Željka Mumelaš: Among the Stars

Surrender to the Light or About Human Stripping Željka Mumelaš's first solo exhibition, in addition to the difficulty of being the first, is burdened with meaning and multiple symbolism on other levels as well. It is an exit that represents the conceptual and thematic peak of an author's writing, and whose forces have logically matured and continued to branch out in the last few years of her artistic activity. The initial center from which ... Read More

Ivan Prerad: Portolan Studies

From the flickering memories of the experiences of past times, Ivan Prerad translates the fascination with cartography onto flickering surfaces with abstracted forms. From the focus on topographic maps and painting inspired by melancholic memories that ran through previous artistic achievements, the author brings a new series of works, this time inspired by a different type of maps from which he extracts minimal shapes by arranging them into independent compositions. Old portolan maps that are ... Read More

Ana Jagić: Constants

The intermedia installation "Constants" is a work of art that tries to discover how a person changes, how he remains the same, and how to prove that a certain person is always the same person, no matter how much he has changed throughout his life. The search for constants begins with my classic diaries in which everyday events and thoughts are recorded. I have been keeping a classic diary from 15.6.2001 until today and ... Read More

Ivana Tkalčić: Unread Books

The aura that emanates from works of art is often called sacred. These works often seem untouchable and unattainable, while their creation remains mysterious. That is why a large number of contemporary artists try to break down this wall between the artist and the observer. Ivana Tkalčić explores this relationship with her artistic work, using words that will be read by the viewer. In this way, she establishes close contact with the audience, ... Read More

Ružica Dobranić: Why don't you dance?

The exhibition of Ružica Dobranić was created after a short break, as a kind of continuation of her graduation work. At the end of her education, the artist made an "Inventory" (as she called her graduation thesis) of her own cognitions of fears, questions, impressions, creating an associative and rich environment, an entrance to the processes of symbolization, referential fields, clusters of external impressions. Now, a few years later, she uses the same principle, exposes her own subconscious, puts hints, impressions, associations in front of the observer, speaks ... Read More

Tea Ivković: Work on work

Research on the direction in which the process of work leads and what it is predetermined by through historical reflections is what this work deals with. Work about work is also research; work is a profession and escaping from it is not possible due to the constant occupation with the next step, due to the constant construction and deconstruction of new ideas, their contexts and forms. Because of all of the above, pleasure is a work constant, an occupation ... Read More

Results of the competition for the program of exhibition activities of the Šira Gallery for 2017

Nikola Zelmanović: Here and Now

"Here and Now" is a journey in which a re-evaluation is sought, a journey into the unknown depths of our thoughts. The project consists of photographs that evoke a sense of change. Different photographic techniques blur the boundaries of the known. Playfulness in the properties of technique and semiotic meaning subtly gives us the opportunity for a dual interpretation. This playfulness opens up communication between internal emotional rhetoric and visual rhetoric, which opens the way ... Read More

Vanja Babić: Bread from yesterday

"We approach the shelf as a screen that outgrows us in volume. In front of the wall of goods where we feel the accumulated abundance, the three-dimensional perspective ceases to work, and the importance of point viewing increases." Roch Sulima – Anthropology of Everyday Life Last year, a law was introduced in Croatia that exempts donated food from VAT, which aimed to reduce the amount of wasted food and encourage the donation of surplus food. Excess healthy food ... Read More

Lav Paripović: Menagerie from the Suburbs

In April this year, National Geographic published an article entitled "How wild animals hack life in the city", which discusses the increasing appearance of wild animals in urban spaces, but also the increased ability of these same animals to adapt to urban conditions. It is no longer unusual, says the author of the text, to see coyotes feeding on chicken remains in a cemetery in Chicago, or ... Read More