Holographik Space is 180 m² in Trešnjevka, Zagreb. A specialty coffee bar through the day, a cocktail bar from five, and a room that gets emptied and rebuilt for exhibitions, dinners, concerts and shoots. You do not need a reason to come in. Most days it is a café you can sit in with a laptop. Some evenings it is something else, and the whole room can be booked.
Under one roof: the bar, the showroom that becomes the main room, a meeting room, a fitting room, a separate photo studio and a terrace. Fifty seats inside, fifty outside, a hundred and more standing once the room is cleared. Brands, designers and musicians have all had it for a night. What they book is not an empty hall but a room with a bar, a production team and a programme already running through it.
The room changes once a day, at five. Before that it is a coffee bar: tables, laptops, our own coffee on the bar and on the shelf to take home. After that the laptops close, the cocktail list comes out and the afterwork programme starts, every day of the week, with a DJ on Friday and Saturday.
Then there are the nights that are not on any schedule. An exhibition, a listening session, a private dinner, a brand presentation, a concert. The walls, the rails and the lighting all move, so the same room holds a seated dinner one evening and a hundred people standing the next.
Coming in
Open every day. Monday to Thursday 8–22, Friday 8–24, Saturday 9–24, Sunday 10–18.
Specialty coffee picked by our own coffee team, brewed on the bar, and bags of it to take home. Fifty seats inside, fifty more on the terrace. No booking, no minimum, no membership. Laptops are welcome until five.
The bar at night
At five the space turns. A full cocktail service, with a list our bar team builds around design rather than around trends: a section named after decades, drinks called De Stijl, Pear Deco, 1926.
What survives the season moves to the Hall of Fame, and there is a new special every month. Afterwork runs every day, with a DJ on Friday and Saturday. Most nights there is just the bar, which is also the point.
Booking the room
Two ways. The whole space, with the bar running and our production team on it, or the showroom zone on its own. Fifty seated, a hundred and more standing, depending on the format.
Where a project asks for it, the setup, the offer and the drink recipes are built for that night alone. Production, sound and light are ours; catering comes through partners.
Holographik Space grew out of Holographik, a design studio working in design and motion graphics. Two companies, different people, often the same table. That is the short answer to why the coffee, the bar and the programme are all designed rather than assembled. We work with artists, designers and people who arrive with an idea and no obvious place to put it. Our part is the rest — the room, the production, the bar, the people who know how to run a night. We are the space that lets things happen.
Nothing here is settled on the first attempt. The layout, the light, the sound and the recipes get rebuilt until they say what they are meant to say. It is why the cocktail list reads like a design history, and why a drinks menu has a Hall of Fame. Zagreb has the talent and the audience for a cultural programme that takes design seriously. We intend to keep raising what a room like this is expected to do, one programme at a time.
Selected projects