibition programs of the 37th Youth Salon. Through lectures and panel discussions, seminar participants of “Great Expectations” will have the opportunity to learn about various aspects of professionalizing their artistic practice. Key points covered in this seminar include the presentation of the international art scene and different areas of activity within institutional, independent, or commercial contexts, as well as the importance of the relationship between artists, curators, and professionals in the creative sector. Professionalizing artistic practice also involves career guidance for young artists, which will also take place through lectures and discussions on developing one’s own style, the importance of choosing the right places for exhibition, and maintaining successful relationships with various institutions, collectors, and other actors in the art systems. Our aim is to provide free access to knowledge that they could not acquire during formal education, which is crucial for strengthening their business skills. The all-day program ends with a portfolio review where artists have the opportunity to discuss their work with a team of international curators.
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14:30-16:30 / Seminar ‘Great Expectations’
16:30-17:00/ Break
17:00-19:00/ Portfolio reviews
16:30-17:00/ Break
17:00-19:00/ Portfolio reviews
[The program is conducted in English]
Una Mathiesen Gjerde (NO) (b. 1993 in Trondheim) is a producer, critic, editor and curator based in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Copenhagen and a BA in cultural entrepreneurship from the University of Uppsala. Her curatorial interest is centered around feminism, biology, queerness and witches. Aside from her own practice, Mathiesen Gjerde is the Art Editor of the cultural online journal Subjekt, and former Head of Production and Administration at Fotogalleriet, Oslo. In 2020 she curated the exhibition SYKLUS exhibited first at Telemark Kunstsenter, and later, in a smaller edition, at Coast Contemporary. Mathiesen Gjerde is a co-founder of Ergi.xyz, a digital queer platform for young artists in the Nordic region.
Mijoo Park (KR) is an independent curator and researcher based in Seoul, South Korea. She’s been organizing the discursive platform the Bul-teok in Korea. Previously she managed the RAT school of ART, a self-directed artist-run school(2014-2021). Her main curatorial practice investigates modes of institutionality and the roles of different institutions in sustainable artistic practices. She curated exhibitions and projects including Endless Summer (2020-2021, Seoul and Jeju), Neither Dark Nor Black (Weekend, Seoul, 2020), Anyang Public Art Project (APAP6, Anyang/assistant curator, 2019), Omni-presence (ONE AND J. +1, Seoul, 2018), and Wishy-washy Bodies (Centre A, Vancouver, 2017) and work as associate curator for Frequencies of Tradition (Incheon Art Platform, 2021-2022), grandmothers (Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, 2022). She participated in the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2016), Salzburg Summer Academy(2017), ARKO Creative Academy for Curator (2017), and Mountain School of Arts (2019).
Natalija Paunić (RS) is a contemporary art curator and writer from Belgrade, Serbia. She got her Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017, after a master’s degree (MArch) in architecture from the University of Belgrade in 2015. She works as a director at Eugster || Belgrade gallery in Belgrade and she also runs a nomadic project space called Voždovačka Galerija, which operates in response to the architecture of different spaces. Natalija is interested in non-canonical approaches to writing, curating and architecture, as well as how critical thinking, art and theory affect our personal lives. With her curatorial group Voždovačka Galerija, as well as independently and through collaboration with Eugster || Belgrade, she supports and develops projects that are concerned with ecology, luxury, waste, capitalism, accelerationism, feminism and love. She collaborated with organisations such as British Council, documenta 14, Goethe Institute in Belgrade, LUX Moving Image foundation, Visegrad Fund, Q21 in MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Enclave Projects in London, European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA) in Denmark, Public School for Architecture Brussels, ICA in London (as part of ICA Young), among others.
