{"id":153,"date":"2025-07-26T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anita-kontrec.com\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:22:48","slug":"installations-and-performances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anita-kontrec.com\/?page_id=153","title":{"rendered":"Installations and Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My site specific installations are personal dialogues with the atmosphere, character and message of each individual exhibition space. I am particularly inspired by contemporary architecture and its new light and space constellations to which I am responding with my site-specific installations and visual interventions with colours. My installations are three dimensional poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPictograms\u201d
Paris \u2013 Cit\u00e9 internationale des arts<\/a> , 2018
Zagreb, 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Installation PICTOGRAMS deals with ancient scripts and their visual qualities. Most of these signs have not been decoded so far but they nevertheless radiate a kind of \u201cmeaning\u201d beyond rational understanding. Sometimes they remind me of icons on smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScript and Architecture\u201d<\/strong>
Chicago \u2013\u00a0John David Mooney Foundation<\/a>, 2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this installation I am showing the correlation between croatian medieval script GLAGOLJICA (Glagolitic\u00a0script, dating back to10th century), with pre-romanesque sacral architecture from the same period. Development of script and architecture was a parallel\u00a0process \u2013 both script and romanesque architecture were \/ are crucial aspects of croatian cultural identity.This installation was exhibited in John David Mooney Foundation together with drawings and sculptures by the most famous croatian-american sculptor Ivan Me\u0161trovi\u0107.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBAUSTELLE BYBLOS \u2013 Under Construction\u201c
Bronze sculptures, stones, stamps , 1993 \/ 2016; variable dimensions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Installation \u201eBaustelle Byblos \u2013 Under Construction\u201c is a part of my RECALL BYBLOS project which was shown in Ludwig Forum f\u00fcr internationale Kunst, Aachen and Klovi\u0107evi dvori, Zagreb in 1993 and at my retrospective ROUNDABOUT \/ KREISVERKEHR \/ KRU\u017dNI TOK in Zagreb in 2016.
This installation stands for permanent process of construction \u2013 reconstruction and decay of urban civilisations. Byblos stands for Phoenician civilisation and the city of Byblos which was famous for developing script consisting of 22 letters. It became the basis \/ a paradigm for all modern alphabets. Development of script and written communication is one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind and is closely connected to urban civilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHOUSES AND DREAMS\u201d
Mixed media \u2013 plaster, drawings on paper, objects, inscriptions on the wall, 2017 , variable dimensions; Venice \u2013 Palazzo Mora, 2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This installation is a part of my Houses and Dreams project which is dealing with different aspects of migrations, homelessness and urban development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houses and Dreams is interdisciplinary project. So far it has been shown in Venice ( 2017, in the context of 57th Venice Biennial; London \u2013 Dulwich College, 2018 \u2013 Paris Cite international des art; Chicago \u2013 John David Mooney Foundation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPILLOWS FOR SEI SHONAGON\u201d
Acrylic drawings on silk paper, thin tissue, 2000, variable dimensions; Zagreb, 2005<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This installation is inspired by the \u201ePillowbook of Sei Shonagon\u201c, written by famous japanese lady-in-waiting who lived at japanese court in 10 th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book (which I have translated from English into Croatian in 1987) is permanent inspiration for a number of my artworks \u2013 objects, installations and performances.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cCALLIGRAPHIC LANDSCAPES\u201d
Ambiental installation and dance performance in Halle 14, Spinnerei \u2013 Leipzig, 2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This installation consists of thin transparent veils with inscriptions (quotations from the \u201ePillowbook of Sei Shonagon\u201c) combined with acrylic calligraphic drawings. The veils were fixed to the ceiling thus creating a poetic environment covering the space of some 300 square meters. This installation had an interactive character \u2013 audience was welcome to sit, meditate, dance or lay on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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