16/05/2025

KONTEJNER hosts SomaHut festival 2025

This year's SomaHut festival offers a rich program of workshops, performances, and discussions, and will take place on May 24 and 25 at KONTEJNER.

This year SomaHut festival's program brings together artists from various media to share with each other and with visitors their experiences, practices, results of long-term artistic processes, inspirations, and questions that guide their research, sharing, and public action.
The gathered topics focus on boundaries, identity, immunity, the quality of space – between the personal and the collective, the indivisible and the shared – and are grounded in the experience of the body as movement and change, potential or limitation, trauma and healing.

The Saturday program begins with the workshop IMMUNITY AS PROCESS, with Zrinka Šimičić, dance artist, somatic practitioner, educator of somatic and developmental movement through the BMC® approach, and Ana Jelušić, dance artist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This is followed by ALCHEMY OF VOICE, a workshop with Melita Lovričević, jazz vocalist, music educator and music therapist, and in the afternoon, the intermedial workshop of dance and animation TRACING EACH OTHER, led by animation artist Michaela Müller and dance artist Zrinka Šimičić. The Saturday program concludes with a performance of the original work by dance artist Margareta Sinković THE RAIN THAT FALLS ON NO ONE, starting at 8 PM.

On Sunday from 12:30 PM visitors can view the video work by artist Tonka Maleković WHITE FLAG / Hopscotch, explore WHAT ORGANS SOUND LIKE with Mia Štark and Ivona Eterović, and become acquainted with the work, processes and results of long-term artistic research by Kristina Marić THE WOUND THAT WRITES, THE BODY THAT SPEAKS and Tonka Maleković SPACES OF TOGETHERNESS.

The program concludes with the performance of the intermedial work CANOPY SHYNESS, by Dubravko Mihanović, Michaela Müller, Zrinka Šimičić and Filip Šovagović.

More details about the program can be found on the website: SomaHut festival 2025

All events are free of charge, with donations accepted according to possibilities.

Program and festival organization: Zrinka Šimičić, Mia Štark
Initiator and program lead of SomaHut: Zrinka Šimičić
Production: Multimedia Hut in collaboration with KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art practice
Visual identity: Vanja Cuculić (Studio Cuculić)
Production: Multimedia Hut

SomaHut 2025 is co-financed by the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the European Union.

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