Slaven Tolj (born 1964) articulates his work in several fields of art, including performance, actions, ambient and site-specific installations and objects. He uses real space, and encountered and found objects, incorporating time into his work and using his own body. His art mainly deals with social themes, themes of identity, the past, human vulnerability, loneliness and death. He has exhibited in numerous individual and group exhibitions around the country and abroad. Besides his work in art, he is known to the public as an exhibition curator, co-founder of the Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and Institute of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatian selector of the Venice Biennale of Fine Arts in 2005 and former director of MMSU Rijeka.

Impressum
text: Helena Puhara
graphic design: Rafaela Dražić
thanks: Srdjana Cvijetić, Miranda Veljačić, Dinko Peračić
support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City Government Split
organization: MKC Split

Objava Slaven Tolj: Craquelure, Pavo and I pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

► SCHEDULE ► https://bit.ly/ASeaChange_

► Tuesday – Saturday 16. – 20.5.2023.
GALERIJA MKC / DOM MLADIH
Group exhibition: Marco Barotti, Stijn Demeulenaere, Fara Peluso, Francisca Rocha Gonçalves, Robertina Šebjanič
Opening: Tuesday 16/5, 8 pm | Opening hours: 17 – 20/05/2023, 17 – 21 h

► Friday 19.5.2023.
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH
▷ 9 pm pantea, u‑matic, telematique: Fragile Fragments
Audiovizualni performans / Audio-visual performance

► Saturday 20.5.2023.
MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR LIFE SCIENCES (MedILS)
▷ 3 pm – Toni Meštrović: Presentation of the field recording workshop

▷ 4 pm – Fara Peluso: Presentation of the MedILS residency The Function of the Invisible
RAZRED / DOM MLADIH

▷ 7pm – Marko Marković, Josipa Vujević: Mutual Aid Orchestra, the strategies of sound communication between species in extreme living environments / Presentation of the MedILS residency
BETON KINO / DOM MLADIH

▷ 9pm – Audio-visual performance: Robertina Šebjanič, Tanja Minarik – Line | +1233m –1233m

The exhibition Heard by the Deep focuses on the topic of the sea, its (human and non-human) communities and the related environmental urgencies – as devastating as they are imperceptible to our human senses.

Featured artists work both with concrete scientific marine data – its usage, production, and visualization – and new, speculative, imaginative scenarios, making our comprehension of the sea environment experiential and emphasizing human pollution of the marine ecosystem. While the experimental approach and multidisciplinary knowledge production underline the common topic of the programme, the majority of the projects presented here share a strong focus on noise pollution or sound in general. Apart from being the main media for communication in the marine biosphere, sound waves travel through seawater much faster and louder than through air. The effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life and the underwater world, therefore, come with even more dangerous and long-lasting consequences. In these artworks and research, the sound is more than a medium for communication and expression; in affirming new ways of coexistence that can redesign the hierarchies within the variety of sea inhabitants, the featured works bring a strong emphasis on sound in re-thinking the materiality of the sea as well as its semantics.

From the microscale of the algae to the macroscale of noise pollution cartography, the underwater world truly is a sonic one.

Heard by the Deep program was created and produced by KONTEJNER within the international project A Sea Change focused on interdisciplinary and intermedia arts, artistic and curatorial research dealing with a wide range of sea-related subjects such as marine ecosystems, the well-being of coastal populations, blue economy, and bioacoustics. The program is co-curated together with project partners MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (GR), NeMe (CY), and Quo Artis Foundation (ES), and realized with the support of local partners MedILS – Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences and Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split.

Objava KONTEJNER presents: Heard by the Deep pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

This year’s ten days for ten years festival presents an intense interdisciplinary, artistic, educational and entertaining program including organizations that create such programs in the Youth Center, all realized through a participatory form of free action and self-organization.

