Želimir Harasty works across painting, sculpture, installation, and calligraphic gesture, exploring inheritance—cultural, material, and emotional. His installations employ structural composition and architectural logic to examine balance, repetition, and disruption, shifting the way audiences perceive and inhabit space.
After graduating with a BFA in Sculpture from National Art School in 2019, Harasty’s projects often began with lived experience: family histories, migration, and negotiation of belonging within his Chinese and European lineage. A residency in Foshan and Luohang, China informed works later presented in his solo exhibition Mask Off at Saint Cloche, where painting and sculptural elements integrate with calligraphy to explore memory, continuity, and cyclical time.
Alongside his studio practice, Harasty contributed to large-scale collaborative projects such as Haven City and the three-room installation Cloud Play. These immersive environments translate digital and sensory motifs into physical space, inviting audiences to explore, interact, and inhabit architectural landscapes reminiscent of early digital atmospheres. His practice remains rooted in materiality, personal and cultural histories, and the evolving structures of making.
