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Krsto Hegedušić, Šampion,1964, NMMU Zagreb Archives

As part of the Catamaran Art project, three greats of Croatian modern art are exhibiting: Krsto Hegedušić, Ljubo Ivančić and Edo Murtić. 2021 is the anniversary of the birth of Krsto Hegedušić and Edo Murtić (whose large retrospective you can see in Zagreb until July 18), and in the Split Art Fine Gallery from July 10 to August 31 you have the opportunity to meet Edo Murtić.

Nipplepeople Archives A wonderful night of jazz to shazz up your summer with a fine assortment of bands and musicians performing on the night. July 30 & 31, Đardin Free entry

Split Open Jazz Fair Archives

18.05 - 19.09 » THEATER by THE SEA Theatre by the Sea is a new open-air theatre festival that will delight audiences in Split throughout the summer, one step away from the sea and amongst centuries-old olive trees. This year’s premiere programme presents some of the most popular performances from all over Croatia with top actors. The programme consists of more than 20 different plays for adults and several plays for children. Details about the programme, as well as the purchase of tickets, are available on the official website of the festival. Ticket office open 17:00 - 21:00. Reservation line: 091 972 05 40.QLora Summer Stage, Poljudsko šetalište 1e, www.teataruzmore.com/.

10.06 - 12.07 » SAšA SEdLAčEk ‘TRèS (H) CHiC’ The exhibition of Slovenian artist Saša Sedlaček ‘Très (h) Chic’ opens on Thursday at the Art Gallery in Split. An artist of multimedia and intermedia, Sašo Sedlaček uses new technologies of electronic and information structure in his art and connects them with different disciplines in intriguing synergy circuits in order to interrogate and provoke various current social phenomena. The exhibition will feature works by the author from the last twenty years. QJ‑2, Museum of Fine Arts, Ulica kralja Tomislava 15, tel. (+385‑21) 35 01 17, www.galum.hr/en/exhibitions/.

15.06 - 13.07 »110 yEARSOFTHE PHOTO CLub SPLiT An exhibition of Photo Club Split brings a cross-section of the exceptional history of one of the oldest associations in Split, from the founding of Photoklub - a club of amateur photographers in 1911, through its re-establishment in 1950, until today.QI‑2, Photo Club Split, Marmontova 5, tel. (+385‑21) 34 75 97, www.fotoklubsplit.hr/.

25.06 - 17.07 »FESTivALOFdALMATiAn kLAPA OMiš What first started as random songs that men would sing in good company with wine and local food, through to sailors that would return from voyages and sing of their life experiences far away from home, to young men serenading beneath a maids window; the common element amongst all these is the word ‘song’. Over one hundred years ago these were the reasons why music - and that is ‘a capella’ music became a part of Croatian and in particular Dalmatian culture. A century on, now we have groups of singers called klape singing the most melodious of songs from the high pitched tenor to the low bass, and together they create angelic music without the use of instruments, music from the soul. For this reason the city of ‘Omiš’ can be classified as the mecca of ‘a capella music’ worldwide as this festival has been held since 1967, and last year celebrated its 50th jubilee. For over four weeks, klapa ensembles will serenade tourists down the cobbled stone paths of the city and the true final competition will be held mid-July. This is a must see if in town as klapa singing is now recognised and protected by UNESCO since its inclusion into the Representative List of Intangible Heritage. As an added bonus there is a permanent exhibition of the festival of Dalmatian klapa singing which brings people back to the very early days of the event and its past. Along with a professional guide, as well as lots of pictures and exhibits, visitors will gain an insight into the unique story of the way Dalmatian life once was – life with song, company, wine and good food. This all in one package will send you humming back home….Qwww.fdk.hr.

HAvinG wOn THE RAdOSLAv PuTAR AwARd, SPLiT-bASEd, šibEnik ARTiST LAnA STOjićEvić CAn bE COnSidEREd CROATiA’S bEST ARTiST

One of the most thrilling Croatian artists to emerge in recent years is the Šibenik-born Lana Stojićević. Her photographs directan ambiguous and unsettling gaze towards an Adriatic coast that we normally associate with happy beach holidays. Nominated for the prestigious Radoslav Putar art prize in 2021, Stojićević has become celebrated for a series of works that provide oblique commentary on the uncontrolled growth of vacation houses along the shore. In her 2018 series Fasada she photographed herself wearing an outlandish pink costume made in imitation of a coastal holiday villa. It continued a theme visited in earlier projects Villa Rosa and Parcela, in which modern apartment developments were reimagined as models, toys or cakes.Stojićević has already been feted by the foreign media for Sunny Side, an arresting series of photographs involving the futuristic swimming pool of the Hotel Zora in Primošten. Using both the real pool and models of it reconstructed to look like a flying saucer,Stojićević’s photographssuggest a sci-fi scenario that plays eloquently on the modernist aspects of the Adriatic landscape.

