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ESSL ART AWARD Nominees’ Night
Official award ceremony and opening 14 May 2013, 7 p.m.
Ružica Šimunović: ZORAN PAVELIĆ_POLITICAL SPEECH IS SUPREMATISM
on Thursday 18 April, 2013, at 6 pm
HŽ and MSU: discount for passangers - visitors in 2013
From March 15th 2013 till March 15th 2014 MSU visitors and passengers using HŽ Passenger Transport get a discount for museum tickets and return train tickets. Passangers need to show their train ticket so they can get a discount at MSU and then entrance fee is 20 HRK. Passangers can get a 40% discount for regular return tickets (both 1st and 2nd grade) for all regular train lines from any train station in Croatia to Zagreb Glavni kolodvor and back. Date on the museum ticket must correspond with the validity period of the train ticket. When buying the train ticket it's needed to emphasise the purpose of your travel and on your way back show the museum ticket to the train staff. Discount is not valid for train lines under 25 km. Discount is also valid for Slovenian citizens and their return tickets from any train station in Slovenia to Zagreb Glavni Kolodvor and back.
Train timetable is available at: www.hzpp.hr
STRIKE, DANCE, RISE!
MSU in action One Billion Rising
ANIMATION GOES MSU! - Call for entries for multimedia facade
Public call for animated works to be displayed on the multimedia facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art is now open.
Amela Frankl: Commission no. 10: Empathy and Art
Collaboration with Jens Hauser
Client: Kontejner | Bureau of Contemporary Art Practice
Promotion of the book Socialism and Modernity. Art, Culture, Politics 1950–1974
on Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 at 17.00 at the No Gallery
Cinema 21: Far from Afghanistan & RR
December 19thand 20th, 2012, 7 p.m. Gorgona Hall
Artists’ Cinema: Ursula Mayer
December 18th, 7 p.m., Gorgona Hall
FILM MUTATIONS: THE SIXTH FESTIVAL OF INVISIBLE CINEMA
THE CATHARSIS IMAGE
PETER KOGLER: Without Title
Media wall, 22. 11. – 21. 12. 2012.
O S A - Open Source Art
Artist Talk and workshop
Školica, 5 PM - 7:30 PM
In the Footsteps of Tošo Dabac
Heiko Daxl, Ingeborg Fülepp, Sibylle Hoessler
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM : BAUHAUS – NETWORKING IDEAS AND PRACTICE
Gorgona Hall, 12th and 13th November 2012
Time Display / Seamless Display
MSU, 7:00 PM
MSU RECOMMENDS
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Art Pavillion in Zagreb and Kunsthaus Graz
TRAG / TRACE / SPUR - Multimedia Performance
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
27th September 2012 at 19.00 and 21.00 h – Premiere
28th September 2012 at 19.00 and 21.00 h
29th September 2012 at 19.00 and 21.00 h
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"The Valley of her sufferings"
Gorgona Hall at 8 PM.
CURATING AND ‘THE ARCHIVE’ - LECTURE AND WORKSHOP BY KATHY RAE HUFFMAN
Lecture will take place on Wednesday, September 5th 2012 at 6 PM in Školica at MSU Zagreb
Workshop will take place on Thursday, September 6th 2012 from 11 AM till 4:30 PM in Školica at MSU Zagreb.
New: Summer Programs for Tourists and Local Visitors
This summer we are starting new educational programs aimed primarily at groups of visitors from abroad.
Written in Water
Exhibition within the exhibition Collection in Motion
for the 17th museum education action of the Museum Education and Cultural Action Section of the Croatian Museum Society (HMD)
2. 5. – 18. 5. 2012
Opening: Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 17:00
Andreja Kulunčić on exhibition CARE CRISIS
Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
Opening: March 9th, 6pm
The exhibition runs until May 27thth, 2012
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Av. Dubrovnik 17
MAP OF EVENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
May 18th from 11AM till 10PM
All PROGRAMS ARE FREE!
17th Annual Museum Education Action WATER
The Museum of Contemporary Art is the host of this year’s 17th annual museum education action, Water, which was organized by the Section for Museum Education and Cultural Action of the Croatian Museum Association.
