07/11/2023
ZEZ x KONTEJNER: 8th Exhibition of Sound
The 8th Exhibition of Sound opens on November 9, 2023 at 19 h at KONTEJNER, Odranska 1/1, Zagreb.
07/12/2023
Fred Frith's masterclass and concert in January at KONTEJNER
Internationally renowned guitarist, multiinstrumentalist and composer Fred Frith will lead a three-day long workshop, i.e. masterclass, based on his very specific approach to improvisation, experimentation, performance and composition.
13/10/2023
Apply for workshops within the program Realities in Transition XR Camp – Extended Worlds
The workshops will be held from October 25 to 28 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and at KONTEJNER (Odranska 1/1). You can apply until Monday, October 23, 2023. at 23:59 CET.
04/10/2023
KONTEJNER 3.0 – International Event of Current and Experimental Art Practices
KONTEJNER 3.0 is an international event that will present current and experimental artistic practices from October 17 to 29, 2023 at KONTEJNER (Odranska 1/1), Museum of Contemporary Art, Pogon Jedinstvo and Peti kupe in Zagreb.
27/09/2023
The Extravagant Bodies project is presented at the conference “Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science” in Valletta, Malta
The conference held from 27th to 29th of September 2023 includes theoretical and artistic presentations dealing with the nature of the forbidden and the aesthetics of liminality in artworks inspired by technology and science, and opening space for creative transformation and the union of science and art.
10/09/2023
Dr. Olga Majcen Linn and Dr. Sunčica Ostoić participate at the RE:SOURCE conference
Dr. Olga Majcen Linn and Dr. Sunčica Ostoić, art theorists at KONTEJNER, are participating at the RE:SOURCE conference, which takes place in Venice from September 13 to 16, 2023.
01/09/2023
KONTEJNER's new venue opens with "One Tree ID" by Agnes Meyer-Brandis
On September 15, 2023, KONTEJNER is opening a new exhibition and performance venue in Zagreb with the fragrant installation "One Tree ID" by Agnes Meyer-Brandis.
01/09/2023
Apply to the "How To Become A Tree For Another Tree" workshop
The workshop is taking place on Saturday, 16.09.2023, 12 a.m. to 3 p.m. @KONTEJNER, Odranska 1/1, Zagreb. Application deadline is 15.09.2023. at noon.
26/07/2023
ZEZ x KONTEJNER: 8th Exhibition of Sound - Open Call for Artists
Zavod za eksperimentalni zvuk (ZEZ) and KONTEJNER organization are inviting Croatian and regional (ex-Yu) sound artists to apply for the eight edition of the Exhibition of Sound with their performances, sound installations, audio and A/V artworks, and all other media and experimental artworks which use sound as a constitutive element or main media. This year’s edition is going to be carried out in collaboration of KONTEJNER association and ZEZ, i.e. KSET. The multimedia exhibition is going to be held from 9th till 16th of November 2023 in Zagreb, and application deadline is 18th September 2023 at 4 p.m. CET.
01/06/2023
Call for Applications – European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Residencies in 2024
With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) continues its residency program for artists, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art in 16 countries. Deadline for applications: September 12th, 2023 at 13:00 CET.
26/06/2023
A Sea Change project at MADE IN Dialogues
KONTEJNER is participating in the initial presentation of the project Adriatic Sea Sources, which marks the start of MADE IN Dialogues as part of the Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design, that includes experts from the field of arts, design, science, museology and crafts. We are happy to present our program Heard by the Deep (part of KONTEJNER's EU project A Sea Change), which we organized in Split in May 2023. A series of lectures will be held on Tuesday, June 27 in the premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, starting at 10 a.m.
07/06/2023
Presentation of the Sound Experiments project in the framework of the Festival-in-Opposition platform in Novi Sad
On Saturday, 10.6.2023., curator and musicologist Davorka Begović (KONTEJNER) and guitar player, composer and music pedagogue Pavle Jovanović will present the educative modul "Collectiveness: Creating sounds together" (developed as a part of our project Sound Experiments) in the framework of the Festival-in-Opposition platform in Novi Sad.
31/05/2023
First phase of ASH MA project successfully finalized
We are celebrating a successful end of the first project phase for ASH MA with an exhibition and presentation of the Master of Arts in Art, Science and Health study program on Friday, June 2nd, at the Department for Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (Jabukovac 10).
01/05/2023
Heard by the Deep international program in Split
Heard by the Deep program in Split, from 16th to 20th of May 2023, focuses on the topic of the sea, its (human and non-human) communities and the related environmental urgencies – as devastating as they are imperceptible to our human senses.
14/04/2023
Creative Europe Showroom in Split
KONTEJNER is participating in a presentation of creative and successful European practices by Croatian partners within the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, on Friday, 21st of April 2023 in Split.
