Art news from ‘Croatia’

Lauba House, Zagreb: Behide

BEHIDE Openning: Thursday, 9 May at Lauba, 8 p.m. The clothes we wear reflect our character. The materials we decide to surround ourselves with, reflect our sensibility. The objects we use complete and shape our

Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb: ART AND MONEY

m i c r o p o l i t i c s seminar ART AND MONEY In the company of Hanson’s circle of people from the world of finance, such as Rotschilds, Jagoda says, one only talks about art, while artists among themselves talk mostly about money.

NO Gallery, Zagreb: Sound [In]Formation

Sound [In]Formation NO gallery 04/05/2013 – 04/13/2013 In the catalogue for his noteworthy exhibition, When Attitudes Become Form (1969) Ha-rald Szeemann stated, “In order to entertain certain ideas we may be obliged to abandon others upon which we have come to depend.” As sentient beings, we

LAUBA: Marko Tadić, Imagine a Moving Image

Marko Tadić, Imagine a Moving Image, 05/03-28/03/2013 The story of film is borrowed from the fable told by film screens – Jacques Ranciere The idea of journey has for a number of years been one of the focal points of Marko Tadić’s works ranging from souvenirs, postcards, cartography – imaginary geographical maps, forgotten or imagined [...]

Lauba, People and Art House, Zagreb: site specific art by Viktor Popovic

Viktor Popović: Untitled Site-specific art at Lauba, People and Art House at Zagreb Viktor Popović — Untitled (Trailer) from lauba house on Vimeo. Viktor Popović is an artist who, in choosing his works and reflecting on how to exhibit them, always thoroughly thinks through the character of the exhibition space itself. The special treatment of [...]

Galerija SIZ: Hudrada – “Court Experiment”

7th – 28th February 2013. Exhibition opening 7th of February 2013. at 8pm* From 7pm members of Ukrainian multidisciplinary curatorial collective Hudrada will be present in the gallery and will present to the interested audience specific cases of court proceedings, which have motivated this project and the context in which the works in the exhibition [...]

MSU, Zagreb: Mladen Stilinović: Zero for Conduct

Mladen Stilinović: Zero for Conduct; A retrospective 01/01/2013 – 02/03/2013 Mladen Stilinović (Belgrade, 1947) belongs to the generation of Croatian artists that began their careers in art in the early 1970, outside and against the institutions of art and of the state. Stilinović made his first art works in the form of GEFF-style experimental film. [...]

Galerija SIZ: Fokus Grupa – A Proposal for the Monument to the New (Inter)Nationalism

January 10th – January 30th 2013 Exhibition opening: January 10th 2013, 8:00 p.m.* “National landscapes use their nature, in which image and reality are intertwined, in order to naturalize the nation’s legitimacy. Like the altar, the image of the national landscape summarizes their complexity into visual clarity,” Paul Wilson The starting point of the film [...]

POLITICS OF EMOTIONS / ECONOMIES OF LOVE

lectures, screenings, discussions  ***hrvatski tekst niže 18. 12. Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht 19. 12. The Bureau of Melodramatic Research and Florin Flueras organisation: k.r.u.z.o.k.- http://kruzok.wordpress.com/ “As we have witnessed over the past few decades, the mass politics of passion can often be a major driving force in the contemporary political arena. The “politics of [...]

MEDITERRANEA 16 Young Artists Biennial: Call for artists is open

Call for participation Bjcem and the City of Ancona announce the launch of Mediterranea16 Young Artists Biennial, an international multidisciplinary event, taking place in Ancona, Italy, from June 6th to July 7th 2013, bringing together more the 250 artists. Started in 1985, the Biennial takes place every two years in a different city in the [...]

Loose Associations are co-curating Mediterranea 16, Young Artists Biennial

Slobodne veze//Loose Associations are co-curating Mediterranea 16, Young Artists Biennial that will take place in the city of Ancona, Italy, from June 6 to July 7th 2013. Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial is promoted by the international network Bjcem www.bjcem.org and the city of Ancona. Open call for participation to the Biennial is coming soon. [...]