Photo by Marko Marulić City Library

There is a monument to Marko Marulić on Voćni Square, the work of the exceptional Ivan Meštrović. This summer in Split will see exhibitions on Marko Marulić, and a visit to the Ivan Meštrović Gallery, where the exhibition of Peruško Bogdanić opens in July. 23.04 - 15.09 » ALLTHE FACES OF judiTH Judita by Marko Marulić is considered a capital work of Croatian literature. Judita is the first author’s epic, the first poetic work sung in double-rhymed twelves, verses that rely on the original Croatian poetic tradition. It is based on the biblical story of Judita, a brave widow who sacrifices personal welfare for the salvation of her people. For centuries, it was also a stimulus to Croatian actors, directors, painters, and musicians. Many significant Croatian poetic, dramatic, artistic and musical works were created using the template of Marulić’s Judita. The exhibition shows all the most significant Croatian editions of Marulić’s Judita and literary, theatrical, and musical interpretations of Judita from the Library’s collection.QMarko Marulić City Library, Ulica slobode 2, tel. (+385 21) 68 50 00. 06.05 - 04.10 » judiTA 500 The public will see four of the first five editions of Judita, published in Venice in 1521, 1522, 1586, 1627 at the same time for the first time, while the third edition from 1523, kept in the State Library in Munich, will be shown in reprint covers. The first and only complete edition of Judita, kept by the Franciscans of Dubrovnik’s Monastery of the Little Brothers, has been digitised and as such is available for browsing. Open from 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00, on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 14:00. QI‑2, Old City Hall, Narodni trg 1 (Pjaca).

500 yEARS OF MARuLić’S judiTA Marko Marulić(1450–1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judgeand a Renaissance humanist who coined the term psychology and wrote the first Split travel guide, praising the beauty of the Peristyle. Owing to his work, he became the most distinguished person of the humanist circle in Split, known as“the father of the Croatian Renaissance“. His Latin poetry is of such high quality that his contemporaries called him “The Christian Virgil.” The Year of Marko Marulić runs from April 2021 to April 2022 marking 500 years since the printing of Marulić’s “Judita”, the first book by a Croatian author written in the Croatian language. This epic poem that was written in 1501 and published in Venice in 1521 was a bestseller of its time, translated into many languages. During Marulić’s life, it ran through as many as three printings in 18 months. Interestingly enough, Marulić was also an accomplished illustrator. The second edition of Judita from 1522 is adorned with nine woodcuts which are assumed to have been created by Marulić himself. Marulić’s portrait is depicted on the Croatian 500 kuna bank note and Festival of the Croatian Drama has been named after him (Festival of Marulić days).

09.07 - 10.07 » FibRA FESTivAL Its round 2 after last year’s inauguration of this relatively new festival, Fibra (which in local dialect means ‘having a temperature’, or in this case, ‘the summer heat’) is all about bringing the best of urban culture to the forefront. Top regional bands and artists include Pips, Chips & Videoclips, Edo Maajka, Vojko V, Detour, Svemirko, Porto Morto, Buč Kesidi and others. From rock and hip hop to even electronic beats, live it up on Bačvice beach this coming July. QD‑3, Open Cinema Bačvice, Preradovićevo šetalište 6, tel. (+385‑21) 34 86 76, 130 ‑ 170 kn.

14.07 - 15.07 » A SuSTiPAn niGHT’S dREAM Sustipan Park will for the seventh year in a row be the location for this exclusive event. Organisers literally go all out to recreate and evoke the atmosphere of Shakespeare’s ‘Midnight Summer Dream’. Dance under the stars in two nights of hedonism with Josipa Lisac and Gibonni.QC‑3, Sustipan, Sustipan, 130 kn

16.07 » bRkOvi Brkovi is a Croatian turbofolk-punk rock band from Zagreb. They humorously merged distant genres into a melodic whole. They use emotional verses from tur-

Photo by Split blues festival Archives

bofolk combined with the intensity of punk rock and the weight of heavy metal.QZenta ‑ Open Air, Ulica Uvala Zenta 3.

17.07 » niPPLEPEOPLE + jOnATHAn When five young gents teamed up in Rijeka to pursue musical prowess, they formed Jonathan back in 2011. Not wanting to limit their music to one genre, their songs point to the past with alternative and punk rock major influences. Nipplepeople is a Croatian electropop group founded in 2008. Nipplepeople makes a mysterious masked duo. QZenta ‑ Open Air, Ulica Uvala Zenta 3, 80 kn.

20.07 - 30.09 » PERuškO bOGdAnić - FROMTHE MEdiTERRAnEAn Peruško Bogdanić has been actively participating in the contemporary Croatian art scene with his solo exhibitions for almost half a century. With the new cycle presented through 6 vertical forms made of stainless steel and 6 sculptures of organic material (wood), Bogdanić is stepping onto the Split cultural scene for the first time with a one-man exhibition entitled From the Mediterranean. As shown in this exhibition, Peruško Bogdanić has managed to create his own approach to Meštrović’s sculptural work, conceptually harmonizing his artistic individuality with the works of the greatest Croatian sculptor, Ivan Meštrović. Given that the exhibition takes place in the Meštrović Gallery, the cycle that binds two artists together is thus complete. Although they represent two different sculptural discourses, they do not deviate from their sculptural essence. On the contrary, differences bring them closer together which is something we will be able to experience at the exhibition. QB‑3, Ivan Meštrović Museums ‑ Meštrović Gallery and the Crikvine ‑ Kaštilac, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 46/39, tel. (+385‑21) 34 08 00, www. mestrovic.hr/.

23.07, 25.07 » SPLiT bLuES FESTivAL Who’s got the blues! Split of course, ooze to the sound of blues in one of the largest regional festivals of this genre. As always, the event has a high level of production and attracts some of the best Croatian and international musicians. Free admission!QJ‑2, Đardin, Park Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, www.splitbluesfestival.com.

11.08 - 14.08 » bRAč FiLM FESTivAL As soon as you jump off the ferry and onto the beautiful island of Brač, you’re in Supetar, home to this international film festival which consists of a main and side programme. The main programme displays featurelength and short films with an award given to the latter as voted by the public.QSupetar, Brač island, www. bracfilmfestival.hr.