13/04/2023
Applications for coast and underwater field recording workshop in Split
Application deadline: April 25th, 23:59. Work period: weekends, 6 - 20 May 2023. Work schedule: 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19 and 20 May 2023, 4 hours per day. Locations: Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences MedILS, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 45, Split; outdoor field recordings - Split Ferry Port (eastern coast), ACI Marina Split (western coast), area surrounding MedILS and Čiovo island (by boat)
05/04/2023
Subscriptions open: free cycles of Future DiverCities webinars
Urban Ecology and Changemaking webinars start on 21st of April 2023 and last until May. The programme is free of charge, online and in English language.
27/02/2023
Collaboration with Elevate festival on a new artistic production by Andreas Trobollowitsch
New project cycle for Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action has officially started on February 1st of 2023. One of the first project activities relates to the renowned Elevate festival in Graz. During the festival, new artwork "hybrid #1 - ⥀12" by Andreasa Trobollowitsch comissioned and produced by Elevate festival in collaboration with KONTEJNER and Universalmuseum Joanneum – Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark will be presented.
20/02/2023
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies Call for Papers
The Editorial Board of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies invites all potential contributors to send their proposals for issue No.32/October 2023 with the theme Art, Science, and Health. Alongside Dr Dalila Honorato, guest editors for this issue are KONTEJNER curators and founders Dr Olga Majcen Linn, and Dr Sunčica Ostoić.
07/02/2023
EMAP selected artists for 2023
We are announcing the results of the international open call for the two month EMAP – European Media Art Platform residencies in 2023 that will take place in 16 media art institutions and organizations in Europe and Canada - one of them also being KONTEJNER.
02/02/2023
Re-Imagine Europe kicks off
We are thrilled to announce that Re-Imagine Europe, with KONTEJNER as one of the partners, has received support from the Creative Europe programme for its project New Perspectives for Action and will commence in February 2023.
16/01/2023
A Sea Change – Open call for production/research residencies and presentation of artworks
KONTEJNER I bureau of contemporary art praxis is inviting Croatian and international artists / artistic collectives to apply for two new open calls within the project A Sea Change, co-founded by the European Union and led by KONTEJNER: 1) a two-week residency program in May 2023 at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS) in Split, Croatia as part of their ARTScience programme; 2) participation in exhibition and performances programme in Split, 18 to 22 May, with already existing artworks. The deadline for the applications is 10 February 2023 at 23:59 CET.
18/12/2022
Publishing of the collaborative online platform Remote Lab
Remote Lab is a collaborative media platform for research and knowledge sharing whose author and project team consists of KONTEJNER, Drugo more, WHW, Radiona and Domino, led by Greta Creative Network. It is accessible to the public on the web address remote-lab.org.
02/11/2022
KONTEJNER's open call for new artistic productions and presentation of artworks in 2023
KONTEJNER's open call for new artistic productions and presentation of artworks is open from 2nd November 2022 to 15th January 2023 at 23:59 CET. The call is open to all the interested individuals and collectives residing and working in Croatia.
20/10/2022
Realities in Transition - OPEN CALL for residencies
Together with partners of the international project Realities in Transition, KONTEJNER is calling for creative XR projects that reimagine and expand the notions of XR while following a critical, reflective line of thought and promoting a common, open, sustainable XR at a European level. Seven projects will be invited to take part in a residency program at V2_Lab in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The deadline for application is 18th December 2022 at 23:59 CET.
28/11/2022
"All-Aligned" exhibition by Uroš Krčadinac at GMK, Zagreb
The art project "All-Aligned" by a Serbian artist Uroš Krčadinac raises the question of what, in this age of proliferation of digital capital, the rapid multiplication of meme fronts and the overall inflation of meaning, does the standard repertoire of national symbols such as flags, mottos, coats of arms and anthems represent? The exhibition opening is on Satruday, December 3rd at 7 pm at GMK Zagreb, and the exhibition stays open until December 14th.
12/09/2022
Call for Applications – European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Residencies in 2023
With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, and for the years 2022-2024, the European Media Art Platform expands its residency program for artists, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art to residencies in 16 countries. Deadline for applications: November 30, 2022 at 23:59 CET.
28/10/2022
New edition of Motions, an experimental sound event
Motions presents an exciting programme from the field of experimental sound expressions, sound art, spatial sound and audio-visual artistic practices. Motions represent a space for sound and a space of sound - experimental space for contemporary music tendencies, intersections of sound and new technologies as well as immersive sound and audio-visual experiences with special emphasis on those that change the way we listen and precieve sound. Second edition of Motions takes place from 9th to 12th November 2022 in Zagreb - Pogon Jedinstvo, Peti kupe, Museum of Contemporary Art and Močvara club.
