Events

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.

23.04.2024. - 30.05.2024. / MSU

ŽIVA ŠKOLA is a free educational arts program for youth aged 18 to 30, focusing on community and arts. The program's foundations include collectivity, resource exchange, and art as both an activist tool and a therapeutic method. Participants learn about community and contemporary art at the Živi Atelje DK, a centre for creativity, experimentation, friendship, and collaboration, located in the studio where the Zagreb sculptor Vera Dajht Kralj worked for almost 60 years. The program is run by Jutro and Živi Atelje DK, and Živi Atelje’s key component, the Women to Women collective, through ongoing dialogue, rotating roles and knowledge exchange. Using various methods and techniques, across four sessions in April and May 2024, we will explore topics such as otherness, sustainability, community, multilingualism, identity, memory, heritage and equality.

One of all: artist talk and performative presentation of works by Timo Herbst and Marcus Nebe

04.04.2024. - 04.04.2024. / MSU

We invite you to the lecture by the current MSU resident Timo Herbst about his work which will include a performative presentation of works by him and Marcus Nebe in the collection of MSU.

Kata Mijatović: Field, VR installation

12.03.2024. - 17.03.2024. / MSU, Black Box

The Museum of Contemporary Art has the pleasure of inviting you to the presentation of Kata Mijatović's VR installation Field on Tuesday, 12 March, at 7 p.m., at the Black Box.

THE PREDECESSORS AND CONTEMPORARIES – SPECIAL FILM PROGRAMME

08.03.2024. - 30.03.2024. / MSU, 1. kat povremenih izložbi

The predecessors and contemporaries of Tomislav Gotovac explored different approaches to creation in European cinematography by challenging the norms, stereotypes and standards imposed by the Marshall Plan in the period which we now call the “Cultural Cold War.” On the other hand, the generations of today turn to the critique of neoliberalism, exposing the process of homogenisation brought on by globalisation.

Reading and discussion circle: Reading Palestine, decolonial and transnational solidarities

22.02.2024. - 29.05.2024. / MSU, Baunet cafe

We invite you to take part in a reading and discussion circle organized by the Free Palestine Initiative aimed at fostering collective learning about Palestine, deoccupation and decolonization practices, and the cultures of resistance. 

The Predecessors and Contemporaries – special film programme

20.02.2024. - 05.03.2024. / MSU, 1. kat povremenih izložbi

The predecessors and contemporaries of Tomislav Gotovac explored different approaches to creation in European cinematography by challenging the norms, stereotypes and standards imposed by the Marshall Plan in the period which we now call the “Cultural Cold War.” On the other hand, the generations of today turn to the critique of neoliberalism, exposing the process of homogenisation brought on by globalisation.

Selma Banich - Urlici - experiential workshop as part of the School of Radical Education

17.02.2024. - 18.02.2024. / MSU

selma banich
Urlici - experiential workshop as part of the School of Radical Education
Gorgona Hall and the exhibition space of "Realise! Resist! React! Performance and Politics in the Post-Yugoslav Context of the 1990s"
Museum of Contemporary Art
Saturday, February 17, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m
Sunday, February 18, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m

We invite you to a two-day experiential workshop where we will explore the voice as a community medium, that is, language as a resource and repository of our individual and collective experiences, states and feelings. Seeking answers to our inner questions and needs, we will focus on collaborative listening, writing and performing practices. Collectively breaking the silence, we will activate the listening space so that our daily struggle will echo through the ossified bowels of the Museum. What are we not talking about with each other that we should? What do the voices tell us when the silence is broken? How do I feel? What do I need?

Applications open: School of Common Knowledge

12.02.2024. - 29.05.2024. / MSU Zagreb, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana i L’Internationale

MSU Zagreb, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, MG+MSUM Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana and L’Internationale invite applications for a pilot of the new School of Common Knowledge (SCK) to be held in Zagreb and Ljubljana from May 24 to 29, 2024. The School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. 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. The SCK is built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana and continues its co-learning methodology.