Tjaša Pogačar (SI) is a curator, co-founder, and editor-in-chief of Šum, a Ljubljana-based magazine and platform for art and theory-fiction. She worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Škuc Gallery and Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana, among others, curating solo and group shows and collaborating mainly with the younger generation of artists. In 2019/20 she curated two editions of IFCA – International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor, titled “Automated Ecologies” and “Infrastructure Complex: Altered Earth” that focused on questions arising from the intertwining of technology and planetary ecologies. In addition, Pogačar works as a curator and producer of new media art at the Projekt Atol Institute in Ljubljana and is the curator of ISKRA DELTA – 34th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale (2021). In September 2022, she curated the ZONE1 of viennacontemporary at Kursalon Vienna. (2021, 2022)
Michal Stolarik (SK), born in 1988 and based in Bratislava, Slovakia, is an independent curator, art critic and art writer. He graduated from the Department of History of Visual Arts at Comenius University, Bratislava particularly exploring contemporary art after 1989. Throughout his career, he has worked with various galleries and institutions, including the Jan Koniarek Gallery, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Zahorian & Van Espen Gallery and others. Stolárik’s curatorial endeavours encompass a diverse range of exhibitions, showcasing the work of both emerging and established artists hailing mainly from CEE countries. Working in the context of private galleries, state institutions or project spaces in Slovakia, Czechia, Italy and Austria, he is focusing on a broader range of media connected to the themes of expended forms of reality.
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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]
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
08 May 2024
TAKEOVER
European Month of Creativity
Curators: Kustoski kolektiv Kućća
Artists: Andrej Beštak i Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić i ROSE kolektiv (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer i Ivor Tamarut)
The Croatian Association of Fine Artists, for this year’s European Month of Creativity, within the EU project CreART 3.0, has organized a small festival of contemporary art in business premises – TAKEOVER.
Emerging artists (Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić, and the ROSE collective (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut)), selected by the curatorial collective KUĆĆA, will “take over” spaces within recognized companies operating in or related to the fields of cultural and creative industries (404 Agency, Infinum, Leapwise, Studio 3LHD, VMD group).
During the selection process of the artworks, the curators considered both the typologies of the spaces encountered in the project and the production of content within those spaces, aiming to establish a content-related interaction between the artistic projects presented and the employees who will encounter these projects on a daily basis.
The artists will exhibit their works in the companies and present their work to the employees. Each intervention will also be presented to the public through open-door events and conversations with the artist.
Apply at: popratniprogram.hdlu@gmail.com
Artistic Interventions:
Teuta Gatolin creates digital collages based on archival visuals in the public domain, mostly sourced from old magazines, encyclopedias, or other scientific studies. The archival material is collected based on the keyword search of visuals used to describe the concept of “nature” – whatever that word meant in the context of a particular year, decade, location, or source publication. The collages are created using the scanography method and are layered multiple times. The English and Croatian translations of the book are merged into a single entity that does not have a preferred linear reading order; instead, the audience is invited to browse and connect pages in the VMD company’s space according to their own intuition.
Artwork detail „Od Zemlje – III. poglavlje“ by Teuta Gatolin in VMD Group
The ROSE collective consists of Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut, who are the creators of the digital influencer Rose Velvet – a computer-generated chimeric identity. They explore authenticity and reality in the digital environment through a new entity that appears on social networks, seemingly harmless persona that will occupy the space of the company Infinum, specialized in the development of applications and mobile games.
Artwork detail „Optimizacija“ by Rose collective in Infinum d.o.o.
Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko are an artistic duo who combine audiovisual techniques to create emotive, bizarre, and fantastical environments. These environments carry narratives, one of which is located within the space of the architectural firm 3LHD. The atrium of the office is occupied by sculptural installations made of ceramics, metal, and plastic – meditative shrines dedicated to hybrid goddesses.
Artwork detail „Obećala si mi vječnost“ by Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko in Studio 3LHD
Robert Fenrich, in his work, breaks down traditional dichotomies between the fictional and the real, as well as between technology and nature, through immersive spatial installations whose pronounced narrativity is connected to inexplicable phenomena. Within the space of the communication agency 404, mysterious beings, spaces, and objects from untold pasts hide, quietly seeking the attention of those in their vicinity.
Artwork detail „DIGITAL PROPHECY“ by Robert Fenrich in 404 Agency
New media artist Gaia Radić presents a project within the space of the company Leapwise, in which she explores the relationships between virtual, mental, and physical spaces. Through virtual modeling and contemporary printing technologies, she investigates mysterious landscapes and beings inspired by technological advancements and the accompanying fragmentations of contemporary subjects and spaces.