17/03/2022
Tomo Savić-Gecan’s project produced by KONTEJNER representing Croatia at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (23.4.–27.11.2022)
Every day for the duration of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale of Art, the lead story from a different, randomly selected global news source provides the data that feeds an artificial intelligence algorithm, which in turn prescribes the time, location, duration, movements, and thoughts of a group of five performers in the city of Venice to constitute Tomo Savić-Gecan’s Untitled (Croatian Pavilion), 2022.
26/08/2022
Open call for “ASH MA - Art, Science and Health Master of Arts” Online Pilot Course
A new international and transdisciplinary Master of Arts programme on the topic of Art, Science and Health will be showcased, tested and evaluated during a one-week Pilot Course held online in English language for a maximum of 40 participants, from Monday, November 7, to Friday, November 11, 2022, every day from 5.00 p.m. CET. Participation is free of charge; info on application process can be found in the continuation of this text.
05/10/2022
"12 Dead Birds" by Bojan Gagić (HR) in Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb
Multimedia spatial-sound installation "12 Dead Birds - a template for possible development of generic digital systems" by Bojan Gagić (HR) produced by KONTEJNER and Greta Creative Network opens on Wednesday, October 12th 2022 at 7 p.m. Exhibition is open from October 13th to 17th 2022, from 4 to 8 p.m.
11/10/2022
Robots minting NFTs – presentation of the EMAP residency
As part of this years’ EMAP residency, KONTEJNER welcomed three Japanese artists – So Kanno, Akihiro Kato and Takemi Watanuki that focused on the further development of the work Kazokutchi. The artists will present the work in progress on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 19:00 h at Pogon Jedinstvo, small hall.
22/09/2022
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in Gallery VN in Zagreb
Exhibition of kinetic video installations by Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, an artistic duo from Slovenia, is open at Gallery VN in Zagreb from September 27th to October 15th. Exhibition opening is scheduled for Tuesday, September 27th at 7 p.m., and Gallery VN opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
29/09/2022
Field recording and spatial sound workshop for youth aged 16 to 20
Open call for workshop participants is open until 9th October 2022, 11:59pm. Duration of the workshop: 15th October to 11th November 2022, each Saturday and Sunday – 3 hours per day. Workdays: 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th and 30th October; 5th, 6th and 11th November 2022. Locations: KONTEJNER office, Savska cesta 42, Zagreb; city of Zagreb (wider central area), large hall of Pogon Jedinstvo in Zagreb
07/09/2022
Robots minting NFTs – a new EMAP residency
KONTEJNER is welcoming Berlin based Japanese artist So Kanno as the 2022 EMAP resident. His two-month residency focuses on the further development of the work Kazokutchi, a collaboration with Japanese media artists Akihiro Kato and Takemi Watanuki who are joining him in Zagreb.
29/07/2022
Publication "Arc-hive: Case Studies and Life as an Object" available in free .pdf format
"Arc-hive: Case Studies and Life as an Object" is a two-part publication offering fresh and valuable insights from numerous authors to the challenges of working with biomedia, with special focus on preservation, archiving and digitisation of biomedia practices.
11/07/2022
EMAP selected artists for 2022
We are announcing the results of the international open call for the two-month EMAP – European Media Art Platform residencies in 2022 in 15 European media art organizations and institutions.
11/07/2022
Arc-hive, the first online platform for biomedia-focused artworks, is born
Six European institutions, including KONTEJNER, have been joining forces for the past 18 months to create the first open source digital platform to generate, centralize and share knowledge about artworks based on living materials or systems.
10/06/2022
A weekend with KONTEJNER: EMAP networking conference and Zvučni piknik
Annual celebration of our 20-year anniversary continues in June from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th in Zagreb. KONTEJNER hosts the 2022 EMAP networking conference and organizes the Zvučni piknik programme including performances such as the premiere concert of the youngest Croatian experimental band Sešija gathering young teenagers mentored by musicologist Davorka Begović and musicians Nenad Sinkauz, Nenad Kovačić and Pavle Jovanović, who will also be joining them on stage.
01/06/2022
Partners of new Master of Art program “Art, Science & Health” (ASH-MA) meet in Corfu, Greece
From June 1st to June 3rd 2022, a meeting of the ASH-MA consortium for the design of a new Art, Science & Health MA program with participants from Croatia, Serbia and Greece will take place in Corfu, Greece. The program was launched in February 2022 by KONTEJNER and three universities: Academy of Fine Arts - University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia), Department of Audio and Visual Arts - Ionian University (Corfu, Greece) and Faculty of Media and Communication - Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia).
18/03/2022
Call for Applications - European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Residencies 2022
With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, for the next 3 years the European Media Art Platform expands its residency program for artists, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art to residencies in 15 countries. Deadline for applications: April 27, 2022 at 23:59 CET.
