Gibanja is an annual event through which KONTEJNER seeks to monitor and explore movements on the contemporary music scene.

With the citizens of Rijeka.

Tragedy is an all-consuming space, where two miserable fictional characters enact a slow, endlessly looping nightmare.

Along with the lighting of bonfires on the Sava embankment, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Zagreb, an exhibition program is held in the Big Hall of Pogon Jedinstvo.

[CRITICAL DRAMATURGY] “Alalazo” from ἀλαλά is a force call of one and at the same time many voices entering a battle, screaming, cheering, resisting, giving birth to a moan of ecstatic joy.

The multimedia project "The Body of Trauma" explores the deep and layered aspects of trauma through circus, dance, music and video projections.

You are invited to join us on April 10th at 7:00 PM for the grand, public, (NO)MAGICal OPENING of the circus season in the CirkoBalkana tent!

Platform Upgrade invites you to the film screening of the award-winning documentary film Little Palestine Diary of a Siege directed by Abdallah Al-Khatibana.

After a week long circusnext residency at Pogon Jedinstvo, the Spanish circus group presents a work in progress that explores the body in constant change.

Members of the Spanish circus group La Vispera will hold an intensive two-day mask and body animation workshop in anticipation of a public performance in Pogon Jedinstvo.

"…, and exits are smaller still" is a dance performance that, through a duet, explores a distinct relationship with the performance space and the viewer's perspective.

POGONATOR 2025 presents a solo dance piece that explores the human body as one of the possible bodies of water.

"Things That Burn Easily" is a contemplative dystopia about loss and fire, both on a concrete, topical, and conceptual level.

"Safe Chemistry" is a diptych developed through two seemingly separate projects: "21°C" by Petra Hrašćanec and "Dinner for 21" by Ksenija Zec, which balance between performance and active installation.

[POGONATOR 2024] This dance performance is about the acute state of burnout, about the moment when the inner and outer worlds diverge, when the system breaks, but the individual does not recognize it yet or has difficulty recognizing it.

This work between dance and exhibition deals with the exhibiting and presenting already existing work “…and the exits are even smaller” using dance vocabulary and overhead projector OHP.

The performance of the nihilistic cycle, a drama about futility, fear, despair and disappearance, returns to Jedinstvo.

Circle was created as part of the Stronger Peripheries: A Southern Coalition project, based on the themes of work and happiness.

Between concert reading, lecture performance and improvisational performance, the last train. is the author's project of playwright Lucija Klarić, in which she deals with entering her thirties.

In collaboration with dance artist Tamara Curić, every Wednesday in January and the first Wednesday in February, Pogon organizes free dance encounters for all generations.

At Pogon Jedinstvo, the plays "Compass", "Horizont" and "Levant" are performed one after the other for the first time, in the form of a marathon.

The extreme music-theater performance works with the aesthetics of personal and public memory as a common good, and takes as its starting point the legendary personality and artwork of Marko Brecelj, poet, musician, performer and activist.

Art professors from the School of Applied Arts and Design Zagreb ŠPUD are exhibiting their work in Jedinstvo. As part of the birthday exhibition, students' and teachers' works will be available for purchase at the traditional BUSH, the ŠPUD Christmas Fair.

The exhibition aims to draw attention to the problem of the unequal division of household chores in the family, where most of the burden still falls on women, who participate in these chores in a significantly higher percentage.

The ROSE collective, under the mentorship of Ana Kovačić and Lea Vene, designed an exhibition concept that brings together works at the intersection of virtual and material.

Močvara Gallery presents a performance by Stine Fors, which, like her practice, will be full of tension, humor, and raw power.

The work “Moth“ is a multi-channel animation depicting the toxic relationship between the two main characters - the Moth and the artist.

"Željka - Memory and Constancy“ is an interactive video work that documents a part of personal history and unchanging emotions.

As part of the new Cherry Pop Festival 2024: Sexuality and s(t)imulation, this workshop offers an understanding of sexuality through psychoeducation.

The Exposium is a hybrid three-day-long program that includes presentations of creative research, processes, experiments and methodologies-in-making in various formats.

After the residency at Pogon premises in Zagreb, researcher and performance artist Alia Hamdan invites you to the artist talk and a presentation of the work process of the performance project "The body is here, off screen".

[POGONATOR] Monuments is an interdisciplinary performance, merging contemporary dance and experimental electronic music in an artistic exploration of Yugoslav history, architecture, and sculpture under the creative direction of Zagreb-based composer N/OBE and choreographer Saša Božić.

