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

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.

29/10/2021

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.

05/10/2021