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Recorded in Time and Space

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of The Spot Gallery, Jelena Pašić reflected on its activities and position within a broader context.
The black-and-white photograph is framed so that most of it is taken up by a high fence made of wooden slats. Our vantage point, just as that of the photographer...
05.11.2025.

Jerman is Unique.

Our series exploring the artistic practice of Željko Jerman continues with a contribution by Vlado Martek, who offers personal reflections and memories of the artist.
I say: Whatever you do, as artists, be brave. But he says: This is not my world. Together, these catchphrases denote the content we fell into in the midst of...
16.09.2025.

I absolutely reject the social exploitation of concepts [1]

In June, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of The Spot Gallery with an exhibition by Željko Jerman and a series of accompanying events. On this occasion, we have prepared several texts reflecting on the artistic practice of this author. The first in the series is a text by Sandra Križić Roban.
Often in the evening, when everything is quiet and all the movement around me has died down, I look towards one of my living room walls. It took some time...
05.09.2025.

Carbon-Based Love: From Intimacy to Landscape, from Landscape to Ethics

Author: Ana Opalić
Dora Lučić about the work of Ana Opalić as part of the group exhibition Five White Stairs (22rd March – 26th April 2025), organized by the WHW Collective and Ana Kovačić in Zagreb.
My first encounter with Ana Opalić’s work was not a direct encounter with her photography. As a child, I heard a story about an old maple tree in front of...
09.03.2026.

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

Marija Borovičkić about the exhibition of contemporary Slovenian photography, The Most Beautiful Place in the World
Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori....
07.02.2017.

Faces of Time

Zvonko Maković on Darije Petković‘s work  
In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either...
07.03.2016.

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Branko Cerovac on  Sandro Đukić‘s work  
Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also...
16.11.2015.

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Marina Viculin on Davor Sanvincenti’s work  
Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing...
12.10.2015.

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

Iva Prosoli on  Jelena Blagović’s work  
Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely...
13.10.2015.

Somewhere

Leonida Kovač on Ana Opalić‘s work  
She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and...
16.11.2015.

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