PROGRAM:

FRIDAY, 30.9.
– 17h Presentation of the Code of Good Practice for the Establishment and Functioning of Civil-Public Partnership: Cultural Policies from Below – Razred
– 18h Skate contest – Skate Park
– 18h Participatory screen-printing workshop – Print shop
– 19h Education about volunteering – Razred
– 20h House & Hiphop Dance Workshop – Plava Dvorana
– 20h Music in the park – Skate Park

SATURDAY, 1.10.
– 11h Hiphop workshop with Nastya – Mala scena
– 18h Zvjerinjak, music and social program – Front yard
– 18h Intergenerational Conversations: Cultural Politics from Below – Front yard
– 19h Participatory screen-printing workshop – Front Yard
– 19h Introductory lecture of the analog photography workshop – Razred
– 19h Je t’aime et je t’aime pas c’est la même chose, circus performance + artist talk – Mala scena

SUNDAY, 2.10.
– 17h Movement workshop – Beton kino
– 19h Lecture of the analog photography workshop – Razred
– 21h Screening of the film Pina – Front Yard

MONDAY, 3.10.
– 17h Presentation of the literary club Writers for Writers: Snow White retelling/Snow White and the seven writers – OpenBox
– 19h Analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h Ubijmo dosadu: screening of Croatian short films – Front Yard
– 21:30h Music in the court – Front Yard

TUESDAY, 4.10.
– 18h Ubijmo dosadu: carpentry workshop – Club Kocka
– 19h Analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h My grandmother doesn’t know the term biopower, show + artist talk – Amfiteatar
– 21:30h Music in the court – Front Yard

WEDNESDAY, 5.10.
– 19h Developing works from the analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h Presentation of Permaculture Association Dalmacija – Front Yard
– 20:15h Screening of the film In Transition 2.0: a story of resilience and hope in extraordinary times — Front Yard
– 21:30h Presentation of the Agile community resilience project – Front Yard
– 22h Music in the court – Front Yard

THURSDAY, 6.10.
– 18h Participatory screen-printing workshop – Print shop
– 19h Developing works from the analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 19h Impro Jam & New Gondoliers – Plateau
– 20h Cirkviz – Razred
– 20h U kvadrat, film screenings + discursive program – Kino klub Split
– 21:30h Music by KLFM – Razred

FRIDAY, 7.10.
– 19h Exhibition of works from the analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h qIZLOŽBE/Marko Gutić Mižimakov: Obzor događaja – MKC Gallery
– 20h Film screening Minding the Gap – Skate Park
– 21h RØLØ & From another mother, live – Club Kocka

SATURDAY, 8.10.
– 17h Lecture on the species that cause panic in our area – Kocka Gallery
– 18h Platformat@KLFM
– 19h Exhibition of works from the analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h qIZLOŽBE/Marko Gutić Mižimakov: Obzor događaja – MKC Gallery
– 20h Showcase Lgnj, Samsa Gregor i Bresho – Kocka Gallery
– 21h Porto morto, live – Amfiteatar
– 23h KLFM party – Club Kocka

SUNDAY, 9.10.
– 19h Circus is performative art everywhere except in Croatia, installation + circus performance – Mala scena
– 19h Exhibition of works from the analog photography workshop – Kino klub Split
– 20h qIZLOŽBE/Marko Gutić Mižimakov: Obzor događaja – MKC Gallery
– 20h ISPOD BINE meets PLATFORMAT: DB Indoš – Kuća ekstremnog muzičkog kazališta & Trobecove krušne peći: Kužni Ifrit – Club Kocka

The visuals of Platformat were designed by je Segor Garber.
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Platformat is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Split, the City of Zagreb, Pogon and Split Parking. The Youth Center platform is supported by the Kultura nova Foundation and the National Foundation for the Development of Civil Society.

Objava 10 YEARS FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CULTURE – PLATFORMAT! pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

The exhibition can be viewed until July 30 from 19 to 21h. The exhibited works were created with the support of the Tom of Finland Foundation.

