Diary from the edge of the desert [2021]

Museum of Arts and Crafts ISBN 978-953-7641-92-4 Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover Publisher: Museum of Arts and Crafts Zagreb For the publisher: Miroslav Gašparović Catalogue Editors: Marijana Paula Ferenčić, Amela Frankl Texts authors : Ivana Mance, Amela Frankl Translation: Graham McMaster Proof-reading: Antonia Došen Photographs for catalogue: Fotoatelijer MUO, V. Benović Graphic design: Šesnić&Turković, Barbara…

This Shall Pass Too [2018]

Publisher: Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb ISBN: 978-953-8027-08-6 72 pages, 19 color images 20 x 13 cm bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover Editors: Amela Frankl and Janka Vukmir Texts: Ružica Šimunović, Marija Selak, Amela Frankl Photographs: Boris Cvjetanović, Miran Krčadinac Design: Igor Kuduz Translation: Graham McMaster The publication follows the exhibition at the Institute for…

What I Bear [2016]

Publisher: Meandar Media, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb, Amela Frankl The publishing project, the What I Bear books, is the concluding phase of a series of ten performances, actions or  installations put on in the period from 2011 to 2013 in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, entitled What I bear, in which ten Zagreb…

Diary from the edge of the desert [2021]

video: Melanija Pović Jagarinec postproduction: Miran Krčadinac It started with a journey to Mauritania, went on around France, pottered around my Zagreb quotidian, a photographic diary with no date, no rationalisation of feelings and no order. Undisciplined and inconsistent. Incomplete, with outbursts of rapid thoughts, fictional dialogues and commentaries in which I invoke favourite Greek…

This Too Shall Pass [2017]

The performance This Too Shall Pass is based on a story of an exhibit shown in the Memorial Museum of the Jasenovac Memorial Site. This is a ring on which the words This too shall pass are engraved.  It was told to me by an acquaintance a year ago, attempting to comfort and encourage me,…

fact f* [2015]

fact f In the mid-nineteen-forties my father attended the Second Zagreb High School in Križanićeva Street, in the mid-seventies my sister, and a few years later, I too.  In the same high school we learned about literature, philosophy, the laws of physics and algebra and a vast mass of historical facts.  But nobody ever mentioned…

A Ballad of Two Grave Blocks [2015]

The performance Ballad of Two Grave Blocks was done in Zrinjevac park in Zagreb in 2015; this is a work in which I discuss an inherited familial burden and the manner in which I try to cope with it. I refer to the headstones as blocks, denoting the heavy emotional burden passed on to me.…

For a Beginning [2013]

During World War II, Koprivnica synagogue was devastated. The partially salvaged and preserved liturgical items are today part of the permanent exhibition of Koprivnica City Museum. The synagogue’s organ, however, was rescued and moved to the five-hundred-metre distant Franciscan church of St Anthony of Padua. It is still there, and is fully in use. Prompted…