Category: Exhibition
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Battle
Since the beginning of the eighties, the elite of the super-rich have been dreaming of colonizing outer space as a classist solution for surviving Earth’s ecological destruction. Visionary projects such as Biosphere 2 — a geodesic construction influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s architectural structures, containing seven artificial replicas of the world’s main biomes — were built…
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NO LONGER NOT YET
Corporeal Time, Cosmic Breath In her multi-channel video-audio installation Breathing Together (Measuring the Cosmos), Neli Ružić creates an immersive space that intertwines the individual and collective experience of breathing. Essentially, the work features breath marks on a glass surface that gradually fade away – a poignant reminder of the transience and ephemerality of human presence.…
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The Emperor’s Dreamhouse
OBJECTS AND THINGS To Lana It is believed that Jacob Spon, a physician, archaeologist, travel writer, and one of the first researchers of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, introduced the term “archaeology” in its modern sense. Archaeology as a discipline seeks to reconstruct and interpret the lives and cultures of ancient civilizations through systematic excavations or…
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BREACH OF DECOR
When examining the visual representation of the city of Split and the modern promotional and propaganda materials associated with it, it becomes apparent that everything is oriented towards presenting the city as a male-centric environment. For example, the rivalry between the Roman Emperor Diocletian and the Salona martyr Domnius is prominently featured throughout the city,…
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FADENSONNEN
Shadows of the Sun While most cultural institutions in the post-pandemic period have sought to re-establish their usual operational dynamics, the Kula Gallery – a decades-long family project now under the inspired leadership of Duje Mrduljaš – has systematically expanded its activities by organising exhibitions featuring international art stars. Thanks to its historical aura and…
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PLAYING A ROLE
Utilizing the techniques of bricolage, improvisation and repurposing, his works deal with the notion of artistic ecologies, utopia and speculative histories. By intervening on found objects such as old postcards and documentary photographs, mostly found on flea markets or rescued from garbage, Marko Tadić’s works give form to open fictional narratives focused on various interpretations. He often uses…
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‘luminous light’
The exhibition of the Swiss artist based in New York, Ugo Rondinone, is conceived as a continuation of a series of international art presentations at the “Kula” Gallery. This is an artist who employs various media of artistic expression: sculpture, painting, video, photography, and others. Rondinone’s work cannot be described as entirely hermetic because he…
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Waves
“A significant portion of Latifa Echakhch’s artistic production consists of site-specific works. These works typically challenge established social frameworks and prevailing opinions and norms articulated within them, all through captivating visual transformations and the frequently present concept of material destruction. The process of inversion and “encounters at the edge” seem to be integral components of…
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Paintings 2023
When a painter, through the selection of his paintings, wishes to clearly define his reflection on the current state of civilisation, few exhibition spaces in the world can provide a better context than the Kula Gallery. The reason is simple. The walls of the Gallery, ever since the downfall of the Roman Empire in which…
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Anto Jerković / Jelena Perić
Beyond Temporality (with the exhibition conversation of Jelena Perić and Anto Jerković) As early as the mid-1980s, Jelena Perić and Anto Jerković embarked on a joint exhibition practice having, in the process, executed collaborative temporary works. It is therefore the intention of this event in Split to present – of course, in a completely different…