Objava qIZLOŽBA: Pawel Zukowski - QUEER ANGER pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

Curators: Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, Stipan Tadić i Marija Stipišić Vuković

Exhibition venues: Museum of Fine Arts and MKC Gallery

Opening: 05 July 2022, 7 pm — MKC Gallery,  8 pm — Museum of Fine Arts

Artists:

Jonathan Adams, Selva Aparicio, Ahmet Aslan, Vinko Barić, Margaret Braun, Ambreen Butt, Ernesto Caivano, Alexis Callender, Caroline Carlsmith, Nathan Catlin, Katarina Chamberlin, Alejandro Contreras, William Cordova, JJ Cromer, Predrag Dimitrijević, Davor Dmitrović, Edvin Dragičević, Mario Ferretti, Sonja Gašperov, Baris Gokturk, Cate Holt, Katarina Ivanišin Kardum, Lin Jing, Jasper Johns, Nikica Jurković, Darina Karpov, Nils Karsten, Dan Kennedy, Alexander Kvares, Nebojša Lazić, Miki Lee, Fred Liang, Miron Milić, Anita Miloš, Simonetta Moro, LeRoy Neiman, Brian Novatny, Jennifer Nuss, Aga Ousseinov, Lav Paripović, Vedran Perkov, Eva Petrič, Ivana Pipal, Aleksandra Popović, Veljko Popović, Ivan Prerad, Eric Ramos Guererro, Andrea Resner, Kristina Restović, Dennis Scholl, Jessica Segall, Shahzia Sikander, Luis Silva, Kiki Smith, Damir Sobota, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Ivan Svaguša, Miran Šabić, Marko Tadić, Richard Tinkler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Vice Tomasović, Andy Van Dihn, Tomas Vu, Kara Walker, Laura Watt, Tommy White, Sun Xun, Yuan Zuo, Loren Živković Kuljiš

The exhibition DRAW – What Is Contemporary Drawing and What Can It All Be? presents a number of American and Croatian contemporary artists who are rethinking the medium of drawing in various ways. It is a project that was initiated by Tomas Vu, visual artist, professor and artistic director at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York, and conceived as a curatorial platform focused on affirming drawing as an independent art discipline, and to encourage creativity in this medium of artistic expression. The DRAW exhibition provides an insight into the latest developments on the contemporary art scene, those artists who recognise the quality and possibilities of creation in the drawing medium, whose work surprises with its inventiveness and creativity, whether in pure drawing or in combination with other art techniques. Bringing together, in an exhibition format, internationally recognised artists and local artists from the milieus hosting the exhibition, the project carries particular importance for the cultural rapprochement between different cultures, primarily because of the need to consider our local art production in the broad international context and evaluate our own artistic achievements on the global stage. Participation of the world-renowned artists in eight exhibitions held thus far (Beijing, China; Dali City, Yunnan Province, China; Boston, Mass, USA; Novi Sad, Serbia; Manila, Philippines; Winston-Salem, North Karolina, USA; Hangzhou, China) confirms the international reputation of this project, which has become a meeting place of ideas and current art production in the drawing medium on a global level.

The artists selected for the exhibition in Split demonstrate, with their works, a strong synergy between contemporary trends in visual communications and classic draughtsmanship, which spans a wide array of techniques and materials used. Their example confirms that there is an overlap and intertwining of different media and disciplines in this as in other art disciplines today, in the spirit of postmodernism, as well as a respect for a broad range of approaches, from classical drawing to objects in space, the ready-made, installation and ambient art, from manual execution to computer processing. It is precisely this rethinking and examining of the ludic component of drawing, stepping out of the two-dimensional surface towards the third dimension, creating spatial drawings and objects in various materials, inventive procedures and combinations, pushing the limits of drawing towards a different and broader definition of this contemporary medium, or better yet this timeless medium, that answer the question – what is drawing today and what can it all be, what are its potentials in the time of expansion and coexistence of all possible pluralisms of styles, directions and tendencies, numerous new media and technically extremely sophisticated means of artistic expression.

