“Voyages Apstrakcija”
Vedran Kopljar (& parents)
Vedran Kopljar (& parents) presents Voyages Apstrakcija at Pizza Gallery Antwerp. Musing on notions of spiritual and identitary travel —and how they relate to abstraction—the artist transforms the gallery into a speculative travel agency.
In Voyages Apstrakcija the visual language of tourism and travel agencies is abstracted and applied to ideas of the self and identity. The exhibition features sculptural display shelves and pedestals which house magazines, miniatures, scale models and other trinkets of non-geographical travel. Marrying the artifice of a touristic travel brochure with the presupposed profundity of matters of identity, Kopljar (& parents) creates compositions featuring a variety of self-designed brochures and magazines with covers that promise to inform you on the numerous aspects of selfhood. These are laid out as objects, boasting terms such as Class, Hobbies, Trauma, Ideology, and so on. They solicit travels of the mind whilst potentially never materializing beyond an image. Abstraction as a tool for escapism and aestheticism is set against its potential for othering and dehumanizing. Rather than depictions of seas, beaches, mountains or forests, visitors to this travel agency are goaded only by images of abstraction.
September 05 - October 05
in Antwerp
in Antwerp
Upcoming in Ghent
September 21 - October 19
in Ghent
in Ghent
Previously in Ghent
“Based Painting III”
with Lisa Vlaemminck, Degive & Falcata, Jonas Dehnen, Veronika Bezdenejnykh, Dieter Ravyts, Julien Meert, Vedran Kopljar (&parents), Boris Magotteaux, Jari Rijckaert, Dieter Durinck, Michiel Ceulers, Robbe De Pestel, Bert Huyghe, Jan Laroy, Louise Delanghe, Dennis Tyfus & Vaast Colson
OPEN CALL
“Fire Walk With Me”
with MEER MEER & Pizza Gallery
Looking for a place to work, exchange ideas, and be inspired by a natural environment this summer?
We invite you to take part in the Artist Run Summer School.
This year, fire is our central motif and metaphor. We gather around flames, as people always have. Fire creates space through transformation — it destroys, but it also makes things possible.
At Meer Meer, we support artistic practices in which social action — conversation, collaboration, activism — becomes part of the work itself. This approach shifts the role of the artist from maker to facilitator, and the focus from object to process.
Participants are invited to engage with the theme in their own way: concretely or poetically, through action, material, or concept.
︎ apply / more info
August 18 to 24, 2025