Artwork detail „The Aqueduct Behind My Eyes Keeps Rebuilding III“ by Gaia Radić in Leapwise d.o.o.
About curators:
KUĆĆA is a curatorial collective and independent organization founded in 2021 with the aim of creating a space for collaboration between artists, curators, theorists, and other individuals and organizations working in the fields of process-oriented, experimental, and research-based artistic practices. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, KUĆĆA currently consists of curators Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, and Luja Šimunović. “Participation in the project is seen as a continuation of our curatorial practice, which is operationally and conceptually focused on close collaboration with local emerging artists and collectives. These are award-winning participants of the new generation of the local art scene, whose artistic vocabulary is characterized by a certain ease of visual language and the construction of fictional worlds through strong storytelling. Our curatorial engagement in recent years has also considered the historical, socio-political, and spatial topographies of the venues of artistic events we have organized (the 63rd edition of the Poreč Annals, the 36th edition of the Youth Salon titled PARASITES).”
About the artists:
Andrej Beštak (1993) and Anja Leko (1991) are an artistic duo born in Zagreb. Their artistic practice includes installations, performances, and video works. They are mostly considered narrators in space, using visual language and sounds rather than words to create an emotional dialogue between the artwork and the audience. Both graduated in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. They have been operating as an artistic duo since 2020, exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions, participating in artistic residencies, and receiving awards for their work, including the Grand Prix at the 36th Youth Salon.
Robert Fenrich (1995) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Zagreb, exploring the boundaries of image, atmosphere, and sound. Using various media, he raises questions about the marginal relationships of traditional dichotomies: fiction and reality, technology and nature, substance and negative space. He graduated in printmaking in 2020 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2018, he founded the informal art collective Medium Movement, conceived as a space for experimentation and a platform for the production of hybrid forms of entertainment, which lasted until mid-2023.
Teuta Gatolin (1993) is an intermedia artist currently interested in narrating ecology, exploring how narratives about nature are constructed, the subversive potential of mythological tricksters, and considering technology as a companion species to humans. She was a participant in the third generation of the WHW Academy. Gatolin has exhibited in four solo exhibitions and numerous group shows. She has participated in festivals such as Improspekcije, Week of Contemporary Dance, Platform HR, Perforations, Museum Night, among others. She was a recipient of the Erste Fragments Award for Young Artists for 2019/2020.
Gaia Radić (2001) is a new media artist. In her projects, she explores the correlation between virtual, mental, and physical spaces through the combined use of computer graphics and spatial installations. She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia, and currently resides in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she is studying architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and video, animation, and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
The ROSE collective is a group of three artists who specialize in performances and audiovisual installations. It was formed in 2017 by Bruna Jakupović (1998), Lana Lehpamer (1997), and Ivor Tamarut (1998). At the final exhibition of the New Media department in 2019, they performed their first collaborative piece, which involved improvisation and interaction between live sound and image within a closed loop. Since then, the collective has continued to explore ideas of communication, collaboration, and improvisation through collective artistic expression. In 2021, the collective exhibited a site-specific work titled “Working Spaces” at the CEKAO gallery and performed “Speaking Spaces” at the VN gallery in the same year. In 2023, they began a research project and residency as part of GMK, where they developed the concept and conducted research on Rose Velvet – a virtual persona designed as a starting point for further exploration of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and the infrastructure upon which the entire online sphere relies.
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The Takeover program provides art with the opportunity to “coexist” with the bustling everyday life of workspaces. In doing so, artistic works become active participants in the non-artistic world, blurring the sharp boundaries between the corporate and artistic sectors, while retaining their ever-present power to reshape our reality.
More about Takeover at: www.takeover.hdlu.hr
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CreArt is a network of 13 medium-sized European cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. At the same time, CreArt 3.0 pushes boundaries beyond visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts or music, and has also initiated a new collaboration with a non-governmental organization based in Lviv to support Ukrainian artists. The participating cities are: Kaunas, Liepaja, Skopje, Aveiro, Valladolid, Lublin, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Rouen, České Budějovice, Oulu, and Regensburg. The project includes 45 residency programs in 15 European cities, over 39 public events to celebrate the European Month of Creativity in 13 network cities, 13 educational programs to strengthen creativity and knowledge of contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual festivals in galleries in 9 cities, and 6 European conferences and study visits.