The exhibition remains on view until 25 August 2022.

MKC Gallery works from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm all days, except except Sundays and holidays.

Ahmet Aslan
Untitled, 2020

Davor Dmitrović
Još samo malo, još samo malo, uskoro smo tamo / Just a Little Longer, Just a Little Longer, We’re Almost There, 2022.

Ivana Pipal
Eksperiment misli (detalj) / Thought Experiment (detail), 2019. – 2021.

Jasper Johns
Untitled, 2012

Katarina Ivanišin Kardum
Rojenje: Roj III / Swarming: Swarm III, 2022.

Kiki Smith
Bez naziva (Plava drvena žena s podignutim rukama) / Untitled (Blue wooded woman with arms raised), 2019.

Shahzia Sikander
Embark/Disembark III / Ukrcaj/Iskrcaj II , 2004.

Simonetta Moro
Ticklish Zones: Digital Maps II / Škakljive zone: Digitalne mape II, 2022.

Kara Walker
Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War / Signalna stanica, Vrh Maryland Heightsa iz Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War, 2005.
offset litografija sa sitotiskom / offset lithograph with s

Objava DRAW – WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND WHAT CAN IT ALL BE? pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

The audio compositions of the subaquatic soundscape encourage us to reflect upon the anthropogenic sonic impact on the underwater habitat and marine life, as well as illuminate awareness and underscore the importance of maintaining safe sound environments for animals living in the world’s oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.

The sound compositions are a re-mix of the bioacoustics of marine life (shrimps, fish, sea urchins etc.), the aquatic acoustics and the presence of human generated noise in the world’s oceans and seas. Underwater noise effects a great number of marine life forms which depend on the sub-aquatic sonic environment to survive.

Over the last few years Robertina Šebjanič has made a number of recordings using hydrophones in different locations around the globe.

Lecture Invisible underwater pollution: Aquatocene and STARTS4Water Zero Pollution Adriatic
Robertina Šebjanič, Marjan Žitnik and Gjino Šutić (UR Institute-STARTS4Water)
Beton kino Friday, October, 29, 11 am

Robertina Šebjanič (SI) based in Ljubljana/ is working in the cros- field of art – technology – science. Her art — research focus has several years been in the cultural, (bio)political, chemical and biological realities of aquatic environments, which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle philosophical questions regarding the intersection of art, technology and science. Her ideas and concepts are often realized in collaboration with others, through interdisciplinary and informal integration in her work. She was awarded with an Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016, STARTS2020 and a STARTS2016 nomination. Robertina is part of the SHAPE platform 2017. In 2018 she was a resident artist at Ars Electronica in the framework of EMARE / EMAP.
She exhibited / performed at solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals: Ars electronica Linz, Kosmica festival_ Laboratorio Arte Alameda_Mexico City, La Gaîté Lyrique_ Paris, Le Cube_Paris, Art Laboratory Berlin, ZKM_Karlsruhe, re:publica_Berlin, Mladi Levi_Ljubljana, Centro de Cultura Digita_ Mexico City, Piksel_Bergen, OSMO/ZA_Ljubljana, Device art 5.015 at Klovićevi dvori_Zagreb & Eastern Bloc_Montreal, Eyebeam_New York, PORTIZMIR#3_Izmir, Kiblix festival_Maribor, Spektrum_Berlin, KIKK festival_ Namur and more.

Organizer: MKC Split
Lecture coorganisation: UR Institute, ARTScience MedILS
Curator: Jasna Gluić
Design: Rafaela Dražić
Technical support: Ivor Koren
Translation: Goranka Tomčić, Brian Willems (text)
Support: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, Split City Government

Objava Robertina Šebjanič: Aquatocene / The subaquatic quest for serenity exhibition pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

Flexibility and adaptability, human, society and nature have been central themes in my work. In nature, resilience is probably a matter of course, in the human mind and actions not so much. Man adapts, succumbs to almost any conditions, but is not flexible in his relationship with nature, easily destroys his environment, the planet. The state, society is guided by economic and political power, coercion and ignorance.

