Art news from ‘Croatia’

Lauba House, Zagreb: Ringišpil #8

Non permanent exhibition of the Filip Trade Collection / Ringišpil #8 01.06.2012 – 01.09.2012 Choosing a new summer exhibition of works in Lauba will delight all visitors who peek into our house. Valuable design team in Lauba space set you a little maze in which you would want to keep as long as you want [...]

SIZ Gallery, Rijeka: Caput Mortuum

June 14 at 6:00pm until July 2 at 2:00pm in UTC+02 In caput mortuum, Alexi Kukuljevic (USA) extends his interest in questions of reflexivity, identity and its deformations and the material resistance to the imposition of form. A phrase used by both Hegel and Marx to refer to a pure abstraction, a form absolutely empty [...]

Lauba House, Zagreb: Black And Blue

Morten Andersen: Black And Blue 15.05.2012 – 25.05.2012 Lauba is thrilled to present the recognised Norwegian photographer Morten Andersen! Our first international exhibition is the fruit of the collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb and OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway). The opening is on May 15th at 7pm. The artist talk will [...]

MSU, Zagreb: Written in Water

05/02/2012 – 05/18/2012 Written in Water Exhibition within an exhibition Collection in Motion for the 17th museum education action of the Museum Education and Cultural Action Section of the Croatian Museum Society (HMD) 2. 5. – 18. 5. 2012 Opening: Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 17:00 The exhibition Written in Water is part of the [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb: L’amour du Risque

L'amour du Risque 24th April 2012 – 17th June 2012 The project „L'amour du risque,“ an exhibition that will be held at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) on 24th April 2012, talks about basic concepts in contemporary visual culture: love and risk. This subject matter is very interesting, simply because without love or [...]

Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica: Yarn bombing

11.03.2012. – 01.04.2012. Textil{e}tronics – Yarn bombing in Velika Gorica In line with our announcement of several knit graffiti, guerilla knitting and yarn bombing events in the public spaces of Velika Gorica, as part of the Textil{e}tronics exhibition, we are proud to say that the first knit-crochet tagging took place in the afternoon of Mach [...]

Lauba House, Zagreb: We used to call it: Moon.

Lauba House presents Marko Tadić We used to call it: Moon 29 March 2012 – 23 April 2012 Curators: Marija Borovičkić, Vanja Žanko Text: Ana Dević / WHW Production: Steirischer Herbst Festival (Graz), Lauba (Zagreb) and WHW (Zagreb) 29 March 2012 at 20 pm Reception and artist talk, participating: artist Marko Tadić, curators Vanja Žanko, [...]

Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica: Textil{e}tronics

02.03.2012. – 01.04.2012. Textil{e}tronics Anda Klančić, Patrizia Dona, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Josipa Štefanec ‘Let’s now delve deep into the fluff’ Massimo Banzi, Getting Started with Arduino Following the development of a simple thread into complex new media objects, the exhibition will touch upon recent developments in the areas of wearable technology and electronic sculpting through [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Art Pavilion, Zagreb: Bela Čikoš Sessia – retrospective

19.01.2012 – 11.03.2012 Bela Čikos Sessia – retrospective in the Art Pavilion Art Pavilion in Zagreb opens new year with another exhibition from the retrospective's cycle of work of one of Croatia's biggest modern artists. Bela Čikoš Sessia's opus will be presented as a critical retrospective from the author and academic Tonko Maroević, a well-known [...]

SPACES – Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries

Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries (SPACES) SPACES is a project, financed by the European Commission, in which TEH takes part as an associate partner, represented by TEH Ambassador Annette Wolfsberger. The project assembles artists and cultural workers in four Eastern partner countries, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, who aim at reflecting societal issues [...]

Gallery Nova, Zagreb: Burn What You Cannot Steal

Burn What You Cannot Steal Brook Andrew, Alicia Frankovich, Deborah Kelly, Minouk Lim, Daniel Malone, Hiroharu Mori Curated by: Reuben Keehan 5 December 2011 – 28 January 2012 Burn What You Cannot Steal proposes the readymade as an unsurpassable horizon of the art of our time, but also as a sign functioning within a distinctly [...]

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 [...]