Sketch for a group portrait in front of Black Leafing, 2026
May 8, 2026 – November 22, 2026
Casa Jagoda Buić
Dr. Hans Wuttke Foundation
Fondamenta Zattere ai Saloni, 67,
Dorsoduro, Venice
Opening: May 7, 2026, 5 – 8 PM
curator Ivana Čuljak
In Venice, the solo exhibition by Lala Raščić, A SMILE, SMIRK, SNEER, SNICKER (or teeth as a language), opens at Casa Jagoda Buić, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Dr. Hans Wuttke Foundation’s new exhibition space, dedicated to preserving the legacy of Jagoda Buić. The exhibition is on view during the 2026 Venice Art Biennale.
Casa Jagoda Buić welcomes its first visitors during the 2026 Biennale Arte with two parallel exhibitions. Conceived as a conversation between generations, the exhibition Beyond Tapestry brings together works by Jagoda Buić, while Lala Raščić presents new, commissioned works.
As a tribute to Jagoda Buić, Raščić references the 1978 tapestry Black Leafing, located in the Elektroprivreda BiH building in Sarajevo, through her own artistic language. The artist translates the tapestry’s relief structure into patterns on glass within a multi-sensory, lumino-kinetic installation that includes elements executed in the verre églomisé technique.
A SMILE, SMIRK, SNEER, SNICKER (or teeth as a language) is a layered art project in which the artist symbolically completes her long-term exploration of the myth of Medusa. The work develops through various media—from drawing and object to installation—in which the motif of the jaw and teeth is fragmented, abstracted, and spatially organized, while the form simultaneously serves as a carrier of content and as a creative principle that shapes and connects them into a coherent whole. The technical realization of the work is based on the precise and complex processing of various, sensitive materials, which involves a series of carefully controlled procedures. The final form emerges in the very act of processing, through which the work with the material takes on a performative character. The precision of the craftsmanship and the quality of the execution attest to the technical virtuosity of Lala Raščić and her mastery of various media and techniques.
The work is conceived in direct relation to the architectural heritage and the space of Casa Jagoda Buić in Venice, which with this installation opens as an exhibition space for the first time. The presence of Jagoda Buić’s works in the same setting functions not only as an institutional framework, but as an open dialogue between two poetics and two authors’ hands, between three-dimensional textile structures on one hand, and fragmented and reflective forms on the other.”
– from the text by Anja Bogojević
Lala Raščić 