My works are from recent years, the oldest installation Masquerade of ghosts, is from 2013. The main point of this exhibition refers to bees, which I used to keep between 2017 and 2021. Bees are kept for pollination and honey. Many food plants that are important to humankind need insect pollination to produce a crop. Bees, like bumblebees, are farmed on an enormous scale in global food production. The bee has also been colonized as the only species of insect to the industrial food production of mankind.

The relationship between human and animals is evident around beekeeping. The human relationship with the animal is usually absurd. Either it is overflowing with companionship and humanizing, making the pet rise in value to friends and fellow human beings, above all as a place of worship. Or the relationship is disgusting in its industrial cruelty and brutality. Somewhere in the middle ground, caring for animals is for the benefit of all parties. A man always takes and uses more than gives back. In today’s world, it is possible for a person to live in a city without ever encountering nature. Until climate change and pandemics are reminiscent of the existence of nature. Against this context I have created poetic and understanding art.
Harri Larjosto

Biography
Harri Larjosto was born in 1952 in Turku and lives in Vantaa, Finland.
In 1976, he graduated Primary Teacher Educating at the University of Turku (specializing in Visual Arts and Biology). After ten years working as a teacher, he became an independent artist. From 2002 to 2008, he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki (Aalto University). Harri Larjosto’s first solo exhibition was in 1978. He has made photographs, videos and short films, installations, collages, paintings, conceptual art and performances, a variety of artistic activities related to image and testing the boundaries of art disciplines. He has made several photobooks, writings, aphorisms and poets.

In his art, Larjosto deals with environmental questions and thinking. He is both poetic and absurd, a black humorist. He strives to convey the energy of changing opportunities and perspectives, resilience. The second important theme in his art is a human — nature in man and man as part of nature, a man-made environmental problem. Larjosto combines traditional narration and experimental forms, surprising twists and turns.
Larjosto received the Finland Award 2006, the highest art prize given by state.

In 2017 Larjosto started with beekeeping (ecology and ethology) as a new hobby, and in 2018 photographing bees, which lead to the short movie Beekeeping and mixed photo collages-paintings with poems and aphorisms project Resilience. In 2021, Larjosto has to stop with bees, he got serious allergic reaction to bee venom.

Organizer: MKC Split
Support: Grad Split, Suomen kulttuurirahasto, Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse
Translation and proofreading: Goranka Tomčić

More at www.harrilarjosto.com and https://www.harrilarjosto.com/artist/

Objava Harri Larjosto: Prilagodljivost / Resilience pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