We are bringing you photos from yesterday’s AFAR Talk with Liesbeth Bik, Jos van der Pol (NL), and Leila Topić (HR): Speechless, as part of the European project Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR), aimed at improving the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, thus creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. This project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia, and Austria. The Talk took place in collaboration with the discursive program of the doctoral study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
In conversation with Leila Topić from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Bik Van der Pol attempted to address the most important themes that have characterized their artistic practice so far, presenting their two artistic works and discussing the process of creating works, experimenting, and dealing with failures.
Through their practice, they strive to articulate and understand how art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public sphere. This includes forms of mediation through which the public not only defines but also creates itself. By establishing conditions for encounter, Bik Van der Pol’s working process enables the continuous reconfiguration of place, history, and publicness. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, involving publishing, writing, and curating. They view dialogue as a mode of transmission, where the element of “passing through” is crucial, as it is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both an initiator and a result of this approach. Bik Van der Pol explore ways in which human activity in the globalized age directly affects (ecological) systems.
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Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
[Project number: 101100309 ]
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
02 May 2024
Talk between: Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol (NL) with Leila Topić (HR)
in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
May 7, 2024 u 7:30 pm
Putolovac Gallery
Putolovac Gallery
Ilica 112
In conversation with Leila Topić from MSU Zagreb, Bik Van der Pol will try to touch on the most important topics that have marked their artistic practice so far. Through their practice, they strive to articulate and understand how art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public space. This includes forms of mediation through which the public is not only defined, but also created. By establishing the conditions for the encounter, Bik Van der Pol’s work process enables the continuous reconfiguration of place, history and public. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative and includes publishing, writing and curating. They consider dialogue as a mode of transmission, where the element of “passing through” is vital, because it is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both the initiator and the result of this approach. Bik Van der Pol investigate the ways in which human activity in the globalized age has a direct impact on (ecological) systems. They are interested in the potential of the choir in the present. It is important to note that the Greek chorus was not composed of actors – instead, (male) citizens were chosen to represent the city. Their role was to speak on behalf of past and future generations of the city; “When they spoke about what the public already recognized, they were grandfathers. When they expressed what the public felt but could not articulate, they were unborn.”
Artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol (NL) work together as Bik Van der Pol since 1995, they have been working. They live and work in Rotterdam, Netherlands (www.bikvanderpol.net). Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations to create a platform for exchange and experience of different knowledges. Bik Van der Pol’s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories, and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a “passing through”, understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”. In fact, they consider the element of “passing through” as vital. It is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method. They have exhibited their work at numerous venues, as well as participated in biennials such as Gwangju, Istanbul, Jakarta, and Sao Paulo Biennale. Recent and current projects include Paad Bienal 2024 Abi Dabhi (UAE), a research residency project at School of Casablanca (2021–23), Casablanca (Marocco), a project in collaboration with Volt, Bergen (Norway), Take Part (2018–20), at SFMOMA and Public Libraries, San Francisco (USA), and Far Too Many Stories To Fit Into So Small A Box, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (Poland) (2019-20). Bik Van der Pol were co-initiators of artist-run space Duende existing from 1984-2013, where they organised many activities such as artist in residence programs, talks, screenings and exhibition projects, they were course directors of The School of Missing Studies – a temporary masters programme at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2013–15), and they are advisors at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Liesbeth is a core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), and a member, and currently chair, of the Akademie van Kunsten/Academy of Arts, that is part of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW).
