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 ART OF RESISTANCE PANEL

09.05.2025. - 09.05.2025. / Školica

On Friday, May 9th from 10 am to 2 pm, the MSU Školica hall will host a panel discussion titled The Arts of Resistance, organized as part of the project of the same name and the exhibition presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from May 8 to June 21, 2025. The project The Arts of Resistance (TAoR) or in Croatian, The Arts of Resistance, initiated by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond from the HASENHERZ art organization, aims to uncover the connections between historical, cultural, social, political and physical resistance against fascism through a co-creative approach. This approach includes historical research, art workshops and discussions with experts, and an international youth exchange at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, art in public space presented in collaboration with schools and the Braunschweig University of the Arts under the leadership of prof. Martin Krenn, and a publication.

We Build Together: L’Internationale at MSU / Lecture by Manuel Borja-Villel and Panel Discussion

14.05.2025. - 14.05.2025. / Dvorana Gorgona

As part of the international project Museum of the Commons, which brings together museum professionals, researchers, artists, and activists from across Europe under the umbrella of L’Internationale, and on the occasion of their arrival in Zagreb, the Museum of Contemporary Art is organising two public events on 14 May 2025 – a lecture by Manuel Borja-Villel and a roundtable discussion in Gorgona Hall.

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.    

TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE – PANEL DISCUSSION

16.05.2025. - 16.05.2025. / MSU, 1. i 2. kat povremenih izložbi

May 16, 2025 – May 16, 2025 / Exhibition To Make the World a Better Place – Section: TRAUMA

Upon the opening of Andreja Kulunčić's exhibition Making the World a Better Place, a panel discussion will occur at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Curators and collaborators of the artist, who were also involved in this exhibition, will gather to reflect on the role of art in society and the potential for social change that art can inspire.

GAMELAN – INDONESIAN MUSIC WORKSHOP

16.05.2025. - 16.05.2025. / MSU

May 16, 2025 / Exhibition To Make the World a Better Place – MIGRATION section

One of the five sections of Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition, To Make the World a Better Place, is dedicated to the theme of migration. This section will feature a music workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, led by ethnomusicologist and musician Julija Novosel. The first session of the workshop will take place on Friday, May 16, starting at 6 PM, and is open to all interested participants – no registration is required.       

HIDE AND SEEK – WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS IN ENGLISH

17.05.2025. - 17.05.2025. / MSU

Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 4:00 PM

As part of Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition To Make the World a Better Place, curator Anca Verona Mihuleţ will lead a workshop titled Hide and Seek for adults, taking place on Saturday, May 17, at 4:00 PM. The workshop will be held in English.

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.

“850 WOMEN FOR 850 WOMEN” – ANTI-MONUMENT ACTION WITH ARTIST ANDREJA KULUNČIĆ

20.05.2025. - 20.05.2025. / MSU

May 20 at 5:00 PM / To Make the World a Better Place exhibition – TRAUMA section

Every Tuesday at 5 PM, join artist Andreja Kulunčić in the creation of figurines for the anti-monument 850 Women for 850 Women, as part of her exhibition To Make the World a Better Place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

GAMELAN, INDONESIAN MUSIC WORKSHOP

23.05.2025. - 23.05.2025. / MSU

May 23, 2025 / To Make the World a Better Place exhibition – MIGRATION section

GAMELAN – INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP ON INDONESIAN MUSIC

24.05.2025. - 24.05.2025. / MSU

May 24, 2025, at 4 PM

Exhibition: To Make the World a Better Place – section MIGRATIONS

Bahasa Indonesia di bawah ini (Indonesian Language Below)

Join us for an introductory workshop on Indonesian music at the Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the exhibition To Make the World a Better Place by Andreja Kulunčić.

Javanese gamelan refers to a type of orchestra consisting of bronze percussion instruments, other instruments, and singers, which developed in the royal courts of Central Java.