Exhibitions

SintArt 20: Sara Salamon – Mise en abyme

23.05.2026. - 31.10.2026. / Zbirka Richter

As part of the SintArt cycle, the solo exhibition Mise en abyme by artist Sara Salamon will open on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at 12 pm at the Vjenceslav Richter and Nada Kareš Richter Collection. Starting from the idea of space as a system that “performs itself”, in collaboration with the artist Hrvoje Spudić, Salamon develops a series of spatial interventions that destabilize the possibility of orientation within space and the perception of space itself. The exhibition emerges through a dialogue with the theoretical and artistic legacy of Vjenceslav Richter, particularly his reflections on space, line, Sinturbanism, and Heliopolis, translating them into a contemporary context marked by a crisis of trust in images, information, and the sense of reality.

Ana Bilankov: Echoing the Silence

23.04.2026. - 07.06.2026. / MSU, Black Box

What remains when history falls silent?

Ana Bilankov's exhibition Odjek tišine (Echoing the Silence) takes as its starting point a forgotten chapter in the history of Mediterranean migrations – an exile to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt during the World War II – and turns it into a multilayered exploration of memory, displacement, and absence. Paraphrasing Frederic Jameson, who in his book The Political Unconscious asserts that history is "what hurts", an actual force resisting us because it is not susceptible to our desires or projects, the exhibition invites us to dive into the painful present and to transcend it by witnessing and refusing to forget it.

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand

24.03.2026. - 21.06.2026. / MSU, 3. kat

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb invites you to the opening of the exhibition By the Means at Hand by Vlatka Horvat, which will be held on Tuesday, March 24 at 6 PM at the MSU. The exhibition offers insight into the project which Horvat created for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60^th Venice Biennale, and which she donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb after the Biennale closed. For the project, Horvat invited some 200 international artists – friends and friends of friends, all living “as foreigners” in different countries around the world – to make and send to her small-scale artworks which in some way reflected on their experience of migration, of being a foreigner, of living in diaspora. For every work she received in Venice, Horvat sent to each artist a collage from the series she was making while living in the pavilion for the duration of the Biennale. All the artworks traveled to Venice and back via informal transport networks; in the bags and suitcases of friends, acquaintances, and sometimes strangers enlisted as couriers for the project.

Collection as a Verb

05.04.2022. - 31.12.2026. / MSU, 1. kat

The series of exhibitions with the joint title Collection as a Verb, which are created as a team effort, represent the new collection in duration of the Museum, so as to redefine its' concept and the social context in which it is situated. The title of the cycle is inspired by the poem “Freedom Is a Verb” by Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak. The exhibitions are not a finished project, but rather a process and swift reaction to the events around us. If we consider the collection a verb – an action, a state of being, or an occurrence – our team, together with the artists and the community, is a subject operating in time.