01/03/2022
Preparation of ASH - Art, Science & Health MA programme in Croatia, Serbia and Greece
From February 2022, three Universities from Croatia, Greece and Serbia, along with KONTEJNER, work on co-designing and testing a new, interdisciplinary MA programme named ASH - Art, Science & Health.
21/02/2022
Japanese artist Nelo Akamatsu at Gallery Nova in Zagreb
Spatial sound installation "Chijikinkutsu" by Japanese artist Nelo Akamatsu is the first event of our annual celebration programme consisting of exhibitions, performances, conferences, artwork productions, workshops and publications marking the 20 year anniversary of KONTEJNER. The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 5th at 7 p.m. at Gallery Nova in Zagreb and stays open until March 26th.
10/02/2022
Arc-hive Symposium: „Life as an object“
The symposium „Life as an object“ at Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, on 17th and 18th February 2022, will be devoted to tackling key issues and specific challenges of contemporary artworks that are based on biological medium or processes and known to employ living systems in its content and form. KONTEJNER curators Olga Majcen Linn and Sunčica Ostoić participate in the symposium programme organized within the framework of Creative Europe project Arc-hive.
18/01/2022
E-publication "Make, Share, Change: Perspectives on Audience Development and Capacity Building from Re-Imagine Europe (2017-2021)"
The publication collects articles, interviews and reports that specifically reflect on the audience development and capacity building activities of the ten cultural organisations that participated in Re-Imagine Europe project.
03/12/2021
Device_art 7.021 in Split
The seventh edition of Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies, along with the main festival programme in Zagreb, will take place at MKC Gallery in Split from December 9th to 18th, 2021.
29/10/2021
Device_art festival 7.021
The new, seventh edition of Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies at Museum of Contemporary art in Zagreb once again brings exciting experiences and new perspectives on devices, gadgets, and machines that surround us, ignite our thoughts, provide us with comfort as well as disturbance.
05/10/2021
20 years of KONTEJNER: open call for new artistic productions and presentation of artworks
Open call for new artistic productions and presentation of artworks within KONTEJNER's anniversary programme is open from 5th October to 31st December 2021. The call is open to all interested individuals and collectives residing and working in Croatia.
02/11/2021
Become a volunteer at Device_art festival!
Open call for volunteering at the seventh edition of Device_art festival is open until November 15th, 2021.
04/10/2021
Study visit to Barcelona as part of the Arc-hive project
Our curators Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović visited our partners in Barcelona last week - Hangar.org
30/09/2021
Re-Imagine Europe residential training
New artistic production by Branimir Štivić (HR) under the title “B E L L O W S” has bees reaalized as a part of a residential training within the framework of the project Re-Imagine Europe. The installation will be presented at Device_art festival 7.012 in Zagreb, at the Museum of Contemporary Art from 23rd November to 19th December 2021.
21/09/2021
Study visits to Brussels and Berlin as part of the Arc-hive project
Through one week, our curators Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović went through a digitization workshop and visited the collection of the Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and in Berlin they explored the new manifestation Future Perfect Land and visited the curators of Art Laboratory Berlin.
15/09/2021
Open call for participation in the art project by Tomo Savić-Gecan as part of the Venice Biennale
We are inviting dancers to apply for participation in the art project by Tomo Savić-Gecan “Untitled (Croatian Pavilion) 2022” curated by Elena Filipovic and produced by KONTEJNER. The project will represent Croatia at the Venice Biennale – 59th International Art Exhibition from April 23 – November 27, 2022. The deadline for applying is September 22, 2021.
21/07/2021
KONTEJNER in Portugal!
Artist Antonio Kutleša (HR) and curators Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović (KONTEJNER) visited our long-term partners - the organization Cultivamos Cultura!
04/06/2021
Motions: An Experimental Sound Event
As part of the international project Re-Imagine Europe, KONTEJNER is preparing a new experimental sound event: Motions, which will take place 16th – 20th June, 2021, at three venues, the Zagreb Dance Center (ZPC), Grič Tunnel and Mesnička Cultural Centre. Free tickets for each programme block in ZPC (16th and 17th June) can be picked up at the ZPC box office one hour before the start of the programme.
18/05/2021
Welcome to project Arc-hive!
We are happy to announce the launch of the project Arc-hive: an open source digital platform that aggregates, preserves, publishes, distributes and contextualizes a variety of information, knowledge and documentation on art with a focus on biomedia, ensuring open access to a variety of users, and a wide outreach of digital materials across cultural sectors and territories.
19/04/2021
Workshop on Media Archeology and Sound as part of Darsha Hewitt's EMAP residency
In collaboration with Radiona.org/Zagreb Makerspace, KONTEJNER is organizing a workshop led by Canadian artist Darsha Hewitt (CA/DE) as part of this year's EMAP residency. The workshop is intended for students of the “Art at the intersection with science and technology” course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under the mentorship of Sunčica Ostoić, and is held at Radiona on April 19 and 26, 2021 with Darsha Hewitt participating via Zoom.
