Exhibitions

SintArt 18: Hana Miletić and Graham Kelly with CIMO in dialogue with Nada Kareš Richter and Vjenceslav Richter

24.05.2025. - 24.08.2025. / Zbirka Richter

The 18^th edition of the SintArt Project hosts Hana Miletić, Croatian artist who lives in Belgium and who is developing an artistic language based primarily on the creation of textual works, Scottish visual artist Graham Kelly based in Belgium and The Netherlands, who is presenting his work to the Croatian public for the first time with the film titled Hello Joe, and CIMO (Center for Research of Fashion and Clothing) from Zagreb. Miletić contemplates the social and cultural reality in which she lives and works by using the weaving process. Through her weaving practice, she reproduces social gestures of maintaining and repairing infrastructure, and different objects in various states of transition. The focus of this exhibition, as well as the study of the bequeathed Collection of Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter, is the relationship between the private and public space of the Collection. Special attention is given to the intimate space of the apartment that forms part of the Collection, and within which the artists create a dialogue by temporarily exchanging the Collection’s artworks with their own. 

Kinematografije otpora present: And then i found some meteorites in my room – a project by Driant Zeneli

20.05.2025. - 25.06.2025. / MSU, Black Box

Can a theory of dark matter born on the margins of society destabilize scientific narratives and open a space for utopia? Can a DJ set and the improvised cosmic philosophy of a worker offer new forms of collectivity and imagination?

As part of this year's Subversive Festival, whose theme is The Age of Conflict, the Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition by internationally recognised Albanian artist Driant Zeneli, whose work resides at the intersection of science, fairytale and resistance. The exhibition is realised as part of a long-standing collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Subversive Festival, and is curated by Leila Topić (MSU) and Dina Pokrajac, Artistic Director of the Subversive Festival.

Andreja Kulunčić: To Make the World a Better Place

15.05.2025. - 12.10.2025. / MSU, 1. i 2. kat povremenih izložbi

* The exhibition opening is on May 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. *

Visual artist Andreja Kulunčić, whose work is one of the key oeuvres of socially engaged artistic practice in Croatia, presents herself for the first time with an all-encompassing solo exhibition that brings an overview of her artistic activity from the 1990s to the present day. The basis of the exhibition is the research and analysis of the potential of contemporary socially engaged visual artistic practice in changing the existing social situation, i.e., the artist’s statement that socially engaged art makes the world a better place with its doing. In her artistic practice, Andreja Kulunčić indicates the social injustices – she identifies them, studies their causes, and examines the possible manners of resistance. Her art is not only a reflection of reality, but also a tool for change which stimulates the audience into critical thinking and active participation.    

Exhibition as part of The Arts of Resistance (TAoR) Project

08.05.2025. - 21.06.2025. / MSU, 2. kat

The Museum of Contemporary Art announces the exhibition The Arts of Resistance (TAoR) as part of the international project of the same name. The exhibition will open on May 8 and run until June 21, 2025, presenting the results of months of research and co-creative processes exploring the connections between historical, cultural, social, political, and physical ecologies of resistance against fascism.

The Arts of Resistance project, initiated by artists Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond from the HASENHERZ association, brings together young artists, researchers, and experts to explore historical contexts of resistance through a co-creative approach and reinterpret them through contemporary art. Drawing from Umberto Eco’s text We Are European (2019), the project examines Europe as an experiment in peace, identity, and resistance against fascism—both in the past and today.

The exhibition “Futures”

04.04.2023. - 31.12.2025. / MSU, 2. kat

The two main views of the future are often mutually exclusive; the first is based on progressive advancement and growth, while the other one sees this advancement and growth as a threat to the planet and all living beings. Already from these different views, we can conclude that the future before us is not a single one; rather, there are several possible futures and hence, we do not speak of a “future,” but rather of the “futures.” 

Comradeship / Collection as a Verb

07.07.2022. - 31.12.2025. / MSU, 1. kat

'Comradeship' exhibition is the second in a series called Collection as a Verb, which we are doing as a team, to redefine the concept of a museum and the social context in which it is located. After the the first exhibition – 'Sad Songs of War', about war and violence, 'Comradeship' opens up the themes of solidarity and compassion, the role of art and museums in improving the world. The word 'camaraderie' has the same root as society, and comrades are connected by affection, cooperation, connection with an idea or work.

That's why 'Comradeship' presents works from the collections of Museum's art collectives, as well as works by artists realized in cooperation with various communities. Ranging from today's canonized neo-avant-garde to recent participatory research, 24 artists and art collectives show the innovative ways in which they can contribute to change, and even improvement, both for individuals and communities. 

Sad Songs of War / Collection as a Verb

05.04.2022. - 31.12.2025. / MSU, 1. kat

The first sequence of presenting works from the fundus of the Museum is conceived as an answer to the current situation. It is a desire to express solidarity and empathy with the country undergoing a tragedy similar to that which is still fresh in our memory. The exhibition was named after the sound work by the Lithuanian artist, Deimantas Narkevičius, produced in 2014 in the period of the first protests, unrests, and plights in The Ukraine, on the Independence Square in Kyiv.