Leila Topić is professor of art history and comparative studies and senior curator at Zagreb MSU. She realized numerous solo and group exhibitions during her work as a freelance curator and as an employee of MSU since 2006 (57th Zagreb Salon „Stvari drugačije“, „Krivo srastanje“, „5,5 na Richterovoj ljestvici“, „Unutar strukture- dijalog s Ivanom Piceljom“, „Kradljivci vremena“ (with Jasminka Babić), 60th Poreč Annales, and numerous solo exhibitions such as those of Zlatan Vehabović, Renata Poljak, Damir Žižić and Kristijan Kožul, Olivier Menanteau, Žarko Vijatović, Bojan Gagić, Ana Opalić , Roger Ballen, Sofija Silvija, Javier Arce, Oliver Kosack, Loren Živković Kuljiš, Vida Meić or Željko Kipke.) She initiated the multi-year multimedia exhibition project “Cinematography of Resistance” in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and film programmer Dina Pokrajac. Among the more organizationally demanding exhibitions, she curated and presented the group problem exhibition “Lighting out for the territories” in the Vienna Kunsthalle and the Budapest Contemporary Art Center “Trafo”. She also organized and co-curated the group exhibition “L’amour d’risque”, as well as the media-demanding and complex solo exhibitions of Dalibor Martinis (awarded with the Nazor Prize) and Zlatko Kopljar at MSU. She won the V. Nazor Award in 2017 for Dalibor Martinis’ solo exhibition “Data Recovery” at MSU. In addition to editing and writing texts for exhibition publications, Leila Topić edited the translations of Nicolas Bouriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics” and Donald Kuspit’s “The End of Art” in the MSU library “Refleksije”. She is the co-author of the publication “60 Years of Gallery SC” in collaboration with Darko Glavan. She trained as a scholarship holder of the Goethe Institute in Berlin, in the Vienna Museum Quarter on a curatorial scholarship, and at numerous other international curatorial workshops (workshop on mediation in contemporary art “Fall of the Ivory Tower”, Vilnius, Lithuania, workshop “Contemporary phenomena in museums” Bordoaux/ Paris, France, two-month scholarship for cultural management Paris, France, Curators’ network in Madrid, Spain.) She has been an active member and lecturer at the Center for Women’s Studies since 2002. She is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade. She lives and works in Zagreb.
The Artists for Artists Residency Network, a two-year project (2023-2024), aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. The project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.
The project includes: 12 artist residencies in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in Săcel, Maramureș (RO), 4 curatorial residencies in Zagreb and Bucharest, 12 conferences in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and 1 traveling international exhibition, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).
Within the project:
Project partners:
Supported by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
30 April 2024
ANDREA KNEZOVIĆ
TRANSMISSION
7.-28.5.
KARAS GALLERY
On Tuesday, 7.5.2024. Andrea Knezović opens her solo exhibition entitled Transmission, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Katarina Podobnik emphasizes:
With the art installation “Transmission” as a speculative design, Knezović creates a world in which artificial intelligence imposes itself as a pseudo-divine entity, and the place of worship becomes (or remains) both materialised and digital – an AI altar. Alongside the physical presence of characteristic liturgical ornaments, the artistic ambience consists of three central components – three monitors symbolising the united Holy Trinity. Each of the latter shows a video based on generative language models and a text-to-speech system, replicating traditional ritual elements within the framework of the new – “AI religion”.
Biography:
Andrea Knezović is a multimedia artist born in 1992 in Slavonski Brod. In 2014, she completed her undergraduate studies, and in 2017, her graduate studies in multimedia at the Academy of Arts in Osijek under the mentorship of Vladimir Frelih.
So far, she has had six solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists – HDLU Istok. She lives and works in Rijeka.
Andrea’s earlier works explore the relationship between mass media society and fetishism and ritual, where the artist, through the portrayal of her own body, plays with traditional representations of female identity. In her recent works, Andrea explores the impact of technology and media on society and individuals using experimental research practices.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 7. to 28.5.2024.
Working hours of Gallery Karas
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
23 April 2024
CreArtivci
Exhibition of elementary and high school pupils
April 30-May 2, 2024
Karas Gallery
On Tuesday, April 30, at 6pm exhibition of elementary and high school pupils CreArtivci will be opened at the Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58). The exhibition is a result of the Educational programme of the European project Creart 3.0.
