Zagreb

Initiatives

Venues

• AKC Medika, *2008
• BAZA, venue for art and activism, *2016
• Booksa, bookstore-café, *2004
• Gallery Nova, *1975
• Kinoteka, cinema
• Klubvizija, *2009
• Kontejner, *2002
• MaMa, net culture club, *1999
• Pogon, cultural centers, *2009
• Radiona.org, makerspace, *2011
• Zagreb Student Centre
• Živi Atelje DK, collective space and atelier

• Past venues: Electra (women's art centre, *1995), Podroom (1978-1980).

Initiatives and collectives with no permanent event venue

• 25 FPS
• Attack!, *1997
• BLOK, curatorial collective, *2001
• Delve, *2009
• Kooperativa – Regional Platform for Culture, *2012
• Kulturpunkt.hr
• Nemeza
• Oaza Books, art publisher
• Pangolin, artist run organisation working in film, visual art and research practices
• Platforma 9.81, *1999
• Pogon, *2009
• Right to the City
• Slobodne veze / Loose Associations, *2009
• What, How & for Whom / WHW, curatorial collective, *1999
• WHW Akademija, *2018

• Past initiatives: 04 megazine, EGOBOO.bits (*2001), media-art-hr (mailing list), Images (journal), Zamir (*1992), Arkzin (magazine, *1991).

Events

• 25 FPS, festival, *2005
• Conjuncture, symposia series, *2009
• Device_art, art & technology festival, *2004
• Eurokaz, theatre festival, *1987
• Extravagant Bodies, triennial art festival, *2007
• Film Mutations, festival, *2007
• Human Rights Film Festival, *2002
• Pastforward, lecture series, *2000
• Plan D, design festival (formerly Dan D), *2010
• Razmjena vještina (Skill Sharing), *2009
• PSSST! Silent Film Festival, *2011
• Subversive Festival, film festival, *2008
• Touch Me, art & science festival, *2002
• Vector Hack Festival, *2018
• Vizualni kolegij, lecture and screening series, *2004

• Event listings: Kulturpunkt.hr

Past events

• 9th International Degrowth Conference, 2023, [1]
• Test!, theatre and multimedia festival, 2012-2014
• Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons, 2012
• Subversive Forum, 2012
• New Media - New Networks, exhibition, 2008
• System.hack(), exhibition, 2006
• Sloboda stvaralaštvu!, festival, 2005-2007
• Insert - Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, exhibition, 2005
• Transverzala, lecture series, *2005
• DECro, festival, 2003, *2005
• Urbanfestival, 2001-2015
• Becoming Digital, 2001/2003
• Project - Broadcasting, 2001
• I Am Still Alive, 2000
• Media-Scape, exhibition and symposium on art and media, 1993-2000, 2010, 2012
• New Tendencies, exhibitions and symposia, 1961-1973

Art workers

• Ana Dević
• Ana Hušman
• Boris Buden (1958)
• Borislav Mikulic
• Branka Benčić
• Dalibor Martinis (1947)
• Darko Fritz (1966)
• Deborah Hustić
• Dejan Kršić
• Gideon Kiers
• Goran Trbuljak (1948)
• Helena Bulaja
• Igor Markovic
• Ivan Marušić Klif
• Ivan Picelj (1924)
• Ivana Bago
• Ivana Pavić
• Katarina Pejovic
• Klaudio Štefančić
• Leonardo Kovačević
• Luka Bekavac (1976)
• Matko Meštrović (1933)
• Miljenka Buljević
• Mirna Belina (1979)
• Nenad Romić (Marcell Mars) (1972)
• Nicole Hewitt
• Ognjen Tus
• Ozren Pupovac
• Paul Stubbs
• Petar Milat (1974)
• Petra Belc
• Sanja Iveković (1949)
• Sonja Leboš
• Srdjan Dvornik
• Sunčica Ostoić (1976)
• Teodor Celakoski (1971)
• Tereza Teklić
• Toma Bacic (1976)
• Tomislav Medak (1973)
• Vilko Žiljak (1946)
• Zeljko Blace (1976)
• Željko Kipke (1953)

• RIP: Ivan Ladislav Galeta (1947-2014).

Publications

• Personal Cuts: Art à Zagreb de 1950 à nos jours / Art Scene in Zagreb from 1950s to Now, ed. Branka Stipančić, Nîmes: Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain Nîmes, 2014, 237 pp. Exh. catalogue. Artists: Gorgona Group, Josip Vaništa, Julije Knifer, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Ivan Kožarić, Tomislav Gotovac, Goran Trbuljak, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Vlado Martek, Boris Cvjetanović, Igor Grubić, David Maljković, Andreja Kulunčić, Božena Končić Badurina. (French)/(English)

• Sepp Eckenhaussen, Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019), Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019, 276 pp. [2] (English)

• Višnja Kačić Rogošić, "1990s Beyond Institutions: Zagreb Independent Theatre Scene", ArteActa 5:7, Prague: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 2022, pp 7-26. [3] (English)

• Adair Rounthwaite, This is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024, 296 pp, EPUB. Publisher. Review: Amy Bryzgel (ARTMargins). (English)

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