Sara Haas: Saga

Sara Haas: Saga
9 May–14 June 2025
artKIT

You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition Saga by the painter and set designer Sara Haas, which will take place on Friday, 9 May 2025, at 7 p.m. in the artKIT exhibition space.

INVITATION (PDF)

“The fantastic sagas of Snorri Sturluson were perhaps the first model for the creation of these works. They gave rise to the idea of a phantasmagorical world called a ‘saga’ or story; a place dedicated to the imagination, the cultivation of memory and one’s own inner reflections, through works in which memories live in a fictional world.
All memories are captured in images, forming a narrative of past, long forgotten moments and memories manipulated in a highly imaginative way. The use of limited forms in a realistic sense creates delicate figures that shape nature and frame the figures in the paintings.
A daydream in a fictitious garden full of fairies, swirling patterns and floral shapes form a flowing, organic background as in a dream. The images follow each other as if in a half-dream.
Just like the title Saga itself, with my works I tell stories about what I experience. With feeling and thought, playfully, I write with my brush on the canvas like a diary of memories.” (Sara Haas)

Biography

Sara Haas was born in Zagreb on 20 October 1994.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in September 2018 in the class of Professor Zoltan Novak. She holds a master’s degree in painting.

Her solo exhibitions include Unknown Self-Portraits (Cekao Gallery, Zagreb, 2017), Grotesques (Zabok City Gallery, 2019) and Promplasai (Mali Centar Kulture Gallery – MICEK, Zagreb, 2020). She has also participated in several group exhibitions, namely Arty Party (Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb, 2016), Retrospective of Slavic Mythology (Ulupuh Gallery, Zagreb, 2018), With Art and Beauty against Prejudice (Veliki Tabor Manor, Košnički Hum, 2018), With Art and Beauty against Prejudice (Oršič Manor, Gornja Stubica, 2019).

As a set designer, she is involved in the puppet show Sleeping Beauty (Zagreb Puppet Theater, 2021), the drama The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Žar ptica City Theater, 2022), the opera Susanna’s Secret by Ermann Wolf-Ferrari (Croatian National Theater, Zagreb, 2024) and the puppet show The Frog Prince (Zagreb Puppet Theater, 2025).

< Sara Haas: Epilog, oil and acrylic on canvas, 230 × 205 cm, 2025; photo: Sara Haas

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