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To bakery ascended five white stairs and
\n<\/i>I deeply drew the scents in
\n<\/i>free of need to be benevolent.
\n<\/i>At ease, for here, I won\u2019t be humiliated<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the fragment of Vlado Kristl\u2019s poem Five White Stairs<\/i> (1961), the poet follows the scent of bread, entering a bakery to which the mentioned stairs lead. He experiences the bakery as a familiar place, free of threat, a space of peace, a space that does not demand him to be anything other than himself\u2014a space of possibilities. As in other works of this legendary avant-garde artist, poet, and filmmaker, spaces of possibility are not unambiguous\u2014while absorbing comfort, something is also being relinquished.<\/p>\n

The works are situated in spaces and institutions dedicated to culture but mostly outside the realm of visual art. By placing the works in dialogue and connection with the locations where they are exhibited, a different perspective on familiar environments is opened, highlighting the emotional tonalities of particular places and their varying modes of hospitality.<\/p>\n

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Rene Mati\u0107, Amelia in Bed<\/em>, Dalston, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the Booksa club, Rene Mati\u0107<\/a> exhibits a recent series of photographs capturing their experience of London from the perspective of the diaspora and queer community, documenting poetically intense fragments of gathering and meeting places, while in their sound work, combining protest sounds with church bells, pop music, and conversations with friends. At the Ribnjak Youth Center, the \u0160kart group<\/a> presents budnice <\/i>(awakening songs), created as a combination of poetry, slogans, and drawings that daily accompany the months-long student protests in Serbia. Screenings of the film Swallow<\/em> (2013) by Laure Prouvost<\/a> will take place at the upcoming WHW space at Dra\u0161kovi\u0107eva 31. Inspired by the aesthetics and sensual pleasures of Italy, and drawing on the genre of panoramic painting, Prouvost\u2019s video work Swallow<\/em> plays with language, translation, and the historical idea of the Mediterranean as a source of artistic inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Tizintizwa Collective, A Song to the Oar<\/em>, 2024, video still<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film A Song to the Oar<\/i><\/a> (2024) by the Tizintizwa collective<\/a> is screened as an intervention in the Kinoteka Cinema program, shown before regular program as an homage to the practice of Moroccan militant cinema. Created for public space, this two-minute film collage connects the history of piracy in North Africa with today\u2019s economic and authoritarian oppression, where football stadiums become rare places of expressing dissent. Through a performance at Klet and an installation in the Bogdan Ogrizovi\u0107 Library and Reading Room, Anton Kats<\/a> creates a space for the voices of artists, musicians, activists, poets, and theorists.<\/p>\n

The possibility of tenderness in relationships between different living beings is found in the photographs, film, and sound work of Ana Opali\u0107<\/a>, exhibited in WHW\u2019s office space at the top of a building on Bogovi\u0107eva Street. From the terrace overlooking the city, we encounter the cypress trees in front of the artist\u2019s family home, which she has been observing over the years, safeguarding them from misunderstanding. <\/p>\n

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Singing Snake (Sometimes Staged)<\/em>, 2025. Concept author: Niko Mihaljevi\u0107. Performing: Ivana Bojani\u0107, Miograd Gladovi\u0107, Leonardo Losciale, Niko Mihaljevi\u0107. Photography by: Sanja Bistri\u010di\u0107 Sri\u0107a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Niko Mihaljevi\u0107<\/a> realizes his work on the windows of the future city gallery at Dra\u0161kovi\u0107eva 31, as well as through performances during the exhibition. The project continues Niko\u2019s long-term exploration of the language of art\u2014transforming visual critique into a musical score, then into an enlarged spatial graphic, hinting at the future purpose of a space awaiting renovation into a gallery. And we are happy to add it will be our responsibility to programme it. J\u00falius Koller<\/a>\u2019s Cultural Situation Questionnaire <\/i>(U.F.O.) (1992), displayed on the KIC facade, is part of his anti-painting and Universal Cultural Futurological Operations, intervening in everyday life through the inversion of simple objects and gestures. WHW has previously shown Koller\u2019s questionnaire at the exhibition My Sweet <\/i>Little Lamb (Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise<\/i>) in 2016\/17. Since then, the dark and violent political circumstances of that time have only intensified and become normalized.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Koller\u2019s questionnaire is the most concise response to the poetic fragment of Five <\/i>White Stairs<\/i>\u2014experiencing a moment of serene understanding requires an effort of curiosity. Inspired by Kristl\u2019s encounter, the exhibition suggests that encounters with art create unexpected alliances and moments that both surpass and betray all expectations.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the works here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Works can be viewed until April 26, 2025, during institutions\u2019 opening hours:<\/p>\n

Booksa<\/a>
\nMarti\u0107eva 14d
\nTuesday-Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM<\/p>\n

Centar mladih Ribnjak<\/a>
\nPark Ribnjak 1
\nMonday-Saturday 10 AM – 8 PM<\/p>\n

Kino Kinoteka<\/a>
\nKordunska 1
\nThe film is screened before regular showings on March 27 – 28 and April 2 – 3 at 6 PM
\nThe film is also available online on the website.<\/p>\n

Bogdan Ogrizovi\u0107 Library and Reading Room<\/a>
\nPreradovi\u0107eva 5
\nMonday-Friday 8 AM – 8 PM
\nSaturday 8 AM – 2 PM
\nEvery second Sunday 5 PM – 9 PM<\/p>\n

Dra\u0161kovi\u0107eva 31<\/strong>
\n23. – 26.4.
\nWednesday-Friday: 15 – 20 h
\nSaturday: 11 – 16 h<\/p>\n

WHW Association Office, 8th floor<\/strong>
\nBogovi\u0107eva 1
\nTuesdays 3 PM – 8 PM
\nThursdays 10 AM – 3 PM
\nSaturdays 10 AM – 1 PM<\/p>\n

Works in public spaces:
\nDra\u0161kovi\u0107eva 31
\nKIC, Preradovi\u0107eva 5<\/p>\n

Thank you to all the artists and  institutions for their collaboration.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Madeleine Kristl and Pepe Kristl for the right to use the verses of the poem \u201cFive White Stairs\u201d for this exhibition (from Vlado Kristl, \u201cFive White Stairs\u201d, self-published, 1961, Zagreb).<\/p>\n

Program in Dra\u0161kovi\u0107eva 31 is realised in collaboration with Novi prostori kulture.<\/p>\n

The program is supported by:
\nCity Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb
\nMinistry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
\nKultura Nova Foundation
\nCroatian Audiovisual Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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