2026 _ BOMBARDELLI: OPEN ARCHIVE memories, presence, and imagined futures
Gallery Spot / Office for Photography
Zagreb, May 11 – 29, 2026
Foreword to the exhibition: https://croatian-photography.com/duska-boban-u-galeriji-spot-11-29-5-2026/
Curator: Sandra Križić Roban, PhD
Curator’s assistant: Sara Mikelić
Organizational support: Tena Starčević, Ivana Završki
Technical support: Nikola Pjevačević
Exhibited works:
* Metagenealogy / spatial installation, 2026
Model: Cigarette Kiosk – pavilion based on a design by Vuko Bombardelli; MDF, wood, plexiglass; base diameter: 44 cm; roof diameter: 100 cm; height: 70 cm
Projection I on the wall: Vuko Bombardelli, Women’s Day in Dicmo and May Day Celebration in Grab, Sinj region, 1970s, 8 mm film, 3’30” — with an inserted excerpt from Natko Boban: Rain in Nigeria, 1977, 0’30”.
Projection II on the wall: Natko Boban: The Blue Highway: Journey to Bol and Golubinja Cave, 1976, 8 mm film, 6’30”
Tablet (inside the model): Natko Boban, Spinutska 5, Split, 1976, 3’00”.
* Gardens of Freedom: Košute, Ruduša, Gradac, Donji Dolac / Polyptych, analogue medium-format and Leica photographs, digital print, 2016–2026.
Accompanied by the VIDA TV documentary feature How I Survived the Massacre in Donji Dolac, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZfjpwu1zw.
* Pirate, analogue photograph, digital print, 2026.
* Convective Cloud over the Sea, analogue photographs, digital prints mounted on cardboard and applied to discarded smart-device screens.
* Vuko Bombardelli: Open Archive – Memories, Experiences and Urban Possibilities/ video projection, three photo stickers, website, and a photograph from the artist’s family archive.
Related events:
- Guided exhibition tour and conversation with the author, 11th May 2026, 7:30 p.m., Spot Gallery
- Guided Tour of the Exhibition for the Institute of Art History, Zagreb, 20 May 2026, 10:00 a.m., Spot Gallery.
- Workshop “The First Home”, 28th and 29th May 2026, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Spot Gallery
Special Thanks:
Mea Bombardelli, Neira Jakšić Boban, Dario Boban, Ana Grgić, Sanja Matijević Barčot, Boris Poljak, Maja Bajto Bućan, Gorana Vežić, Ivana Meštrov, Nives Sertić, Sandro Đukić, Tom Dubravec, Mia Felić, Nadja Šičarov, Mobitronic Service, Zagreb
Production:
Kiosk model: Marko Ambroš
Super 8 film digitisation: Slovenska Kinoteka – Film Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana
Photographic printing: Ivan Kuharić, Fini Print
The exhibited works were developed as part of a doctoral research project conducted at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.
The exhibition was realised with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb. The work of the Office for Photography is supported by the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and the Foundation Kultura Nova.