Events

Art in the Age of Climate Change: A Conversation with Gail Hocking

19.10.2024. - 19.10.2024. / MSU

On Saturday, October 19th at 4 PM, we invite you to spend the afternoon in conversation with Australian artist Gail Hocking, who is exhibiting at this year’s Drava Art Biennale. As part of the School of Change program, we are hosting her as a prominent artist whose work explores key ecological and climate issues in her artistic practice.

Propaganda School: Reading and discussion circle and promotion of the photobook

02.10.2024. - 02.10.2024. / Black box

We are announcing the 6th reading and discussion circle: Reading Palestine, decolonial and transnational solidarity (Wednesday, October 2nd, 5 p.m., MSU) organized by the Free Palestine Initiative.

Apply HERE: https://forms.gle/FEfJi1EYWq4pCKrKA

Vibraception: excitatory yards and vibraceptional plate

20.09.2024. - 20.09.2024. / MSU plato

plateau of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb
Friday, 20 September 2024 from 3 pm

From Friday, September 20, everyone is invited to interact with the temporary interactive sound installations on the plateau of the MSU, which are the work of the author Jan St. Werner, experimental sound artist, lecturer and performer. The installations, Vibraceptional Plate and rotating sound panels called Excitatory Yards are the first stage of the cooperation between the Museum and the author. As part of that cooperation Werner's solo exhibition is planned at MSU in March 2025. Both programs are part of the project Vibraception, which includes collaboration with numerous experts in the field of experimental sound, vibrations, architecture and space.

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus - film screening and a conversation with the director

29.05.2024. - 29.05.2024. / Dvorana Gorgona

Screenings:
May 27 2024, 8.00 p.m. – Split, Kinoteka Zlatna vrata, Dioklecijanova 7
May 29 2024, 7.00 p.m. – Zagreb, MSU, Dvorana Gorgona, Av. Dubrovnik 17
June 3 2024, 9.00 p.m. – Pula, Pulska filmska tvornica, Alfreda Stiglicha 12
 

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus, 2018.
Director and screenwriter, producer: Jeffrey Perkins; 123′, USA
* the film is shown in English

Editor + motion graphics: Jessie Stead
Executive producer: Josef Bogdanovic
Associate Producers: Jonas Mekas, Cassidy Petrazzi
Production manager and assistant director: Liz Dautzenberg

Jeffrey Perkins will be present at all screenings.

Conversation moderated by: Zorko Sirotić and Janka Vukmir

Katarina Zdjelar: Pogled je most [The Gaze Is a Bridge], dedication to Nasta Rojc and the painting Self-Portrait with a Rifle (1912)

28.05.2024. - 28.05.2024. / Dvorana Gorgona

We cordially invite you to the screening of artist Katarina Zdjelar’s recent film, Gaze Is a Bridge (Pogled je most, 2023), on Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 7 p.m., at Gorgona Hall of the Museum of Contemporary Art. 
The talk with Katarina Zdjelar, Ana Opalić, Leonida Kovač and Jelena Vesić, moderated by Martina Munivrana, will be held after the screening.  

SCHOOL OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE PUBLIC LECTURES

24.05.2024. - 29.05.2024. / Zagreb i Ljubljana

School of Common Knowledge (SCK) is an educational program initiated by MSU Zagreb, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana and L’Internationale, which takes place in Zagreb and Ljubljana, May 24–29, 2024. SCK draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation, and in particular on the  Glossary of Common Knowledge and its co-learning methodology. 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.

Participants selected on the Open call attend the whole program. Keynote lectures are open to the public.

COSMOS OTTINGER

16.05.2024. - 18.05.2024. / Dvorana Gorgona

Cosmos Ottinger is the title of the programme by which the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the film director and multimedia artist Ulrike Ottinger as part of the series Landscapes of Simultaneous Times: On Memory Practices in Contemporary Art. On the occasion of her guest appearance in Zagreb, the Subversive Film Festival will honour her with the lifetime achievement award The Wild Dreamer.

Reading Palestine, decolonial and transnational solidarities

03.05.2024. - 03.05.2024. / MSU, Baunet cafe

The next few reading circles will be dedicated to the discussion of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi.

The upcoming circle on the 3rd of April covers the second (The Second Declaration of War, 1947–1948 ) and the third chapter (The Third Declaration of War, 1967) of the book.  

We will send you a digital .pdf version of the book to your e-mail address after you register. 

Why Are We Afraid to Call It What It Is: Genocide - A conversation with Majd Nasrallah and Bojana Piškur

25.04.2024. - 25.04.2024. / MSU, 1. kat

Why Are We Afraid to Call It What It Is: Genocide
A conversation with Majd Nasrallah and Bojana Piškur
Sad Songs of War exhibiton, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1^st floor
25^th of April, 7 p.m.

Supporters of a free Palestine within the global solidarity movement find themselves in a precarious position: opposing human annihilation against one people is framed as an accusation of endorsing it for another. This paradox, where resistance to genocide is seen as problematic and threatening and is censored and demonized, highlights the grave risks facing global affairs today—signaling the dangerous rise of neo-fascism and right wing politics of a new dark era.

Guided Tour: Julije Knifer – from the MSU collections

23.04.2024. - 23.04.2024. / MSU

As part of the project commemorating the centenary of the birth of the artist Julije Knifer and as part of the exhibition Julije Knifer: from the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is being held from April 11 to May 12, 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, on the very day of Knifer’s birth, 23 April 2024 at 6 p.m., there will be a guided tour of the exhibition intended for all interested audiences.