Our companionship was nearly daily, so his passing deeply affected me. The exhibition features my personal photographs of Crtalić and his video works, which remained in my possession, from which I compiled a new video piece. The work consists of the Totem installation, photo portraits of Crtalić, my video work, and Crtalić's video work.

Installation, (acrylic on canvas, HD video, monitors, media players) approx. 150x150x150 cm, painting 50x40x3.8 cm., 2021-2023. The work consists of a painting that was created as a precursor to the installation, with the video produced later, and they are exhibited together. In this way, a two-dimensional surface of the painting transforms into a three-dimensional installation.

The multimedia-designed exhibition 'Four Elements' encompasses works created by artists of different generations during the last third of the previous century and the beginning of this one, thus covering a period from the gradual transition from the modernist to the postmodernist era up to the present day. The exhibition draws its direct inspiration from the philosophical concept of the ancient thinker Empedocles (5th century BC), who explained the entire appearance of nature and the world through four fundamental and eternal elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Empedocles teaches how the visual and material characteristics of absolutely everything existing depend on the mutual interpenetration or separation of these elements expressed in different proportions. Aristotle also adopted the thesis of the existence of four basic elements, and thanks to the Aristotelian tradition, it persisted throughout the Middle Ages.

From the exhibition announcement.

The "Art Studio Walking Tour" represents the first step in establishing a multi-year tradition that will bring art closer to the audience and promote the creativity of Croatian artists.

The exhibition sends a message that it is best to remember all victims in a dignified manner through art and thus speak out against the repression that was a daily reality for the inmates. This event will aid in future defining the content of the protected area of Goli otok and will also facilitate the development of a possible memorial center on Goli otok, focusing on contemporary art. The aim of this program is to remind us of the traumas that still weigh heavily on our society.

The exhibition consists of works by 40 artists who, after visiting the camp on Goli otok from 2016 to 2018, reacted to what they saw by creating their artistic pieces. Through their works, performances, and installations in situ, the artists conveyed a message that places where crimes were committed should become places of remembrance, learning, and memory. Project leader: Memory Environment – Darko Bavoljak

The exhibition will present works by contemporaries created in the last twenty years, approximately from 1995 onwards. The 1990s are taken as the starting point due to a general return to material painting after a significant break represented by minimalist tendencies in Croatian art in the 1970s. Painting in the 1980s reopened to color, allegory, and (sometimes) figuration, and from the mid-1990s to the present, it began to emancipate itself from the imperative of meaning (which has not been completely eliminated, but has given way and continues to give more space to formal expression as the main bearer of the image). Materiality is one of the ways of this emancipation and remains vibrant in art to this day.

From the exhibition announcement.

Cultural heritage is often a subtle but significant catalyst for contemporary artistic practices. With this exhibition project, we aim to focus precisely on that aspect of art. We explore tradition from a contemporary perspective, with a presence of ecological themes that visual arts increasingly embrace. Artists have delved into a rich treasure trove of tradition – old Slavic legends and mythology, traditional crafts, plants and animals, as well as the cultural richness of Vugrovac and its monuments. From the exhibition preface.