Galerija SC Gallery in Zagreb

Trnje · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Galerija SC, the exhibition space of the University of Zagreb Student Centre on Savska 25, has functioned since the early 1960s as one of the most important platforms for new artistic practice in Croatia. From its earliest years, the gallery committed itself to conceptual art, environments, happenings, and international exchange, publishing its own bulletin Novine throughout the 1960s and 1970s to document exhibitions, actions, and the theoretical debates that surrounded them. Set in the Trnje district, the space has retained a distinctly non-commercial, experimental character, operating outside the commercial circuit of established galleries in Zagreb and positioning itself instead as a laboratory for research-driven practices.

Since 2005, the programme has been organised within Kultura promjene (Culture of Change), the Student Centre's interdisciplinary cultural framework that also encompasses Teatar &TD, Kino SC, and the MM Centar. Exhibitions are shaped through an annual open call that invites solo and group shows, performances, workshops, and curatorial proposals, with explicit support for young authors working across the interdisciplinary possibilities of the space. Practices on view tend to favour conceptual approaches, installation, photography, and time-based media, frequently originating from graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Within the contemporary art scene of Zagreb, the gallery occupies a distinctive position alongside the city's public art institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, providing one of the few sustained spaces where early-career artists can test ambitious, process-based work outside a market-facing context.

Selected Artists

Goran Trbuljak

Croatian

Conceptual ArtPhotographyFilm
About

A pioneering figure of Croatian conceptual art whose practice combines posters, photographs, and written statements to interrogate authorship, institutional legitimation, and the conditions under which an artist is granted visibility.

Braco Dimitrijević

Bosnian, French

Conceptual ArtPhotographyInstallation
About

Conceptual artist whose Casual Passers-by series presents monumental portraits of anonymous people on urban façades, paired with theoretical writings such as Tractatus Post Historicus that question canonical narratives of history and fame.

Sanja Iveković

Croatian

PhotographyVideo ArtPerformance
About

A founding voice of feminist conceptual art in former Yugoslavia, her cross-media work examines female identity, media representation, and political memory through photography, video, performance, and public interventions in urban space.

Mladen Stilinović

Croatian

Conceptual ArtMixed MediaPhotography
About

A central figure of the Group of Six Artists and the New Art Practice generation, his work mobilised language, money, bread, and the colour red to critique ideology, labour, and the political economy of art.

Dalibor Martinis

Croatian

Video ArtInstallationNew Media
About

An early practitioner of video art in former Yugoslavia, his cross-media projects span installation, performance, and public intervention, addressing memory, surveillance, time, and the political afterlives of communication technologies.

Mihael Giba

Croatian

Mixed MediaPaintingDigital Art
About

A multimedia artist trained at the Split Arts Academy whose practice explores the relationship between painting and information technology, frequently translating processes of data visualisation into pictorial and installation-based strategies.

Katarina Kocijan

Croatian

Painting
About

A young painter who completed her studies at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, working from the motif of the house as both architectural subject and metaphor for the gradual construction of an artwork.

Selected Exhibitions

I Do Not Wish to Show Anything New or Original

Solo show1971

Goran Trbuljak

About

Trbuljak's landmark conceptual intervention reduced the exhibition to a single poster bearing his photographic self-portrait and the titular statement, displayed inside the gallery and on standard advertising sites used by the venue across Zagreb.

Conceptual ArtPhotography

Painting by Kresimir Klika

Solo show1969

Braco Dimitrijević

About

An early conceptual solo by the Sarajevo-born artist in which paintings authored by an everyday citizen named in the title were inserted into the gallery context, foreshadowing the strategies of his later Casual Passers-by series.

Conceptual ArtPhotography

Sigmundove priče

Solo show2006

Dalibor Martinis

About

A solo project by the Croatian video pioneer using moving image and installation to construct fictive narratives around the figure of Sigmund Freud, examining memory, language, and the formation of subjective truth.

Video ArtInstallation

Human Park

Solo show2009

Ulrike Möntmann

About

An iteration of the long-running OUTCAST REGISTRATION project, presenting a biographical archive alongside handmade porcelain Baby Dolls that materialise the testimonies of imprisoned women, accompanied by an interdisciplinary Expert Meeting on art and social intervention.

Research-BasedInstallationSculpture

Neposlušni/e (The Disobedients)

Solo show2012

Sanja Iveković

About

A solo presentation by the pioneering feminist artist gathering works that address dissent, civil refusal, and the political agency of women, drawing on her decades-long practice of photography, archive, and public intervention.

PhotographyConceptual Art

Hommage Galeti

Group show2024

About

A tribute exhibition dedicated to the late Croatian experimental filmmaker and conceptual artist Ivan Ladislav Galeta, accompanied by a programme of his films at the MM centar, honouring his pioneering investigations of moving image, perception, and time.

Curated Group ShowVideo ArtFilm

JESTE LI VI OZBILJNA GALERIJA?

Group show2024

About

A group exhibition by students of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts gathered under the title Are You a Serious Gallery?, presenting work produced through the academy's three informal student-run spaces Uža, Rupa, and Polica.

Curated Group Show

Gallery Overview

Galerija SC
City
Zagreb
Area
Trnje
Address
Savska cesta 25, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Type
Gallery
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