LITTLE PRANKS AND BIG PASSIONS
Predrag Pavić is a man of a thousand passions. Everything he does, thinks or feels, he approaches with immense ardour. He takes it to the extremes. If he loves something, he loves it without holding back. If he can’t stand something, he expresses it clearly. Brutally and honestly. There is no room for subtle nuances between these two attitudes. Rarely does he see something with indifference. Things that don’t matter to him can simply stop existing. As a matter of fact – for him, they are non-existent.
Discussions with Predrag are especially interesting. When defending his points, he won’t stop at reasoning. Wild gesticulation, raising his voice, out-talking and silencing his opponent(s) are all part of his hedonistic play. Just as in any other game, victory is the final goal. Predrag doesn’t even consider losing. He’ll always defend his opinions, even when it’s to his own detriment. Giving up would deny the very essence of the game. Stalemates never satisfied anyone.
In his work, passion and play become one. Even if his ideas are seemingly impossible to achieve, he won’t drop them as easily. Possible fiascos won’t keep him down. Some adjustments are only a part of the risk, but his will to create is much larger than this risk.
Just like any other game master, Predrag will use tricks, pranks and gimmicks in order to catch his opponent unprepared. He is the type of person who will take a piece from a museum and then plant it as his work in his solo exhibition. This cost him a lost friendship, but also earned him an award. In another instance, he (without asking or noticing anyone) drilled a hole in a gallery in order to connect the ground floor with the first floor, because that was the most practical solution for his exhibition. Facing this fait accompli, the gallery director couldn’t do anything but let him finish. Her opinion and the whole situation didn’t mean much to Predrag. At the opening, he happily stated: Victory!
Some passions and delights become adoration – an object of glorification – a fetish.
He has a great number of those.
Once, I witnessed Predrag’s celebration of a piece of bacon. This interpretation of perfection; this amount of adoration and love for a piece of meat was something I’d never seen before. In this idealization, bacon became a flying carpet, because its perfect harmony allows it to fly. It’s that perfect. It wasn’t hard to imagine him sitting on that carpet with his legs crossed and a big turban on his head, in the state of nirvana as the forces of cosmos – nature, man and bacon – become One.
Optical show is an interactive light installation that is showcasing an open accidental archive of socks (pantyhose). How is this transparent and almost invisible material so enticing? What makes it so appealing? The archive currently includes over fifty different samples and new additions will be included over time. For this purpose, Predrag created an object/projector in order to see the samples in larger scales. The image that we see is the structure of the materials and ornaments of pantyhose.
He invites his audience to participate in this research. We are free to choose the samples we want to examine more closely. I suspect that there is a little prank hidden in this interaction. The invitation to participate and our compliance will transform us into subjects of a behavioral experiment. Are we going to behave and act according to his predictions? Are we going to handle the samples with passion and pleasure too? What is similar or different between our approaches to these objects?
I am not sure what conclusion Predrag could draw from this experiment, I don’t even care. I will simply use this opportunity to explore some pantyhose-related thoughts that have been bothering me for a long time.
— Vedran Perkov

Predrag Pavić was born in 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated (2011) at the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb. He has exhibited in group and solo shows in Zagreb, Split, Pula, Osijek, Gothenburg, Catania, Sofia, Düsseldorf, Gdansk, and was awarded for his work: Grand Prix at the 10th Triennial of Croatian sculpture, Grand Prix Emanuel Vidović at the 38th Split salon, award for the best graduate of ALU in 2011, Croatian AICA association award at the 12th Sculpture Triennial and the Radoslav Putar Award in 2019. He is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artist Association. He lives and works in Zagreb.

NMG — New media gallery is an international curatorial platform focused on research projects related to the issues of active participation in a contemporary society which result with the curatorial concepts, inter-media events, international new media collaborations and creating new media projects. NMG@PRAKTIKA is a program within the platform. A cycle of exhibitions of independent young artists from Croatia and abroad are organised in Gallery Praktika at Youth Centre in Split. This is the ninth cycle through which has so far been realized more than fifty solo and group exhibitions of young artists. Through the new media and experimenting with different forms of artistic expression exhibitions discuss the current issues of contemporary society. This cycle of exhibitions so not only provides insight into the recent art practice, but also, by selecting the authors it actively participates in the positioning of contemporary art as a critical factor against social reality.

EXHIBIT CURATOR: Vedran Perkov
NMG CURATORIAL TEAM: Katarina Duplančić, Natasha Kadin, Vedran Perkov
DESIGN: Nikola Križanac
TRANSLATION, SETUP AND DOCUMENTATION: Katarina Duplančić
DONORS: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the City of Split
MAVENA SUPPORTED BY: The National Foundation for Civil Society Development, the Kultura Nova foundation
SPECIAL THANKS: KUM, MKC, PDM

Objava NMG@PRAKTIKA-Predrag Pavić: Optical show pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

