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.
18/03/2021
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.
31/01/2021
Multichannel sound diffusion workshop
18th to 23rd January 2021 (10am-1pm & 3-6pm) @Pogon Jedinstvo, large hall
17/12/2020
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.
16/12/2020
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.
08/12/2020
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.
05/09/2020
Become a Volunteer at the upcoming Touch Me festival!
Application deadline for volunteers at the sixth international Touch Me festival is September 9th 2020.
28/08/2020
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.
04/08/2020
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.
11/06/2020
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!
22/05/2020
