Events

Applications open: School of Common Knowledge

12.02.2024. - 29.05.2024. / MSU Zagreb, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana i L’Internationale

MSU Zagreb, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana and L’Internationale invite applications for a pilot of the new School of Common Knowledge (SCK) to be held in Zagreb and Ljubljana from May 24 to 29, 2024. The School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world. The SCK is built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana and continues its co-learning methodology. 

First-hand: Artists and Colleagues on Davor Matičević

07.02.2024. - 07.02.2024. / MSU, Black Box

First-hand: Artists and Colleagues on Davor Matičević
Wednesday, 7 February, 6 p.m.
MSU Black Box

With: Sanja & Mario Bachrach Krištofić, Boris Cvjetanović, Darko Fritz, Markita Franulić, Tihomir Milovac

Hosted by: Željko Luketić, Leila Topić

Discursive event as part of the exhibition His Supporting Hand – Curating the Curator: Davor Matičević

PROMOTION OF THE VUJIČIĆ COLLECTION’S BOOK 'To Live a Quiet Life'

01.02.2024. - 01.02.2024. / Dvorana Gorgona

The promotion of the Vujičić Collection's book “To Live a Quiet Life”,  published by the Viennese publisher Verlag für moderne Kunst, will take place on February 1, 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Gorgona Hall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

The Vujičić Collection represents a continuous process of discovering visual art practices in Croatia and other countries in the region from the 1950s to the present with the aim of establishing a permanent dialogue between artists, curators, institutions and private collectors, and this publication is its first comprehensive presentation to the public after previous individual exhibitions. works from the collection at collective exhibitions in Zagreb, New York, Warsaw, Sao Paolo and Moscow.

Red, Green, Black and White

21.01.2024. - 21.01.2024. / MSU

Fifth in a series of performed militant inquiries by the Institute of Radical Imagination, "Red, Green, Black and White" is based on the interviews of thirteen citizens and activists for social and climate justice. Zooming dizzily between the urban dimension of Zagreb and the global geo-political one, the work finds the words to touch on the hot spots of ethical, ecological and political responsibility today. Because it is no longer possible to remain silent without becoming complicit. This program is part of the Museum of the Commons project, part of L’Internationale, a confederation of the 14 European museums and other cultural institutions for contemporary art. It will be held at the entrance hall of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb on Sunday, January 21st at 4 pm.

Ethics of the Display – a discussion about presenting ethically complex content

18.01.2024. - 18.01.2024. / MSU, Black Box

With: museum advisor of the Archaeological Museum Zagreb Jacqueline Balen, research journalists of Jutarnji list Slavica Lukić and Kristina Turčin, deputy editor-in-chief of Novosti, historian and writer Tihomir Ponoš

Hosted by: MSU curator Leila Topić

The direct impulse for the discussion Ethics of the Display was the dilemma that plagued the curatorial team of the exhibition His Supporting Hand – Curating the Curator: Davor Matičević (Leila Topić, Željko Luketić, Leri Ahel) about how to present documentary content we wanted both to show and to hide. More accurately, the newspaper documents from different local weeklies from the 1990s which, sometimes in quite an obnoxious and inappropriate way, presented the private life, the course of illness and death of Davor Matičević.

Works of Heart: An Archive in Becoming

05.12.2023. - 05.12.2023. / MSU

As part of the Works of Heart (1970 - 2023) retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Croatian artists, Sanja Iveković, MSU Zagreb is organizing the symposium Works of Heart: An Archive in Becoming, which will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 at 5 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Guided tour in English - Sanja Iveković: Works of Heart (1970-2023)

05.11.2023. - 05.11.2023. / MSU

On Sunday, November 5th, at 11.30 am, the artist Petar Vranjković will give a guided tour through the exhibition of Croatian contemporary artist Sanja Iveković Works of Heart.

The tour can be combined with the walking tour in Zagreb's center the day before the exhibition tour - Art in Public Space: A Tour from the Grounded Sun to Mesnička Street. 

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE – TOUR FROM THE GROUNDED SUN TO MESNIČKA STREET

04.11.2023. - 26.11.2023. / Prizemljeno sunce, Bogovićeva ulica

Join in this year’s last city tours Art in Public Space by MSU Zagreb available in Croatian and English and visit Sanja Iveković’s exhibition Works of Heart 

In November, curator and art historian Ivana Meštrov leads a thematic art tour Art in Public Space dedicated to public sculptures and interventions by contemporary artists in the centre of Zagreb. Those are the last city tours for this year, available in English as well as in Croatian on these dates:

▻ Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 11 a.m., English language

▻ Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 5 p.m., Croatian language

Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia Book presentation and discussion with the editors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc

13.10.2023. - 13.10.2023. / MSU Shop

Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia

Book presentation and discussion with the editors Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc

The conversation is moderated by Lujo Parežanin, independent researcher, journalist, and musician.
Organized by: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, and Igor Zabel Association, Ljubljana

The publication presents a comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1991) dedicated to the antifascist People’s Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution. 

Book launch Oliver Ressler: Barricading the Ice Sheets

27.09.2023. - 27.09.2023. / MSU Shop

Book launch
Oliver Ressler: Barricading the Ice Sheets
MSU, Wednesday, 27th September 2023 at  6 p.m.

Oliver Ressler in conversation with Leila Topić, artivist Azra Svedružić and editor of Ekovjesnik Stjepan Felber

Oliver Ressler’s film projects, installations, photographs, and drawings illuminate the mechanisms and potential of worldwide protests.