The installation that makes up this exhibit depicts a fictional space which clearly alludes to the interior of a medical facility such as a hospital or laboratory. Under ultraviolet rays, this imaginative ambience appears as though dislodged from time in its ephemerality, indirectly calling attention to the unstable and unhealthy relationship between society and its spaces of healing, and consequently shedding light on the more general issue of trusting the healthcare system — an issue which has in recent times become markedly prominent, especially with the proliferation of various, often contradictory, reports of a “miracle vaccine”. Healthcare facilities and social service centers reflect, more broadly, the state of a given society’s level of organization with respect to social care, while also revealing general attitudes towards illness. When such spaces are left untended and in disrepair, as indeed they commonly are in Croatia, it is a clear indication that the aforementioned kind of “collective traumatic experience” is under way. Furthermore, when it comes to healthcare and health insurance, descriptors such as “social”, “universal”, “available for all” remain, in our case, as distant as our dreams of pristine, hygienic, white-walled doctor’s offices. The structure of the installation thus embodies a subtle allegory of actual social or sociological issues — ones that may be subsumed under the larger notion of a “cultural neurosis” in our modern way of life, marked as it is by an inevitable and direct dependence both on the psychophysical well-being of the individual and of the community at large. The question then becomes whether or not the collective trusts its own system, and whether the individual person in such circumstances really has a say in the matter?

Reflecting on his own work, Josip Šurlin surmises: “It was not merely with a view to criticizing existing institutions that Afterwardsness, as a vector of social commentary, was conceived. There was also, namely, an impetus to stimulate discourse around the social prerequisites for the preservation of health. Foremost among them are the previously mentioned spaces of healing, bearing in mind the following question: To what extent is the general relationship of society and day-to-day matters of healthcare an essentially unstable one, susceptible to fear(mongering) and dependent on state-held power that consistently jeopardizes its immune defense?”

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Josip Šurlin (born in Split, 1993) graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Split in 2012. That same year he proceeded to join the Arts Academy of the University of Split, with a focus on painting. He studied under professor Gorki Žuvela and in 2017 obtained his degree under the mentorship of professors Viktor Popović and Neli Ružić. Šurlin has participated in a number of group exhibitions, in addition to presenting his work independently in seven solo exhibits so far. At the Arts Academy’s First Student Biennial he received a written commendation for his work. In 2018, Šurlin joined the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HULU, Split). He continues to live and work in Split.

NMG — New media gallery is an international curatorial platform focused on research projects related to the issues of active participation in a contemporary society which result with the curatorial concepts, inter-media events, international new media collaborations and creating new media projects. NMG@PRAKTIKA is a program within the platform. A cycle of exhibitions of independent young artists from Croatia and abroad are organised in Gallery Praktika at Youth Centre in Split. This is the nineght cycle through which has so far been realized more than fifty solo and group exhibitions of young artists. Through the new media and experimenting with different forms of artistic expression exhibitions discuss the current issues of contemporary society. This cycle of exhibitions so not only provides insight into the recent art practice, but also, by selecting the authors it actively participates in the positioning of contemporary art as a critical factor against social reality.

EXHIBIT CURATOR: Natasha Kadin
NMG CURATORIAL TEAM: Katarina Duplančić, Natasha Kadin, Vedran Perkov
DESIGN: Nikola Križanac
TRANSLATION: Ivan Berecka
SETUP AND DOCUMENTATION: Josip Šurlin, Franko Sardelić; Katarina Duplančić
DONORS: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the City of Split
MAVENA SUPPORTED BY: The National Foundation for Civil Society Development, the Kultura Nova foundation
SPECIAL THANKS: KUM, MKC, PDM, Vedran Perkov, Anton Davidović

Club Kocka Gallery, Youth Center Split, Ulica Slobode 28
OPENING NIGHT: Friday, 9 April 2021, 8 p.m.
The exhibit is open until Friday, April 16th. Viewings can be arranged by contacting the following number: +385989602701.

Objava NMG@PRAKTIKA Josip Šurlin: Afterwardsness pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.

Cruising flora

Exhibition opening: Thursday, August 6, 8pm | klub Kocka

Location

Objava Kiernan Cobarrubia: CRUISING FLORA pojavila se prvi puta na Dom mladih Split.