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An independent space for contemporary
media art production & presentation
📍on view: BODY. NORM. RESISTANCE. 18. 9. - 23. 10. 2026.

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Installation views from “Wardrobe Selection for Non-Playable Characters,” series Self-titled (2022–), 2026, installation; photography, cardboard; variable dimensions

for duo show BODY. NORM. RESISTANCE. with Ines Borovac (@lochnesi), curated by Sabina Oroshi (@sabsgram), on view through October 23

photos by Nastasja Miletić

Borrowing from the internet mythology of the “backrooms” — a seemingly infinite, alternate dimension of empty, uncanny, and nostalgic spaces, glitching like a video game character out of bounds, out of standard reality — the work imagines a gallery populated by cardboard figures caught in permanent loops of self-documentation, or “selfies,” appearing in its contemporary iteration as the “fit pic,” a head-to-toe documentation of the body’s styling.

None of these identities is entirely fictional, yet none fully coincides with the artist. As in character selection in video games, each outfit temporarily reprogrammes the way we interpret them. The speed at which these identities replace one another reflects the logic of social media, but also that of the fashion system, within which garments increasingly circulate as images before we ever encounter them as objects, while one fashion collection is almost immediately displaced by the next. The cardboard figure becomes an ideal sculptural form for such a condition, continuing a historical lineage of surrogate bodies.

Distributed throughout the gallery, the figures are choreographed as a sculptural ensemble that evokes the arrangement of bodies in collections of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In this sense, the installation becomes a kind of Madame Tussauds, where the bodies of celebrities, commercial figures, and fictional characters are reconstructed not to replace their original or “real” bodies, but to satisfy the public desire to encounter them, photograph them, and further circulate their images.

As each body is occupied with producing its own image, its gaze directed towards the phone it holds, the only socially available subject within the installation becomes the visitor. To enter the gallery is to become the only person capable of making eye contact, recognising another’s presen taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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some selfies & references for the performance OPENING (series Self-titled, 2022-, 2026) last friday at @gallerynovo 🤳🤳🤳 OPENING is the beginning of a new ongoing performance series all connected to the mask, the surrogate body and the selfie, about the emphasised idea that if you’re showing more face you’re somehow being more real (especially amidst the AI slop we live amongst), slowly building this weird logistical fiction of an artist who is maybe everywhere and nowhere at the same time, at many many openings, inside many bodies, doubling, multiplying, teleporting🌀🗺️ anyway,,, more openings to go to xx

🤳 Not doable without my lovely performers, my army of Karlos: Dario Jakasović (@dariojakasovic), Sunčica Pulja (@suncica_pulja_), Aleksa Staničić & Anonymous ❤️❤️❤️

Duo-exhibition “BODY. NORM. RESISTANCE.” with Ines Borovac (@lochnesi), curated by Sabina Oroshi (@sabsgram) on view through October 23, 2026. Produced by @proces.queer & @udruga.metamedij.

More photos sooooon 🤳🤳📵📵 taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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On Friday, we opened the exhibition BODY. NORM. RESISTANCE. by artists @lochnesi and @karlostefanek, curated by Sabina Oroshi. As part of the exhibition, the artists presented performances that extended the exploration of the body and its social roles into the realm of performance and direct engagement with the audience.

The exhibition examines the ways in which social norms shape, interpret, and direct the body. Through various media, the artists reflect on gender, identity, belonging, desirability, and social expectations, as well as the possibilities for challenging and resisting them.

Thank you to everyone who came to support the opening!

The exhibition was produced by the associations Proces and Metamedia.

📸 @upitnikusklicnik by @gallerynovo

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U petak, 18. rujna, u @gallerynovo otvorili smo izložbu TIJELO. NORMA. OTPOR. Ines Borovac i Karla Štefaneka, u kustoskoj koncepciji Sabine Oroshi.

Kroz različite medije umjetnici istražuju načine na koje društvene norme oblikuju, čitaju i usmjeravaju tijelo; od roda, identiteta i pripadnosti do poželjnosti i društvenih očekivanja. Kako ističe i kustosica Sabina Oroshi, pitanje je i "tko određuje uvjete pod kojima nešto može postati vidljivo" te koliko su institucije doista spremne osigurati prostor za eksperiment, neizvjesnost i različite oblike otpora.

