production

KURS: LESSONS IN DEFENCE

exhibition
04/12 – 21/12/2019
BAZA, B. Adžije 11, Zagreb

opening: Wednesday, 04/12/2019, 7 PM
working hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 4 – 20 PM

The Lessons in Defence exhibition is a new step in KURS’s years-long study of culture in the National Liberation Movement. Photographs, archival materials and research insights from previous stages are translated into the language of art as a series of graphics accompanied by texts. [...]

INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR OUR CURATORIAL TEAM

The German foundation Hans and Lea Grundig has awarded BLOK’s curatorial team (Ana Kutleša, Ivana Hanaček, Vesna Vuković) a prize for the research and exhibition project "The Issue of the Art of the Collective – Case Zemlja" in the art history/mediation category.

The award ceremony will take place on the 7th of November at NS-Dokumentationszentrum (Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism) in Munich. [...]

 

TREŠNJEVKA NEIGHBOURHOOD MUSEUM – THE FIRST GATHERING OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR A VIRTUAL COLLECTION

Call to the neighbours!

Do you have a photograph or an item that marks a moment in Trešnjevka`s history? An old photograph of the Trešnjevka market? A ready-made Vesna skirt? A box of Bizjak cookies?

Bring them to us to record and help us create together a virtual collection of the Trešnjevka Neighbourhood Museum– the future district museum that will give value to the community stories that are not part of the official history. [...]

 

education

THE ART OF THE COLLECTIVE – CASE ZEMLJA – BOOK LAUNCH

Wednesday 20/11/2019, 6 PM

French institute, Preradovićeva 5

 

The book documents and expands on the series of three exhibitions between 2016 and 2018, where we presented our research on the Zemlja Artists’ Association (1929 – 1935). It is conceived as a monograph with a selection of archival material and art reproductions, as well as texts that position Zemlja’s work within the broader socio-political context of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the interwar period.

 

Speakers at the event:

PETAR PRELOG, PhD (Institute of Art History)

ALMA TRAUBER (Striegl City Gallery, Sisak)

IVANA HANAČEK and VESNA VUKOVIĆ (BLOK), editors of "Case Zemlja" [...]

PROMOTION OF THE 2019 POLITICAL SCHOOL FANZINE

The fanzine created by this year’s class of the Political School came about through a desire for the group to continue its work together and articulate political attitudes and knowledge inspired by the School, both through text and illustration. It was conceived and produced by the participants in its entirety: from the production of texts, through editing and proofreading, to graphic design. In that sense, it is heterogeneous in terms of its content and form, and reflects the topics that the participants found particularly inspiring or provoking. These topics were largely those that pertain to feminist theory and practice, and the relationship between art and labour. [...]

POLITICAL SCHOOL FOR ARTISTS (AND ALL INTERESTED) 2019

 

Do you want to address social issues through art? Does experience tell you that the idea of ‘the world of art’ as a separate sphere independent from society is mere rhetoric? Would you like to learn more about the concept of the autonomy of art, artistic genius and talent? Are you an artist, but you’re forced to work outside the sphere of art in order to survive? Does capitalism have you working your fingers to the bone and you want to see whether there’s an alternative? Do you want to find out what class really means and why we need class theory in order to understand the society in which we live? Are you interested in the history of socialism as an ideology and the history of the labour movement as a political force? Do you want to find out more about actually existing socialisms, beyond the mantra of ‘socialism is a utopia’? Do you consider the woman question inseparable from theoretical and practical reflections on radical social and economic changes? Do you want to learn more about the history of feminism within the framework of the international socialist and workers’ movement? Do you recognise the power of trade unions, but can’t make sense of the workers’ struggle and organization in modern terms? Are you fed up with the way right-wingers and capitalism’s proponents speak over you [...]