Art news from ‘Croatia’

Art Pavilion in Zagreb: ART IS BEAUTIFUL

ANTE RAŠIĆ: ART IS BEAUTIFUL 10th November – 11th December 2011 The extremely demanding and complex exhibition concept, environmental in nature sublimates the experience of contemporary art and the issues faced by contemporary people in a compelling manner. It comprises five works; within them, with critical distancing, various experiences and contents are interwoven in a [...]

MSU, Zagreb: SOCIALISM AND MODERNITY

SOCIALISM AND MODERNITY: Art, Culture and Politics 1950 – 1974 The Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, from December 2nd, 2011 to February 5th, 2012 The exhibition Socialism and Modernity focuses on art, culture, and politics from the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-‘70s. Through a collection of nearly 300 objects – from artworks to [...]

Wiener Secession, Vienna: Exhibitions for Secession

David Maljkovic, Retired Form, 2008, all images courtesy artist and Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam; Georg Kargl, Vienna; Metro Pictures, New York; Sprueth Magers, Berlin, London DAVID MALJKOVIC Exhibitions for Secession December 2, 2011 – February 5, 2012 (Opening: Thursday, December 1, 2011) Hauptraum The collages, films, and architectural mises-en-scène of the Croatian artist David Maljkovic [...]

Film Mutations: The Festival of Invisible Cinema

Zagreb, 1 – 4 December 2011 Kino Tuškanac The Museum of Contemporary Art The Academy of Dramatic Art Rijeka, 5 – 6 December 2011 Art-kino Croatia Ljubljana, 12 – 13 December 2011 The Slovenian Cinematheque Under the title The Ethic Point of Film. Serge Daney,  this year’s Festival of Invisible Cinema will connect the genesis [...]

CIMAM Annual Conference in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo

CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – will hold its 2011 Annual Conference “Museums and the City” in Ljubljana and Zagreb on November 14, 15 and 16. The conference will be followed by a tour to Sarajevo. We expect an audience of around 170 museum directors and curators [...]

Quadrilateral Biennial: Out of Left Field

Out of Left Field Curator:  Jovana Stokic Project manager: Ksenija Orelj, MMSU curator Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka November 11 –  December 23, 2011 Opening: November, 11 at 6 pm The Quadrilateral Biennial was initiated in 2005 focusing on contemporary art practices in the neighboring region of Croatia, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia. First [...]

The Bureau of Melodramatic Research: Institutional Affects in a Romanian Docu-Noir

lecture Friday, 4 November at 7 pm DAZ, Trg bana J.Jelačića 1/3, Zagreb Institutional Affects in a Romanian Docu-Noir From a postcommunist vantage point, the Romanian recent past seems cast in deep shadows and strong contrasts, whereby the gloomy darkness always falls on the same political grounds. The communist past is often described as black [...]

Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana&Gallery SC, Zagreb: Break of Whiteness

Mirjana Batinić & Robertina Šebjanič 4. – 18. November 2011 Curators: Maja Lozić and Jadranka Plut Authors of sound: Vladimir Ilić – Lenjin 2, Mario Sammut – Cygna, Mirjana Batinić, Robertina Šebjanič Production: Alkatraz Gallery 2010 Coproduction: Gallery SC, Zagreb You are cordially invited to the discussion and opening of the exhibition Break of Whiteness [...]

MSU NO Gallery, Zagreb: Inhabitants of generic places

11/04/2011 – 11/20/2011 Igor Eškinja: Inhabitants of generic places MSU, NO Gallery, Zagreb Opening: Friday, November, 4th Kustoski tim: Heike Eipeldauer i Annemarie Türk Koordinator: Tihomir Milovac KULTURKONTAKT/Austria „Igor Eškinja’s works engender a sense of profound visual irritation.They do this by confronting beholders with both the potential and the limits of their perception, a phenomenon [...]

Lauba House, Zagreb: Sweeping Confetti from the Floor of the Concrete Hole

Zlatan Vehabović, Joy Division, 2011. Courtesy of Marc Straus LLC, NY. Zlatan Vehabović Sweeping Confetti from the Floor of the Concrete Hole 6 October 2011–8 November 2011 Curators: Vanja Žanko & Mateja Kuka Baruna Filipovića 23a Zagreb, Croatia Opening hours: Monday–Friday and Sunday 3pm–11 pm Saturday 11 am–11 pm Last admission 10:30 pm T  +38516 [...]

Zagreb: The Bring In Take Out

The Bring In Take Out – Living Archive (LA) Interactive Contemporary Art Exhibition 13 – 16 October 2011, Zagreb Glyptotheque CASA, Medvedgradska ulica 2 Kino Grič, Jurišićeva 6 Kino Europa, Varšavska 3 Curatorial-theoretical-engaged collective, the Red Min(e)d is organizing the first edition of  the Bring In Take Out – Living Archive dedicated to feminist art [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb: Images with Their Own Shadows

Richter Collection Exhibition – David Maljković: Images with Their Own Shadows September 15th to October 29th 2011 David Maljković (born in Rijeka, 1973), one of the most acknowledged Croatian media artists on the international scene, has accepted the Richter Collection invitation to present his project referring to the body of work of Vjenceslav Richter, architect [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb: Point Zero Landscape

Ivan Ladislav Galeta: Point Zero Landscape Sept. 23rd – Nov. 17th, 2011 The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb begins its autumn part of the program with an encompassing presentation of the oeuvre of Ivan Ladislav Galeta, one of the most important Middle-European media artists today. Lecture, KIC Zagreb, Foto Velizar Vesović The first large retrospective [...]

The Power Plant

The Power Plant

Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová, still from "Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Let’s Conclude)," 2008.* Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe Co-produced by The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Alberta 1 July–5 September 2011 Opening: 30 June, 8–11 PM The Power Plant 231 Queens Quay West Toronto, Ontario M5J [...]