For five days in October, Animation and New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb is moving into the Big hall of Pogon Jedinstvo and holds a series of audio and video art performances, presentations, discussions and workshops led by artists, former and current students of the department.

“Voices“ with selma banich is a research and educational program that aims to bring together artists interested in movement, somatic practices, voice work and self-education.

[Fubar expo 2k24] Everyone is invited to join us for a guided tour by the Fubar curators and the production team.

Fubar exhibition is the central event of the tenth edition of the Fubar (/’fu:bar/, est. 2015) - a program focused on electronic experiments and research in contemporary error-themed digital art theory and practice.

[Fubar expo 2k24] The final Fubar 2024 multimedia collection aims to highlight and share a petite selection of our valuable regional (audio)visual glitch art contributions.

[Fubar expo 2k24] “空っぽの夢 [Empty Dreams]” is a compilation of works visually designed by VAL1S, and accompanied by a special selection of music.

[Fubar expo 2k24] A twenty-minute single-channel version of the FLAG 2023 installation with a remix of the documentation of the materials created during the FLAG art residency will be presented through a screening and a conversation with the authors and organizers.

[Fubar expo 2k24] The 12 minute long work sequence will be shown as a 4 hour loop, accompanied by a mid-screening introduction and an open discussion with the authors and Format C starting at 6pm.

SubScena for theatrical, performance and hybrid art invites you to a closed presentation of the work in progress of Serbian artist Hristina Šormaz.

[Fubar expo 2k24] Ralt144MI is an audiovisual project centered on the practice of live-coding.

[Fubar expo 2k24] c0l1v3 is an experiment in collaborative improvised live coding and less traditional ways of collectively writing code.

[Fubar expo 2k24] HyperFuture is the paradoxical pursuit of a future so advanced it reverts to primal.

[Fubar expo 2k24] Project gunship collider is exploring themes of the human condition, between myth and futurology.

[Fubar expo 2k24] The opening night of the exhibition and festival closes with a local ambient noise band.

[Fubar expo 2k24] Fubar festival and exhibition pens with a performance by Rosa Menkman, Dutch artist and researcher of resolutions.

This is a ritual/listening session which celebrates women's music production to highlight gaps in the history of music production.

Crit Club is a contextual performance conceived by Cem A., also known as @freeze_magazine, that holds space for playful disagreements by inviting guests to debate impossible art-related questions.

ŠAHTO-KULTURA is a monumental performative-exhibition action by the House of Extreme Music Theatre, created and performed by 50 artists under the direction of Damir Bartol Indoš and Tanja Vrvilo, from 7 to 24 September 2024. Opening is on September 7th at 8 pm.

Reflecting on the place of peripheries inside Europe, and the possibility of giving a voice to local communities, ENEMY (A Peace Conference) wants to interrogate the notion of peace in relation to the current and past conflicts of Europe.  

In the project "Arbyte 2.0," the creative team will use choreography to create a system in which different elements of the performance coexist on an equal footing and create possible narratives and meanings in a space that is not semantically and contextually determined.

We invite the residents of Trnje to join our free, engaging, and creative dance sessions, specifically designed for those of a more mature age (50+).

This year marks the 141st anniversary of the School of Applied Arts and Design, celebrated with its now traditional exhibition of professors' works.

Works: Luana Lojić i Nina Kurtela // Workshop: Neža Knez // Curator: Teuta Gatolin

The current model of fast fashion is one of the main reasons for overconsumption, resource depletion and the exploitation of people.

In this exhibition, the artist presents works that focus on the physical perception of visitors and presents her doctoral research into the physical perception in experiencing sculptural work.

To be happy, people need to feel connected to others. While a sense of belonging can take a long time to establish, it can also arise from something as simple as making eye contact with a stranger.

Six Croatian films that became part of the CinEd collection in September 2023 will be premiered through three film screenings.

The fifth edition of Circus Night portrays the diversity of contemporary circus creation that, in this edition, tells the story of art in permanent change, perfectly open to the key issues that shape social debates.

In recent years, the notion of an apocalypse has become far more immediate and relevant than in the relative lull following the Cold War - from the extreme weather anomalies caused by global warming and the global pandemic to the renewed threat of nuclear warfare, the prospect of the destruction of civilization feels more tangible than ever before.

