December 18, 2025 | 5:30 PM
12/25
Katarina Ivanišin
/ Artist /
Iva Ivas
/ Arhitect /
Ivan Mostahinić
/ IVANIŠIN. KABASHI. ARHITEKTI /
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Creative Hour: Architecture and Art opens a focused reflection on the relationship between spatial structures and the artwork - particularly in situations where art does not function as a decorative surface, but as a constructive and spatial co-author of architecture. The conversation will take place on Thursday, 18 December at 5:30 PM, at Urania - Space of Creation, with the participation of artist Katarina Ivanišin, and architects Iva Ivas and Ivan Mostahinić (IVANIŠIN. KABASHI. ARHITEKTI).
At the center of the discussion are works by Katarina Ivanišin realized within the interiors of the Hotel in Praška Street and the Embassy of Kosovo. A seventeen-meter-long tapestry and a large-scale graphic executed on aluminum panels, measuring nine by six meters, are conceived as integral segments of the spatial composition. Their materiality, format, and tactility are not the result of adaptation, but of a precise response to the architectural rhythm and scale of the given space. Within the embassy interior, imprints of natural patterns from the artist’s archive are transformed into spatial niches that redefine the working environments of the ambassador and his assistant, raising the question: to what extent can an artwork shape spatial narrative and function as a spatial-programmatic element?
This edition of Creative Hour examines the boundaries between architectural design and artistic intervention. Through a conversation with architects Ivan Mostahinić and Iva Ivas - whose professional background includes a significant body of collaborative design work within the studio - the discussion offers insight into a practice that consistently treats interdisciplinarity as an operational model. The cited projects reveal the studio’s long-standing aspiration to formulate spaces that do not tolerate illustrative additions, but instead integrate art as a constructive, and at times even tectonic, component.
The participants’ biographies further underscore the breadth of experience framing this dialogue. Katarina Ivanišin, trained in London and deeply engaged with natural structures, has in recent years focused on transforming motifs into spatial and tactile surfaces. Her recent exhibitions and awards place her among the leading figures of the contemporary Croatian art scene. Ivan Mostahinić, MArch, has shaped his professional path within IVANIŠIN. KABASHI. ARHITEKTI, contributing to numerous exhibitions, publications, and award-winning projects. Iva Ivas, a long-term collaborator of the same office and today Head of the Architecture Department at Di plan, builds her practice on openness to collective processes and interdisciplinary methods.
The conversation at Urania will consider how art and architecture mutually affirm one another, but also how, in specific situations, they act as correctives to each other. Within this intersection, space opens for questions about the criteria for integrating art into architecture, the determination of scale, and the possibilities for an artwork to become a load-bearing element of spatial logic rather than a mere aesthetic layer.
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