18/03/2021
Research of material waste of sound reproduction technology: new two-month online EMAP residency
KONTEJNER is welcoming Berlin based Canadian artist Darsha Hewitt as the 2021 EMAP resident. Her two-month online residency will focus on the second part of the sound-centric trilogy “High Fidelity Wasteland” that experiments with the material waste left over from generations of decomposing sound reproduction technology.
31/01/2021
Open call for Device_art festival 7.021
The open call for new artistic production and participation in the seventh edition of Device_art festival is open from February 1, to March 1, 2021. The festival will take place in November 2021 at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb. The call is open to all individuals and collectives residing and working in Croatia.
17/12/2020
Multichannel sound diffusion workshop
18th to 23rd January 2021 (10am-1pm & 3-6pm) @Pogon Jedinstvo, large hall
16/12/2020
Published article about the educational program for children "Factory of Sound"
The article is part of a publication on audience development and capacity building within culture as part of the Re-Imagine Europe project.
08/12/2020
Conclusive celebration of a four year European project Future DiverCities
Join us online on Wednesday, 9th December from 17.30 to 19.00h in celebrating the end of this chapter when we will share some learnings, looking back at the project’s outcomes, and present our last series of artistic acts, Interludes.
05/09/2020
Exhibition “Quarantine” at Art workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik
KONTEJNER presents in collaboration with UR Institut and Art workshop Lazareti an exhibtion of art works produced within EMAP – European Media Art Platform from September 9th – 13th, 2020.
28/08/2020
Become a Volunteer at the upcoming Touch Me festival!
Application deadline for volunteers at the sixth international Touch Me festival is September 9th 2020.
04/08/2020
Hysterical machines in Exportdrvo, Rijeka - prolongated until 19th September!
Set up on the ground floor of Exportdrvo building in Rijeka, the interactive robotic installation "Hysterical Machines" of renown Canadian artist and roboticist Bill Vorn will be open for public from August 13th to September 19th, 2020. After the opening on Thursday, August 13th at 7 p.m., the installation will stay open every day from 5 to 9 p.m., with an admission fee of 10,00 HRK. The project is realized as a part of the Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture programme and its flagship Dopolavoro, in collaboration with NGO Drugo more.
11/06/2020
Tomo Savić-Gecan at Sculpture Garden Biennale in Geneva
Croatian artist Tomo Savić-Gecan is exhibiting at the Sculpture Garden Biennale, which will be held from June 12 to September 30, 2020 at three locations in the center of Geneva (Park des Eaux-Vives, Park La Grange and Quai Gustave-Ador). Tomo Savić-Gecan will exhibit two works – a new production created for the Biennale and a work that is the result of his one-month residency at CERN, realized in 2017 in cooperation with Arts at CERN, KONTEJNER and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.
22/05/2020
New edition of Touch Me festival this September!
What lies beyond our inherent biology? Can biotechnological innovations take us out of isolation and introduce new forms of coexistence? In the midst of current crisis and forbiddance of touch, we are grasping new futures!
06/04/2020
Research of interspecies dialog throughout sound: new two-month EMAP residency
Spanish artist duo uh513 – María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde have started their two-month residency as part of the EMAP – European Media Art Platform, a network of eleven European cultural institutions and organisations that annually offer production grants to emerging European artists.
21/02/2020
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - KONTEJNER's programme for Rijeka 2020
This spring Rijeka, European Capital of Culture for 2020, will offer an opportunity to visit four installations of well-known international robotics and sound artists. Massive ferocious machines will allow us to control them, sympathise with them, climb them and fly them - bringing a bit of Burning Man feel to the city, along with a healthy dosage of playfulness and hypnotic movement, light and sound immersions.
05/02/2020
EMAP/EMARE Selected Artists for 2020 and 2021
We are announcing the results of the international open call for the two-month EMAP residencies in 2020 and 2021 at 11 European media art organisations.
16/12/2019
SONICA x Zagreb w/ KONTEJNER & ZEZ
Joint Ljubljana - Zagreb adventure brings a selected musical delegation of Slovenian SONICA Festival to KSET, Zagreb, on Friday, December 20th 2019 from 9 p.m., where they will be hosted by KONTEJNER and ZEZ - Zavod za eksperimentalni zvuk.
16/12/2019
"Mobile faces - material interactivity" workshop
In collaboration with Radiona.org / Zagreb Makerspace and as a part of a larger project called “Korak dalje – prema uključivoj kulturi”, we are organizing a two-day "Mobile faces - material interactivity" workshop. The workshop will be held on 21st and 22nd December 2019 from 2 to 8 p.m. at Radiona.org, address: Nova cesta 186, Zagreb. The language of the workshop is Croatian.