This one-day conference focusing on the care of organizational memory will bring together domestic and international experts in the field of archiving and community archives, activists, association representatives, decision-makers at both the national and local levels and the academic community.

The exhibition of works of amateur artist Gordana Kralj offers visitors the chance to see group portraits created in various techniques, including acrylics, charcoal, pastels, on paper, and more.

The fifth performance from the pentalogy of The House of Extreme Musical Theatre, inspired by the motifs of Dunja Robić, expands the traces of her verbal music from the ISMENA scene for two masks...

As a place that brings together the issues of the individual vs. the collective, conscious and unconscious assimilation of the characteristics of the environment, and defining oneself in relation to one's surroundings, "Fears of Small Differences" is a project that seeks to highlight the space between the desire to adapt and its impossibility, the space between the identity forged through displacement from the familiar and habitual.

The artistic exploration "Less Than the Sum of Its Parts" floats in proximity to quantum physics, Object-Oriented Ontology, socio-ecological despair, and seemingly distant galactic points of gayness, as well as the history and transgenerational effects of AIDS.

The Department of Animation and New Media will occupy the Jedinstvo hall for six days, hosting a series of presentations, discussions, audio and video art performances, as well as workshops led by artists, former and current students of the Department.

This year's Motions at Jedinstvo, will feature, among other things, a new piece by Mexican composer Hugo Morales Murguia titled "Automatic Means of Human Labour," produced by the collective instruments inventors initiative, standing at the intersection of sound composition and physical performance.

Zodiac – The Circle of Little Animals is the final, third sequel of the Horror House Project trilogy. The basic concept of the Horror House Project is based on terrifying phenomena looming over the circus.

Do you want to learn how the objects in the film move on their own? Are you interested in animated films? Do you want to put objects under a microscope and see their wondrous and normally invisible side?

In the project "Arbyte 2.0," the creative team will use choreography to create a system in which different elements of the performance coexist on an equal footing and create possible narratives and meanings in a space that is not semantically and contextually determined.

The sixteenth edition of the Zagreb Anarchist Book Fair will serve as a platform for networking, distributing materials, and sharing experiences and knowledge.

The workshop program is intended for individuals interested in the field of technical implementation (light and sound) for events.

A constellation is a closed (sometimes open) system in which all elements are interrelated. Only when all the elements within the constellation are engaged and vital does the whole become healthy and vital.

“… and the exits are even smaller” is a dance performance in progress, presented in the form of a duet that explores a specific relationship with the performance space and the audience’s perspective.

We are pleased to invite you to the spontaneous presentation of the artistic research laboratory as part of circusnext, which takes place from August 25 to September 3, 2023, in Zagreb, in the Big Hall of Pogon Jedinstvo. The presentation will take place on September 2 2023 at 16h.

'Loud Question/Physical-Vocal Laboratory' is a year-round research and educational program aimed at bringing together artists interested in movement, physicality, somatic practices, voice work and self-education.

Point Nemo is the most isolated place in the world, the furthest point from civilization located on this planet. In a not so far future, during the peak of the climate crisis, an agency specialized in disaster tourism, speculates the idea that this is the place where a new world can emerge.

In its 11th year and after last year's marathon celebration of the jubilee - 10 years of work, this festival of contemporary circus is moving in the direction of a shorter performance programme with an emphasis on education through workshops with guest artists.

The collaboration with the artist Sanna Helena Berger includes two programme lines - a performance that will take place at Jedinstvo and a sculptural installation of residual performance materials at the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery (GMK).

There is not a single style, story line or structure that defines the struggles of these characters. Struggle and suffering is what connects them. War, patriarchy and mental health are at the basis of these stories. It seems like this triangle is what also connects the struggles of the artists themselves. They too have gone through this post war progressive transformation of the society.

The third cosmophonic performance of the House of Extreme Music Theatre and Trobec’s bread ovens has besieged the armoured sampledelia "Lonely Nights", Matoš's sampled title enclosed in quotation marks just waiting to take its revenge.

In the garden, all particles are equal. Plants grow from waste, electronic impulses become bio-impulses. Sound becomes space, the body is a network. Everything is alive and moving. Continuously...

The exhibition aims to preserve the memory of the national hero Ivica Sabljak and his actions in the context of concentration camp resistance, which is especially important at a time when the efforts of the anti-fascist struggle are constantly being diminished and removed from the public sphere.

The performance collective Tricycle Trauma presents a nihilistic circus performance, a drama about futility, fear, despair, and disappearance...

