VLASTA DELIMAR: Riječani, provjerite jeste li živi’

Join us at 6 PM at Galerija Kortil for a guided tour of the exhibition “Vlastina Delimar: Citizens of Rijeka, check if you are alive.” See you at Kortil! According to the concept by curators Katerina Jovanović and Sabina Oroshi, the exhibition brings together works that, across different decades, question the body, the gaze, sexuality, memory, public space, and intimacy. Delimar exposes the body, but does not surrender it to the gaze; instead, it provokes discomfort, disrupts social habits of looking, and reveals the need to label the work as provocation, to explain it, or to moralize it. The project is conceived as an anti-retrospective and, rather than offering a linear overview of the artist’s oeuvre, it focuses on returns, new interpretations, and works that, over decades, continue to provoke, unsettle, and open space for public dialogue. A special place in the Rijeka presentation is held by the work Visual Communication – Korzo Rijeka from 1983, in which the artist wrote words on a public surface among passers-by on Korzo, creating temporary signs of communication within everyday urban life. The exhibition at Kortil opens a broader project dedicated to Delimar’s oeuvre in the year of her 70th birthday, which will also be presented in Zagreb, Split, and Ljubljana. This anniversary framework is not intended to conclude her career, but to reposition her work within the present social moment, marked by the rise of conservative ideologies, anti-gender policies, misogynistic…