Icelanders in Zagreb:

Looking at Others

The international exhibition "Looking at Others" will opened in the Art Pavilion in Zagreb in February and features works by twenty contemporary artists, within the concept of the author of the exhibition, art historian Radmila Iva Janković. The concept throws light on issues of ethics or better said: lack of ethics in contemporary society. The works presented in the media of video, photography, installations and paintings, feature artistic approaches that reveal the interactions of artist and model i.e., object.

The artists reveal, sometimes quite brutally, the darker places of the world in which we live –cultural racism, the harsh laws of the market, contemporary forms of neo-colonialism, the mediaisation of reality, as incorporated by the reality show culture, and also attempt to let us know that art can sometimes help in the surmounting of socially caused traumas through the introduction of the ethics of responsibility.

Artists exhibiting at the show are: Lovro Artukovic (Croatia), Oreet Ashery (Israel /UK), Božena Končić Badurina (Croatia), Maja Bajević (Bosnia and Herzegovina / France), Stella Capes (UK), Boris Cvjetanović (Croatia), Maria Kheirkhah (Iran/UK), Kristina Leko (Croatia), Mayumi Nakazaki (Japan), Olivier Menanteau (France), Boris Mihailov (Ukraine), Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway), Nika Radić (Croatia), Ivan Kožarić (Croatia), Nicole Hewitt (Croatia/UK), Guðrun Vera Hjartardottir (Iceland), Pedro Lash (Mexico), Lala Raščić (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia),Julika Rudelius (Germany), Santiago Sierra (Mexico), Stjepan Šandrk (Croatia). Ksenija Turčić (Croatia ).