Hrvoje Dumančić: Circle, Exhibition

Open daily

8:00 – 19:00

The exhibition remains open until 1 September 2026.

Organiser: Society of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiquities

From his earliest student days, the horse has remained the constant axis of his practice. For Dumančić, the horse is not a depiction of an animal but a medium through which he reflects on his own life, emotions, memories and the relationship between human beings and nature. His sculptures transcend traditional equestrian iconography, transforming the horse into a poetic vessel of personal and collective memory. In his recent cycle “Circle”, Dumančić expands his artistic language beyond equine figuration towards archetypal symbols. The circle appears as a sign of life, the sun, time and perpetual change, while the horse remains a lasting connection between personal experience and universal human memory. Through reliefs, sculptures and spatial interventions, he explores the relationship between transience and permanence, matter and light, creating works that belong simultaneously to the contemporary moment and to an ancient symbolic heritage.

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Hrvoje Dumančić (Zagreb, 1975) is one of the most recognised Croatian sculptors of his generation, whose entire body of work is devoted to exploring the horse as the central motif of his artistic and intellectual inquiry. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb (1994.) and completed his degree in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (1998.). The doctoral study in sculpture at the same institution, which he began in 2008, was dedicated to the question of whether a work of art can evoke childhood memories — research he concluded with a doctorate in 2021, which has permanently shaped the direction of his work. He has received numerous international awards and recognitions.