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TEXT AS AN OBJECT
GROUP EXHIBITION OF SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN ARTISTS
PM gallery, Home of HDU (Meštrović pavilion)
22.3.-7.4.2024.
Opening of the exhibition TEXT AS AN OBJECT – group exhibition of Slovenian and Croatian artists will be on Friday, March 22, 2024 at 7pm, at PM Gallery (Home of HDLU / Meštrović pavilion).
From Josip Zanki’s introduction text we emphasize:
“ The collaborative exhibition project between the Fine Artists Society (Društvo likovnih umetnikov) from Ljubljana and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (Hrvatsko društvo likovnih umjetnika), titled Text as an Object, takes as a starting point selected works from both artistic practices that illustrate, deconstruct, expand, and transform text into an image and an object. The selected works use various contemporary artistic media and practices, ranging from drawings and artist’s books to research methods. Text, as well as language, be it Slovenian or Croatian, represents, conceptualizes, and creates new meanings. (…)
The exhibition Text as an Object represents an international reciprocal collaboration that includes an exhibition of Slovenian and Croatian artists at the Extended Media Gallery in the Meštrović Pavilion (Home of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists) and a reciprocal exhibition at the Gallery of the Fine Artists Society in Ljubljana (in March and April 2024). The curator of the Slovenian part of the exhibition, Nadja Gnamuš, has selected works by the artists Nina Čelhar, Tanja Lažetić, and Aleksandra Saška Gruden, as well as works by the artists Boris Beja and Ištvan Išt Huzjan. The coordinator of the Croatian part of the exhibition, Josip Zanki, has selected works by the artists Zorana Unković, Mija Maraković, Mihaela Rašica, and Antonela Šurbek, as well as the artist Željko Beljan. Slovenian and Croatian artists raise questions about text and language through their works, playing with the content of the text, transforming text into an image or object, employing lettering and the art of writing as an image of text, or simply referring to a specific literary work in their pieces. Thus, a dialogue is opened directly within the text, or language, which is often the cause of conflict, whether in translation or interpretation. ”
Artists
Boris Beja, Željko Beljan, Nina Čelhar, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Tanja Lažetić, Mia Maraković, Mihaela Rašica, Antonela Šurbek, Zorana Unković
Curators
Nadja Gnamuš, Josip Zanki
Galleries’ coordinators
Mihaela Zajec, Mojca Zlokarnik
PREFACE
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The exhibition will be open from March 22 to April 7, 2024
Organizer: HDLU, DLUL
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Mestna občina Ljubljana
13 March 2024
DAMIR SOBOTA
NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
22.3.-14.4.2024.
Opening of the exhibition NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH by DAMIR SOBOTA will be on Friday, March 22, 2024 at 7pm, at Bačva Gallery (Home of HDLU / Meštrović pavilion).
In his foreword, Mladen Lučić emphasizes:
“ The new series of works by Damir Sobota, presented at the Bačva Gallery of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU), represents a logical continuation of his previous explorations characterized by a unique approach to questioning the concept and nature of the painting. It is paradoxical in relation to this claim that Sobota does not paint using techniques and materials that conform to the established definition of painting; instead, he uses the collage technique to reexamine these concepts. Using, conditionally speaking, the language of geometric art, the artist emphasizes a non-narrative artistic language close to minimalism and the principles of primary and analytical painting. In doing so, he corresponds with the period of the 1970s when painting found itself at an almost zero point due to the dominance of conceptual art. Sobota’s previous work is, in a way, based on a kind of conceptual process, evident in his conceptual approach to solving painting problems exclusively through the collage process. He insists on the process as an artistic category, equalizing the meaning of the final product with the very process of creating the work. This process involves not only the physical but also the mental aspect, crucial for the proper perception of the artist’s works. (…) ”
Biography:
Damir Sobota (1988, Zagreb)
Graduated in 2013 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, majoring in Graphics. He has exhibited his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste (2022), Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2021), Radoslav Putar Award, Salon Galić, Split (2020), Palindrome, Lauba/U10, Zagreb/Belgrade (2020/2021), Known Unknowns, Westpol A.I.R. Space, Leipzig (2019), 11th HT Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2018), and several editions of the Biennial of Painting, Zagreb (from 2013 to 2021).
He participated in a residency program in Germany and the USA. Residency Unlimited – New York (2021), Hafenkombinat – Leipzig (2017, 2018).
He is the recipient of the “Radoslav Putar” Award for the year 2020, as well as the Croatian Association of Fine Artists’ Award for Young Artist for the year 2017. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Association of Independent Artists (HZSU). He works as an external associate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He lives and works in Zagreb.
PREFACE
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The exhibition will be open from March 22 to April 14, 2024
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
13 March 2024
We bring you photos from yesterday’s talk between Larisa Crunţeanu (RO) and Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, PhD (HR): AFAR talk – Topographies of Love, as part of the European project ??????? ??? ??????? ????????? ??????? (????), which aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, creating greater opportunities for women in art, and takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The talk took place in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
In her talk with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević from The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Larisa, as a long term researcher into social bodies and their emotional maladies, delved into a couple of her projects that deal with the way love and stories of love create, hold and even destroy collective spaces throughout the history.
One of the presented works “Come as History to History” can be viewed at the link: https://vimeo.com/594086821/fce67cb910
One of the presented works “Come as History to History” can be viewed at the link: https://vimeo.com/594086821/fce67cb910
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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.
