Location: Studio 21 (Velebitska 66)

Date: September 23 – October 11, 2025

From the foreword: “The central leitmotif of Živković’s work is the ability to create a fragmentation of atmosphere – not atmosphere in a meteorological or picturesque sense, but a deeper, almost phenomenological one. The colors in his works do not suggest the sunny Mediterranean brightness but a muted inner reality: prevailing are olive tones, earthy shades, and gray surfaces that evoke silence, melancholy, absence, and transience. In his Šibenik there is no glitter of the tourist summer identity, but only the introspective emptiness of urban spaces off-season – a time when the city truly belongs to itself. The city is not only a city of stone – but a city of silence, a city of shadows, a city of self-reflection.(…)” 

Artist biography: Toni Živković (1996, Zagreb) graduated in Painting in 2021 from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka in the class of prof. art. Emilija Duparova. His artistic work is primarily focused on figurative painting, using both traditional and digital techniques. Thematically, he has dealt with the iconography of protests, revolt as spectacle, as well as neo-mythical symbolism of the cultural heritage of central Dalmatia in the context of contemporary tourist consumption. He has exhibited in several group shows including digital and painting works, and in two solo exhibitions. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HDLU) Rijeka. Since 2022, he has been working as an external associate – assistant at the Painting Department of the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka.

More information about the exhibition is available on the Facebook page of Studio 21.