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Studio – Gallery Klet is back after the summer break, continuing its program Gosti u Kleti (eng. “Guests in Klet”). The next guest is illustrator and visual artist Agata Lučić, who will present her latest cycle of works, Susreti (eng. “Encounters”), on 19th and 20th September.
Lučić is showing ceramics alongside a series of illustrations, two mediums that here feel closely linked. The ceramics are not just objects; they carry fragments of her notebooks, sketches, and travels. People, plants, animals, and buildings reappear as three-dimensional forms or painted surfaces. What begins in drawing often finds a second life in clay.
The illustrations take on a different approach. Selected from storyboards made during the workshop Visual Language and Storytelling, they circle around a small but telling theme: the neighbourhood, a building, a bird. With a light narrative touch, they show how everyday scenes can hold meaning when slowed down and observed. These works are also brought together in the fanzine Grad (eng. “The City”, created with Smak Press.
The exhibition stretches over two days, but the more personal moment will come on Saturday, 20th September, when the artist opens up her process in a talk with the audience (starting at 7pm).
For those who don’t know her yet, Lučić graduated in 2020 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She has been active as a freelance illustrator, producing children’s books, murals, and commissions for cultural events, while also keeping up her own artistic practice. Her picture books with the publisher Mala zvona have been praised and awarded, and her works have been shown in Croatia and abroad.
With Susreti, she returns to ceramics with fresh energy, and the combination with illustration gives this exhibition a clear voice. It feels like a continuation of her ongoing interest in everyday encounters – the kind we all pass by quickly, but which stay in memory when given form.
For those interested in collecting Lučić’s art, it is available here.
Mural at the Zapruđe substation, created for the 150th anniversary of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić. Inspired by Stribor’s Forest and The Brave Adventures of Lapitch.
