Croatian Pavilion 2026: Compelled by Fright and Beauty

Compelled by Fright and Beauty is the name of a spatially specific installation that will Dubravka Losic represent Croatia on this year's Venetian Biennale. About It is a kind of retrospective of this artist who will cover seven of her cycles, and will be set in the Palazzo Zorzi, a Venetian seat of UNESCO. How he said Branko Franceschi, Commissioner of the Croatian Performing and Director of the National Museum of Modern Art, at the presentation of the Croatian Pavilion at 61. International Visual Arts Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in the Ministry of Culture and Media, the project summarizes the entire opus of Dubravka Losic in response to life trauma that is overcome by beauty, art and comfort of art, and that is what makes it compatible with the idea of the main theme of the Biennale, "In Minor Keys", chosen by the prematurely deceased curator Koyo Kouoh. In the oldest and largest pantry of contemporary world artistic creation, according to Franceschi's words, the works of Dubravka Lošić will be realized as detached installations and that such a setting in the monumental planting of the Zorzi Palace will contribute to the spectacularness of the pavilion which is also understood for Venice and is what can be fought with hundreds of other pavilions that have the same goal - to be visible and observed. The works of Dubravka Lošić will occupy the inner and outer space of the Venetian palace. Read more Toggle Installation