23/01/2026
Lala Raščić: Archaeobotany & Apocalypse
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The exhibition Archaeobotany & Apocalypse – Establishing an Interval by Lala Raščić opened on Saturday, December 20, 2025, at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art in Vodnjan.
The exhibition remains open until January 20, 2026.
Archaeobotany & Apocalypse is an artistic-research project that Lala Raščić has been developing continuously and in phases since 2023. The phase titled “Establishing an Interval,” which unfolds between speculation and production, was presented this winter at Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art. The exhibition configuration at Apoteka tests the visual, technical, and conceptual premises of Archaeobotany & Apocalypse, a project that evolves through a series of conceptual and material directions and poses questions about the archaeobotany of the future and the generative potential of nature’s destructive power.
In navigating these interconnections and complexities, the project entered into a symbiotic relationship with contemporary visual culture theorist Ana Peraica. In this phase of the project, in addition to providing a textual-theoretical counterpart to the artistic work, Peraica deconstructed the methodological and discursive complex of Archaeobotany & Apocalypse as a kind of map—a visualization of the structure of Lala Raščić’s research and practice. The processual nature of the project enabled the collaboration between theorist and artist to be emancipated as an autonomous visual-exhibition artifact which, alongside other project outcomes presented at Apoteka, occupies a central and frontal position within the exhibition.
This material carries conceptual information, while visual information in the exhibition is presented as projections within a video-mapped environment and through a series of images of plant species executed in the verre églomisé technique—gilded painting on glass. These images do not remain simply or aesthetically fixed in their luxurious execution; they are deconstructed by a moving beam of light that activates their reflections and shadows, functioning as a spatial manifestation of the question of the permeability of history, which Ana Peraica posits as a fundamental vector in her consideration of the methodology of disappearance.
In her practice, Lala Raščić employs various patterns of material and immaterial culture in constructing narratives that manifest through installations, sculptural objects, drawings, video performances, and live performances. She skillfully combines traditional artistic techniques with new media in complex and meticulously researched projects that, at the level of presentation and exhibition, demonstrate a commitment to excellence and high production, technical, and aesthetic values. Her interests are simultaneously directed toward contemporary and historical storytelling practices, complex systems of knowledge production, as well as folkloric forms and mythology. Her work inhabits the space between concept and theatricality, often confronting forms of high culture with popular-media and traditional cultural expressions through a critical, predominantly feminist position.
Lala Raščić
Born in 1977 in Sarajevo, Lala Raščić lives and works between Zagreb and Sarajevo. She has been actively exhibiting regionally and internationally since 1998 in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including presentations at Kunsthaus, Graz; the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo; Manifesta 14, Prishtina; Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg; Galerija Nova, Zagreb; MAXXI, Rome; Kunstverein, Hamburg; KADIST, Paris; MSU, Zagreb; GfZK, Leipzig; the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Raščić participated in the postgraduate residency program at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and in artist residencies at MuseumsQuartier Q21, Vienna; Platform Garanti, Istanbul; and Cité des Arts, Paris. She is the recipient of the Future of Europe award, Leipzig; the first acquisition award T-HT and MSU, Zagreb; and the YVVA ZVONO award, and was a finalist for the Henkel Art Award and the YVVA Radoslav Putar Award. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and is a member of HDLU and HZSU in Zagreb, as well as the organization CRVENA, with which she administers and runs the Nona Residency program in her studio in Sarajevo.
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