Events

Meeting with Artist in Residence: Giacomo Zaganelli

02.10.2026. - 02.10.2026. / MSU

We invite you to a meeting with artist Giacomo Zaganelli, who will be staying at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb from 29 September to 26 October as part of the international artistic residency Museum of the Commons and the Točka sastajanja programme.

The meeting, taking place on Friday, 2 October 2026 at 6 pm at MSU Zagreb, will be an opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about his work, but also for us, as local residents, to introduce him to the place where he will be researching and working over the coming weeks.

Volcanic Attitude 2026 – Vibrant Elements

25.09.2026. - 29.09.2026. / Napulj, Vulcano, Stromboli

Volcanic Attitude Festival 2026 will take place from 25 to 29 September. Blending art and science, the journey of the fifth edition – Vibrant Elements – sets off from Naples, at the foot of Vesuvius, towards the islands of Vulcano and Stromboli, and back again, travelling through evocative locations in search of “vibrant elements” in the Aeolian Islands. 

04.09.2026. - 06.09.2026. / MSU

The art organization Istovremeno/Samtempe, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the first Extended festival, which opens up space for durational performances realized across different media – from contemporary dance, performance, and media art, to sound art, theatre, and various hybrid formats. The title implies extended duration, a departure from established modes of watching, creating, and performing.

SHAKEN GROUNDS: AT THE EDGE OF FORM

03.09.2026. - 06.09.2026. / Gibellina

Shaken Grounds: At the Edge of Form is a four-day programme taking place in Gibellina, the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026, bringing together local residents, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, geophysicists and the wider public.

Through film screenings, live performances, a symposium and conversations, the programme creates a space for reflecting on what it means to live with seismic uncertainty. In a city and landscape deeply shaped by the memory of the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake, as well as by questions of vulnerability and transformation, artistic practice becomes a way of listening, witnessing and imagining possible responses, in dialogue with scientific, philosophical and local forms of knowledge.

The European Inclusive Arts Festival

08.06.2026. - 18.06.2026. / ART&CERZE GALERIJA, ZAGREBAČKI PLESNI CENTAR, INSTITUT LISZT – MAĐARSKI KULTURNI CENTAR, MUZEJ SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI U ZAGREBU

EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) is a network of European national cultural institutes and organisations dedicated to fostering cultural cooperation and relations worldwide. Bringing together 36 members from all 27 EU Member States, EUNIC operates through more than 120 clusters, promoting trust and mutual understanding through arts and culture.

The European Inclusive Arts Festival Art4All is a project initiated by the European cultural institutes and embassies united within the EUNIC Croatia network, in collaboration with the Centre for Rehabilitation Zagreb and its inclusive art gallery Art&CeRZe. The project aims to promote, support and advance the inclusion and acceptance of artists with disabilities within the cultural sector. Although diversity is recognised as a fundamental European value, artists with disabilities remain underrepresented in mainstream cultural programmes, primarily due to limited accessibility, insufficient visibility and a lack of opportunities for participation.

Gossip at MSU: Magazine Launch

26.05.2026. - 26.05.2026. / MSU

On Tuesday, May 26 at 6 PM, join us for the launch of a magazine through which MSU will reveal itself as a centre of gossip. The magazine will be presented by artist Femke Hoppenbrouwer together with members of the editorial team, Vesna Dianek and Vesna Stojnić.

Bauhaus Ecologies: Art, Environment and Critical Thought

20.05.2026. - 20.05.2026. / MSU

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb with the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana organize an expert forum in the context of the international project Bauhaus Ecologies. The forum will be held in two parts: on May 19, 2026 in Ljubljana and on May 20, 2026 in the Gorgona Hall within the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Zagreb session under the title, Bauhaus Ecologies: Art, Environment and Critical Thought gathers curators, artist and researchers to address questions about the relationship between art, environment and materiality, as well as about museal and artistic work with heritage, and with issues related to social consciousness.

Kasho Chualan, Thomas Grill, Ivar Roban Križić: Feedback

21.02.2026. - 21.02.2026. / Zbirka Richter

Outputs coming back as inputs – the chain of cause and effect without a clear beginning or end. Signals constantly feeding off each other, weaving a web of mutual relationships. Sound turning into objects, objects turning into space, space becoming meaning. The work evolves from the feedback loop between the body, the technical system and the environment in which meaning isn’t imposed but rather created through interference, dependency and collective presence.

SYMPOSIUM - GEFF: FROM ANTI-FILM TO LESSONS IN FREEDOM

12.02.2026. - 13.02.2026. / Dvorana Gorgona

As part of the retrospective exhibition "GEFF 1963 - 1969: from anti-film to black wave“ in the Black Box of the MSU, the Croatian Film Association, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tomislav Gotovac Institute are organizing a two-day symposium in Gorgona Hall, which brings together art and film historians/theoreticians, film artists and media researchers from the country and abroad. The aim of the symposium is to determine – from today's perspective and with a gap of several decades – the significance of the Genre Film Festival in the context of Croatian, regional and European culture and to value its heritage. Like the exhibition it relies on, the symposium will be an opportunity to highlight lesser-known fragments of GEFF manifestations, to analyse and synthesise, and to exchange and confront views on GEFF as an essential component of both global and local research art and culture of the 1960s.

open call - OCTOBER SCHOOL Moving Beyond Collapse: Reimagining Institutions

21.10.2025. - 25.10.2025. / Otok Vis

Moving beyond the current institutional collapse, happening everywhere from democracy and education to the world’s leading international organizations, is it possible to re-imagine – and establish – institutions as open, democratic, egalitarian, self-organized, local and transnational? Could the institutions that we see getting more and more deprived of power and influence, abandoned, silenced and humiliated by political and economic powers, be re-imagined and re-built, before getting completely dismantled and erased? While techno-feudalists are building secret refuges on hidden islands, the Island School of Social Autonomy (ISSA), along with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Museum of the Commons – a network of museums and cultural institutions united in the L'internationale – launches an October School on the island of Vis in Croatia. Through the intersection of the main thematic threads of Museum of the Commons – Climate or environmental sustainability; Situated organizations or how art institutions can become spaces of inclusion and diversity; and The past in the present, addressing history and heritage as tools for social justice, the island will become a case study for writers, historians, theoreticians, activists, artists, curators and researchers, on how to envision the future amidst and after ongoing catastrophes and genocides. With Adania Shibli, Kristin Ross, Robert Perišić, Saša Savanović, Srećko Horvat, Marko Pogačar, Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, Theo Prodromidis, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Progressive International, Naan-Aligned cooking, and others