Location: Gallery of Fine Arts (Kralja Tomislava Street 15)

Dates: December 20, 2025 – February 15, 2026

Exhibition Curator: Jasminka Babić

This retrospective exhibition at the Gallery of Fine Arts reconstructs Kažimir Hraste’s artistic journey for the first time through nearly eighty sculptures, reliefs, installations, and drawings. The exhibition presents his earliest works, documentation of artistic interventions in public spaces in Omiš from the early 1970s, as well as early portraits that marked the beginning of his exploration of this demanding genre. His portraits, figures, and wooden reliefs from the 1980s are today considered anthological works of Croatian sculpture. The same applies to the sculptures created in combinations of iron and glass in the 1990s, followed by the fascinating iron “New Constructions” from the early 2000s, as well as large-scale spatial installations and sculptures with which he has been conquering exhibition and public spaces for more than fifty years.

Kažimir Hraste was born in 1954 in Supetar on the island of Brač. He graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1978 in the class of Professor Valerije Michieli. In 1984, he completed postgraduate studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in the class of Professor Drago Tršar. As a scholarship holder of the Italian government, he spent a semester in Rome for professional training. He is one of the founders of the Arts Academy in Split, where he worked in the Sculpture Department until his retirement in 2024. He has exhibited regularly since 1972, with over fifty solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He has received many awards and state honors. He is the author of numerous sculptures and monuments in public spaces, including: Risen Christ on Visovac (1988), the monument to Don Frane Bulić in Solin (1991), the fountain in Marmontova Street in Split, Pirija (1998), the monument to King Petar Svačić in Miljevci (2002), the monument to fallen defenders in the Homeland War in Omiš (2004), the Biblical Garden Stomorija in Kaštel Novi, Apple (2008), the monument to fallen defenders in the Homeland War in Ploče (2009), the monument to Dražen Petrović in Šibenik (2011), the monument to those fallen for the Croatian homeland in Bol on the island of Brač (2017), Boy with an Umbrella in Šibenik (2020), the monument to Rog in Sali on Dugi Otok (2023), and others. His works are included in important private and public collections in Croatia. From 2012 to 2022 he was an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2022 he has been a full member.

The exhibition opens on December 20, 2025 (Saturday) at 12:00 PM.

More information available at: https://galum.hr/