The Klubvizija experimental film laboratory in Pogon Jedinstvo is organizing Open Lab - the largest darkroom in the world, in which, after a long time, all Klubvizija’s equipment will be gathered in one place.

"There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm, and we drown down, dead, too soon." J.Beck

The Collettivo_21 is a contemporary music ensemble based in Piacenza, Italy, and founded in 2015. It participated in major contemporary music festivals and premiered pieces by many composers such as Frederic Rzewski, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Luca Guidarini, Luca Ricci, Claudio Panariello, Alessandro Bono and Sara Stevanović.

The Proxima Centauri is an ensemble that redefines the codes of chamber music by proportionately integrating electroacoustics in the chamber repertoire.

The Cantus Ensemble — you could even call it the house ensemble of the Music Biennale Zagreb—is one of our most prominent ensembles specializing in New Music.

Zeitkratzer or “the ensemble of soloists” uses this oxymoron to describe itself, underlining that its strength lies specifically in the uniqueness of its members.

The origin of the word DWMC lies in the Ghanaian expression "Obroni Wawu", which can be translated as "dead white men’s clothes".

The radio show "Picture of Sound", which is broadcast on Croatian Radio’s Third Programme, is a kind of production platform and gallery but on the radio; an experimental and exhibition space for the works of contemporary visual and multimedia artists who use sound as a constitutive element.

From 13 to 19 March, in Pogon Jedinstvo, at the residency as part of the circusnext platform, Cirkorama hosts the French-Brazilian artist Alice Rende, preselected for the 2023 circusnext edition.

As the title suggests, the concept of this workshop is based on developing flexibility in movement research. The workshop consists of a series of contortion exercises adapted to all levels of participants, combined with movement research.

SUBSTRAT is a travelling international festival and conference of grassroot venues and clubs, established by the EEnlarge Europe hub in 2022.

The exhibition "At the Tip of the Tongue" aims to encourage a conversation about the impact of language on power relations, issues of inclusion and exclusion. Are we aware of how language and language issues are manipulated? Do we use language, or does language use us?

The Decalogue Schacht-Utegophony for concrete music-sound-voice-movement spatializes three multiple-exposed words-verses by Josip Stošić, Skull Drumming Banging, which he permutes using ritualized...

Art teachers at the School of Applied Art and Design (aka Primijenjena) are going to exhibit their works on the occasion of the School's 140th birthday.

The fourth extreme-music performance from the pentalogy based on the motifs of puppet theatre for adults by Dunja Robić develops the key points of her verbal music for synchronizing the sensations...

"Smarter City" is a biennial multi-year programme implemented by the Shadow Casters, which deals with the city as a layered resource of the community.

Dromomania is a term used in the mid-19th century to describe the psychiatric diagnosis of the so-called "pathological tourism".

Critics praise them, listeners love them... Altın Gün, a Grammy nominee, is surely the most famous contemporary band singing in the Turkish language.

This year's edition of "Motions" brings to Jedinstvo a new sound installation by Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz, Andrea Matošević and Miodrag Gladović, a lecture and performance by Thomas Ankersmit...

Pogon and Clubture Network organize technical production workshops for individuals with basic knowledge and experience in the field of technical implementation of events or those who work in organizations or spaces of independent culture.

Two exhibitions will take place simultaneously in the large and small halls of Pogon Jedinstvo.

Inspired by the declaration of digital media as a new digital continent by the Catholic Church (2009, Pope Benedict XVI), as well as by the technique of incorrect translations, Bojan Gagić created a multimedia spatial and sound installation that emphasizes the research of genetic sequences within a digital medium.

The performance "Compass" is a dance and theatre reaction to the classic Greek epic - the Odyssey, created by Simona Aughterlony, Petra Hrašćanec and Saša Božić.

"Object of the Extended Here and Now No. 5." is an all-night environment in which the audience can immerse themselves for however long they want.

Vector Hack is the world's first festival/conference of analogue vector graphics.

A liminal space is a time between what was and what comes next - a place of transition, a period of waiting and not knowing.

"The Era of Spider Shedding + Heat" is the title of the artistic research by the young Croatian artist Teuta Gatolin about ecological disruptions that inevitably become an integral part of everyday life in the 21st century.

Presentation of an open studio process in which the artists thematize appropriate technologies using visual materials collected during a trip through Central East Africa.

