Art news from ‘Croatia’

GALERIJA NANO, Zagreb: WAITING FOR FREUD

WAITING FOR FREUD – Geert Wachtelaer Wednesday, February 8, 2012 This work is about the relationship between text and image, imagining, and – more broadly – the tension between fiction and reality. The difference between reality and art, the relation between the individual and itself, creating a space at the spot. The difference between reality [...]

Galerija Vn: Marijan Crtalić- Present moment of the history

In Yugoslavian self-management socialist regime, all worker's facilities and spaces were owned by workers themselves. In the beginning of 90s, parallel with establishment of Croatian independence, process of transition and privatization, industrial and residential Factory spaces that were once owned by workers were now transformed in state property and then sold to various private companies [...]

MSU, Zagreb: Silences where things abandon themselves

Silences where things abandon themselves 02/03/2012 – 03/04/2012 Opening on Friday 3 February 2012, 6 pm Artists: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Elisabetta Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Pierpaolo Campanini, Rä di Martino, Christian Frosi/Diego Perrone, Marzia Migliora, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Elisa Sighicelli, Sissi Curators: Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi Finissageon 4th March 2012 with special event by [...]

HDLU, Zagreb: Carta Incognita

HAMO ČAVRK “Carta Incognita” 03.02. – 04.03.2012 Openning on 03.02.2012., at 19:00 Abstract compositions of Carta incognita consist of delicate structures of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines which imply direction, path and movement. In terms of composition, they result from geometrical abstraction; yet, the atmosphere they generate is lyrical and poetic. The line as a [...]

Elvis Krstulovic&Iva Kovač: Darling, Sorry for not Writing Earlier

Darling, Sorry for not Writing Earlier [work in progress] from Iva Kovac on Vimeo. It is common to address objects and events that are dear to us as people, and personify them. In Croatia, in the 1990’s we have witnessed the expansion of emotions towards the newly established nation state. The intensity with which such [...]

Miroslav Stakić: The Wall

In literature, the notion of wall often represents the symbols of progress, protection, victory, revolution, obstacle, division, casualty, holiness.. The author of the video aims at the subjective perceptioning and interpretation of literary constructions operating with the semantics of a wall. Forging deeply into the observer’s ego as well as constructing a type of narrative [...]

Lauba House, Zagreb: The Magic is gone (But the Filth is still there)

Bruno Pogačnik, The Magic is gone (But the Filth is still there) 01.12.2011 – 07.02.2012 Site-specific installation The Magic is gone (But the Filth is still there) Photo: Damir Žižić Lauba is proud to present Bruno Pogačnik’s first solo exhibition. The site-specific installation, The Magic is gone (But the Filth is still there) which was [...]

Art Pavilion in Zagreb: After (the) Psyche, Painting!

BELA ČIKOŠ SESSIA After (the) Psyche, Painting! 19th january – 11th march 2012 The name of Bela Čikoš Sesia (Osijek, 1864 – Zagreb, 1931) rings out with good reason in all surveys of Croatian painting, and his creative input is at once recognised in the period in which a more modern artistic sensitivity broke through [...]

Lauba Gallery, Zagreb: Shop of Metaphors

Petikat Workshop: Shop of Metaphors; a space of creation, socializing and exchange 27.01.2012 – 27.02.2012 Shop of Metaphors by Petikat Workshop opens on 27 January at Lauba House. Authors of the project are Stanislav Habjan and Danijel Žeželj. The Shop of Metaphors is an installation made of white wood and wrought steel, of which the [...]

Lauba Gallery, Zagreb: NON-PERMANENT Exhibition #6

Nika Radić, For Cocteau, 2005. – 2006 Non-permanent exhibition of the Filip Trade Collection #6 16.01.2012 – 20.02.2012 Lauba is waiting for you with some fresh works and new interesting narratives! During next 30 days Lauba will be exhibiting NON-PERMANENT Exhibition #6 which gathers some thirty works from the Filip Trade Collection made in the [...]