LITTLE WARSAW 2002-2004

Presentation and exhibition of the work of András Gálik and Bálint Havas, internationally relevant Hungarian artist duo active under the name Little Warsaw...(more)

Danko Friščić
PAIN-THING

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
15.10 - 12.11.2004.

Solo exhibition of Danko Friščić (1970), academy-trained painter and artist from Zagreb...(more)

Solo exhibition of Zlatko Kozina
Yellow, Orange, Red...Go!

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
04. 06 - 25.06. 2004.

Solo exhibition of Brod painter Zlatko Kozina...(more)

UN/ORGANIC: Art and Biotechnology
Heath Bunting: Natural Reality Superweed

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
30th April 2004 at 7pm

Presentation by British artist Heath Bunting in Galerija Balen to celebrate Earth Day 2004(...more)

Ivan Bura
Mediterranean Pictures

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
20 February - 16 March 2004

Nature in general, and the artist's immediate natural environment especially, which means sea and islands, is regularly the moving force of Bura's work...(more)

Unframed Landscapes

Balázs Beöthy, Ivan Bura, Péter Császar, János Fodor, Andrea Huszár, Tibor Iski Kocsis, Csaba Nemes, Ana Opalic, Matko Vekic

Gallery of Extended Media, Zagreb 10 - 30 June 2004
Ecology Pavilion Mile End Park, London 20 May - 6 June 2004
Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros 16 January - 13 February 2004

The group exhibition Unframed Landscapes offers a reassessment of landscape as a genre in contemporary art. The conventional understanding of landscape implies a picturesque view of the countryside - images of ruined castles, a lonely tree in the puszta and romantic seaside villages come to mind. This understanding of landscape has, however, been revealed as culturally-constructed, the product of political ideologies, and conveying human domination over nature. Furthermore, landscape is perceived through a frame by a distant spectator, who remains alienated from the object of his gaze. Nature as a theme in contemporary art acts as a barometer of our ecological attunement...(more)

Hajnal Németh
Bar 24

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
12 December - 31 December 2003

Hungarian artist Hajnal Németh on this occasion exhibits in Croatia for the first time, presenting recent video works and distinctive digital prints. In her work not only are we confronted with the DJ's method of sampling images from everyday life and remixing them in new constallations, there are also direct references to club culture...(more)

Sociability: Marijan Crtalić, Danko Friščić, Denis Krašković, Frane Rogić and Igor Zlobec

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
26 September - 12 October 2003

Marijan Crtalić, Danko Friščić, Denis Krašković, Frane Rogić and Igor Zlobec belong to a wider circle of artists which began to hang out at the Academy in and often organise common projects and group exhibitions in various combinations...(more)

Architecture in Visual Arts

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
15 November - 12 December 2002

Galerija Balen has brought together sixteen artists that deal with the theme of arhitecture in their work. They belong to different generations and come from different places, their architectural experiences and artistic personalities are equally diverse. Altogether they offer a fascinating and deep view of architecture in visual arts…(more)

Human/Nature

Trafo Gallery, Budapest
16 May - 11 June 2002

The intriguing idea of Human/Nature is open to a number of interpretations. It includes the notion of a dichotomy between civilisation and the natural world and holds out the possibility of overcoming it...(more)

János Sugár Attention Recycling

Galerija Balen, Slavonski Brod
16 April - 3 May 2002

In the present era of consumerist hegemony the need 'to be superficial' has become a necessity for survival. People are surrounded by processed information and are losing their ability to interpret. János Sugár believes that art can provide the opportunity to go beyond the triviality of everyday living by raising problems and making solutions less transparent...(more)

Zagreb Artists: Denis Kraškovic, Danko Frišcic and Frane Rogic

KMKK (Two Artists, Two Curators)
4 January 2002

Denis Kraškovic, Danko Frišcic and Frane Rogic belong to a circle of artists who got together at the Academy in Zagreb, often do joint projects and exhibit together in various combinations, while building their independent careers...(more)

BORDERS 2001

Slavonski Brod
17 September - 20 October 2001

Borders 2001 is an international art project organised for the second year running in Slavonski Brod. The curator was Darko Šimicic from the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb...(more)