Artist Krunoslav Stipešević and his exhibition "Das Gemaelde in der Wand" (The Painting in the Wall) opens a new series of art exhibitions, nestled in the permanent display of the Museum of Broken Relationships. The first exhibition cycle entitled Goodbye / Auf Wiederseh by its curator Tihomir Milovac is composed of four small-format solo exhibitions by artists who, for various reasons, left their homeland and continued to work in different environments.

Krunoslav Stipešević lives and works in Dusseldorfu since 1988. The breach with the environment in which his artistic development took place by leaving the physical space of his role models, mostly artists from the Gorgona groupJulije Knifer, Josip Vaništa and Marijan Jevšovar, became a part of the author’s everyday artistic life in Germany. If we add that in Croatia some of his early paintings, after being exhibited in Croatian museums and galleries, disappeared, were destroyed or appropriated by museums, we can say that this emotional rift influenced the author’s artistic concept in a number of his later works. The exhibition Painting in the Wall stresses the transition of the author’s emotional states through different media. Handwritten captions for lost works are also a kind of farewell to a part of the author’s life. The exhibition will be on view from June 28th to August 31st, 2025.

A drawing of us made by a stranger in the train

He Loved His Comfort More Than Me

"she's just a friend"