Davor Konjikušić: Highway

The motorway as an uninterrupted line, link, communication, symbol or one of the forms of continuity, is presented in this exhibition through a multimedia artistic range of heterogeneous political, historical, but also some completely personal positionings. However, it is not just any motorway, nor was it chosen as a motif primarily for visual reasons. Davor Konjikušić focuses his research in terms of meaning, experience and identity. Systematic research of the A3 motorway, ... Read More

Laura Barić: P is insecure R

The work "P is an uncertain R", as the name suggests, represents a specific view of symbols within everyday life. Starting with the language itself and deconstructing its purpose into visual symbols and specifics within their representation, whether it is letters, plastic or the body, the work deals with the recontextualization of overlooked concepts and things whose purpose we no longer question and which we approach ... Read More

Janko Ivčić:!!

To achieve communication necessarily means to use a certain sign system, such as pictorial or linguistic, and each sign used is a dualistic concept consisting of two interdependent parts. The Swiss linguist Saussure calls a physical object or concept a "signifier" that does not necessarily have to be in a close associative relationship with a certain "signified", i.e. mental concept, because every concept and association to which ... Read More

Strategies for Freedom-Presentation of Graphic Folders

Every artist has their own strategies for how to reach art. Strategies for finding an idea, strategies for the economy of the concept, strategies for the reasonableness of performance. Every work requires additional strategies; strategies for self-preservation, strategies against the loss of integrity, strategies for freedom. It is necessary to devise numerous strategies in order to fight for that small space of freedom in our own thoughts. So many strategies for, sometimes, only one ... Read More

Exhibition of OZAFIN students, Department of Animated Film

It is my great pleasure and pride to write a few words about the exhibition of student works of the Department of Animated Film and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, which is held in the inspiring space of the Šira Gallery. Our department is the youngest addition to the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, which celebrates its 110th anniversary this year. And while the Academy has reached the longest-lived ... Read More

In the world of art – communication and exchange of ideas / Cash&Carry open day of art

The exhibition presents an overview of the twelfth edition of the Open Day of Art – Cash & Carry, through the publication of the same name and a selection of works by graduate students at the Department of Teacher Education of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Along the gallery space, in an uninterrupted series, through the C&C ribbon, we follow the cross-section of events and program activities at C&C, held in 2016 – from the permanent, unavoidable aspects of the event such as ... Read More

Jasmina Jakopanec: Stories About Us

With this project, I want to show the truth What is the most important outcome of art education? What is the difference between an artist and a non-artist? Thinking about the definition of an artist and the smallest possible qualitative difference between an artist and a non-artist, I came to the conclusion that there is or is no art. It cannot be quantitatively measured or set its exact parameters. It is impossible to make a textbook that would prescribe what ... Read More

Neža Knez and Tomo Stanič: DISkomunikacija

Communication, communication, negotiation, exchange or transmission of thoughts – something is lost during these operations, something has remained hidden in the transmission of thoughts. Unnoticed part marked with DIS – it is a kind of impossibility, interruption or misunderstanding within communication. Communication is perhaps a more accurate term: it does not mean anything other than an agreement/agreement within communication, where the parties involved adapt to some extent and reshape their thoughts into a common ... Read More

Jelena Lovrec: "Who's Cutting Your Hair

From the Inner to the External: Reflections of a Life as a Reflection of a Work Jelena Lovrec's latest exhibition project has once again placed her personal experience in its focus, which, interwoven with the private, once again speaks about the issues of artistic expression, the transformability of the media, but also the complexity of the connection between life and art. On the other hand, the project also included some strong features of her work and character, where ... Read More

Domagoj Hmura: Continue the story with a drawing

The workshop "Continue the story with a drawing" is a concept with only one rule – the one from the title. After the first line has already been drawn, every visitor who wants to participate should draw a line on the drawing and thus continue the creative process that his predecessors have created until then. The drawing is completed when there is no more space on the canvas, that is, when the last line is drawn. We can't, ... Read More