On Friday, 19 September 2025, at the Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec, the International Day of Peace will be commemorated with a concert by the Zagreb Soloists at 6 p.m. and the opening of the exhibition The Maslyk Family – In Search of Peace at 7 p.m.

The Antun Augustinčić Gallery in Klanjec is the only museum institution in Croatia that commemorates the International Day of Peace (21 September). Through the program With Peace for Peace, now in its sixteenth consecutive year, the Gallery provides an opportunity for different artists to present their vision of peace and/or establish a dialogue with Augustinčić’s Peace monument in the permanent display. This year’s program will combine music and visual arts.

The Zagreb Soloists — Krunoslav Marić, Saki Kodama, Zvonimir Krpan, Marko Glogović, Davor Philips, Ivan Novinc (violins), Hrvoje Philips, Tajana Škorić (violas), Vid Veljak, Luka Galuf (cellos), and Antal Papp (double bass) — will perform works by W. A. Mozart, Tomislav Uhlik, and Joseph Haydn.

The exhibition by the Ukrainian Maslyk family vividly testifies to how war destroys previously familiar life, erodes values, and darkens beauty. Through sculptures (Anton), paintings (Tetiana), and photographs (Sofiia), this artistic family presents their personal visual response to the past years; an attempt to seek values, beauty, and peace within themselves, until the time comes to experience them again in the world we inhabit.

The exhibition, which can be viewed until 23 November 2025, is held under the patronage of the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Gordan Jandroković, and is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and Krapina-Zagorje County.