Exhibitions

Ana Bilankov: Echoing the Silence

23.04.2026. - 07.06.2026. / MSU, Black Box

* Opening of the exhibition: April 23, 2026 at 7 pm *

What remains when history falls silent?

Ana Bilankov's exhibition Odjek tišine (Echoing the Silence) takes as its starting point a forgotten chapter in the history of Mediterranean migrations – an exile to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt during the World War II – and turns it into a multilayered exploration of memory, displacement, and absence. Paraphrasing Frederic Jameson, who in his book The Political Unconscious asserts that history is "what hurts", an actual force resisting us because it is not susceptible to our desires or projects, the exhibition invites us to dive into the painful present and to transcend it by witnessing and refusing to forget it.

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand

24.03.2026. - 21.06.2026. / MSU, 3. kat

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb invites you to the opening of the exhibition By the Means at Hand by Vlatka Horvat, which will be held on Tuesday, March 24 at 6 PM at the MSU. The exhibition offers insight into the project which Horvat created for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60^th Venice Biennale, and which she donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb after the Biennale closed. For the project, Horvat invited some 200 international artists – friends and friends of friends, all living “as foreigners” in different countries around the world – to make and send to her small-scale artworks which in some way reflected on their experience of migration, of being a foreigner, of living in diaspora. For every work she received in Venice, Horvat sent to each artist a collage from the series she was making while living in the pavilion for the duration of the Biennale. All the artworks traveled to Venice and back via informal transport networks; in the bags and suitcases of friends, acquaintances, and sometimes strangers enlisted as couriers for the project.

Bauhaus Ecologies – Webs of Continuity

24.02.2026. - 24.05.2026. / MSU, 1. kat povremenih izložbi

The exhibition Bauhaus Ecologies – Webs of Continuity opens up with the question whether the historical Bauhaus can be read from an ecological perspective. In doing so, ecology is understood not only as a theme, but as a way of thinking, as a web of relations between materials and ideas, past and present practices, between art and the everyday. Within this framework, ecology is establishing connections between materials, technology and social conditions, and recycling becomes an essential method for reading and connecting artworks, the way in which forms and methods of the modernism were introduced in the art practice from the second half of the 20th century until today. In that way, history is not confined to archives, but returns to the present as a starting point for examination of space and materials, and our common world.

Collection as a Verb

05.04.2022. - 31.12.2026. / MSU, 1. kat

The series of exhibitions with the joint title Collection as a Verb, which are created as a team effort, represent the new collection in duration of the Museum, so as to redefine its' concept and the social context in which it is situated. The title of the cycle is inspired by the poem “Freedom Is a Verb” by Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak. The exhibitions are not a finished project, but rather a process and swift reaction to the events around us. If we consider the collection a verb – an action, a state of being, or an occurrence – our team, together with the artists and the community, is a subject operating in time.