\u27ae Opening: 3\/06\/2025 (Tuesday), 7 PM
\u27ae Entrance is free
\u27ae GMK, Ulica Pavla \u0160ubi\u0107a 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition remains on view until June 17, 2025, and can be visited Tuesday to Friday from 4 to 7 PM, and on Saturdays from 10 AM to 1 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition Suite for the Masses brings together works by artists of different generations, media, and aesthetic positions, including brothers Miles, To\u0161o Dabac, Peter Handke, Vlado Martek, Vjekoslav Majcen, Vatroslav Mimica, Milan Pavi\u0107, Ne\u0161a Paripovi\u0107, Ivan Standl, Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss and anonymous authors. Curated by Klaudio \u0160tefan\u010di\u0107, the exhibition explores the relationship between the individual and the masses, emphasizing that artistic tradition might help us imagine a society in which neither the idea of personal freedom nor that of community is at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the exhibition text:
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The first premise of all human existence and, therefore, of all history, [is that humans] must be in a position to live in order to be able to “make history”. But life involves before everything else eating and drinking, a habitation, clothing that cannot exist without the means of production and the means of communication, which makes the base of a society. People are, therefore, interdependent materialistically, through their needs and through the means of production. It is their interdependence, which constantly takes on new forms, that makes history. Individuality was produced within the context of the materialistic means of production, at the heart of social life, during Modernism – the first period in history to see its expansion. It was Modernism that enabled humans to expand and deepen their subjectivity, rationality and sensibility\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In their early works, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels outlined the Marxist philosophy and were among the firsts to notice the process of transformation of population into social masses. Paris and Manchester were among the cities leading the process of industrialization and the development of new socioeconomic relations It was in Paris and Manchester respectively that Marx and Engels underwent the decisive experiences that led them to believe that human liberation could be achieved only through understanding and changing the social means of production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A constant growth of production and consumption, together with a rapid growth of the cities, gave birth to new social classes. Contrary to the popular belief that social masses were potentially dangerous social phenomenon, Marx did not see the masses as a side product of history, but as the proletariat devoid of social consciousness. Both Marx and Engels saw masses as beacons of future emancipation, as potential political power that, after empowering the proletariat first, would push the society towards the future in which class relations would be overcome and humans would finally be free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition \u201cThe Suite for Masses\u201d was inspired by the need to find a way to put a symbolic social communication together with what Marx referred as social practice – belief that representational regimes and sign systems should always be tested against social practices since they are more fundamental than those regimes and systems. This exhibition offers several aspirational readings with a purpose of shedding a new light on artistic and cultural objects that have been interpreted formulaically for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using various artefacts \u2013 literature, art, film, photography, design \u2013 the exhibition strives to draw attention to social processes that must have had a profound and overwhelming impact on individuals, artists in particular, regardless of whether those processes took part in metropolitan centres or on periphery, in the conditions of the capitalist or the socialist economy. Although geopolitical processes of modernization did not take the shortest route nor moved at the same pace, they nevertheless changed people\u2019s lives irreversibly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klaudio \u0160tefan\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition Suite for the Masses is dedicated to the theme of movement and is part of the ongoing project The Inner Museum (Unutarnji muzej \u2013 UM). Two exhibitions have previously been held within this framework: Every Tree Stands and Thinks (2015, Galerija Gal\u017eenica, Velika Gorica) and Everyone Stands in Someone Else\u2019s Light (2016, Galerija Gal\u017eenica, Velika Gorica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gallery Directors:<\/strong> Tea Matanovi\u0107, Antonela Soleni\u010dki Curator:<\/strong> Klaudio \u0160tefan\u010di\u0107 Photographer:<\/strong> Luka Pe\u0161un Special thanks to:<\/strong> Udruga Bijeli val, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Nina Ba\u010dun, Una Popovi\u0107 (Muzej savremene umetnosti, Beograd), Ivana Jankovi\u0107 (Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb), Aleksandra Berberih Slana (Muzej grada Zagreba), Dubravka Stan\u010dec (Muzej grada Zagreba), Seid Serdarevi\u0107 (Fraktura, Zagreb), Svjetlost (Sarajevo), Olga Majcen Linn, Lucija Zore (Hrvatski dr\u017eavni arhiv), anonymous netizens<\/p>\n\n\n\n We kindly thank the following institutions and individuals for lending works:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zagreb City Museum Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Croatian State Archives Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb \/ To\u0161o Dabac Archive Vlado Martek The program is supported by: <\/strong>Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb<\/p>\n\n\n\n GMK’s work is supported by: <\/strong>Kultura nova Foundation, INA, d.d. \u27ae Opening: 3\/06\/2025 (Tuesday), 7 PM\u27ae Entrance is free\u27ae GMK, Ulica Pavla \u0160ubi\u0107a 29 The exhibition remains on view until June 17, 2025, and can be visited Tuesday to Friday from 4 to 7 PM, and on Saturdays from 10 AM to 1 PM. The exhibition Suite for the Masses brings together works by artists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8561,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions\/8561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Gallery Advisory Board: <\/strong>Ana Kova\u010di\u0107, Lea Vene, Tihana Bertek, Tea Kantoci, Sonja Pregrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translator: <\/strong>Anita Smol\u010di\u0107
Proofreader:<\/strong> Ivana Dra\u017ei\u0107
Designers:<\/strong> Urtina Hoxha, Nina Ba\u010dun
Production: <\/strong>GMK<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Technicians:<\/strong> Branko Ba\u010dun, Vedran Grladinovi\u0107<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Milan Pavi\u0107, First Major Rally in Zagreb, May 13, 1945
Milan Pavi\u0107, First Major Rally in Zagreb (Freedom after WWII), May 13, 1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ne\u0161a Paripovi\u0107, NP 1977, 8mm, 22\u201920\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vatroslav Mimica, Monday or Tuesday, 1966<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To\u0161o Dabac, Meeting, 1938
To\u0161o Dabac, Ilica, 1932\u201335
To\u0161o Dabac, Carpenter, 1932\u201335
To\u0161o Dabac, Sokol Members Preparing for a Performance, 1934<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even a Worker Can Be a Baudelairean, 2002 (co-signed: M. Proust \u2013 V. Martek)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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