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This September, Zagreb’s galleries and museums are opening a number of new exhibitions. The list below highlights just some of the shows worth visiting this month, alongside the city’s permanent collections that remain open year-round.
Sanja Bistričić Srića – If This Is True, What Else Must Be?
03 – 21 September 2025 📍Prozori Gallery
At Prozori Gallery, Sanja Bistričić Srića presents a multimedia installation that takes materials from different fashion magazines – once tied to ideals of beauty and lifestyle – and reassembles them into a new form. What was once promotional and prescriptive is now a fragmented, hybrid book-like tapestry that gives uncertainty instead of clear answers.
Curated by Petra Dolanjski Harni, the exhibition combines photographs, texts, and video projections that animate these fragments, shifting between fiction and reality. By positioning herself as collector, reader, and author, Sanja creates an open space where meaning is not fixed.
Dina Rončević – Nezgodna / Piece of Work
04 – 27 September 2025 📍VN Gallery
In Nezgodna / Piece of Work, Dina Rončević brings an intense, deeply personal perspective to the gallery – one shaped by her years in heavy industry as a welder. The exhibition includes casts of the very gear she once used, along with a radically intimate series of metal objects marked with her own urine, a powerful gesture of resistance and memorialisation within a male dominated workshop culture, as curator Ana Kovačić notes.
Predrag Todorović – Locality Without Place
05 – 27 September 2025 📍Meštrović Pavilion
Predrag Todorović shows a series of works made with imprinting techniques, where surfaces hold the marks of objects that are no longer there. They look like fragments or traces, almost archaeological, but at the same time abstract.
Instead of giving a clear picture, these works focus on what is missing or hidden. They ask the viewer to slow down, notice textures and layers, and think about how absence can be just as meaningful as presence. The result is an exhibition that feels both minimal and very personal, leaving space for each visitor’s own interpretation.
Silvio Vujičić – SKIN(S)CARE: Between Care and Violence
09 – 29 September 2025 📍 Kontejner
Silvio Vujičić opens a new chapter in his visual-art and fashion-design practice with SKIN(S)CARE: Between Care and Violence at Kontejner. The exhibition critiques the beauty industry’s role in shaping cultural values and personal identity. Vujičić challenges the idea of “natural” beauty by crafting skincare products from toxic ivy, mango, fig, and wild carrot – formulations that intentionally irritate skin.
Curated by Olga Majcen Linn, the show provides a layered exploration of beauty, identity, and resistance – where cosmetics become not just surface adornment but a provocative medium of cultural commentary.
Lucija Krizman – Notes on Dispersion
09 – 16 September 2025📍Miroslav Kraljević Gallery (GMK)
Opening GMK’s autumn season, Lucija Krizman presents sculptural installations and a video work shaped by experiments at the edge of material limits and symbolic meaning. Fire, water, and sound transform glass, ceramic, and steel into fragile structures that evoke both destruction and renewal.
Curated by Antonela Solenički, the exhibition reflects on boundaries, memory, and cycles of creation and decay, inviting visitors into a space for uncertainty and reflection.
Laura Stojkoski – STADIUM
10 – 25 September 2025 📍Karas Gallery
In her latest project, Laura Stojkoski turns Karas Gallery into a space that feels closer to a stadium than a white cube. She draws on the energy and collective emotion of football culture, using sculptural forms and bold colours to echo the atmosphere of shared passion. Curated by Monika Sinković, the exhibition asks how identities are built in crowds, and how that sense of belonging can be translated into art. As a young sculptor from Zagreb, Stojkoski uses STADIUM to merge cultural symbols with artistic language.
Lens, Pens & Cans
16 September – 16 November 2025 📍Zagreb City Museum
This large group exhibition brings together around twenty artists from Croatia and abroad, presenting a vibrant cross-section of today’s urban art. Graffiti, illustration, design, painting, sculpture, and photography are all part of the mix, making the show feel like a dialogue between different mediums and influences. The exhibition also nods back to Zagreb’s own street art history, paying tribute to Slavko Šterk’s 2004 Art of the Street show.
These exhibitions are only part of Zagreb’s cultural offer. Alongside them, the city museums keep their permanent displays, giving even more reasons to explore. September is a good moment to see both – the new and the lasting sides of Zagreb’s art scene.
