Exhibition
May 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
8.5.2025 – 21.6.2025
The exhibition The Arts of Resistance showcases artistic works created as a result of the project, including the outcomes of international workshops and research meetings held at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, an artistic intervention with public schools in Braunschweig, as well as reflections by young artists on resistance through artistic practice. The exhibition’s goal is to encourage critical thinking and dialogue about historical and contemporary forms of resistance against fascism, and to create an open space for new interpretations through art. Newly created works will be presented in correlation with pieces from the MSU collection that relate to themes of resistance and anti-fascism, as part of The Triggers exhibition cycle, thereby creating new relationships and interpretations of the exhibited artworks and the concepts they address.
At the intersection of international youth work, contemporary artistic research, and political education, the TAoR project also aims to examine artistic works and cultural products based on local examples as potential forms of resistance. To foster a pan-European understanding of fascism and art-based resistance, with the support of internationally recognised artists, young participants have explored and co-created artworks as expressions of resistance against fascism.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Photos © Vedran Benović
On Friday, 9 May, from 10 am to 2 pm, the MSU Školica hall hosted a panel discussion organised as part of the project of the same name and the accompanying exhibition, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from 8 May to 21 June 2025.
Programme of the Symposium
9.5.2025
The Arts of Resistance is made possible by the generous support:
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
8.5.2025 – 21.6.2025
The exhibition The Arts of Resistance showcases artistic works created as a result of the project, including the outcomes of international workshops and research meetings held at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, an artistic intervention with public schools in Braunschweig, as well as reflections by young artists on resistance through artistic practice. The exhibition’s goal is to encourage critical thinking and dialogue about historical and contemporary forms of resistance against fascism, and to create an open space for new interpretations through art. Newly created works will be presented in correlation with pieces from the MSU collection that relate to themes of resistance and anti-fascism, as part of The Triggers exhibition cycle, thereby creating new relationships and interpretations of the exhibited artworks and the concepts they address.
At the intersection of international youth work, contemporary artistic research, and political education, the TAoR project also aims to examine artistic works and cultural products based on local examples as potential forms of resistance. To foster a pan-European understanding of fascism and art-based resistance, with the support of internationally recognised artists, young participants have explored and co-created artworks as expressions of resistance against fascism.
On Friday, 9 May, from 10 am to 2 pm, the MSU Školica hall hosted a panel discussion organised as part of the project of the same name and the accompanying exhibition, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from 8 May to 21 June 2025.
Programme of the Symposium
9.5.2025
10:00 Welcome speech by Vesna Meštrić, Director of MSU
10:05 Ana Škegro: Presentation of The Art of Resistance project
10:20 Presentation of works created in the co-creative process of The Art of Resistance project
11:00 Josip Jagić: Cartography of Resistance
11:15 Sanja Horvatinčić: Traces of Resistance: Material Culture of the National Liberation Struggle
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Vana Gović, Damir Gamulin Gamba: Remembering as an Act – The Example of the Memorial Center “Lipa Remembers”
12:30 Nika Petković: Slana – a Radical Landscape
12:45 Closing discussion
13:00 Collective visit of The Art of Resistance exhibition
The Arts of Resistance is made possible by the generous support:
MSU ZagrebArtists
selma banich, MSU Youth Club (Nina Ćorić, Celina Damjanović, Emma Matijević, Mirta Mesić, Antonija Mužar, Bohdan Myshkov, Stella Poljak, Dorian Štih)
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Daniel Hammer, Theresia Heichinger, Carola von Herder, Anetta Luberda, Elena Rabkina, Lena Scharnreiter, Miriam Weichmann.
The sculpture created and workshops held in schools in Braunschweig were conceived and realised by the art mediation course at the Institute of Fine Art, Braunschweig University of Art, under the lead of Prof. Martin Krenn, in cooperation with RAHM architekten in Vienna. The participating students included Maria Ammann, Henadzi Arkhipau, Paul-Can Atlama, Dana Crasser, Natascha Faber, Xiaoming Huang, Fiona Jassmann, Nelly Khabipova, Laetitia Lentz, Hye-Hyun Kim, Merve Gisou Rosenthal, and Daphne Schüttkemper. Cooperation partners in Braunschweig: VHS Braunschweig. Content support and networking with schools: Anna-Sophie Schröder.
Damir Gamulin (Zagreb, 1974) is a Zagreb-based designer and researcher who works at the intersection of technology, disciplines and scale, spanning graphic, editorial, spatial and interactive design. His projects characteristically involve integrated methods of content development, editing and interpretation, expanding design practice into new contexts. Gamulin has participated in the Triennale di Milano (2022) and the Taipei Biennale (2020), and was the artistic director of the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2006), in addition to numerous regional exhibitions. He is the co-founder of the studio OO (Organized Design), a design and research practice, and has received multiple awards for his interdisciplinary work that connects curatorial strategies and design across different media.
Vana Gović Marković graduated in Art History and Ethnology in 2006 from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is a museum advisor at the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka, where she works as the head of the Memorial Center “Lipa Pamti”. In her work, she deals with difficult heritage issues, connecting the culture of memory with contemporary art and participatory practices. From 2018 to 2021, she led the EU project Museum of the Future, within which, for the first time in Croatia, participatory museum management was successfully implemented. She is the author of a number of exhibitions, publications and professional articles.
Sanja Horvatinčić (Zagreb, 1987) is a research associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. Her research focuses on the production of monuments and the culture of remembrance in socialist Yugoslavia, as well as on the politics of heritage and memory in the post-socialist context. She has participated in research projects dealing with the history of Yugoslav cultural policy and the Non-Aligned Movement, critical studies of memory and heritage, and digital art history. Since 2019, she has led the interdisciplinary heritage project Heritage from Below | Drežnica: Memories and Traces 1941–1945. She is currently leading the project Digital Network, spatial and (con)textual analysis of artistic phenomena and heritage of the 20th century. She is the author of numerous scientific publications.
Josip Jagić (Zagreb, 1987) graduated from the Dr. Ivan Kranjčev High School in Đurđevac, and graduated in modern and contemporary history from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 2015. He has been researching the structures of partisan resistance in Yugoslavia during World War II, on which he has published texts and books. Since 2019, he has been working at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe as a project manager and political analyst.
Nika Petković (Rijeka, 1992) completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in filmology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Bologna, Italy, and since 2023 has been a doctoral student in the study of literature, culture, performing arts and film at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. From 2015 to 2018, she collaborated with the Bologna Cinematheque, the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival of classical and restored films, and the Home Movies archive of amateur and experimental films, as a researcher of archival materials on various film projects. Since 2021, she has also collaborated with the ZagrebDox documentary film festival as a film selector and host of interviews with authors, and since 2024 she has been employed by the 25 FPS association for audiovisual research, as a coordinator of the association and selector of film programs. In addition to film art, her area of interest is particularly focused on photography. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions (Persona, 2019; Slana - radical landscape, 2021; Tok, 2023).
Ana Škegro is a senior curator, Head of the Experimental and Research Department and Head of the Media Art Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. She worked as a freelance curator, exhibition producer, and program manager on various projects since 2013. From 2017 until 2021 she worked as a curator of international projects and Head of the Education Department at the Museum. She founded the MSU Youth Club in 2016, which she continues to mentor through collaborative and co-creative projects like From Another Angle, Art Works! and podcast Tobogan. She has curated, produced and organized numerous exhibitions and projects.