Location: Gallery Salon Galić (Marmontova 3)

Dates: September 24 – October 10, 2025

Curator: Miroslav Karić

The exhibition of intermedia artist Boris Burić at the Split gallery Loggia is organized in collaboration with HULU Split and the Center for Culture and Lifelong Learning Zlatna vrata. The exhibition, entitled Working Hours, opens on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m., and will remain open until October 10, 2025. The curator of the exhibition is Miroslav Karić, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.

“Burić is not an artist of a single medium or expression – he has made sculptures, drawings, photographs… he also played football, which for him was pure art and a reflexive process, without which there is neither a goal nor a good dribble on the pitch. He is not interested in verbosity; he is interested in economy of expression, in ‘achieving maximum effect with minimal means,’ striking right at the core, so that each of his actions, gestures, and (non)intentions pierces the realm of thought and leaves a lasting impression.

For Burić, situations, ephemera, the flow of events and the experience they provoke are often more important than medium or form – for example, total darkness and the smell of gunpowder at an exhibition opening, hours-long pounding of a concrete block against the wall of a city institution, a procession beneath a massive wooden table in a museum building, or a billboard on a Secessionist façade proclaiming that the number of policemen and artists is constantly on the rise. Sometimes he will turn to words, sometimes to objects – such as cobblestones, which in a series of works and actions become a leitmotif for confronting ‘systems.’ Sometimes he collides with irony, sometimes he responds only with silence and a shrug, an act more cutting than any outburst of disapproval.

Burić always tests attention and provokes thought (I deliberately avoid saying provokes, because provocation can be short-lived), as he does this time. He does so because for him, without it, there is no artwork – at least not in the relation that intrigues him most, the one with the other side: the broader audience or the artistic public. What matters to him is that there are no indifferent viewers, that his idea has struck a chord, jolted us – so used to polite communication before works of art – and led us to reflect, regardless of whether we agreed with the artist or strongly opposed him.”

(from the foreword, Miroslav Karić)

Boris Burić was born in Belgrade in 1981. He is an intermedia artist living and working between Belgrade and Rijeka. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Rijeka in 2001, specializing in sculpture design, and from the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2005. His works are conceptually oriented and often based on ideas of social and artistic critique. He works as both a visual artist (collages, comics, photography…) and performance artist (actions, happenings, performances…). He develops his artistic projects through collaborations with numerous artists, curators, and galleries (Remont 2014–2020, Rijeka underground 2020–2023). He has participated in various art colonies and residencies (Multimadeira, Portugal 2016; Dislocations – Orlovat 2017; On Accepting the Undesirable, Zadar 2022; Embroidered Stories, Skradin 2023). Since 2018, he has held the status of independent artist within ULUS. 

More information about the exhibition is available at: https://hulu-split.hr/izlozbe/boris-buric-radno-vreme/toru/