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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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Elle Magazine
🎨 Introspective exhibition


Kristina Bradač Radić presents a powerful and introspective exhibition “The Sun Heals Me, But the Moon Feels Me”

Zen Contemporary Art Gallery opened an emotional art project that explores inner rhythms and the cyclical nature of the Moon from the artist’s personal perspective through paintings, forms, and ceramic objects.
“With this exhibition, I am stepping out of my comfort zone and revealing creative, long-silenced parts of myself.”


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✈️ Croatia Airlines

Media feature in inflight magazine • March 2026


📸 Zen Contemporary Art Gallery featured in Croatia Airlines magazine

Restyloh
📰 Exclusive Interview


Frankica Mitrović Mihić – Vision, Experience, and the Impact Behind ZEN Contemporary

In an extensive interview for Restyloh, Frankica Mitrović Mihić talks about her journey from the Museum of Contemporary Art and MoMA PS1 to founding her own gallery.
She reveals how her life and studies in New York shaped her view of the art market, what the biggest challenges were in launching ZEN Contemporary, and how she balances theory, practice, and the market today.


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Journal.hr
🎨 Cultural Radar


Works by Three Young Painters at Zen Contemporary Art: “Layers of Place”

The exhibition “Layers of Place” presents works by three recent painting graduates: Nikolija Baretić, Helena Birin, and Franka Vrljić.
Through different painterly approaches, the artists explore space as a multilayered category – from the pastel horizons of Los Angeles, through the intimate space of the home, to the tactile materiality of flea markets. The exhibition is open until March 27, 2026.


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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


📄 pdf Catalog

⏺ Matko Vekić – Image from the Background
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.
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
  • Chic.hr magazine
    Evening of art, music and pleasant dialogue
📋 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 →