International Museum Day at Klovićevi dvori Gallery – Free admission to our exhibitions

Dear visitors,

on Sunday, May 18th 2025, we are celebrating International Museum Day! On that occasion we will offer FREE ADMISSION to our current exhibitions:

Kviz Collection – Little treasury of Croatian Painting

The collection of dr. Boris and Jelva Kviz is one of the most respected (but unknown to the public) collections of modern Croatian painting. It contains 68 works, mostly outstanding creations from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, among which the “Self-portrait” by Josip Račić from 1906/7, which is also an individually protected cultural asset, stands out – as well as the “Five Senses” by Vlaho Bukovac from 1898, also under the protection of the Republic of Croatia. The collection contains several works by authors of Croatian modernism, ranging from Vlaho Bukovac, Bela Csikos Sesia, Ferdo Kovačević, Menci Clement Crnčić, Emanuel Vidović, Miroslav Kraljević and the Munich Four, Milivoj Uzelac and the Prague Four, to Ljubo Babić, Jerolim Miše, Miljenko Stančić and others.

Paintings from the Kviz Collection are regularly loaned for retrospective and other exhibitions. The owners of the collection, a distinguished university professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Boris Kviz and his wife Jelva, began collecting artworks in the early 1970s, and all the works and their provenance are immaculately documented and bibliographically referenced. The entire collection was generously donated to the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, and the International Museum Day is a great opportunity to get acquainted with out new valuable donation.

VUCO: State of Things, monographic exhibition

The early career of Miro Vuco was marked by his participation in the work of the Biafra group, which operated from 1970 to 1978. This period determined his artistic reflections and aspirations towards activism and socially engaged art. Opposition to social indifference in the visual sense was manifested in his work through the fight against Croatian abstraction, and especially against self-sufficient conceptual art. Critics have described the sculptures from this period as a form of so-called “radical realism” in an existential key. Instead of using permanent materials such as bronze, Vuco preferred non-standard and often ephemeral materials such as polyester. These materials are key to understanding the character of this exhibition. In addition to sculpture, Miro Vuco also paints, and at this exhibition, his paintings will be presented for the first time. Vuco’s art is characterized by diversity and playfulness: morphological and thematic curiosity as well as an interest in experimental solutions. This exhibition rounds off Miro Vuco’s decades-long artistic practice, which began during a period of social uncertainty in the 1970s and continues to this day, marked by different, but equally challenging circumstances.