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Vedran Kopljar (& parents)
September 5 - Octobr 5, 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.
Vedran Kopljar (& parents) (b. 1991, Slavonski Brod, Croatia) is based in Belgium and works primarily in painting, installation, and performance. Designating their output as poetry and poetics, Kopljar (& parents) explores how meaning is generated, experienced, and cultivated through practices of framing, writing, and rewriting. The works function as metaphorical models that can be instrumentalized within the temporary logic and questioning of exhibitions.
Since 2024, “(& parents)” has been added to the artist’s name to recontextualize the practice as a family business and acknowledge the active, practical role of the artist’s parents within it.
Vedran Kopljar (& parents) has presented solo-exhibitions at M HKA, Antwerp (2024); Bio Gallery, Seoul (2024); NMMU (National Museum of Moderna Art), Zagreb (2023); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2023); CASSTL, Antwerp (2022); CONVENT, Ghent (2020); Residence Unlimited, New York (2019); and Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp (2018). Their work has also been presented in group exhibitions at S.M.A.K., Ghent (2025); Soft Opening, London (2024); Museum M, Leuven (2021); the 7th Biennial of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie (2020) and LLS 387, Antwerp (2016), amongst others.
︎ Vedran Kopljar
Vedran Kopljar (& parents)
“Voyages Apstrakcija”
September 5 - Octobr 5, 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.
Vedran Kopljar (& parents) (b. 1991, Slavonski Brod, Croatia) is based in Belgium and works primarily in painting, installation, and performance. Designating their output as poetry and poetics, Kopljar (& parents) explores how meaning is generated, experienced, and cultivated through practices of framing, writing, and rewriting. The works function as metaphorical models that can be instrumentalized within the temporary logic and questioning of exhibitions.
Since 2024, “(& parents)” has been added to the artist’s name to recontextualize the practice as a family business and acknowledge the active, practical role of the artist’s parents within it.
Vedran Kopljar (& parents) has presented solo-exhibitions at M HKA, Antwerp (2024); Bio Gallery, Seoul (2024); NMMU (National Museum of Moderna Art), Zagreb (2023); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2023); CASSTL, Antwerp (2022); CONVENT, Ghent (2020); Residence Unlimited, New York (2019); and Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp (2018). Their work has also been presented in group exhibitions at S.M.A.K., Ghent (2025); Soft Opening, London (2024); Museum M, Leuven (2021); the 7th Biennial of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie (2020) and LLS 387, Antwerp (2016), amongst others.
︎ Vedran Kopljar
Vedran Kopljar (& parents)
Apstrakcija 2a, 2025.
Apstrakcija 2a, 2025.