Now and NEVER YET…x.X segment Atypical / unconventional retroS.pec.TIVE segment/sequence X

By bringing together three artists, we want to find a way to combine two conflicting premises, namely: for an acrobat, the fall is potentially disastrous, and for a clown, it is the space for creation and connecting with the audience.

Three performance artists will be presented during the two days of performative programmes - Candela Capitan, Mina Tomić and Zrinka Užbinec.

To make it easier to cope with the challenges of the present moment, this year we again decided to awaken our strength and stimulate motivation.

“Da nam padne rosna Kiša“ (For the Dewy Rain to Fall) is guided by the questions of whether dance and customs contained in folklore patterns, which originated from agricultural rituals and Slavic mythology, have arisen from a sacral or social moment.

As part of the annual celebration programme marking the 20 year anniversary of KONTEJNER, Canadian new media artist, performer and composer Martin Messier will present his new audio-visual performance "Echo Chamber" at Pogon Jedinstvo.

The play "Trianglemeter" is a documentary theatre that, among other things, uses and processes existing media materials (articles, publications, quotes, manifestos, correspondences, video and audio materials...) related to the " Musical Measure of the Triangle - Trianglemetre" created by the composer Antun Toni Blažinović.

At this year's Unique Garden Party at Pogon you can learn how to build a hotel for insects (see announcement above), a small glowing pop-up garden made of paper, win amazing prizes in Kulturpunkt's quiz-o-rama, learn many interesting things about art practices on the independent cultural scene and finally – dance your heart out to DJ David Hasselhoff! This is a party you don’t want to miss!

With the solo exhibition "Inner Landscapes / Imaginary Homes", Nina Kurtela examines the relationships between the real and fictional, private and public, material and experiential, by creating a third space that opens up new possibilities of interpretation.

The programme of this festival, which is celebrating ten years of existence, provides the audience with a wide range of current contemporary circus performances from all over Europe and the region.

This year the record label "more or less forever" celebrates its first five years of existence! Since the first issue at the beginning of 2017, that is, since "Vanilla", the label has issued over 60 albums and currently has a total of 22 bands in the catalogue.

Centar Jadro in collaboration with Pogon presents an interdisciplinary performance by choreographer and dancer Ivana Balabanova and a composer Alessandro Olla.

Centar Jadro in collaboration with Pogon presents an interdisciplinary solo performance by choreographer and dancer Ivana Balabanova.

In partnership with Kooperativa and Operation city, SKC Center Jadro from Skopje presents the group exhibition by contemporary Macedonian artists and the presentation of the book "In Dialogue".

We're presenting you Ivana Kocevska, Macedonian choreographer and dancer, through her two works.

The intercultural urban garden in raised wooden beds near Jedinstvo and Močvara is already in its seventh season, and this year, as every spring, we will prepare the beds for planting and sowing and then plant various vegetables and herbs.

Bad Daughter will hold a concert promotion of the, according to many, best new Croatian album: "Let Me Panic".

"Acoustic Turbo Sonic Medium" is an exhibition that brings together three works; a sculpture of a father holding his son's head while vomiting, a site-specific installation that plays in a loop, and an installation made of trestles that are standing but not resting.

tonota and varboska turn to an improvised multichannel performance accompanied by VJing and light design by Filip Pacak.

Within the programme of the Močvara Gallery, the artist will present the installation and performance "Nahco".

Ur-workshop of resometric dances singles out and explores 20 scenes of the neural apocalypse for brain electricity from 13 to 26 resumes per minute according to a drawing of the human brain disembodied from the environment made for it by the neural man.

In addition to hosting a contemporary circus, the circus tent of the CirkoBalkana collective also provides space for the performances of several related art forms.

"Crisis Headquarters" follows the communication expert Ines, who dared to move in with the actor Lobel in the first wave of the epidemic, whom she had only dated casually before then.

'The Gamified Workshop Toolkit' is an online workshop about solidarity in collaboration developed in the framework of the RESHAPE project. During this workshop, we will test ‘The Gamified Workshop Toolkit’, which is a card game that is especially designed for teams from different cultures, backgrounds, or personal situations, who are just beginning their collaboration.

"Berlin, the promised city – a report from a call center“ is an interactive sound installation created as part the author's art participatory research project on life and work in Berlin, migration, identity and belonging.

We invite all the fans of synths and other electronic devices to join us at “Synth Jam“

A performance-installation evocation of the past nights of the dark circus. Deafening you with your own echo bursting out from the dark underground of Jedinstvo factory, the house of darkness will host three groups of intentional visitors and take them through the fragments of the circus of rejects. Dare to attend!

