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THE VISIBLE ONES *

18 May 2023 – 26 May 2024

 

 

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As part of the exhibition VIDLJIVE / THE VISIBLE ONES at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Art Gallery Dubrovnik, the seventh boat of the BRODI/ONA fleet, “Eudoksija Kustrić”, was exhibited. It was named after the lighthouse keeper from the small Dubrovnik island of Daksa (1901). I built Eudoksija out of brooms collected for this purpose from women and men of Dubrovnik, guests, and friends, as a response to the provocation of a craftsman. The boat was launched in Dubrovnik on 10 December 2022 within the exhibition at Art Workshop Lazareti, and was named by its godmother, cruise ship captain Serena Melani.

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VISIBLE / THE VISIBLE ONES is a group exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Art Gallery Dubrovnik, the Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, the Gallery of Fine Arts Split, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka.

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The exhibition provides an overview of recent artistic production by women artists. The project aims to highlight contemporary visual art created by women, which reaches high artistic standards but remains insufficiently visible. The Visible Ones project was motivated by research findings on the representation of women artists in collections, public spaces, galleries, and generally in the art market (according to statistical data, women artists achieve only about ten percent representation). Considering these figures and the necessity of changing existing paradigms, the curators gathered around the initiative to realize a project that, through teamwork and networking of related institutions, would achieve a comprehensive and stronger result, raising awareness of the importance of equality, equal opportunities, and the promotion of women’s production in the field of visual arts.

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Alongside Martina Munivrana (MSU, Zagreb), author of the project and concept, the project team included expert collaborators and curators: Jasminka Babić (Gallery of Fine Arts Split), Vilma Bartolić (in collaboration with Branka Benčić and Diana Zrilić, MMSU Rijeka), Valentina Radoš (Museum of Fine Arts Osijek), Rozana Vojvoda (Art Gallery Dubrovnik), Ana Škegro (MSU Zagreb) for the performative and discursive program, and Branka Benčić (MMSU Rijeka) for the film program.

 

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