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

04/10/2021

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.

30/09/2021

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.

21/09/2021

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.

15/09/2021

KONTEJNER in Portugal!

Artist Antonio Kutleša (HR) and curators Jurica Mlinarec and Luja Šimunović (KONTEJNER) visited our long-term partners - the organization Cultivamos Cultura!

21/07/2021

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.

04/06/2021

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.

18/05/2021

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.

19/04/2021

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.

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