Art Fair Nesvrstani 8 (Non-Aligned 8)

Art Fair Nesvrstani 8 (Non-Aligned 8)
27–29 June 2025
Nesvrstani 8 (Non-Aligned 8) – Boutique Art Fair
Lauba – House for People and Art, Prilaz baruna Filipovića 23a, Zagreb

You are cordially invited to the opening of the 8th edition of the boutique art fair Non-Aligned, which will take place on Friday, 27 June 2025, at 2 p.m. at Lauba House for People and Art in Zagreb, Croatia. The pavilion of the Association for Culture and Education KIBLA will present the artists Lara Jeranko Marconi, Enej Gala, Vladimir Leben and Marko Jakše.

Moments of Eternity

If spacetime has a form, it is a medium. For a medium is a form and also a means. It is a spatio-temporally determined “framework” of communication. Just as communication is a means for a medium that takes shape in it. And creates an image. At the same time, in this interconnected and interdependent, interactive relationship, the form of communication adapts to the medium, whereby each medium has its own rules and limitations. Limits. Be they quantitative, qualitative or content-related. Imperatives. And of course “technical” or artistic possibilities.

Art exists when it is able to transcend these parameters of ordinariness, common perception and acceptance, rather than replicating dogmatic, established, state or corporate-mandated forms of expression and their extension into the oppression of narrow-mindedness and the totalitarianism of militarism, where Narcissists exchange glances in the mirror of society and wonder who is the fairest of them all. In a spacetime where social cohesion is smashed into smithereens and atomized into the “free individual” in order to better control them, there seems to be little left among us of what connects, unites and holds us together.

Art is undoubtedly one of these forces. But a force that reaches beyond the edge, a force that flies over the form to shape it according to its inner, emotional, intuitive and perceptual impulses. And according to the composition, which always emanates from within, from the deepest and widest seeing and hearing, leading directly from the heart to the head and from the head to the heart, inviting the body to join this duet. The “ritual” dance of the triune, intimate and personal begins, interwoven and intertwined in the creation of something new, thinking and nurturing, changing and correcting, arranging and creating the image for all to see. Sincerely. Carefully. Openly.

Art opens up to us and opens us up. It opens us up to ourselves. To our ideas and our perceptions, thoughts and senses. In the moments when we immerse ourselves in art, it expands and composes, it stages and poses, it guides us and shows us the way to eternity. When we are immersed in it and plunge into its depths. Even if we end up drowning. Or simply sail on its waves and row to its shore in a boat.

In these moments of eternity, we have invited Lara Jeranko Marconi, Enej Gala, Vladimir Leben and Marko Jakše to the boutique art fair Non-Aligned, which will take place for the eighth time from June 27–29, 2025 at Lauba House of People and Art in Zagreb, Croatia. One female and three male artists who, each in their own way, deepen the media in which they create, blur their boundaries and explore new realms of expression. Different materials, paper, canvas, oil, painting, drawing, sculpture and structure in their works radiate their inner energies and shine with the light of art to glow within us and touch the depths and profundities. Like a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end. When this pot burns within us, we are in the right place and at the right end.

More:
https://www.nesvrstani.hr/
https://www.nesvrstani.hr/nesvrstani-8/

Biographies

Lara Jeranko Marconi (1984, Koper). In 2003 graduated from the Istituto Statale d’Arte Enrico Umberto Nordio in Trieste with a degree in decorative painting. In the same year, she completed a professional course in children’s illustration, promoted by ENFAP Friuli Venezia Giulia (professional certificate programs). In 2008 she graduated from the Venetian Academy – Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, painting major.

Enej Gala (1990) lives and works between London, Venice and Nova Gorica. In 2014 he was in an exchange at the William De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2013 he accomplishes his B.A. and in 2015 his M.A. in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Graduated from Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate Programme in London 2023.
His practice is based on an acute awareness of thinking through making as an attempt to grasp the experience of otherness. As a device that reveals its tricks while counter-intuitively enhancing their magic, puppetry is used as a lense to focus on materials as symbolic entities, expanding their potential by exposing and building on their intrinsic qualities. This process questions traditional perspectives on art, craftsmanship, installation, performance and different forms of production also through frequent collaborations and free improvisation.

Vladimir Leben (1971) spent his childhood years in Sevnica and later moved to Ljubljana, where he attended Secondary School for Design and Photography and Academy of Fine Arts and Design. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both home and abroad, with Galapagos project as one of the most successful. He is one of the founders of the Museum of Too Modern Art. He is also active as animator and illustrator. He received the first prize for animation at the 10th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož in 2007 and was recipient of Hinko Smrekar plaque for illustration at the 10th Biennial of Slovene Book Illustration in 2012. In 2014, director Amir Muratović made a film portrait of Leben for Slovene National Television. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

Marko Jakše was born 1959 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1987. In 1993 he moved from the town to the country: he lives and works as a freelance artist in the hamlet of Mohorje, Slovenia. Jakše’s debut in Maribor took place in 1996 in Pekarna and at the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM). Two years later, his exhibition Nojeva barka / The Ostrich’s Ark laid the cornerstone for today’s KiBela Gallery. Since then, one could say that Maribor has become, as it were, a second hometown for Marko Jakše. Always a favorite in the eyes of both the crowd and the critics, this rebel »with a cause« fights the Establishment because he believes that the system impoverishes art and strips art of its basic postulate, which is freedom.
“The necessity for renewal is urgent, so much that it burns ... and I’m as eager as hell! The day is fresh and shiny, the sun rays glimmering through the linden tree like crystals, the sun grinning straight at me ... I’m sorry, but this really isn’t a day to be spent in the studio, behind closed walls!”