Events

The European Inclusive Arts Festival

08.06.2026. - 18.06.2026. / ART&CERZE GALERIJA, ZAGREBAČKI PLESNI CENTAR, INSTITUT LISZT – MAĐARSKI KULTURNI CENTAR, MUZEJ SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI U ZAGREBU

EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) is a network of European national cultural institutes and organisations dedicated to fostering cultural cooperation and relations worldwide. Bringing together 36 members from all 27 EU Member States, EUNIC operates through more than 120 clusters, promoting trust and mutual understanding through arts and culture.

The European Inclusive Arts Festival Art4All is a project initiated by the European cultural institutes and embassies united within the EUNIC Croatia network, in collaboration with the Centre for Rehabilitation Zagreb and its inclusive art gallery Art&CeRZe. The project aims to promote, support and advance the inclusion and acceptance of artists with disabilities within the cultural sector. Although diversity is recognised as a fundamental European value, artists with disabilities remain underrepresented in mainstream cultural programmes, primarily due to limited accessibility, insufficient visibility and a lack of opportunities for participation.

Gossip at MSU: Magazine Launch

26.05.2026. - 26.05.2026. / MSU

On Tuesday, May 26 at 6 PM, join us for the launch of a magazine through which MSU will reveal itself as a centre of gossip. The magazine will be presented by artist Femke Hoppenbrouwer together with members of the editorial team, Vesna Dianek and Vesna Stojnić.

Bauhaus Ecologies: Art, Environment and Critical Thought

20.05.2026. - 20.05.2026. / MSU

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb with the Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana organize an expert forum in the context of the international project Bauhaus Ecologies. The forum will be held in two parts: on May 19, 2026 in Ljubljana and on May 20, 2026 in the Gorgona Hall within the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Zagreb session under the title, Bauhaus Ecologies: Art, Environment and Critical Thought gathers curators, artist and researchers to address questions about the relationship between art, environment and materiality, as well as about museal and artistic work with heritage, and with issues related to social consciousness.

Kasho Chualan, Thomas Grill, Ivar Roban Križić: Feedback

21.02.2026. - 21.02.2026. / Zbirka Richter

Outputs coming back as inputs – the chain of cause and effect without a clear beginning or end. Signals constantly feeding off each other, weaving a web of mutual relationships. Sound turning into objects, objects turning into space, space becoming meaning. The work evolves from the feedback loop between the body, the technical system and the environment in which meaning isn’t imposed but rather created through interference, dependency and collective presence.

SYMPOSIUM - GEFF: FROM ANTI-FILM TO LESSONS IN FREEDOM

12.02.2026. - 13.02.2026. / Dvorana Gorgona

As part of the retrospective exhibition "GEFF 1963 - 1969: from anti-film to black wave“ in the Black Box of the MSU, the Croatian Film Association, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tomislav Gotovac Institute are organizing a two-day symposium in Gorgona Hall, which brings together art and film historians/theoreticians, film artists and media researchers from the country and abroad. The aim of the symposium is to determine – from today's perspective and with a gap of several decades – the significance of the Genre Film Festival in the context of Croatian, regional and European culture and to value its heritage. Like the exhibition it relies on, the symposium will be an opportunity to highlight lesser-known fragments of GEFF manifestations, to analyse and synthesise, and to exchange and confront views on GEFF as an essential component of both global and local research art and culture of the 1960s.

open call - OCTOBER SCHOOL Moving Beyond Collapse: Reimagining Institutions

21.10.2025. - 25.10.2025. / Otok Vis

Moving beyond the current institutional collapse, happening everywhere from democracy and education to the world’s leading international organizations, is it possible to re-imagine – and establish – institutions as open, democratic, egalitarian, self-organized, local and transnational? Could the institutions that we see getting more and more deprived of power and influence, abandoned, silenced and humiliated by political and economic powers, be re-imagined and re-built, before getting completely dismantled and erased? While techno-feudalists are building secret refuges on hidden islands, the Island School of Social Autonomy (ISSA), along with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Museum of the Commons – a network of museums and cultural institutions united in the L'internationale – launches an October School on the island of Vis in Croatia. Through the intersection of the main thematic threads of Museum of the Commons – Climate or environmental sustainability; Situated organizations or how art institutions can become spaces of inclusion and diversity; and The past in the present, addressing history and heritage as tools for social justice, the island will become a case study for writers, historians, theoreticians, activists, artists, curators and researchers, on how to envision the future amidst and after ongoing catastrophes and genocides. With Adania Shibli, Kristin Ross, Robert Perišić, Saša Savanović, Srećko Horvat, Marko Pogačar, Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, Theo Prodromidis, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Progressive International, Naan-Aligned cooking, and others

Guided tour - Andreja Kulunčić: To Make the World a Better Place

12.10.2025. - 12.10.2025. / MSU

On the occasion of the final day of the retrospective exhibition by visual artist Andreja Kulunčić, To Make the World a Better Place, a guided tour for interested visitors will take place at 11.30 a.m.

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER PROGRAMME – ANDREJA KULUNČIĆ: TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

12.10.2025. - 12.10.2025. / MSU

Only 6 weeks left until the closing of Andreja Kulunčić's exhibition To Make the World a Better Place! Visit us until October 12th and participate in more than 30 programs in September and October.

GAMELAN – INDONESIAN MUSIC WORKSHOP with Julija Novosel

11.10.2025. - 11.10.2025. / MSU

Following the wonderful experience in May, we are once again offering the music workshop with ethnomusicologist and musician Julija Novosel during the final weekend of Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition “Making the World a Better Place.” The workshop is led by Julija Novosel, who teaches gamelan at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Zagreb. Everyone will have the opportunity to try basic playing techniques and join in performing a traditional gamelan composition. No previous musical experience is required.  

A Musical Journey into the World of the Harp and Magical Tones

09.10.2025. - 09.10.2025. / MSU

* The concert will take place on Thursday, October 9th. *

We invite you to a special concert by the musical Mudryk family – join us on Thursday, October 9th at 6 PM in our enchanting museum garden. On the first Thursday of September, the museum garden will resonate with the sounds of Alisiya and Katarina Mudryk – playing the flute, violin, and the harp, an almost fairytale-like instrument that will fill the garden with sounds rarely heard live. Come, listen, experience – and become part of this musical journey!