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Atelier Kožarić/Kožarić Studio; "Call for Action", Zoran Pavelić, and "Sleeping Beetwen Heaven and Earth", Kata Mijatović
Performance: Zoran Pavelić, Call for action: 16h-18h
Video: Kata Mijatović, Sleeping Beetwin Heaven and Earth : 11h-18h
With constant needs to cross over existing boundaries and out of assign framework, the artist Ivan Kožarić often inspires his fellow artists. Inspired by Kožarić's life and art, under the common denominator a Call for action, artists Kata Mijatović and Zoran Pavelić will be presented int he Kožarić's Studio.
A PILE OF PAST TIMES
An invitation to participate in the progress of the artwork A Pile of Past Times.
NEW: Creative Origami
Course on creative origami in November!
EduAction: "Zero Point Landscape"
Education program accompanying the exhibition of Ivan Ladislav Galeta at the Zagreb MSU.
EDUACTION ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION "ACROSS THE LINE" BY IVAN KOŽARIĆ
In connection with the Ivan Kožarić exhibition Across the Line, we prepared numerous events geared for different audience profiles.
ARCHIGAMI - Origami workshop, accompanying the exhibition Parallel Nippon
Please remember: Every first Wednesday in the month free admission to all exhibitions!
From 16 till 18 h
Lobby of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Avenija Dubrovnik 17
Age group: 13 and above
Museum of Contemporary Atr - winner of the Croatian Museum Society's Annual Award in 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art is the winner of the Croatian Museum Socitey's Annual Award in 2010 for the outstanding professional achievements and for the promotion and mediation of contemporary art to variety of audiences.
Film mutations: the festival on invisible cinema 04
Film Mutations: the Festival of Invisible Cinema is a filmological project on the modes of film presentation and interpretation, or the politics of film curatorship, Gorgona, 1.- 5.12.2010.
Snježana Pintarić, director of MSU, participates at an international conference in Budapest about the future of museums
On 12 February, a conference entitled Challenges and Possibilities: The Strategy of the Museum of Fine Art took place at the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest. A dozen experts on museums from Hungary, Spain, and Croatia spoke about the future of the profession, including Snježana Pintarić, director of MSU Zagreb. In her paper entitled „The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and Its New Life,“ she presented the new building of MSU, with a particular emphasis on its present role in the cultural life of Zagreb and Croatia. She also spoke of her experience with working in the new building and the activities of the Museum at its new location, as well as the urban and social context of MSU and its involvement in the life of the city district that has become its home. In accordance with the general topic of the conference, Ms Pintarić commented on the challenges and possibilities that the museum experts are facing today and presented the future strategy of MSU Zagreb in that framework.
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MSU Zagreb wins the National Distinction for extraordinary contribution to culture
On 28 January, Stjepan Mesić, President of Croatia, handed in medals and distinctions for special contributions in the fields of Croatian science, medicine, economy, culture, and arts, for humanitarian work and achievement in sports, as well as development of international cooperation and free media.
Fire Bird Still Exercises Its Magic Power
The new issue of Art Quarterly features a whole-page advertisement by Sotheby's, in which the auction house offers counselling in regard to inheritance taxation, private sale of valuables, and other services.
Aspects of Collecting

Opening: 19 Nov 2009, 7.30 p.m.
Curators: international museum directors
Exhibition organisation: Anna Szöke, Andreas Hoffer
Culture 2007-2013 Programme – Possibilities of Collaboration
At the forum on "Culture 2007-2013 Programme - Possibilities of Collaboration," held at the Mimara Museum, Snježana Pintarić, director of MSU, presented the model of successful cooperation between our museum and T-HT company on the example of T-HTnagrada@msu.hr annual contest.
A Pair of Left Shoes - Reality check in Eastern Europe
The exhibition is a result of cooperation between Museum of Contempoaray Art, Zagreb, and the Kunstmuseum of Bochum. The curatorial concept is signed by the senior curator of our Museum and its vice-director, Tihomir Milovac. It debates on the situation in the so-called transition and post-transition countries as a reality check transposed into artistic paradigms that are different from those in the West.
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Seminar, Speaker: Isabel Garcia Pérez de Arce