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The project Urban Landscape: Dubrovnik by artist Dorinda Bulić-Čotić is a long-term visual investigation of urban space, initiated in 2016 through the documentation of ATMs installed in the historic center of Dubrovnik, particularly along Stradun, the city’s main street and symbolic social artery. These inserted elements, implemented without sensitivity to their context, disrupt the architectural continuity and aesthetic coherence of the space, while simultaneously reflecting broader processes of touristification and commercialization.
Read more...The artwork MA Moments is shaped like a stone sarcophagus, made from an 80-year-old olive oil container. On this stone sculpture, Simon Beer had two inscriptions engraved by hand: the Latin text ET IN ARCADIA EGO (Even in Arcadia, I am present) facing the entrance and the Italian text SELVA OSCURA (dark forest) on the opposite side.
Read more...On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the artist Željko Jerman (Zagreb, 10 March 1949 – Korčula, 17 July 2006), and 20 years of activity of the Grey Area, that launched its gallery program on 24 July 2007, an exhibition project is being realized that simultaneously marks two significant continuities – Jerman’s artistic legacy and two decades of work by a platform dedicated to contemporary art. The project is also part of a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art presenting works from the museum’s collection.
Read more...The programme presents a selection of video works, installations, and documentation from the long-standing collaboration between Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl, who worked together from 1990 to 2012 under the name Media in Motion. As artists and curators, they connected international authors and presented contemporary media art at numerous exhibitions and festivals in Germany, Croatia, and beyond.
Read more...Glitch Film: Mapping the Black Box is a programme dedicated to experimental film and video works that explore error as both an aesthetic and political space within contemporary visual culture.
Read more...Cinematography has a significant role because of the strength and broadness of the inclusiveness of the larger scope of the citizenry into the contemporary arts and culture. The project comprises research of the history of cinemas of the Adriatic islands throughout the 20th Ct. and mapping of all locations on which cinemas functioned permanently or temporarily, as well as insight into the programs of those cinemas. Furthermore, the research includes mapping all films that are connected to the Adriatic islands.
Read more...If we do not count in the traditional production of olive oil and vine, we can list approximately ten industrial plants engaged in the wide spectrum of production: shipbuilding, mounting ship parts, fish and related packaging industry, textile industry, chemical, and electronic industry, etc. Vela Luka is an industrial leader of the island where more than half of the island’s industrial plants find their place. Also, the urban development of Vela Luka in the second half of the 20th Century was mostly marked exactly by the town industry.
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