SHAKEN GROUNDS: AT THE EDGE OF FORM

03.09.2026. - 06.09.2026. / Gibellina

Shaken Grounds: At the Edge of Form is a four-day programme taking place in Gibellina, the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026, bringing together local residents, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, geophysicists and the wider public.

Through film screenings, live performances, a symposium and conversations, the programme creates a space for reflecting on what it means to live with seismic uncertainty. In a city and landscape deeply shaped by the memory of the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake, as well as by questions of vulnerability and transformation, artistic practice becomes a way of listening, witnessing and imagining possible responses, in dialogue with scientific, philosophical and local forms of knowledge.

04.09.2026. - 06.09.2026. / MSU

The art organization Istovremeno/Samtempe, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the first Extended festival, which opens up space for durational performances realized across different media – from contemporary dance, performance, and media art, to sound art, theatre, and various hybrid formats. The title implies extended duration, a departure from established modes of watching, creating, and performing.

Majdal Nateel: Studying the Void of Amputation 2025

10.09.2026. - 18.10.2026. / MSU, 2. kat

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents an exhibition by Palestinian artist Majdal Nateel, Studying the Void of Amputation (2025), a cycle of 38 prints born from the experience of war, forced displacement, and loss of home.

Ismar Čirkinagić: The Eighth Sea / Osmo more

17.09.2026. - 08.11.2026. / MSU, Black Box

The Eighth Sea is a solo exhibition by Ismar Čirkinagić, to be presented at MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. Through works that invite reflection on our relationship with nature, history and political reality, the exhibition explores humanity’s growing loss of direction in a world shaped by war, political conflict and ecological crisis.

Volcanic Attitude 2026 – Vibrant Elements

25.09.2026. - 29.09.2026. / Napulj, Vulcano, Stromboli

Volcanic Attitude Festival 2026 will take place from 25 to 29 September. Blending art and science, the journey of the fifth edition – Vibrant Elements – sets off from Naples, at the foot of Vesuvius, towards the islands of Vulcano and Stromboli, and back again, travelling through evocative locations in search of “vibrant elements” in the Aeolian Islands. 

8th Device_art festival of Art and Technology - Transfer + Resistor (Poetic Devices / Device Poetics)

29.09.2026. - 27.10.2026. / MSU, 1. i 2. kat povremenih izložbi

The eighth edition of the international Device_art Festival, titled Transfer + Resistor (Poetic Devices / Device Poetics), opens on 29 September at 7 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb with a major group exhibition featuring twenty-seven Croatian and Korean artists and artistic collaborations. The festival programme also includes performances, artist talks, workshops, and a discursive programme that will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition, which remains open until 27 October. Since its founding in 2004, Device_art festival has explored the intersections of art, technology, and science. In this edition, the festival establishes its first extensive dialogue with South Korea, a country whose artistic and cultural landscape has been profoundly shaped by accelerated technological development as well as a long history of experimentation in media art. The festival is developed through a collaboration between KONTEJNER and the Korean curatorial collective Vestige, whose members include artist and curator Yunchul Kim and curator Jungyeon Park.