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.
10/06/2022
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).
01/06/2022
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.
18/03/2022
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.
17/03/2022
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.
01/03/2022
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.
21/02/2022
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.
10/02/2022
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.
18/01/2022
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.
03/12/2021
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.
02/11/2021
