LE PETIT FESTIVAL — PROGRAM

25 May — Twenty-second Le Petit Festival MMXXVI

21:00 — Official opening — Bokar Fortress

Exhibition: **Freedom, Truth and Vive L’Amour**

"The Wordless Moment" — Performance by Gustaf Broms (Sweden) — 40 min

Gustaf presents a new work that lifts the gaze: it asks us to stop seeing the world as a collection of objects and to embrace the fluid processes of becoming that the organic world reveals. The piece seeks to become a mirror that reflects Selves.

Gustaf Broms works at the intersection of performance, video, and installation. Born in Sweden in 1966, he lives and works in the Vendel forest. His practice explores consciousness, the duality of Being NATURE (the body’s biological processes) and Being MIND (the intellect’s interpretation of experience).

This exhibition asks how freedom, truth, and love shape and reflect collective and individual becoming. Set within the ancient walls of Bokar Fortress, it functions as a ritual of perception, inviting visitors to move beyond fixed objects and align with enduring relational processes in which compassion, tolerance, patience, and morality—when hearts are filled with love—transform into what matters most: the attempt to become the true Human Being.

Artists:

- Miloš Glavurtić — contemporary Croatian artist exploring collective memory and the urban landscape.

- Željko Tutnjević — multidisciplinary artist known for photographic interventions that challenge social norms.

- Robert Kralj — restoration master, sculptor, painter, and author of diverse projects.

- Ksenija Baraga — visual artist focused on textile installations and experimental media.

- Rado Jenko — graphic designer, painter, and teacher based in Ljubljana; student of Henryk Tomaszewski; founder of Ljubljana Poster Festival and noted international prize winner and jury member.

26 May — Studio Pulitika, MoMA Dubrovnik

21:00 — Opening: **Freedom and Truth**

Artists:

- Vladimir Trokut — gold-cage installation bearing the quote “Liberty should never be sold,” interrogating the price and performance of freedom.

- Robert Kralj — sculpture using void and weight to challenge presence and absence, turning material mass into a moral gesture.

- Radovan Jenko — figurative fragments mapping resilience and vulnerability.

- Tomislav Kralj — works that open a passage between the real and the dreamlike; gesture-driven paintings and sculptures that evoke synesthesia, transforming visual impulses into auditory and tactile layers of reality.

- Alberto León — “The Urban Alchemist of Visual Narratives,” transforming everyday scenes into allegories of autonomy and visibility.

- Ivo Vodopija — intimate installation where painting meets dream: a spatial composition merging painterly material and scenographic elements, encouraging meditative immersion in the secret instability of “to be.”

Curatorial note: A dialogue between real life and the material struggle of everyday existence, seeking the spiritual energy of creativity in painting, sculpture, and installation; a self-examination of how personal freedom, truth, and love are constructed, contested, and concealed.

30 May — Rector’s Palace

21:00

Introductory lecture: **The Book of Knowledge**

Speaker: Ružica Grgurev — biotechnology engineer and chemistry professor.

Reference: The Book of Knowledge — Dünya Kardeşlik Birliği Mevlana Yüce Vakfı (World Brotherhood Union Mevlana Supreme Foundation), 1998, 1132 pp.

Summary: A mysterious text variously called The One and Only Book, a new bible, or a fairy tale; it leaves the audience to decide on claims about the transmission of knowledge from ultra-dimensional beings.

31 May — Rector’s Palace

21:00 — Lecture: **Omega — the 19th Evolutionary Dimension: The Ultimate Reach of Human Evolution on Our Planet — a Scientific Perspective on "The Book of Knowledge"**

Speaker: Solar Teacher — Ružica Grgurev

Summary: Planet Earth as a natural spacecraft; life as a school arranged to expand knowledge and consciousness necessary to complete evolution.

Dance performance: "Persona" — Nina Hyvärinen (Finland) — 30 min

"Persona" is a solo work rooted in Carolyn Carlson’s poetic movement language, created in Paris in 2025. The piece explores womanhood through shifting identities, emotions, and life stages, moving between fragility and strength, freedom and constraint. Music composed by René Aubry.

Short biography: Nina Hyvärinen — Finnish dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose career spans classical ballet, contemporary, and Eastern dance traditions; former principal with the Finnish National Ballet; has worked with Carolyn Carlson, William Forsythe, and Jiří Kylián.

14 June — Rector’s Palace

21:00 — Play: "Time for Poetry"

Brief note: A metaphysical-philosophical parody; a commentary on the loss of the original idea of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Evening hosts: Deniz Sarić and Iris Kapidžić

The performance includes six young people and several distinguished local elders; special appearance by Dubrovački Kavaljeri.

Contact and web

- Email: [email protected]

- Web: www.lepetitfestival.com

Tickets: Request via email to [email protected] — seating is limited; Le Petit will issue a complimentary invitation upon request.

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