Gloria Magazine
⭐ New exclusive interview

Zagreb gallerist on her career across two continents: ‘I left security behind and embraced the challenge’

Frankica Mitrović Mihić, owner of Zen Contemporary Art Gallery, speaks about life in New York, returning to Zagreb, founding her own gallery, and the support of her family.
“Art should awaken emotion and establish a personal connection,” she emphasizes in an extensive interview with Gloria.

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✈️ Croatia Airlines

Media feature in inflight magazine • March 2026

📸 Zen Contemporary Art Gallery featured in Croatia Airlines magazine

Media Reports

Sources following our artists and exhibitions

⏺ Layers of Place

Nikolija Baretić, Helena Birin, and Franka Vrljić

        “Through varied painterly approaches, the artists explore space as a multilayered and dynamic category: from the pastel horizons of Los Angeles, through the intimate and quiet space of the home, to the pulsating, tactile materiality of the flea market.”
    

📅 February 27 – March 27, 2026

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⏺ Matko Vekić – Image from the Background

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        One of the key authors of the contemporary art scene exhibits a cycle of paintings “From the Background” after returning from India. This exhibition represents the artist’s latest series of works exploring themes of identity, memory, and cultural interweaving.
    

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Exhibition Catalog

Synthesis of Tradition and Contemporaneity

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Kulturna noć – Evening of art, music and pleasant dialogue

Večernji list – Diva

Evening of art, music and pleasant dialogue

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Chic.hr magazine

Evening of art, music and pleasant dialogue

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📋 media reports • February 2026

Sebastijan Dračić – Dimora

Večernji List – Finds beauty in transience→
Telegram – His paintings linger in memory like fragments of a dream→
Večernji List – One of the most significant domestic painters has a new exhibition→
Journal – Sebastijan Dračić – Zen Contemporary Art exhibition→
Zagrebonline – His paintings linger in memory like fragments of a dream→
Exhibition Catalog – Sebastijan Dračić – Dimora→

Other Exhibitions and Projects

Journal – Fresh Perspectives – Zen Contemporary Art – Three brilliant young artists →
Nacional – Tenth anniversary of Zen Contemporary Art Gallery →
Nacional – Successful perspectives of Zen Contemporary Art Gallery →
Journal – Layers of the Inner Voice – Iva Laterza Obuljen – Matej Vuković →
Journal – Natalie Borčić Peuc + Daniele Fortuna →