We're cancelling the public program, according to the recommendations of Croatian authorities so that we can reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus. Stay safe, take care of yourself and others!

We're cancelling the public program, according to the recommendations of Croatian authorities so that we can reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus. Stay safe, take care of yourself and others!

We're cancelling the public program, according to the recommendations of Croatian authorities so that we can reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus. Stay safe, take care of yourself and others!

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

Unfortunately, we are canceling the public programme of the Reshape Intensive Zagreb that includes lectures by Renata Salecl, Vincent Liegey, Juliette Hennequin and Pascal Gielen, as well as announced walks and talks. The programme of the Intensive was primarily aimed to the participants of the Reshape project that are coming from various countries across the EuroMed region. Due to the current situation of the spreading of Corona virus across Europ, travelling and larger meetings represent an additional threat of the spreading of the virus. Although we wish not to contribute to the panic presented in some media, we are convinced that we should take the responsibility for the prevention of the further spreading of the infection. We apologise to all of those who planned to attend the Reshape Intensive Zagreb programme and announce that the lectures will be held as a part of other Reshape activities. The working part of the Intensive will be held online.

“Salto Mortale” is the first part of the trilogy titled “Horror House Project” that talks about a circus artist through three units.

The work I:O: is composed of a quiet mega(reflecto)phone backdrop occasionally overpowered by live voices and their respective springs, post-noise chaotic guitar, bass, drum and saxophone noises creating noisy schahtophonies.

Thinking about how models walk, how they are exposed and completely devoid of their personality outside the context of a fashion show, we can make links with the situation that has characterised present-day Europe.

“Export-Import”, still in the initial phase of development, is a new play by Miran Kurspahić and Rona Žulj, produced by Rebel Theatre. Through a form of interactive experience, the project thematises the issue of emigration and focuses on the spectators and their experience of the changed reality of some different Croatian present.

We invite all dancers, fans of hip hop culture and everyone else to join us in a freestyle dance “Hip Hop 2vs2 Battle”.

The project “Marvels and Catastrophes” brings together artists, architects and designers who participated in “R-Lab”, a post-master's research course at the Royal institute of Art in Stockholm.

Writing for theatre is a mystery: in this multimedia era flooded with TV shows, podcasts and movies everyone knows dialogue: the exciting emotional expressions of people exchanging strong opinions and different ways of seeing the world.

The exhibition “Silence Is Deafness Here“ analyses various migrations characterising this region: from the figure of Gastarbeiter (guest worker), through the war and the so-called breakup of Yugoslavia, to the Balkan Route.

The workshop encourages children to create a picture book on the topic of food, with subtopics about what they eat, why they do not eat certain foods and who prepares their food and how.

The project with the working title “Trbuhozborke—o neljudskom/Ventriloquists—On inhuman“ consists of: a series of presentations, guided tours, participatory events, discussions, audio and video art performances, performative performances, workshops and open workshops managed by the artists; former and present students of the Department of Animation and New Media, aimed at university and secondary students of related schools.

“M 24” is an interactive kinetic installation by Filip Borelli that explores the aesthetics of the universe through the movement of micro particles in water.

SUN U—Sanja Šiljković, a musician and visual artist from Zagreb brings a spectacular neon audiovisual experience to Pogon Jedinstvo as a part of the concert promotion of her debut album “Discover“.

According to the artist, the wall represents both the external and internal, psychological boundaries.

At the exhibition on the occasion of 20 years of continuous publication, the Editorial Board of Novosti, independent Serbian weekly, brings 20 stories on the life of Serbs in Croatia through texts written by its journalists and photographs by Davor Konjikušić.

This year Oluja Fest, one of the oldest Croatian extreme music festivals, is celebrating its 11th anniversary.

Artists: Teuta Gatolin, Iva Korenčić and workshop participants (Jiao Guo, Eva Milković, Larisa Mravunac, Hana Novoselec and others)

"Panacea /( Songs and Potion" falls into the domain of experimental new media art, which, through interdisciplinary media methodology, tries to implement the scientific technique of bioremediation into its practice.

The architects Berc and Belamarić interpret the specific Sava transnational ecosystem as an electrified field of fantastic interplay between the artificial and the natural, the performative character of which enables the formation and existence of the habitat of a systematized space of freedom.

