Niko Mihaljević and Iva Maria Jurić:
Stan: Zagreb (Archive of Zagreb housing 09/2015 – 11/2015)
Promotion of a project and a publication “Stan: Zagreb (Archive of Zagreb housing 09/2015 – 11/2015) by Iva Maria Jurić and Niko Mihaljević
Institute for Contemporary Art
Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb
Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.
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The book remains on view until January 28, 2017
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.
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“Stan: Zagreb (Archive of Zagreb housing 09/2015 – 11/2015)” is a printed archive that documents housing culture of the City of Zagreb using texts and photographs appropriated from the most visited Croatian classified ads website. The expansive publication contains reproductions of 2,515 classified ads of rental apartments with 13,922 accompanying photographs on 944 pages, thus preserving the current state of Zagreb interiors and the methods of their photographic presentation. “Stan: Zagreb” is in its essence a simple act of transposing digital into printed media in order to conserve the image of present everyday housing.
The publication is printed in a limited edition of five copies, three of which will be available to public in the following Zagreb institutions: archive of Faculty of Architecture, Vladimir Nazor Library, Institute for Contemporary Art.
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Iva Maria Jurić is an architect and a scenographer who received her Masters degree from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. In her work, she focuses on intimate and everyday spaces and the housing culture. She exhibited her work in various group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, and in 2013 alongside Dario Dević she presented their project “Slideshow” Dario Dević at the Croatian Designers Association. She is a member of the Živa muzika collective, an organization dedicated to promoting contemporary independent music culture, and a co-host of the eponymous radio show.
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Niko Mihaljević is an artist and a graphic designer (Werkplaats Typografie, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, NL) born in Split, 1985. His artistic practice explores the metaphysical aspects of the everyday, cultural artefacts and language in a variety of media. In the field of visual communications he researches and documents vernacular graphic design and typography. He works as a freelance graphic designer and an assistant professor at Media Design department of University North in Croatia.
In 2016 he received the Radoslav Putar Award (Young Visual Artists Awards) for the best young Croatian artist.
[Niko Mihaljevic begins his two-month residency in RU, New York, February 1, 2017.]
