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VERTICAL LIFE, exibition by Maja Marković and Lidija Butković Mićin
VERTICAL LIFE
Maja Marković and Lidija Butković Mićin
November 20 – December 13, 2025
NOVA BAZA, Nova cesta 66
Opening: Thursday, November 20, at 7 p.m.
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Saturday: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Trešnjevka’s residential area Srednjaci, and in particular the three towers in the Domany Brothers’ Street, designed by Stanka Kovačić in der Muehlen, were the subject of research carried out by visual artist Maje Marković and art historian Lidija Butković Mićin. [...]
LIGNA: "A Memory without a Timetable" / INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
Scan this code to download the app from the LIGNA collective and take part in the performance! Follow the instructions, download the audio file, and come to the Main Railway Station on October 17 at 7:00 PM with headphones. Click for more information. [...]
My dear house, my dear freedom!
A small evening intervention in the window of the New BAZA gallery on the occasion of the 90th anniversary marking the beginning of the construction of a housing project by the First Croatian Savings Bank
September 18 – 25, 2025; 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Nova BAZA, Nova Cesta 66
At the initiative of the Council of the Trešnjevka-North District, we mark the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the working-class neighborhood by the First Croatian Savings Bank. From our virtual collection, we bring to Nova BAZA a photo-album that carefully documents the construction of a house in plot number 34. Thank you to Mr. Branislav Purgarić for sharing his family history with us! [...]
TREŠNJA CINEMA 2025
For the 10th year in a row, we are turning the Trešnjevka market into your favorite open-air neighborhood cinema, and we are again organizing screenings at Munjarski put and at the Mladost pool. This year, we are opening the Trešnja Cinema program at the Trešnjevka market cinema, and then moving to Munjarski put (former Samoborček train route), as part of the Cinema on Rails, and to the Mladost outdoor pool – the Mladost Cinema. Join us on June 27, and July 4, and July 11!
Film selector and text author: Dina Pokrajac
Join us on June 27, and July 4, and July 11! [...]
education
APPLAUSE WON'T COVER THE RENT: WIENER PERSPEKTIVE (PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION)
Thursday 22.1. at 6 PM
DAZ / UHA (Trg bana J. Jelačića 3/1)
The fight for better working conditions continues in the new year! We’re opening the new season of BLOK and SPID's long-term program Applause Won’t Cover the Rent with a public presentation of the Viennese initiative Wiener Perspektive. With dancer and choreographer Alexander Gottfarb and choreographer Claire Lefèvre, with an introduction and moderation by Nina Gojić from SPID and Dunja Kučinac from BLOK, we will discuss their engagement in improving the labor rights of performing artists. [...]
Launch of the book “From Applause to Trade Unions: A Manual on Cultural Work”
Wednesday, December 10, at 6 p.m.
Venue: DAZ/UHA, Bana Jelačića Square 3/1
We are proudly inviting you to the launch of the book "From Applause to Trade Unions: A Manual on Cultural Work’. It is intended for all underpaid and precarious cultural workers and artists who need a memento for labor law issues, but also as an incentive to co-organize and fight for better working conditions.
Speakers:
Nina Gojić (author, The Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild – SPID)
Sven Janovski (author, trade union SKUPA)
Jakov Kolak (author, Regional Industrial Union)
Dunja Kučinac (author and editor-in-chief, BLOK)
and
Katja Praznik (sociologist and theorist).
After the book launch, we will have an informal get together. Let’s celebrate together the end of this year in the spirit of collective struggle and enter a new one stronger and better organized! [...]
LIVING IN TREŠNJEVKA SKYSCRAPERS: collecting contributions for the Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum virtual collection
Monday, December 1, 2025
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Nova BAZA, Nova cesta 66
From November 20 until December 13, at the Nova BAZA Gallery, you can see the exhibition ‘Vertical Life’ on the skyscrapers in the Domany Brothers’ Street by artist Maje Marković and art historian Lidija Butković Mićin.
In the meantime, we continue to discover and collect stories from Trešnjevka’s history through our virtual collection. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a high-rise building or a family house in Trešnjevka, in Srednjaci or Voltino – we are interested in your memories of how people once lived, studied, worked, exercised, strolled, and ate in Trešnjevka. We are waiting for you on Monday, December 1, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nova BAZA (Nova cesta 66), where we will collect your contributions and stories. [...]
MUSEUMS ON PALESTINE: A SEMINAR ON SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICES
MUSEUMS ON PALESTINE: A SEMINAR ON SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICES
NOVEMBER 26 AND 27, 2025
SCHOOL FOR 5 (CROATIAN SCHOOL MUSEUM GALLERY), HEBRANGOVA 5, ZAGREB
We invite you to an international seminar on socially engaged museum practices, which opens a conversation on how the museum community – domestic and international – reacts to the genocide of the Palestinian people. How does it solidarize? In what way does solidarity and its boundaries resonate with broader local socio-political realities? Are museums subject to censorship and self-censorship? How do museum workers build and nurture long-term relationships with the activist community and the continuity of socially engaged practices?
Curators from Madrid, Ljubljana, Ramallah, and Zagreb will speak about these topics. [...]
GAZA REMAINS THE STORY: AN EXHIBITION
GAZA REMAINS THE STORY: AN EXHIBITION
November 17 — November 27, 2025
School for 5 (Gallery of the Croatian School Museum), Hebrangova 5, Zagreb
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Exhibition Opening: Monday, November 17, at 7 PM
Gaza Remains the Story is a travelling exhibition of the Palestinian Museum in Ramallah. It has been prepared so that it can be easily printed, curated, and set up anywhere in the world – in any space that wants to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and speak out against the genocide perpetrated against it by the State of Israel. [...]