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.
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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:
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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.