Muzeum of contemporary art Istria, Pula

21. 07 – 15.08. 2017.

Curated by: Mladen Lučić, Ketrin Milićević Mijošek

Zlatko Kopljar na umjetničkoj je sceni intenzivno prisutan od početka 90-ih godina, te je danas jedan od najznačajnijih hrvatskih suvremenih vizualnih umjetnika koji je svojim radovima podjednako prisutan u zemlji i inozemstvu. Interes hrvatske i svjetske kritike stekao je prvenstveno koncentriranim i kontinuiranim usmjerenjem svog umjetničkog diskursa na društvene traume današnjice, odnosu prema centrima moći, preispitivanju uloge muzejskih institucija te pitanju smisla i opstanka umjetnosti.

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Galleria HDD, Zagreb

14. – 25.04.2017.

Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju Beograd

3. 07. 2017.

Koncepcija izložbe: Barbara Blasin i Aneta Lalić

Kustosi izložbe i autori izbora radova: Barbara Blasin, Aneta Lalić, Marko Golub

Autori: Ivan Benussi, Damir Bralić & Aleksandar Kovač, Katarina Duda, Damir Gamulin, Ante Filipović Grčić, Igor Grubić, Mirko Ilić, Sanja Iveković, David Kabalin, Zlatko Kopljar, Dejan Kršić, Boris Ljubičić, Tonka Maleković, MAZ, Niko Mihaljević, Petra Milički, Negra Nigoević, Matija Raos, Vladimir Straža, studio Božesačuvaj (Albino Uršić, Boris Kuk), Saša Šimpraga, Nedjeljko Špoljar, Trio Sarajevo (Bojan Hadžihalilović, Dalida Hadžihalilović, Lejla Mulabegović Hatt), Katarina Zlatec, Željko Zorica

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Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb

13.04. – 22.04.2017

I do not think I know another contemporary Croatian artist whose works evoke a feeling of terror with such ease. As far as I know, Zlatko Kopljar does not like to interpret his works and even when he does so, he never analyses their particular elements or reveal hidden allusions, except those that are explicitly laid in front of the viewer and are more or less universally graspable. However, from his very first to his most recent, his works resist any unambiguous interpretation; they do not presume the viewer’s intellectual receptiveness, but immerse them into an intensive experience of things such as impotence, anxiety, the feeling of guilt and responsibility, the impossibility to communicate, loneliness, deafening silence, unbearable noise, fear, the proximity of death, sadness, anger, compassion, redemption and the likes. Kopljar has developed his whole career around receptiveness to strong emotions, conditions and presentiments, materialising it outside his own self by using a wide range of media from performances, gestures, video works, objects, poetic utterances, sound, narration and the combination of all those, but never has he – except in one case, the case of “compassion” – explicitly named them.

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Villa di Toppo Florio, Burrito, Udine

1.04. – 1.05.2017.

Curated by: Paolo Toffolutti

Artists: Vespa Bukovec, Maurizio Ciancia, Davide Grazioli, Zlatko Kopljar, Olson Lamaj, Antun Maračić, Bruno Morello, Petra Mrša, Pantani Surace, Gioacchino Portelli, Oliver Kessler, Vivianne Van Singer, Jelena Vladusic, Regan Wheat

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