After entering the “making mistakes“ phase in 2016 together with a number of collaborators from the world of performing arts, the dancer and choreographer Dora Kokolj and playwright Anja Pletikosa happily go back to mistakes.

Play-Co brings together experts from the world of art, video games and LARP (live action role playing) who will share their experiences with LARP during a three-day event.

Multimedia installation "Pretvorit ćeš se u uho"/“Turning into an Ear“ is a documentary and compositional approach to words and their ability of having multiple meanings when manipulated, and an experimental collaboration between active silence and the surrounding collective murmur.

The performance focuses on the male-female relationship in a long-term relationship, after the emotions have faded, passion has died out and the relationship has become exhausting.

The exhibition features 50 Croatian artists-animators who work in a range of media.

Zdenka began her professional career as a part of the teenage sensation Duo Hany when she was only 13.

Join us for the spring gardening workshop in the Intercultural Social Garden in Jedinstvo courtyard.

"Gorgo" is a performance exhibition in which the visual artist Lala Raščić, together with the participants, builds a move set in the Pogon hall for the purposes of "Gorgo" film performance.

Cirkobalkana Fest will be held in May, in and around a red circus tent, where everyone interested will have an opportunity to see a number of regional circus premieres, currently the most recent circus performances from France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, as well as to participate in a unicycle riding and vocal and physical workshops.

Sabina Mikelić's multi-channel installation "Beyond the Choir" is a part of the "Cinematographies of Resistance" series organized within the Subversive Festival.

Perfect Circle Street Festival has been held the first weekend in May since 2011.

IMPORTANT: The time of the workshop has been changed to 11 AM because of the unstable weather forecast. We suggest bringing a raincoat or umbrella.

"Rave voyeur" brings together artists whose work explores the specific characteristics of rave/clubbing culture through the prism of the individual and the collective.

DB Indoš, Tanja Vrvilo and Schacht Archestra presents their newest schachtophony inspired by the philosophical pedagogy of Albert Bazala.

The performance-exhibition Iskop/The Foundation Pit choreographically explores the specific structural principles and gravitational realities of architectural design and socrealistic representation of the body.

The exhibition of the multimedia artist Magdalena Pederin deals with the influence of the technical environment on the individual and the society and vice versa.

The performance "Medea: Prologue for Those Who Always Get the Short End of the Stick" brings its vision of Medea, the woman associated with the terms mother, murderer, avenger, exile.

Drawing on the insights from the EU Creative Europe Creative Lenses project, the aim of the workshop is for participants to learn about and reflect on the key concepts, relevance, issues and practical applications, associated with business models and their innovation in performing arts organisations and cultural venues.

On Friday, at Mislavova 11, we are proudly presenting the publication "When I walk through the city, I see flags everywhere, and I am always curious if they will speak to me or stay silent." by Christoph Salazay, Pogon's artist in residence.

Under CircusNext PLaTForRM, a project promoting the art of new circus in Europe, Cirkorama and Pogon will host a residency for three female circus performers from La Geste circus company.

This group exhibition features young media artists who use technology to reflect on physical appearance and identity.

The first module of the workshop “Psycho, drama” is entitled “Me, Myself and My Creative Block” and will be led by Jasna Jasna Žmak.

Department of Animated Film and New Media of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts organises a workshop implemented by artists and students for other university and high school students of related schools.

In his work Filmska teka/Film Notebook Ivan Martinac shows that film can be seen not only as visual art, but also as a means of expression related to language and translation.

Četveroruka/Fourhanded Art Organization stages a repeat performance of an expanded choreographic research by Sonja Pregrad, Andro Guinio and Tin Dožić on modalities of interdependence as a creative utopian organism.

Pogon and Atelieri Žitnjak Gallery invite you to an artist talk with Christoph Szalay (AT), current Artist-in-Residence in Pogon's exchange program with Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Academic-trained painter Ksenija Turčić will present her solo exhibition in the Jedinstvo Big Hall. The exhibition was awarded at the 25th Slavonia Biennale.

Malinada Collective are Morana Radočaj (Zagreb) and Hristina Šormaz (Beograd). By practicing aerial acrobatics, they have created a piece that they developed into a performance.

Lecture performance "Neuron Man" uses zoological facts about the existence of electricity in the anthropological mode of making the quietest possible sound of neurons audible and muffling the loudest possible sound of rodent insects.

The exhibition features the works of about 40 artists which were created as a reaction to their visit to the concentration camp in Goli Otok.