Galerija Galzenica/ Eastern Surf: Kernel Panic Control

16.11.2012. – 21.12.2012. Eastern Surf: Kernel Panic Control* Having met during their studies in Edinburgh, four artists from Croatia, Italy and Scotland initiated the project and work methodology entitled Eastern Surf. The collaboration began with an exhibition proposal, after which one more participant joined Eastern Surf, and the collaboration itself eventually proved to be very [...]

MSU, Zagreb: Mladen Stilinović: Zero for Conduct; A retrospective

Opening: November 30th, 2012 at 7 p.m. Mladen Stilinović (Belgrade, 1947) belongs to the generation of Croatian artists that began their careers in art in the early 1970, outside and against the institutions of art and of the state. Stilinović made his first art works in the form of GEFF-style experimental film. Then, especially within [...]

Art Pavilion in Zagreb: South – Southeast, A Life In Pictures

STEVE McCURRY – South – Southeast, A Life In Pictures 25.10.2012 – 09.12.2012 Steve McCurry, photographer with a worldwide reputation is one of the most widely recognised contemporary photographers, the winner of numerous prestigious prizes for photography. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic, and is known for his suggestive colour photography, rendered in [...]

Lauba House: selling exhibition

Have you thought about your New Year's resolutions yet? Maybe you should rather resume the one that has almost passed away… Lauba already has and that's way we saved the best for the end and organized a selling exhibition of  Filip Trade's Collection Finalists. With great pride we present you everything our artists have been [...]

Fokus Grupa (Zagreb) solo show in Berlin

  1 work/ 1 room/ 1 night/ Part 4:  Fokus Grupa (a.k.a. Iva Kovac & Elvis Krstulovic) (HR) One-night exhibition and artist talk Wednesday, 07/11 19H Gitte Bohr c/o West Germany  Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin-Kreuzberg U-Bahn: Kottbusser Tor (U1, U8) entrance next to Effendi Optik Fokus grupa, drawing from series "Pjevam ad mi prode vrijeme [...]

Lauba House: Premiere Lovro Artukoivc

„Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!'' Too far to go? Come to Lauba, Prilaz baruna Filipovica 23a, because Berlin's cultural and fashion extravagance inspired new art works of Lovro Artukovic! Premiere is on November 6th, don't be late! After the regional premieres of his paintings Models posing for Pièta and Pièta in reverse in November [...]

Gallery Miroslav Kraljević: Fokus Grupa (Iva Kovac & Elvis Krstulovic)

Gallery Miroslav Kraljević The exhibition of Fokus Grupa (Iva Kovač and Elvis Krstulović) A Proposal for the Monument to the New (Inter)Nationalism  12.10-03.11.2012 Fokus grupa: nature, nation and the economy of love The smallest, most basic unit of the installation by Fokus grupa (art and life partners Iva Kovač and Elvis Krstulović) at the Gallery [...]

KARIM RASHID: IDEOLOGY OF BEAUTY

10/20/2012 – 01/01/2013 Museum of Contemporaray Art Zagreb presents one of the world’s most productive and appreciated designers today who many with good reason call a „designer star“ – Karim Rashid. Exhibition Ideology of Beauty will open on October 20th 2012. Working in 35 countries in the world, he is author of more than 3000 [...]

Lauba House: Kristian Kožul, Misinterpretations, 16/10 – 30/11-2012

16/10 – 30/11-2012  The opening of Misinterpretations: 16/10/2012, at 20.00 pm. Artist talk: Kristian Kožul, Vanja Žanko, Jasna Jakšić How many times did Franjo Tuđman and Slobodan Milošević draw new maps of Croatia and the then fragmented Yugoslavia, dividing Bosnia and Herzegovina? Did they also, on those incriminating napkins, foresee the humane relocation of the [...]