29/11/2019
Extended deadline for EMAP 2020 and 2021 residencies applications
The European Media Art Platform will offer EMARE residencies for artists working in the fields of digital media – in internet and computer-based arts, in sound or video art, in media-based performance, as well as in robotics or bio-art. The upcoming call covers residency stays in 2020 and in 2021 at eleven renowned European media art organizations. Deadline for Applications is extended and to December 9th 2019, 12:00 CET.
20/11/2019
Test_Lab: Machinic ecologies w/ Device_art @V2_, Rotterdam
New edition of Test_Lab V2_ on 21st November 2019 in Rotterdam will showcase artistic research by artists and designers from Croatia who are collaborating with KONTEJNER within the Device_art platform and on the shared ideas around Machinic ecologies.
04/11/2019
Second Digital rendez-vous in Zagreb
In collaboration with French Institute in Zagreb, KONTEJNER is co-organizing the exhibition programme of the second annual Digital rendez-vous. Connecting partners from France, Croatia, Germany and the region, the manifestation brings together activists, artists, scientists, lecturers, entrepreneurs, stakeholders and media representatives during approximately 20 events on the topic of re-thinking relations between human and technology.
17/10/2019
Extravagant love in Split
Workshop programme of the Extravagant bodies: Extravagant love festival will be held at Youth centre in Split.
05/10/2019
Short circuit project and MI stroj installation at 12th Clubture Forum
"MI stroj", interactive installation exploring the questions of machine ecology and understanding of machine as equal member of environment, opened the 12th Clubture Forum that took place in Zagreb from 9th to 11th October 2019.
12/09/2019
Call for Applications – Residencies for European media artists in 2020 and 2021
The European Media Art Platform will offer EMARE residencies for artists working in the fields of digital media – in internet and computer-based arts, in sound or video art, in media-based performance, as well as in robotics or bio-art. The upcoming call covers residency stays in 2020 and in 2021 at eleven renowned European media art organizations. Deadline for Applications: December 2nd 2019, 12:00 CET
27/08/2019
Become a Volunteer at the upcoming Extravagant Bodies festival!
Application deadline for volunteers at the fifth international Extravagant Bodies festival is September 10th 2019.
13/08/2019
Warm-up for the Extravagant bodies festival on the island of Korčula
We are opening the fifth edition of triennial festival Extravagant bodies dealing with the notion of love with two performances. The main exhibition of the Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Love festival opens on the 18th of September in the space of HALA V of The Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb. Before the opening, KONTEJNER is traveling to the island of Korčula where we will, in collaboration with the grey area organization, present Choreography of Utopia, Movement #2 and Need Your Love So Bad.
07/08/2019
EXTRAVAGANT BODIES: EXTRAVAGANT LOVE
The fifth Triennial Festival of Extravagant Bodies subtitled Extravagant Love takes places at the Hala V of Zagreb's Technical Museum in September 2019
21/07/2019
Biochemical cyborg is being developed at a residency in Zagreb
Italian artist Margherita Pevere arrived in Zagreb for the second phase of her residency in KONTEJNER. After the initial phase in Dubrovnik at the biotechnological laboratory UR Institute, Pevere is currently continuing her bio-art research on the materiality and desires of the leaky body.
13/06/2019
Apply for our cultural management course - part of the Future DiverCities EU project!
KONTEJNER is inviting all young professionals from Croatia working within the field of culture and contemporary art to participate in our new educational programme - part of the EU project Future DiverCities - from 14th to 23rd September 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. Application deadline is Friday, July 5th 2019.
30/05/2019
After 2 months, Factory of Sound culminates with a concert at Mesnička Cultural Centre
Our 2-month educational project for the youngest, workshop for kids Factory of Sound, is going to end with the public concert of junior ensemble. This year’s musicians of the future are Bartol Knežević, Jan Knežević, Mak Rizvanović, Andrija Vidović, Barbara Vidović, Juraj Vidović and Šime Vukelić, and their concert under the baton of Nenad Sinkauz and Nenad Kovačić takes place on the 7th of June at 7pm, at the Mesnička Cultural Centre. Free entrance.
27/05/2019
KONTEJNER @ FEMeeting and Consciousness Reframed conferences in Portugal
Olga Majcen Linn and Sunčica Ostoić from KONTEJNER will hold lectures on the topic of art at the intersection of science and technology during two conferences in Portugal.
13/05/2019
Device_art festival is on tour at 18th WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland
Croatian artist Mirjana Vodopija and duo Lightune.G will present our Device_art festival at the 18th WRO Media Art Biennial in Wroclav. Opening events will take place from May 15th to May 17th 2019, while the entire biennial program will last until December.
