Image: Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki
Kristian Kožul will present his latest works in ‘1573. Budale, zlotvori in dvori’ at the Božidar Jakac Gallery in Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia. The exhibition opens on Friday, September 11, 2026, at 7 p.m., and will remain on view through February 14, 2027.
Kožul, an artist from Zagreb, uses an strongly environmental presentation to examine contemporary understandings of the Slovene-Croatian Peasant Revolt of 1573. The gallery describes the exhibition as a presentation of his newest artistic production, in which sculpture and the surrounding exhibition environment are central to the work’s effect.
The artist’s recent practice brings together a wide range of sculptural materials with both historical and current social contexts. In this exhibition, the 1573 revolt serves as the point of departure for questions about how a major historical event is understood in the present and what symbolic meaning it may retain today.
The gallery’s description places those questions against a period marked by individualism, neoliberalism, consumerism and autonomous technologies. Kožul also addresses ideas about human nature and the frequently repeated notion that human behaviour follows a Darwinian law of the strongest. The works therefore connect a specific episode from Slovene and Croatian history with broader questions about power, social organisation and contemporary life.
The Božidar Jakac Gallery is located at Grajska cesta 45 in Kostanjevica na Krki. Its programme includes temporary exhibitions as well as presentations drawn from the institution’s collections. The gallery’s wider site also includes Forma viva, whose sculptures have been made from local oak since 1961; the institution identifies sustainability and environmental challenges as recurring concerns in its exhibition and visitor programmes.
‘1573. Budale, zlotvori in dvori’ follows a number of other activities announced by the gallery for September, including a lecture series marking the centenary of the birth of Bogdan Borčić and public programmes connected with the gallery’s collections. Kožul’s exhibition, however, is the season’s principal solo presentation by the Zagreb artist and will occupy the gallery until February 14, 2027.
