9th Croatian graphics triennial

May 7 – June 16, 2024.

The exhibition was organized with the support of the City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the Tourist Board of the City of Zagreb.

Exhibition curators: Ana Petković Basletić, senior curator; Ružica Pepelko, museum advisor, Cabinet of Graphics HAZU; Katarina Srdarev Škorić, senior curator, Gallery Klovićevi dvori

The HAZU graphics office in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery is organizing the 9th Croatian Print Triennale, an event that presents Croatian graphic art production and reflections of contemporary practice. The national exhibition platform, as a training ground for the confrontation of creative approaches, will also in 2024 in the central part of the exhibition gather recognized artists and younger authors who were largely formed and matured within our graphic centers – Rijeka, Osijek, Split and Zagreb. Showing a wide generational range, technical diversity and high quality, the exhibition of works created in the period from 2020 to 2024 represents current aspirations within the domestic graphic art discipline with diverse types of authentic artistic expressions, reflections within the medium and stretching of graphic parameters. The exhibition structure puts into dialogue the stakeholders of the recent graphic art scene and artistic reflections on the contemporary graphic practices of invited, affirmed and jury-selected authors. By presenting the heterogeneity of today’s graphic production ranging from metric expression, through the extensibility of the graphic medium through the digital matrix and modernization through experimentation within the discipline, all the way to conceptual graphic thinking and actions, an insight into the contemporary tendencies of the graphic moment is provided.

A special part of the event is the solo exhibition of graphic artist Ines Krasić, winner of the HAZU Award at the 8th Croatian Triennial of Graphics. Although formed on the graphic orientation and work in primary material with a matrix, deviations from the methodology of traditional processing of matrices with contemporary considerations and the application of alternative possibilities of the graphic process find a basis in the very concept of Ines Krasić’s graphic work. The material realization of the installation works “Nevermore”, resulting from the “Leisure” project, is a reflection of the actualization of the meaning of the terms and synonyms of leisure and idleness, which the artist views as a state beyond work, but also as a state of challenges and decisions faced by today’s society.