Hvala svim osobama koje su nam se pridružile na otvorenju i podržale naše umjetnike, kustosicu i galeriju Novo! Hvala Vanji na fotografiranju!

Izložba TIJELO. NORMA. OTPOR. ostaje otvorena do 23. listopada 2026.

📍 Galerija Novo, Pula
🕐 rujan: pon–sri 10–14h, čet–pet 18–21h
🕐 listopad: pon–sri 10–14h, čet–pet 17–20h

Izložbu organiziraju Udruga Proces i @udruga.metamedij, uz podršku Muzeja suvremene umjetnosti Istre. ---
Program “Peti Proces” realiziran je sredstvima Ministarstva kulture i medija Republike Hrvatske, Istarske županije, Grada Pule, Turističke zajednice Grada Pule i Zaklade Kultura nova. taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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Ines Borovac & Karlo Štefanek:
BODY. NORM. RESISTANCE.

18. 9. 2026., 20:00 h

exhibition opening & performance

The exhibition explores how social norms shape, interpret, and direct the body. Working across various media, the artists reflect on gender, identity, belonging, desirability, and societal expectations, as well as the possibilities for shifting these boundaries and resisting them. As part of the exhibition, Karlo Štefanek will deliver a performance that expands this investigation of the body and its social roles into live performance and direct engagement with the audience.

The exhibition is curated by @sabsgram and organized by the @proces.queer and @udruga.metamedij associations.

Special thanks to the @msuistre for supporting the realisation of the exhibition. taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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Last Thursday, we opened the exhibition Fubar ARCHIVE by the art organization Format C with a presentation of the archive of international glitch art. The presenters were Dina Gligo and Vedran Gligo from Format C, and the moderator was curator Irena Borić.

With the exhibition, we present the first variable exhibition installation based on the Fubar archive, which programmatically and pseudo-randomly displays more than 1,500 visual artworks from Fubar's interactive database and multimedia database - digital images and videos that use error as an inspiration, motif, or method. Glitch art is an interdisciplinary way of looking at the world that allows a deeper examination of contemporary phenomena such as international networks, electronic circuits, digital compression, and the ways in which we shape them. An error within an artwork can reveal the internal structure of a digital file, its ecosystem and ethics, and its forms of distribution. Our engagement brings forward the final component of glitch art: an understanding of today’s multimedia landscape as a commons vulnerable to censorship, manipulation, and instrumentalization.

The exhibition was organized by the Atanor association, the Format C art organization, and the Novo gallery.

📷 @upitnikusklicnik by @gallerynovo

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T~24h to our first truly fully u᷂᷅᷅᷅͛᷅͟n᷂᷅̀᷅᷅᷅͡s᷂᷅̂᷅᷅͏᷅t᷂᷅͂᷅᷅̉᷅a̷᷂᷅᷅᷅ͩ᷅b̤᷂᷅᷅᷅̓᷅l͍᷂̥᷅᷅᷅᷅e᷂̭᷅̀᷅᷅᷅ #fubar_expo archive exhibition, at gallery novo in pula/croatia 💗
find everyone at 🌈fubar.space/artists
&& if you wanna have your art shared via the archive, hit that YES👌 over at the archive call at 🌐fubar.space taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗖: 𝗙𝘂𝗯𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗩𝗘

3. 9. 2026., 20:00 h

presentation & exhibition

Since its founding in 2015 throughout all ten editions (most recently in 2024), the Fubar (/ˈfuːbar/) festival has brought together hundreds of productions and more than a thousand artists and authors working in the field of glitch art. In 2025, Fubar evolved into a hybrid community platform, in 2026 it continues as the first biennial dedicated to variable glitch art. Throughout this process, inspired by the numerous contributions and sustained support of glitch art practitioners, Fubar has formed an interactive data and multimedia archive containing more than 1,500 artworks, offering an opportunity to explore an entire decade of experimental digital art from around the world. This open archive also enables the creation of curatorial collections for research and/or exhibition purposes, while opening up possibilities for the sustainable preservation of digital art through open protocols and free software.

At gallery Novo, we present the first variable exhibition installation based on the Fubar Archive, which programmatically and pseudo-randomly displays visual artworks from the Fubar Archive – digital images and videos that use error as an inspiration, motif, or method. Glitch art is an interdisciplinary way of looking at the world that allows a deeper examination of contemporary phenomena such as international networks, electronic circuits, digital compression, and the ways in which we shape them. An error within an artwork can reveal the internal structure of a digital file, its ecosystem and ethics, and its forms of distribution. Our engagement brings forward the final component of glitch art: an understanding of today’s multimedia landscape as a commons vulnerable to censorship, manipulation, and instrumentalization.