The CreArt Educational Programme is part of the European project CreArt 3.0 and aims to improve cooperation between local schools, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations and independent workers and companies in the cultural and creative sector. The program builds and strengthens intergenerational ties, creates a network for the exchange of education in culture, and encourages the future participation of school children in the cultural life of the city. Over the course of 3 years, the program will include 76 schools in the project’s partner cities, more than 4,500 students and teachers, and 47 artists.
HDLU connected this year’s educational program with the 7th Biennial of Painting, which for the 14th year has been positioned as the only national art manifestation dedicated to presenting the scene and developments in the medium of painting. In the first edition, 6 schools will participate (Ivan Merz Elementary School, Matko Laginja Elementary School, Marije Jurić Zagorka Elementary School, XVth Gymnasium, XVIth Gymnasium, Classical Gymnasium) with more than 120 students and 6 professors and teachers. The program consists of guided tour through the Biennial of Painting with an educational booklet with tasks and workshops that are held in schools under the mentorship of artists from the 7th Biennial of Painting, namely: Natalia Borčić Peuc, Monika Meglić, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Iva Zagoda, Marko Zeman and Marta Živčnjak.
Mia Matijević Akrap designed the educational booklet under the supervision of the Teaching Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, prof. Sonja Vuk. Duje Medić designed it, and at the beginning of January the booklets were ready for use, after which all guided tours with educational booklets were carried out for elementary and high school pupils.
XVIth Gymnasium guided tour (photo: XVIth Gymnasium)
After guided tours, there were 6 workshops with artists carried out, the result of which are student works that will be exhibited at the exhibition in the Karas gallery.
Workshop led by Mihaela Rašica at the Classical Gymnasium
Workshop led by Marta Živičnjak in the dr. Ivan Merz elementary school
Workshop led by Marko Zeman in the XVI. gymnasium
PARTICIPANTS:
Schools: Matko Laginja elementary school, dr. Ivan Merz elementary school, Marija Jurić Zagorka elementary school, Classical Gymnasium, XV. Gymnasium, XVI. Gymnasium
Artists: Natalia Borčić Peuc, Monika Meglić, Mihaela Rašica, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Marko Zeman, Marta Živičnjak
Professors: Sanja Černko Delerue, Tamara Galović, Anamarija Jukić-Ivandić, Zoran Kakša, Maja Marović, Lahorka Rožić
Pupils: Ante Alerić, Gabrijela Antonić, Marta Arnaut, Marija Bakmaz, Katja Barbarosa, Silvija Bašić, Jakov Beloša, Teuta Biškup, Luka Bokolić, Lucija Brajković, Domenica Brkić, Katarina Brkić, Ema Brzica, Matko Brzica, Ana Buneta, Marta Buntak , Dov Cvetković, Alan Čaldarović, Andrija Deković, Klara Dodić, Lara Đureš, Filip Felja, Julija Ferenčak, Ema Gazić, Lori Giljević, Duje Gligora, Nicol Gogić, Svebor Graonić, Lorena Grgat, Nikola Gvozdenović, Laura Hajduk, Dina Halužan, Helena Han, Lana Hižar, Ana Husak, Jakov Ivanda, Pavla Ivšinović, Iva Jakopović, Mihaela Jambrešić, Tina Jelaković, Luči Jogušt, Nicole Jozić, Ana Jukić, Ana Jurić, Franceska Jurmić, Ivan Jakov Jurović, Roza Kajs, Marko Keser Slavković, Lara Kette, Andrej Kević Janković, Lucija Kanižaj, Jakov Kitarović, Franka Kokot, Hana Kos, Maja Kresonja Jembrih, Robertina Krupa, Ivona Kučiš, Domagoj Kuliš, Ivan Leko, Iva Lovrić, Ema Lujo, Luka Marenić, Stella Margetić, Maro Maričević, Lovro Marić, Dominik Marunić, Mihael Marušić, Juraj Matek, Tin Matešin, Melani Matić, Petra Mazarević, Dora Meštrović, Ana Mihoci, Tina Mimica, Marta Mlinar, Noa Nadali, Juraj Najdek, Franka Nikolaci, Lovro Panović, Marko Pažin, Alan Peštalić, Maša Pećarina, Antonia Periček, Katarina Petrović-Poljak, Paula Pilić, David Petar Pleština, Elena Plušćec, Ivor Prelogović, Luka Primorac, Kan Priselac Novačić, Ema Rašić, Mila Ravlić, Hana Sabljić, Zola Sarnavka, Marina Slaviček, Karla Smolić Ročak, Klara Stambolija, Max Šenjug, Ela Šiklić, Enola Špoljar, Mark Štritof, Margita Šurina, Iva Šušak, Nikša Šutej, Mia Tabaković, Maksimilijan Tanšek, Sofija Taraba, Mirko Tišljar, Dora Tomić Babić, Dejan Torbica, Nikša Tunguz, Anja Vačevski, Teo Valčić, Laava Magdalena Vatsel, Mia Vernik, Karla Vrdoljak, Paula Vučković, Iris Vuković, Vito Zadro, Maša Žilavčić, Mark Živković, Nina Živković
