For the fall and winter of 2024, Klovićevi dvori Gallery is preparing numerous interesting exhibitions! We open the fall season with an exhibition organized by the Museum of Arts and Crafts, One for All – All for One / Women’s Art Club 1927 – 1940, and an exhibition by the famous Šibenik master Oracio Fortezza. Some of Fortezza’s works are now stored in famous European museums: Victoria and Albert Museum and British Museum in London, Correr Museum in Venice, and Musei del Bargello in Florence – they are all going to be exhibited in our exhibition and for the first time in Croatia! Next, Mara Bratoš’s exhibition continues a series that presents photography works by Croatian authors. The goal of this series is to question the history, development, and relevance of the photography medium. We continue with the second exhibition in the cycle dedicated to the research of Zagreb studios: Žitnjak Studios. Following are the exhibitions that focus on the national art of Hungary and the Netherlands: The Golden Age of Hungarian Painting and the Roots of Croatian Modern Art (1867 – 1910) and The Golden Age of Dutch Painting through which the Klovićevi dvori Gallery continues their international cooperation with famous European museums, popularizing the art of our ‘neighbors’ and contextualizing Croatian culture and art in the European context. With these exhibitions, we conclude the exhibition program of 2024. Read more about the mentioned exhibitions in our short announcements:
× One for All – All for One / Women’s Art Club 1927 – 1940
September 5th – November 3rd, 2024
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery will host the Museum of Arts and Crafts’s exhibition One for All – All for One / Women’s Art Club 1927 – 1940 from September 5th to November 3rd, 2024.
‘One for all – All for one’ is an unwritten rule about the importance of cooperation that guided women artists involved in the activities of the Women’s Art Clubfounded in Zagreb in 1927. As the first and only female art association in Croatia in the first half of the 20th century, the Women’s Art Clubgathered members from the Kingdom of SCS/Yugoslavia, and occasionally from beyond. The founders of the club were the painters Nasta Rojc and Lina Crnčić-Virant, who fashioned it on the model of the International Women’s Art Club from London.
Through more than 250 works – mostly paintings, graphics, sculptures and works of applied art – borrowed from twenty art institutions from Croatia and Slovenia and private collections, the exhibition will present the creativity of the first generations of academically trained female artists, members of the Women’s Art Clubwho decided to enter the art market jointly.
Nasta Rojc, Self-portrait in a white shirt, around 1925, Zagreb City Museum
×The mystery of master Fortezza / European heritage of the Šibenik engraver
September 10th – November 10th 2024
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery in Zagreb, in cooperation with the Museum of the City of Šibenik, is preparing an exhibition of the Renaissance master, engraver, and goldsmith Oracio Fortezza (Šibenik, around 1530 to 1596), whose works make a significant contribution to the Croatian Renaissance heritage. For two months (September 10th – November 10th, 2024), Klovićevi dvori Gallery will exhibit Fortezza’s works: trays, jugs, vessels and matriculas. Through the presentation of noteworthy objects of artistic craft, the earliest from around 1555, to the later and less representative silver appliqués on books, we will point out the interesting relationships between the local artistic patterns and the wider European cultural circle.
The exhibition will present Fortezza’s oeuvre in full – it is an opportunity to make this Renaissance artist more visible to the public eye, as his achievements are at an exceptionally high level of quality in the field of goldsmithing and engraving.
Oracio Fortezza, Washbasin, Museo Correr, Venice
× Mara Bratoš
October 10th – November 17th, 2024
The exhibition of photographs by Mara Bratoš in the Klovićevi dvori Gallery is a sort of retrospective of the 30th anniversary of her work. Having exposed her intimate preoccupation with the body and the corporeal in different periods of her life and through different approaches to the medium, the author expands her interest to the phenomena of the passage of time and its traces in space. These traces she feels and experiences through anxiety, inspiration, or traumatic memory, which is the basis of her photographic creations.
Mara Bratoš’s exhibition is a continuation of a series of exhibition presentations of photographic works by Croatian authors, which examines the history, development, and relevance of the medium of photography from its beginnings to the present day.
CNT, Dyad 1929, photo: Mara Bratoš
× The Golden Age of Hungarian Painting and the Roots of Croatian Modern Art (1867 – 1910)
October 22nd, 2024 – January 19th, 2025
The Klovićevi dvori Gallery, in cooperation with the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, is preparing an exhibition about the golden age of Hungarian painting in the second half of the 19th century.
The exhibition will focus on a representative selection of around 80 works of Hungarian painting of the 19th century from the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery and will provide a broad stylistic and thematic cross-section of the period with the main genres, stylistic trends and the most important artists such as Mihály Munkácsy, Pál Szinyei Merse, and Gyula Benczúr. Hungarian artists will be joined by Croatian artists of the second half of the 19th century, for example, Bela Čikoš Sesia, Vlaho Bukovac, Mato Celestin Medović, and Emanuel Vidović, who all laid the foundations for the development of modernism in Croatia, and whose works will be juxtaposed with Hungarian ones.
The selected artists in the Hungarian and Croatian selection bear witness to how local expressions came to life under European influences, creating the diversity so characteristic of the art of Central Europe.
Pál Szinyei Merse, Bathing House / The Bathing Hut, 1872, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
× Žitnjak Studios
December 5th, 2024 – January 19th, 2025
The exhibition Žitnjak Studios will be held on the first floor of the Gallery from December 5th, 2024, to January 19th, 2025. It is the second one in the cycle of exhibitions that shows the places of creation: important Zagreb studios where our best artists have been creating art for decades.
The art organization ‘Žitnjak Studios’ was founded in 2004, and the ‘AŽ Gallery’ in 2005 as a multi-purpose exhibition space where hundreds of exhibitions, performances, lectures, discussions, and other cultural events were held.
With the exhibition in Klovićevi dvori Gallery, we will highlight the role of the artists responsible for the beginnings of the establishment of the ‘AŽ Gallery’ and the efforts of those “first” who turned the roh-bau space into a place of creation of top-quality works in the field of sculpture, painting, and graphics. Also, we will show the value of working in a collective, the synergy of the members of the association, and the joint reflection of the exhibition space.
Zoran Pavelić, CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY, intervention on the front of the building, 2008, photo: Boris Cvjetanović
× The Golden Age of Dutch Painting
December 12th, 2024 – March 9th, 2025
The exhibition The Golden Age of Dutch Painting will be the first in the Gallery’s new exhibition cycle under the working title: Golden Periods of European Art – Examples from Croatian Collections. After the presentation of Dutch paintings in this exhibition, there will be a presentation of Flemish, Spanish, French, and Italian art which can be found in the collections of Croatian Museums and institutions as well as private collections, all in the purpose of educating the Croatian public about the lesser-known facts about artworks united by common regional and stylistic characteristics. The exhibition is an opportunity to learn about not only the newest discoveries about Dutch painting of the 17th century, but also about current themes of researching collecting and proveniation of specific artworks that can be found in our local environment.
The exhibition will include around a hundred paintings on canvas and wood, alongside which we also plan to exhibit other kinds of fine art such as graphics and objects of artistic craftmanship (glass, metal, porcelain), and mock-ups/models of clothing. A segment of preparatory work for the exhibition will be carried out within the framework of the project Research on the Provenance of works of Art in Zagreb Collections (ZagArtColl_ProResearch) funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The author of the exhibition is PhD Ivan Ferenčak from Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters CASA.
Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Portrait of a lady, 1st half of the 17th century, Mimara Museum, Zagreb
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