“Spaces of Silence“ is a participatory work of multiple artists based on workshops, lectures and interdisciplinary artistic researches, and its aim is to share experiences and connect different art practices.

Over the period of one year, two artists, Nina Kurtela and Hana Erdman, altered an eight-stroke sequence on a daily basis in order to create a one-year choreography.

This multimedia installation, composed of videos captured by surveillance cameras, draws a parallel to the relationship between an individual and the contemporary society of control.

Ljubavnice art collective is focused on interdisciplinary connection between science and art.

The installation by the Russian artist Dmitryj Morozov, also known as ::vtol::, operates on batteries powered by electricity generated from the artist's blood.

The project “Cellophane” questions the relationship between heart as a physical organ and its metaphorical role in experiencing emotions.

The project “What Matters is the Money” deals with the relationship between social and material values on the one hand and money on the other.

The undisputed king of Zagreb’s chansons and Croatian evergreens, the great jazz singer with a distinctive style and, above all, an old resident of Trnje and a person in love with his neighbourhood – Drago Diklić performs at this year’s Unique Garden Party at sunset on the Sava River!

The exhibition “Adriatic Highway” is a result of years-long research in which Bojan Mrđenović captured the areas along the Adriatic Highway.

The exhibition “Contemporary Topography” features a selection of works from Sanja Jankov's solo curatorial project “GIF and Architecture: Visual Practice as Critique“, which has been created through an online collection, series of exhibitions, presentations, workshops, lectures and text publications since 2014.

"More than anything else we need communion with everyone. Struggles for power have nothing to do with communion. Communion extends beyond boarders: it is with one’s enemies also. Thoreau said: “The best communion men have is in silence.”" (John Cage)

Feminem Movement dance performance is based on sensual dance on chairs i.e. chair dance.

The sixth Sound Art Incubator of 2018 is dedicated to the realization and presentation of works of young and non-established artists and students from Croatia.

Vehicle drivers. Drivers of time. Drivers of space vastness. They travel together. Or they race. The question is, who is faster?

By introducing live elements into architecture not only can we increase the aesthetic value of the space we live in but we can also reduce building cooling costs in the summer, increase the air quality, especially in urban areas, and also grow some food in places where usually there is no space for a traditional garden.

HR Platform is a place of gathering dance artists, choreographers, dancers, authors and audience, but also a touchpoint between the Croatian, regional and international dance scene.

This year’s Cirkobalkana Festival announces the participation of several different foreign circus shows that are currently delighting the audiences all over Europe.

In May, Zagreb will have another opportunity to see one of the most adored American “small” bands - Yo La Tengo!

Valuation of “games” in the concept of “bread and games” is being questioned when games become pseudo-games, supra-games and non-games.

Perfect Circle Association is planning its traditional breakdance children competition at Jedinstvo in early May!

Swiss artist Zimoun is considered to be one of the biggest names in the global contemporary art scene.

Using performers’ voices and an iPad looper with effects, the author, Vesna Mačković, creates a live voice, sound and text experiment on the topic of invisibility of artists.

Žižić/Kožul tandem continuously maps the range of factors of post-transitional reality which reveal the gap between the economic and social reality and its presentation through various advertising industry mechanisms.

The performance is an original experimental play patchworked with poetry which talks about the relationship between the body and woman’s voice in society.

"Relocation of People and Animals" is a play about the types of mobility and common characteristics of human and animal migration.

The project is based on researching and developing the idea of mistakes in movement and within the performance process.

The title and concept of the work "Senior" derives from Petra Collins’s photograph from "The Teenage Gaze" series.

Following a short lull during which things quieted down after hard work on recording "Svjetlo" ["The Light"], the Sisak-based noise trio ###, accompanied by shoegaze sound of their guests from Tús Nua Band, is promoting its new EP "Uzvodno" ["Upstream"].

Josipa Stojanović’s multimedia installation opens a new series of exhibitions on the topic "Silence" in 90-60-90 Gallery in 2018.

At the end of 2018 Cirkobalkana’s team will embark upon an artistic research for the purposes of producing a new contemporary circus show, which should be finalized by the first half of 2019.

Performed by DB Indoš, Tanja Vrvilo, music: Ex SeXa / Bilosnić Ivan, Nino Prišuta, Ratko Danilović Cul De Sac / Damir Prica Kafka, Andreja Košavić, video: Ivan Marušić Klif