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CreArt is a network of 13 medium-sized European cities with the aim of exchanging experiences and good practices for the promotion of contemporary art, through a permanent transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social and cultural contribution that creativity can make to local communities (#stringing_together). At the same time, CreArt 3.0 is pushing the boundaries (#pushboundaries) beyond the visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts or music, and new collaborations with an NGO based in Lviv have also been initiated to support Ukrainian artists. Participating cities are: Kaunas, Liepaja, Skopje, Aveiro, Valladolid, Lublin, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Rouen, České Budějovice, Oulu and Regensburg. The project includes 45 residency programs in 15 European cities, more than 39 public events to celebrate the European Month of Creativity in 13 cities from the network, 13 educational programs to strengthen creativity and knowledge about contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual festivals in galleries in 9 cities and 6 European conferences and study visits.
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[Project number: 101128499]
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Exhibition is opened from April 30 til May 2, 2024
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Opening: April 30, 2024, 6pm
May 1: closed
May 2: 11am-7pm
Since March 4, 2024, Larisa Crunțeanu (RO) – performer, video artist, and sound collector, has gathered numerous research findings in the city of Zagreb, visiting cultural sites, venues, and public sculptures. She met with several artists and curators, visiting studios and alternative art spaces. She participated in exhibition openings, performances, and events at universities and artistic organizations.
The result of the residency is her new artistic work, tentatively titled ‘Paresthesia Greeting the Unknown,’ which will be exhibited at shows in Vienna, Zagreb, and Bucharest.
She also participated in a weaving workshop by Croatian artist Nikolina Knežević Hrgović. Additionally, on March 12, 2024, at 7:30 PM, she held a lecture and discussion with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the discursive program of the doctoral study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (AFAR Talk), at the Putolovac gallery.
My residency in Zagreb started with a short period of learning about the neighbourhood and research into the plants from the garden, as initially I went down the path of creating an artwork using pigments from the flowers, leaves and rocks from the garden. Soon, I abandoned this path due to the early spring calendar (not so many leaves and flowers bloomed) and the sudden change of temperatures, which meant it was harder to be outside for longer. Instead, I have decided to work with cyano and textiles, in an attempt to capture not the time of the year, but the time of the day, literally, through stillness and movement of my body. Between sessions that depended largely on experiments with textiles and how sunny it was outside, I would visit local exhibition spaces, museums and artists, some of which educated me greatly (a notable mention would be MSU’s exhibition on political performance in the 90s) or have inspired me in the way I understand collaboration and commonality as not just a method but also a result of artistic practices (for which I am very thankful to have been introduced to the Women for Women collective by WHW curator Ana Kovačić). Besides working on cyanos, I have had the pleasure of giving a short introduction to some of my works and the logic and contexts behind them in a live discussion titled Topographies of Love, together with prof. Nevena Škrbić Alempijević. Her questions and reflections were a great add to the conversation and offered me the chance to make some points more visible in the work, which otherwise would easily be missed by a foreign audience that encounters my work for the very first time. Towards the end of the residency I have also had the chance to learn more traditional techniques of working with textile, thanks to the workshop held by Nikolina Knežević Hrgović in her studio, which I think will be very useful in the further development of my journey through textile art.
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Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
[Project number: 101100309 ]
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