The opening will be preceded by a presentation of the open Fubar Archive web platform at 8 PM, moderated by curator Irena Borić.
On Saturday and Sunday, 5 and 6 September, free curatorial guided tours can be booked via novogallery.info@gmail.com by @gallerynovo

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2 months ago

Thomas Ankersmit: The Tcherepnin Series (Music for the Original Serge Synthesizers)

27 8 2026

Opening performance for this year's Audioart Festival at Gallery Novo 📍

Over the past twenty years, Thomas Ankersmit ( @thomasankersmit ) has specialised in the Serge Modular analogue synthesiser. Through this instrument he channels inspiration from musique concrète, electroacoustic improvisation and psychoacoustic sound art.

In this new project, Ankersmit returns to the source: creating music for the large, original Serge systems located in historic studios around the world. This year, he has worked at Harvard University, Columbia University, CalArts in Los Angeles, the EMS studio in Stockholm, GRM in Paris, and Willem Twee in Den Bosch. The result of this work will be presented at selected concerts and on the forthcoming album.

The Audioart ( @audioartfestival ) festival brings together artists working in the fields of experimental and improvised music, audiovisual installations and performances, sound art and field recording.

We thank Thomas Ankersmit for bringing his work into our gallery space and everyone else who joined us on the opening night!

📸 @upitnikusklicnik by @gallerynovo

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Last Friday marked the opening of the 25th edition of Cinemaniac > Think Film, the side program of the Pula Film Festival, featuring the exhibition Choreography of Violence: Counter-Images.

Coreography of Violence is conceived as an extended dialogue with Jelena Jureša’s solo exhibition, held at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, and this edition includes works by Jean-Luc Godard and Nebojša Slijepčević. It explores the complex relationships between collective memory and political responsibility.

The exhibition is curated by Branka Benčić and organized by the @mmsurijeka , @_apoteka_ , @udruga.metamedij , and @pulafilmfest , in partnership with KASK - School of Arts Ghent.

📸 @upitnikusklicnik taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗖 > 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀

Jelena Jureša, Jean-Luc Godard, Nebojša Slijepčević

𝟭𝟬–𝟮𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
📍Gallery NOVO, Pula

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝟭𝟬 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝟵 𝗣𝗠.

Choreography of Violence comes about as an extended dialogue with Jelena Jureša’s solo exhibition of the same name, presented at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka at the end of last year, and includes works by Nebojša Slijepčević and Jean-Luc Godard, in which art finds an opportunity to actively work towards a more just social and political future.

For over 25 years, 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗖 > 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 has been the international exhibition and research platform that challenges the connections among film, moving images, and contemporary art as part of the side programme of Pula Film Festival.

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆: Branka Benčić
𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆: MMSU Rijeka, Pula Film Festival, Udruga Metamedij, Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art
𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀: KASK – School of Art Ghent, Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past

See you at Gallery NOVO! ✨ taken in Galerija Novo by @gallerynovo

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Pulski filmski festival i ove godine donosi bogat izložbeni program koji prati i nadopunjuje filmski program Festivala! 🎭

Ovogodišnje izložbe posvećene su stvaralaštvu Nikole Tanhofera i Žarka Lauševića, predstavljaju eksperimentalni opus Željka Sarića te kroz jubilarno izdanje programa Cinemaniac > Misliti film istražuju odnose filma, pokretnih slika i suvremene umjetnosti.

U programu vas očekuju:

Stoljeće Nikole Tanhofera – Hommage totalnom filmašu
- otvorenje 1.7., Kino Valli

Željko Sarić: Kinegrafija
- otvorenje 8.7. u 20:00, Galerija Makina

Oficir s ružom – Žarko Laušević
- otvorenje 8.7. u 21:00, Srpski kulturni centar

Cinemaniac > Misliti film 2026. – Koreografija nasilja: Protu-slike
- otvorenje 10.7. u 21:00, Galerija NOVO

Posjetite ovogodišnje izložbe i otkrijte dio bogatog popratnog programa 73. Pulskog filmskog festivala! 🖼️

#pulafilmfestival #pulacroatia #filmpodzvijezdama #73pff #izlozba by @gallerynovo

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