Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Jezuitski trg 4
Closed for the summer until September 3, 2026.
Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Jezuitski trg 4
Closed for the summer until September 3, 2026.
13. July 2026.
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery is preparing many exhibitions for the autumn of 2026, which we believe will be very interesting for art lovers and those who are yet to become ones.
In early September, the Klovićevi dvori Gallery’s Collection of Donated Art is being presented. This collection is the result of donations from artists or their heirs who, following exhibitions at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, generously gifted their works of art to our institution. Over time, an impressive body of work has been assembled, now numbering over a hundred diverse pieces – including paintings, sculptures, photographs and print portfolios – spanning a wide range of techniques and media.
While the collection includes works by both domestic and international artists, it consists predominantly of pieces created in the last century by artists such as Slavko Šohaj, Ferdinand Kulmer, Maksimilijan Vanka, Vanja Radauš, Ivan Meštrović, Ivan Picelj, Petar Barišić, Kažimir Hraste, Željko Senečić, and others. This exhibition marks the first public presentation of the Collection, which has been growing alongside the Gallery for over forty years. By exploring the life of artworks within a museum or gallery collection, the exhibition seeks to highlight the artists whose work has shaped our recent past. This collection of donated artworks serves as a chronology of the Gallery’s exhibition history, as well as a powerful asset and foundation for the future.
As part of the Modern Classics series, the Klovićevi dvori Gallery continues to present retrospectives of prominent Croatian artists. Following exhibitions dedicated to nives Kavurić Kurtović, Mersad Berber, Nevenka Arbanas, Vasko Lipovac, Josip Botteri Dini, Miro Vuco and others, we decided to organize a retrospective exhibition of the distinguished Croatian printmaker Nada Žiljak. Born in 1944 in Zagreb into the artistic Kinert family, she cultivated a distinctive painterly imagination and morphology from an early age, alongside her father, Albert Kinert – a painter and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. She graduated from the Department of Graphic Arts in 1967 and specialized in illustration in 1970, remaining active on the art scene for nearly six decades. Nada Žiljak’s creative journey is marked by works of exceptional artistic merit. Her career is defined by curiosity and diversity regarding artistic style, medium and subject matter. Ranging from illustration, printmaking and oil painting to “Infrared Art”, her work represents a synthesis of varied artistic approaches and technical versatility. Her art is also rich in content, spanning biblical motifs, animals, nature and landscapes, with the human figure and its inner world serving as central preoccupations. She has held numerous solo exhibitions both at home and abroad – including Budapest, Cairo, graz, Kyiv, Pecs, Bratislava, Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Asbach, Bihać, Sarajevo and Pittsburgh. her work has been documented in monographs authored by Đuro Vanđura, Branka Hlevnjak and Dora Kinert Bučan.
She continues to paint every day, constructing her images through an interpretation of the beauty of everyday life. Her decades-long career and the success of her painting – gentle and deeply personal – mark her as a significant figure in the Croatian art world. With this retrospective, we will present her work in its entirety to the Croatian public for the first time.
In November, the Klovićevi dvori Gallery is opening the final and long-awaited exhibition dedicated to Vlaho Bukovac’s Prague period. The first two exhibitions in the “Vlaho Bukovac in Europe” cycle – organized around the three main phases of the artist’s life and work (Paris, Zagreb and Prague) – had already established a research direction and exhibition style that diverged somewhat from traditional retrospective surveys. Specifically, the presentation of Bukovac’s body of work highlighted the importance of the context in which his creativity unfolded: the socio-political conditions that often shaped art, and the mutual influences shared among visual artists, writers, poets and other prominent figures of the era’s public and socio-political life.
In collaboration withCzech art historian Dr. Vjera Borozan – who focused on Bukovac’s work and influence in Prague in her doctoral dissertation – his twenty-year Prague period will be examined from the perspective of Czech art history. Efforts will be made to rectify, in some way, Bukovac’s absence from the current art-historical narrative regarding Prague at the turn of the century. This was his most intellectually intriguing phase, giving rise to paintings that stood entirely apart from his previous body of work, such as Fantasy and the Cabinet of Future Glory (the fate of which remains unknown today). Naturally, numerous works from Bukovac’s Prague period will be exhibited, a significant number of which are completely unknown to the public.
The year concludes with yet another major art sensation: the first retrospective exhibition of the young, yet internationally acclaimed artist and sculptor Nikola Vudrag.
Born in 1989 in Varaždin, the artist has created numerous public sculptures, busts and portraits, as well as models for Croatian circulation and commemorative coins. Since 2005, he has exhibited his work in around sixty group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, garnering international attention with his piece “Iron Maiden”, which was sold for a staggering 712.000 euros at a charity auction in Warsaw in 2023 – setting a record price for a Croatian artwork.
In recent years, his work has garnered international acclaim through exhibitions in Paris, New York, Warsaw and Dubai, as well as the Malta Art Biennale and the 2024 Venice Biennale. Nikola Vudrag is a versatile artist who is equally compelling whether working in small or large formats – be it in felief, miniature or monumental sculpture – he will be showcased in an exhibition at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery that offers a unique insight into his body of work to date while presenting his latest creations. With its innovative approach to production, the exhibition is sure to hold particular appeal for the younger generation.
We believe that this rich and diverse program will attract numerous visitors to the Gallery, a venue that offers far more than just exhibition – featuring lectures, panel discussions, children’s art workshops and a magnificent setting in Zagreb’s Upper Town.