26/04/2019
UNTIE THE KNOT: Open call for conference
KONTEJNER | bureau for contemporary art praxis in partnership with Photography association Organ Vida is organizing a two-day international conference "Untie the Knot: Redefining Normativity in Love" as part of the Extravagant Bodies festival. The two-day conference will take place at the Grand venue of Cinema Europa in Zagreb on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st, September 2019. We invite everybody interested to propose scientific, theoretical and other investigative works on the topic of love!
25/04/2019
KONTEJNER has joined the Re-Imagine Europe project
Re-Imagine Europe is a four-year project with 10 cultural institutions from across Europe, addressing the social and political challenges we face today.
24/04/2019
Bio-art research on materiality and desires of the leaky body in Dubrovnik and Zagreb
Our 2019 EMAP residency has started with the launch of Margherita Pevere’s (IT/DE) artistic research in biotechnological laboratory of our partner - UR Institute located in Dubrovnik. First phase of the project is scheduled to last from April to May. Afterwards, Pevere will continue developing her artwork at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, from July to August 2019.
24/04/2019
Applications for internship at KONTEJNER
KONTEJNER has opened a new job position and is looking for an assistent of our programme coordinator. Deadline is extended until May 15th. The call is limited to applicants eligible for internship programme of Croatian Employment Service (HZZ).
23/04/2019
KONTEJNER at Science+art cafe in Dubrovnik
New Science+art caffe organized by our partners UR Institute takes place on Saturday, April 27th 2019 at the conference hall on the Lokrum island. In its newest edition, the event is dedicated to our EMAP residency and the artwork "Wombs" by a bio-artist Margherita Pevere that is being produced during the residency.
01/03/2019
KONTEJNER at EMAP's Augment and Disrupt 2019 mini-festival in Utrecht
Augment and Disrupt is IMPAKT's 3-day mini-festival that took place in Utrecht from 1st to 3rd March 2019. Festival explored interactions between art, society, and technology through a critical investigation of the interface and future of digital platforms.
06/02/2019
EMAP/EMARE 2019 Artist in Residence Selection
We are announcing the results of EMAP/EMARE artists selected for the two-month residencies in European media art organizations - members of the EMAP network.
18/01/2019
Device_art meets "TRANSMISSIONS" - January performances and education programme
Final weeks of the Device_art festival in Zagreb and Rijeka, interconnected with our EU project Future DiverCities, present young and emerging European artists working with sound and technology.
06/01/2019
Open call for new edition of Extravagant bodies!
Call for participation in the next edition of Extravagant bodies subtitled Extravagant Love is open for all artists and lovers until February 14th 2019. The festival will take place in Zagreb in September 2019.
16/12/2018
Emotional robots and sensual machines at the sixth Device_art Festival of art, robotics and new technologies
“Everywhere it is machines and machines are not alone.” This powerful statement from curator ZHANG Ga is at the heart of the upcoming sixth edition of Device_art festival and it’s large central exhibition Machines Are Not Alone. The exhibition opens on December 18th 2018 in Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb at 7 p.m., and it stays opened until 3rd February 2019. With 21 exhibited artworks by 25 international artists, it represents an in an attempt to map out the activities of contemporary machines and their cohabitation with humans in our contemporary society.
07/12/2018
Opening of Device_art festival in Split with Tin Dožić
The focus of the Device_art programme in Split from 7th to 9th December is on artistic workshops and performances
05/12/2018
Opening of the Short circuit exhibition at Šira Gallery
Opening of the exhibition of our interdisciplinary project Short circuit will take place on Thursday, December 6th 2018 at 7 p.m. at Šira Gallery, Zagreb.
26/11/2018
PICTURE SKY Zagreb
On Saturday, December 1st 2018, precisely at 11:03:42, the TERRA satellite will pass over Zagreb and photograph the city from its orbit. We are inviting all the citizens to join us and photograph the sky exactly in that moment, contributing in this way to the presentation of the artwork Picture Sky on this year's Device_art festival!
05/11/2018
KONTEJNER in Mexico City!
KONTEJNER is presenting Touch Me festival in Mexico City as a part of the conference „Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science“ from 11th to 13th November 2018.
06/09/2018
OPEN CALL - European Media Art Platform / European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2019
A new open call for the EMAP / EMARE residencies is launched with the deadline for submission on December 10th 2018, 12:00 CET
04/09/2018
EMAP at Ars Electronica Festival
As a part of Ars Electronica Festival from 6th to 10th September 2018, the EMAP – European Media Art Platform members and artists organize a rich and diverse programme consisting of EMAP Group Exhibition and Jam-Session, artists talks and guided tours.
