Events

22.08.2023. - 24.08.2023. / centar Zagreba

In August, we are again holding the tour "Moving is a Must!" I.K. in the city center, in Croatian, and in English.

Ivan Kožarić (Petrinja, 1921 - Zagreb, 2020) succinctly expressed his attitude of constant readiness for movement with the exclamatory statement "Moving is a Must!" And with every tour, paying tribute to the great artist, we try to penetrate into the essence of vitality that he managed to incorporate into his works, each time in a different way, and even when it comes to the sphere of public plastic, where it is least expected. 

Moving is a must! A tour dedicated to Ivan Kožarić

22.07.2023. - 22.07.2023. / MSU

Moving is a must! - tour dedicated to Ivan Kožarić, one of the most important Croatian artist

On Saturday, 22.7. at 11 am the Museum will be held a tour in English dedicated to Ivan Kožarić, one of the most important Croatian artists. Gathering at the Museum reception.

Registration is not required, participation is possible with a purchased Museum ticket. Those interested in the tour gather at the reception of the Museum. The tour is led by Ivana Meštrov, the curator, in English.

The program is supported by the City of Zagreb and the Tourist Board of the City of Zagreb. It was developed by Antun Maračić, a curator, an artist, and a friend of Ivan Kožarić, and Radmila Iva Janković, senior curator and manager of Atelijera Kožarić (MSU) as part of the European project Adrinetbook of the EU fund INTERREG Adrion.

The project by Tomo Savić-Gecan: “Untitled, 2022/2023” at Antisezona

20.06.2023. - 24.06.2023. / MSU

This year’s Antisezona features a special guest, artist Tomo Savić-Gecan. His project “Untitled, 2022/2023” is based on the project “Untitled (Croatian Pavillion), 2022”, which was selected by curator Elena Filipović to represent Croatia at the 59th Venice Biennale of Art.

Apart from the performers, his project “Untitled, 2022/2023” is unlike his previous projects due to arbitrary links established between physically remote components. These links are no longer created solely by the artist. They are products of orchestrated collaborations (AI programmers, the choreographer, female and male performers and the AI team), leaving the last word to the decisions taken by AI.   

LECTURE - ROMAN GRABNER: “GÜNTER BRUS. BRIGHT MADNESS”

13.04.2023. - 13.04.2023. / Dvorana Gorgona

Accompanying programme to the exhibition “Body and Territory: Art and Borders in Today's Austria”

The lecture “Sheer Madness” retraces Günter Brus’ development from his informal painting practice to his symbolic actions of the mid-1960s to the body-analyses of the late 1960s until his last and ultimate action “Stress Test” in 1970.

Lecture - Josef Dabernig: Repetition Compulsion

07.03.2023. - 07.03.2023. / Dvorana Gorgona

Accompanying programme to the exhibition “Body and Territory: Art and Borders in Today's Austria”

Gorgona Hall, March 7 2023 at 7 pm

We are pleased to announce the return of Josef Dabernig, esteemed Austrian artist and filmmaker, whose anthology short films our audience had the opportunity to see in 2017 at the Tuškanac cinema, as part of the "Kratki utorak" (Short Tuesday) programme and at an exhibition at Gallery Nova that same year as part of the “My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise)” project.

Film program: VALIE EXPORT and Mihovil Pansini

16.02.2023. - 16.02.2023. / Dvorana Gorgona

“Is this even film?”

Expanded cinema as a cinema-action: multi-layered gesture in the new media art of celluloid

Film program: VALIE EXPORT and Mihovil Pansini

Curated and introduced by Petra Belc Krnjaić

Q&A session. Moderator: Sonja Leboš

“The film is not a medium through which an author must express him- or herself. We still have not entirely liberated it,“ said Mihovil Pansini at the Symposia about experimental film in the Student Centre in Zagreb in 1963, while theorizing antifilm in his works Scusa Signorina, Dvorište/The Yard, and K3 ili čisto nebo bez oblaka/K3 or the cloudless sky (1963). 

BEAM UP Symposium: Nothing About Us Without Us! Working with visually impaired individuals

03.02.2023. - 03.02.2023. / MSU

On Friday, February 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. MSU Zagreb is organizing a public symposium Nothing about us without us! Working with visually impaired individuals as part of the EU project BEAM UP: Blind Engagement in Accessible MUseum Projects.

International conference “Collection as a Verb”

08.12.2022. - 08.12.2022. / Dvorana Gorgona

Link to Conference

Panel 3: https://fb.watch/hhGmuFFjXh/   

Panel 2: https://fb.watch/hhxQtG5mFK/

Panel 1: https://fb.watch/hhwD3j6Iyc/

https://fb.watch/hhy0PUDIdb/

The Museum of Contemporary Art cordially invites you to an international conference titled “Collection as a Verb”, aimed at stimulating a discussion into the best way of displaying museum collections and, of course, what sort of a contemporary art exhibition would be the most relevant in this day and age. The conference will round up museum directors and curators from the entire region, as well as the wider international community. 

„MOVING IS A MUST!“ I.K. - Homage to Ivan Kožarić: Thematic Tours

16.09.2022. - 18.09.2022. / Zagreb, Novi Zagreb

16 – 18 September / ZAGREB, NOVI ZAGREB

Last year, in the Museum of Contemporary Art, a retrospective exhibition was displayed to commemorate the 100th birthday anniversary of Ivan Kožarić (Petrinja, 1921- Zagreb, 2020) under the title “One of 100 Possible Ones“. As part of the manifestation Artupunktura – Zagreb Art Terapy, homage to this great artist continues with guided tours mapping the Zagreb of Kožarić, scheduled between 16th and 18th September. The tours will be conducted in Croatian and English.

Book launch Jasmina Tumbaš: "I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism

02.06.2022. - 02.06.2022. / MSU, 1. kat

"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramović, Sanja Iveković, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojić, Selma Selman and Helena Janečić, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redžepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.