About Us
The Galženica Gallery is a non-profitable gallery that functionswithin the wide range of activities of the Lifelong Learning Center in Velika Gorica. It was founded in 1980 and has followed, promoted and produced contemporary art ever since: at first as one ofZagreb's contemporary art galleries until the town of Velika Gorica became independent of Zagreb.
The art historian Radovan Vuković ran the Gallery from 1980 to 2001, when he was succeeded by Klaudio Štefančić who graduated at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1995 (Comparative literature and Art history). He has written many essays on the visual arts and literature theory and criticism that have been published in some of the most prominentCroatian contemporary visual arts and literature magazines such as"Život umjetnosti", "Kontura", "Zarez", "Umjetnost riječi" as well asbroadcasted on the second channel of Croatian Radio. Moreover, he is the author of the sculptor Daniel Kovač's monograph entitled "Assemblyof Organism", published by Fraktura in 2005. He teaches contemporary and media art at The Curatorial Platform (Zagreb) and at Kulturpunkt's school of journalism. In Center for Visual Culture (Zagreb), from 2008 till 2011, he led the research project dedicated to relationship between visual culture and new media. He is member of Multimedia institute (Zagreb).
The Gallery’s program is based on monitoring, encouraging andproducing those art manifestations that stem from the analysis of themeans and goals of the art production as well as the analysis ofsociety and culture where art is being produced. Due to the drasticchanges the Croatian society has undergone over the past twenty years, the program has become more focused on initiating andpromoting art and cultural practices that, in the societycharacterised by redistribution of political, economicand cultural powers, deal with the changes in the current "Croatian","transitional", "global", "media", "technical", "social","cultural"...multi-faceted reality.
The Gallery Council participates in the process of creating theprogram. It consists of the following members: Guido Quien, curatorand art critic, Mladen Mikulin, sculptor and associate professorat the Academy of Fine Arts in Rijeka, Leila Topić, curator in Museumof Contemporary Art in Zagreb, dr. Ljiljana Kolešnik, researcher atthe Institute of Art History and Tomislav Medak, activist, translatorand one of the founders of the Multimedia institute in Zagreb.