Exhibitions

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling

11.06.2026. - 06.09.2026. / MSU, 1. i 2. kat povremenih izložbi

* Opening: June 11 at 8 pm *

On screen, everything has become equally urgent and equally disposable. Nothing shocks. Nothing settles. Nothing lingers long enough to feel real. We are overstimulated, but underwhelmed.

This year’s edition of Organ Vida, titled Happy Spiraling, seeks to find meaning in an everyday life saturated with images. We are interested in how contemporary visual culture reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: how it shapes the ways we see and understand the world and how we make art. The featured works engage with an overstimulated digital world in different ways - whether by exposing how it manipulates and exhausts us, by destabilizing it through subversion, by gaming it, mocking it, or escaping from it altogether.

PERMANENT DISPLAY: FLOWERS – NON-FLOWERS – SOMETHING THIRD

02.06.2026. - 31.12.2026. / MSU, 3. kat

The Museum of Contemporary Art will soon present the fourth segment of the permanent display Collection as a Verb, an exhibition section that continues to explore the idea of multiple narratives and fluid transitions between them.

Drawing on artistic practices that have been clearly articulated on the local scene since the 1970s through the programmes of the former Contemporary Art Gallery (today MSU), this segment emphasizes the key role of the institution and its actors in shaping a new generation of artists, particularly female artists.

SintArt 20: Sara Salamon – Mise en abyme

23.05.2026. - 31.10.2026. / Zbirka Richter

As part of the SintArt cycle, the solo exhibition Mise en abyme by artist Sara Salamon will open on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at 12 pm at the Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter Collection. Starting from the idea of space as a system that “performs itself”, in collaboration with the artist Hrvoje Spudić, Salamon develops a series of spatial interventions that destabilize the possibility of orientation within space and the perception of space itself. The exhibition emerges through a dialogue with the theoretical and artistic legacy of Vjenceslav Richter, particularly his reflections on space, line, Sinturbanism, and Heliopolis, translating them into a contemporary context marked by a crisis of trust in images, information, and the sense of reality.

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.

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.