12 March 2024
Last month, the artist Palmina Roglić was at the HDLU residency in Leipzig, as part of the project “De/construction of painting”. Before returning, we invite you to a presentation of the artistic research created during the residency and a conversation with the artist.
Studio 12 in the Hafenkombinat will be open to the public on Thursday, March 14, 2024. from 7 p.m.
Palmina Roglić (1997) graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts in Split. She participated in several group exhibitions and realized two independent exhibitions. She has been a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists since 2023 and the Croatian Association of Fine Artists Split since 2022. She is the winner of the Production Award of the 41st Split Salon and the Dean’s Award of the Academy of Arts in Split.
FOR ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LEIPZIG RESIDENCY, PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE DE/KONSTRUKCIJA SLIKE RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT: https://residencyleipzig.hdlu.hr/
08 March 2024
Talk between: Larisa Crunţeanu (RO) and Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, PhD (HR)
in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
March 12, 2024 u 7.30 pm
Putolovac Gallery
Putolovac Gallery
Ilica 112
As part of her artistic residency, Larisa Crunțeanu gets to know the local art scene through studio visits and exhibitions, creates new artwork, which is connected to the main themes of the project: ecology, sustainability and the heritage of textile art, which will be exhibited at the final exhibition in Zagreb, Vienna and Bucharest. Together with the Croatian artist Nikolina Knežević Hrgović, she will conduct a workshop with students of the Academy of Fine Arts
In her talk with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević from The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Larisa, as a long term researcher into social bodies and their emotional maladies, will delve into a couple of her projects that deal with the way love and stories of love create, hold and even destroy collective spaces throughout the history.
Larisa Crunțeanu works as a performer, video artist and sound collector who moves from reality to fiction in an endless conversation with the viewer. Larisa Crunțeanu’s works create contexts in which facts and memories are reactivated, encouraging a shared effort and the emergence of new practices. Many of her projects reflect on the notion of collaboration and the ideas existing behind objects and stories. Her works were shown in important institutions such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, SAVVY Berlin, Zacheta Project RoomWarsaw, RKI Berlin, Museu de Arte Brasileira – MAB FAAP, São Paulo. She holds an MA in Photography and Moving Image and a PhD in Visual Arts from the National University of Arts Bucharest. In 2023 she launched her first book, Protocols of Singularity (RO- EN) published by Dispozitiv Books.
Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, PhD is a full professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She received her PhD in 2006 on the topic of traditional carnival practices. Besides Zagreb, she also taught in Rijeka, Zadar, Ljubljana, Koper, Bergen, Kristiansand, Malmö, Lund and Chicago. Her areas of research interest are: urban ethnology, city and art, performance research, studies of carnivals, contemporary festivals and other public events, anthropology of place and space, construction of cultural regions, Mediterranean studies and anthropology of social memory. She is the co-author of three scientific books. She is the co-editor of six editorial books and anthologies, independently or in co-authorship she has published over forty scientific papers in international and domestic journals and anthologies. She presented the results of her research at around fifty domestic and international scientific meetings. In her work, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević intensively cooperates with cultural policy holders, local self-governments, tourist boards, non-governmental associations, organizers of festivals and other public events, etc.
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.
06 March 2024
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.
XVIth Gymnasium guided tour (photo: XVIth Gymnasium)
Consortium consisting of: Nika Šimičić, coordinator of the Creart 3.0 project; Ivana Garmaz, volunteer; Mia Matijević Akrap, head of the educational program and author of the educational booklet; prof. Zoran Kakša (Matko Laginja Elementary School); prof. Lahorka Rožić (Ivan Merz Elementary School); prof. Anamarija Jukić-Ivandić (Marija Jurić Zagorka Elementary School); prof. Maja Marović (XVIth Gymnasium), prof. Tamara Galović (Classical Gymnasium) and prof. Sanja Černko Delerue (XVth Gymnasium), designed an educational program that is based on the 7th Biennial of Painting in 2024.
Matko Laginja Elementary School of guided tour
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.
So far, all guided tours with educational booklets were carried out, for all 6 schools, and the realization of workshops with artists has begun.
The educational program will be concluded with a joint exhibition of student works, created at the workshops, in the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58, Zagreb) on April 30, 2024.
Classical Gymnasium on a guided tour
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.
Within the project:
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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.
Since February 2, 2024, Sarah McNulty (born in USA), an artist and curator based in Copenhagen, has collected numerous researches in the city of Zagreb, visiting cultural sites, facilities and public sculptures. She met several artists and curators, visiting studios and alternative places to create art. She participated in exhibition openings, performances and events at universities and art organizations.
In cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, as part of the Introduction to Art Theory course, by associate professor Ph.D. Josip Zanki, she gave a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and spoke with Deborah Hustić (Radiona, Zagreb) about how and where we create, about the potential of spaces managed by artists, informal learning and non-places. Together they discussed the establishment of alternative artistic communities and structures, to maintain vital and active spaces for experimentation.
Overall, it was enormously enlightening and beneficial to have the opportunity to come to Zagreb and learn much more about the region and the art scene, which I had limited contact with previously. There were many active and innovative approaches to practices and presenting work, and great potential to develop this within larger international networks. I feel honored to have met so many engaged, open members of the artistic community, who were very gracious and curious. It has started so many connections and conversations which I hope to continue.
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.
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