Museum of Contemporary Art: Collaborations that Blur the Lines

Several interesting exhibitions of contemporary artists worth visiting are available to public at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Two exhibitions are open to public until 24 May. The first, entitled Natura po_etica, connects art pieces of contemporary artist with those from the holdings of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Their interaction is shown in seven different themes, each presenting relationships between nature, art and everyday life in a different manner. The second exhibition available until the stated date is entitled Bauhaus Ecologies – Webs of Continuity and it opens up with the question whether the historical Bauhaus can be read from an ecological perspective. In doing so, ecology is understood from a wider perspective, which includes a web of relations between materials and ideas, past and present practices, between art and the everyday.

The exhibition By the Means at Hand by Vlatka Horvat is available until 21 June. It presents the project which Horvat created for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, and which she donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb after the Biennale closed. For the project, the author invited some 200 international artists, her friends, all living “as foreigners” in different countries around the world, to exchange artworks with her. For every work she received, the author sent to each artist her collage created during the Biennale.

The series of exhibitions Collection as a Verb can be visited until the end of the year. The starting point of the exhibitions is that they not a finished project, but rather a process and a swift reaction to the events around us.

In addition to activities taking place in the area of the museum and in Croatia, the Museum of Contemporary Art proves its international acclaim by cooperating with similar institutions in the world. Until 14 June, the exhibition entitled Circuits of Chance, which is the result of a long collaboration with Nam June Paik Art Centre from Seoul, the Republic of Korea is available to visitors. It brings artwork of numerous contemporary Croatian artists connected with the practice of Nam June Paik, a renowned Korean American multimedia artist and a pioneer of media art. 

From March 2025 until the end od February 2028, artwork from the holdings of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb can be seen in permanent display of one of the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries MoMA in New York. The part of the permanent display entitled Invitation: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb will encompass two halls of this museum in New York dedicated to the Zagreb art scene of the 1960s during three years. New York audience will have a chance to see canonical artwork by Josip Vaništa, Ivan Kožarić, Julije Knifer, Dimitrije Bašićević Mangelos and Ljerka Šibenik.