29/08/2018
Empathy Swarm open studio - evening with Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan
This Friday, August 31st 2018, from 6 p.m. Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan will host an open studio evening. As a part of the residential programme within the European project EMAP/EMARE – European Media Art Network and in collaboration with KONTEJNER they have been producing their new artwork - a swarm of emotional robots.
20/06/2018
This summer Zagreb is swarming with emotional robots!
During July and August, Adam Donovan and Katrin Hochschuh are continuing their EMAP residency in Zagreb. The artists are producing their artwork Empathy Swarm and researching tools for human emotion recognition and interaction between the man and the machine, working along the road with many different collaborators.
19/04/2018
Adam Donovan and Katrin Hochschuh started the EMAP kick-off residency in Zagreb
Artist duo will hold a workshop Psychophysics Machines Jam Session for students of Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb on April 26th at 2 p.m. at the Gallery SC, a performance Saturn3 on Wednesday, May 2nd at 10 p.m. at the Gallery SC, and a lecture on Robotics in/and Music on Thursday, May 3rd, 6 p.m. at Teatar &TD.
01/04/2018
Open call for Device_art 6.018
Open call for new artistic productions and participation in this years Device_art festival programme taking place in Zagreb's Museum of Contemporary Art is opened from March 27th to May 20th, 2018. The call is opened to all individual artists and collectives residing and working in Croatia.
29/03/2018
New sound perspectives - second Future DiverCities Artistic Lab
Sound performance/concert which marks the end of the "New sound perspectives" Artistic Lab organized as a part of the EU project Future DiverCities is scheduled for Wednesday, April 25th, 8 p.m. at small hall of Pogon Jedinstvo.
25/03/2018
One whole month of experimental sound in Zagreb
As a part of the Impromonday programme, on April 9th 2018, at 8 p.m. and with Benedict Taylor & Jošt Drašler + DJ Liquidator as main guests, Music Showroom SC, Department of Experimental Sound and KONTEJNER announce an entire month of events focused on experimental sound in Zagreb.
16/03/2018
Media Art Worlds - a conference on hybrid economies of digital art
Media Art Worlds conference is dealing with the contextualization of production and presentation in media art as well as addressing the position of an artist in hybrid economies. The conference is taking place in Helsinki on March 24th and is organized by EMAP - European Media Art Platform.
13/03/2018
Zimoun's wall of sound in Mochvara Gallery
One of the biggest names in the global sound art scene is coming to Croatia to present the site-specific installation designed especially for venue POGON Jedinstvo. The exhibition opens on April 14th 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
20/02/2018
Selected artists for European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE) 2018
Here are the results of EMAP / EMARE artists selected for the two-month residency in one of the media art organizations in Europe.
05/02/2018
Launch of EMAP: The European Media Art Platform
The members of the newly formed European Media Art Platform (EMAP), a network of partners across eleven countries, presented themselves and their visions behind the project at transmediale/festival.
15/12/2017
Open call for 6th Sound Art Incubator
Deadline fot the open call for 6th Sound Art Incubator production cycle is 15th February 2018.
06/12/2017
Kontejner is looking for a new project coordinator
A new job oportunity at Kontejner! We have a spot opened for the coordinator of Future DiverCities project which includes implementation of project activities, along with participating in realization of our other projects and programmes, and tasks related to functioning of the Kontejner NGO in general.
08/11/2017
Siniša Labrović, Božidar Katić and Marko Marković are performing at Extravagant bodies: Crime and Punishment festival in London
Fourth edition of international festival Extravagant bodies titled Crime and Punishment will take place in London in the space of redundant church, from November 17-18th in collaboration with partner organisation Live Art Development Agency.
05/11/2017
EMAP/EMARE is becoming the biggest international residential platform
European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE) is becoming the biggest international platform of residency programmes for emerging new media artists.
12/04/2017
Tomo Savić Gecan goes to residency in CERN
CERN - world's leading laboratory for particle physics, opened its door to artistic research. ACCELERATE Croatia Award is a one-month residency that provides intense collaboration between artists and scientists. It is a part of the Arts at CERN programe dedicated to creating inovative concepts on the intersection of art, science and technology.
01/03/2017
Touch Me Festival 2017 – OPEN CALL
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis is inviting artists and authors to submit project proposals for the fifth edition of Touch Me Festival. Applications can be submitted from March 1st to April 15th, 2017.
05/12/2016
Open call for 5th Sound Art Incubator
Sound Art Incubator is Mochvara Gallery's production platform dedicated to young and emerging local artists dealing with sound as artistic media. Fifth open call for participation in the project is opened until February 2017.
20/10/2016
Open call for entries ACCELERATE Croatia Award 2016/2017
What is universe made of, what are particles made of and what is the forcé that connects them are one of many questions researched at CERN, a cutting-edge laboratory for particle physics. Except for scientists and researchers, CERN is also inviting artists to its intriguing laboratories.
