Exhibition space: Loggia, Center for Culture and Lifelong Learning Zlatna vrata (Dioklecijanova 7)

Dates: April 9 – April 30, 2026, opening at 7:00 PM

Curators: Jasmina Šarić and Tonči Kranjčević Batalić

Between Two Horizons is a site-specific installation composed of several interconnected works: an embroidery book, a series of drawings on paper, and a series of works on fabric. The book Split Daydreaming was created for a participatory embroidery workshop organized with the support of the queerANarchive collective. The book consists of embroidered pages made of fabric – 15 pages, each measuring 21 × 42 cm. The drawings on paper are inspired by the sea, the city of Split, and its immediate surroundings. The series consists of works of variable dimensions. Part of the series of works on fabric was commissioned and produced for the project Present Past (Rijeka), produced by the regional Goethe Institutes from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and North Macedonia.

“Darko Aleksovski’s pastel landscapes emerge from wandering, from movement without a predetermined path, from the experience of getting lost in a space that is not yet fully known. His works appear in the form of sketches of seemingly similar scenes, where there is no aspiration to develop a drawing or sketch into a ‘final’ piece, but rather they themselves are the work. Fragments of landscapes featuring palm trees, agaves, architectural details, and sunsets appear as traces of encounters with the Mediterranean, recorded through an intense, almost Fauvist use of color. Color describes the motifs, but at the same time carries the affects that arise from being in a space filled with light and warmth. These are motifs that emerge from memory and wandering, while also representing a longing for what is distant, whether in time or space. By visiting new places, revisiting those he has already been to, sketching along the way what he sees as well as what he recalls from memory, Darko Aleksovski creates non-linear archives of memory and place.”

— from the foreword by Jasmina Šarić and Tonči Kranjčević Batalić

About the artist: Darko Aleksovski (b. 1989) is a visual artist who lives and works in North Macedonia. He completed both his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. He has participated in artist residencies in Vienna, Frankfurt, Skopje, Linz, Split, Dubrovnik, and Graz. Among his notable international group exhibitions are: EX-SITU: Artistic Positions on Endangered Biodiversity and the Coexistence of Species, National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo); You Can’t Discourse Without Disco – WHW Academy 2022, Gallery Nova (Zagreb); Traces and Memories, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick (Melbourne, 2021); What would happen if? The choice to build an alternative future, Museo Santa Joana (Aveiro, 2020); and the 55th October Salon – Disappearing Things, Belgrade City Museum (Belgrade, 2014).

More information about the exhibition: https://hulu-split.hr/