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ANTONIO KUTLEŠA
FLOWERS THAT HAVE NOT BLOOMED
2.-23.4.2024.
KARAS GALLERY
On Tuesday, 2.4.2024. Antonio Kutleša opens his solo exhibition entitled Flowers That Have Not Bloomed, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Ivana Završki emphasizes:
Maintaining a meticulous approach traditionally associated with historical periods of the appearance of graphics, but using modern technological tools at the same time, Antonio Kutleša, in his work Flowers That Have Not Bloomed, translates graphic drawing into a three-dimensional form without prior shaping of the objects in traditional sculptural techniques. The artist’s experiment, building upon his earlier work titled DIY 3D Printer from 2020, starts from the idea of problematizing the range of the drawing medium, intertwining disciplines, and using modern tools, taking us through a process of complete transformation – at the level of idea, medium, and experience of the creative process and its product.
Biography:
Antonio Kutleša was born in Zagreb in 1993. In September 2015, he enrolled in the graduate university study of fine arts, with majors in graphic arts and applied graphics, under the guidance of Prof. Ines Krasić. In 2018, he graduated with excellent success and was awarded by the Academic Council of the Academy of Fine Arts as one of the most successful graduates, earning the title of Master of Fine Arts Education. He exhibited at the 36th Youth Salon, where his work Jah Rana received the Kranjčar Gallery Award and a commendation from the 36th Youth Salon.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 2. to 23.4.2024.
Working hours of Gallery Karas
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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The Karas Art Hub platform was designed for the purpose of developing different approaches to the presentation, experience and processing of works of art displayed to the public in Zagreb’s Karas Gallery, which are presented to the public with digital content on the gallery’s web platform, including 360° shots of installations and video miniatures.
http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
On Saturday, March 23, 2024, the “Weaving Techniques” workshop was held as part of the European project Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR).
The workshop was led by prof. Nikolina Knežević Hrgović, mag.art.edu., and the following participated: Larisa Crunţeanu (RO), Marta Dijak (HR), Anja Lückenkemper (DE), Samuel Matijević (HR) and Nika Šimičić (HR).
Weaving is the process of interlacing at least two systems of threads at right angles; warp and weft. With this process, we get flat or three-dimensional textile creations, depending on the weaving techniques we use. The application of hand weaving is very wide; from clothing items, home textiles, decorative elements, spatial installations, etc.
At the “Weaving Techniques” workshop, we delved into the secrets of this very old and respected craft. We learned something about the history of weaving in Croatia, got to know the parts of the loom and the loom, and what materials and tools are used in hand weaving. Each of the participants worked on their own weaving frame and learned the procedures of folk techniques whose traditions contemporary weavers try to maintain. We also mentioned some “newer” weaving techniques and how to connect tradition and contemporary artistic expression through the magic of threads.
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.
18 March 2024
City of Skopje and Public cultural institution Cultural informative center (‘The Organisers’) are announcing an Open call for Artist in residence hat will take place in Skopje in Cultural informative center from 01 of june until 30 of June 2024.
This Artist in Residence program is within of framework CreArt. Network of Cities for Artistic Creation, and it is consist of residence of 2 artits: one artist from the cities within CreArt. Network of Cities for artistic creation city partner and one artist form Skopje, to be selected through this Open Call.
The CreArt Artist in residence in Skopje will take place at public cultural institution within of framework of City of Skopje Cultural Informative Center, located in the city center in Skopje from June, 01th 2024 to June 30th 2024
The Open call will be open until 15 of April.
WHO CAN APPLY?
- One Artists should be born or resident – in any of the cities taking part in CreArt: Kaunas, Liepaja, Aveiro, Valladolid, Lublin, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Rouen, České Budějovice, Oulu and Regensburg. Also are eligible artists members of HDLU (CRoatian Asociation of Visual Artists) and artists from Ukraine through our Asociated partner Lviv Artistic Council «Dialogue» . One artist should be born or resident in Skopje – North Macedonia
- It is preferable to have a degree in a field of art (university level).
- Artists coming from the CreArt network, except artist from Skopje must have a valid travel (health) insurance policy, European health card or equivalent.
CONDITIONS AND GRANT
- The organization will cover travel expenses and accommodation, for the artist coming from Creart Netwok, subsistence cost up to 400 euros and will be covered materials for production of a work maximum of 500 euro.
- For the artist coming from Skopje The organization will cover local travel expenses and will be covered materials for production of a work maximum of 600 euros
- Each artist will receive 325 € as presentation fee for the exhibition.
- The selected artist can use the space and equipment facility of Public cultural institution Cultural informative center.
- At the end of the residence a exhibition of two artist with the art work made during the residence will be organize in Cultural informative center.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED
The applicants must provide within a one document PDF:
- ID or passport (scanned copy);
- A short version of your CV and a full; portfolio with art works.
- A short written project proposal (one side of A4).
- Graphic documentation related to the project proposal
Online application form: LINK
Deadline: Monday, April, 15 th, 2024.
Only applications with complete information will be accepted. The artist will be selected by the local curators.
All participants will be informed after 20th of April. The shortlist will be published in the CreArt website.
The Participation in this call implies the acceptance of these conditions, and the artist selected should include then in their CV and in all future communications (press, digital media), that they have been selected to participate in the CreArt’s Artist in Residence in Skopje as a part of CreArt.Network of Cities for Artistic Creation, project co-funded by the European Union.
Cultural informative center (KIC) (http://kic.mk/kontakt, https://www.facebook.com/KulturnoInformativenCentar) Is a public cultural institution within of network of institutions founded by City of Skopje.
Within it’s working activities more than half of the century Cultural informative center (KIC) daily continuous create cultural values, consumers, “addicts” of the created values, promotion and affirmation of Macedonian culture and art in Europe and in the world of :
Music – on the stage of the first and only chamber space, the cult chamber theatre “Salon 19’19” and all over Macedonia and Europe, organized and coordinated more than 2 000: chamber concerts, recitals, jazz concerts, sound carriers…
Theater – on the stage of the cult chamber theatre “Salon 19’19” ac drama performances, comedy, monodrama, children’s drama studios, were happening .
Fine Art – Known as First Art Gallery in Macedonia where art exhibitions, performances, art studios, graphic atelier and many macedonian and foreign artist had exhibition .
“KUL-PARK” – numerous multimedia projects, performances, concerts.
Literature – the Macedonian, European, worldly written word:
theater poetry, dramatic recitals, publishing of new literary editions in their own production, meetings with authors, monodrama presentations, critical reviews for authors, works and / or related themes, artistic performances of parts of works, as well as direct dialogue with consumers of this kind of art …
KIC organize also multimedia spectacles – cultural and historical manifestations – “DAYS OF YUSTINIAN”, public debates and debates on current social trends, seminars, information and other multimedia and multicultural events.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported by:
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.
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
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.
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/
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