Artistic Interventions

Contact with a tree trunk lets visitors hear and feel the sounds and vibrations of their heartbeats.

A small garden featuring live music plants that react to a tender touch.

During 2020 the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is running a project called The Turned Out Pocket – Artistic Interventions in Public Space within two flagships of Rijeka 2020 – Sweet & Salt and Times of Power.

During 2020 the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is running a project called The Turned Out Pocket – Artistic Interventions in Public Space within two flagships of Rijeka 2020 – Sweet & Salt and Times of Power.

The Body as a Border Between the Private and the Public is an artistic, practical and theoretical intervention taking on the forms of an exhibition, workshops and lectures about the body, sexuality, excess and eros, film screenings and performances by artists and activists from the US, Argentina, Slovenia, Tunisia / The Netherlands and Croatia that strongly speaks about physicality, sexuality, sensuality, vulnerability and power.

The author gives away numbered and signed copies of his work to all the citizens of Rijeka and organises a joint performance to mark Labour Day on 1st May 2020 in Titov Trg in Rijeka.

The social and economic texture of the city is sealed in Rijeka’s urban fabric.

Aim: to embody the spirit of the place

The artist transformed the samples of plants from abandoned industrial spaces into design patterns to create a new space, telling a story about the plants that live in manmade spaces made possible for life by his absence.

Ramps which don’t allow you to get to the end. Will we succeed in passing?

An artist’s actions that normally take place within “four walls” are transmitted out onto the street: he relaxes, cooks, drinks, eats, sleeps, and provides hospitality there.

The Priestess of Croatian performance on tour with her art-life.

A walk through someone else’s memories.

Audio artistry in a public place.

Marine polyphony in the Port of Rijeka.

The exercise of remembering political experiences and the visual legacy of the collective past.

A new building in a residential district. Superb design, elegant and functional apartments. Close to the sea. All birds are welcome, regardless of species and marital status.

Across the thorns to the stars – a monument to memory and the crisis of memory.

A temporary hay sculpture near Korzo as a symbolic start of the harvest in the year of the European Capital of Culture.

Grčevo beach is turning into the bathing site of Balthazartown!

A design for the beach, for all the people.

An artistic intervention – a pavilion of local chestnut wood and stone on the trail that connects the sea and the mountain.

An artistic intervention in the form of stone structure which becomes a gathering place in the small park next to the bocce court.

The relationship between nature and society, the relationship of two art installations – below and above the sea.

Digital images and a sound composition flow, like the waves of the sea, over the voices of sellers and buyers.

An installation of local materials in the park located near the ferry port.

An artistic installation inspired by maritime heritage and algorithms.

A green-urban intervention over city surfaces.

A therapeutic park for the users of the Clinical Hospital Centre (KBC) Rijeka and the local population.

A charismatic place where outstanding anonymous works of old architecture (sheepfolds – mrgari) come to life with a contemporary artistic intervention.

A sound installation is placed on Molo Longo and delivers a symphony which was previously recorded and performed in Bakar.

The Sound Carburettor is a strange invention, a project which has been devised by a group of creators who with the help of sound and water create a sculpture of salt. It is an integral part of a unique project by Damir Martinović Mrle and Ivanka Mazurkijević in which music encompasses the central mission – the materialisation of the sounds of the city.

The project deals with workers’ songs and songs which were sung during work.

The “Environment of Remembrance” project features the works of about fifty artists created as a reaction to their visits to the concentration camp on Goli Otok from 2016 to 2019. With their works, performance art pieces and site-specific art installations, the artists are sending the message that places where crimes have been committed should become places of remembrance, learning and memory.

Installations and performance as a form of confrontation with a place of dehumanisation and the establishment of women’s memory, created through the research of the fates of women imprisoned on the islands of Goli Otok and Sveti Grgur.

An arts programme which commemorates the historical suffering of Lipa through various aspects of contemporary art and raises awareness of its symbolic potential in the contemporary processes of peace-building.

An artistic audiovisual installation about time, about nature and historical changes, at the old pools of Školjić.

We’re turning the old boat Uragan into a children’s playground with a view of Balthazartown!