Time capsule of 27 ECOC neighbourhoods buried on the Trsat Campus
By: Ri2020Each of the neighbourhoods of the European Capital of Culture has stored in the capsule their ideas, wishes, memories, questions that they have devised with care and hope that there would still be life in this area and that their neighbourh...
Japan in the eyes of a European woman: the movie “The Sound of Water” by artist SofijaSilvia (Pula, Croatia)
By: Ri2020Based on the submitted project proposal, curator Mikiko Kikuta this time chose an artist from Pula, SofijaSilvia who was given the opportunity to visit Mie situated close to the center of Japan, which, as she emphasizes, was an exceptional ...
April 2021 – European Capital of Culture programme finale
By: Ri2020Encompassing over fifty events that allow the presence of spectators under controlled conditions and with adherence to epidemiological measures, these programmes were announced at today’s press conference by the directors of cultural ...
First digital NEMO European Museum Conference focuses on the role of museums in helping people make sense of the world
By: Ri2020The online format makes it possible for even more museum colleagues to come together and feel strength from their international community. The importance of networks in these challenging times is apparent. David Vuillaume, Chair of NEMO, ex...
Summer in the Capital 2020
By: Rijeka 2020In a nutshell, just over 53,000 visitors attended 390 culture and art programmes as part of Rijeka’s Summer in the Capital. These were joint cultural events and highlights of the summer of 2020, a year in which Rijeka proudly received the...
Art installation AutomaTic by the Italian artist Giovanni Morbin
By: Ri2020An art installation consisting of ten automatic rising arm barriers that lift at the angle of seventy degrees upon passing of pedestrians will be placed in Rijeka, Ulica Pavla Rittera Vitezovića, on 10 October 2020. The installation, calle...
The monument to Red Rijeka erected on Rijeka skyscraper on the day of ZAVNOH’s decision to reintegrate Rijeka into Croatia
By: Ri2020On Sunday, 20 September, Nemanja Cvijanović’s art installation Monument to Red Rijeka – A Self-Defensive Monument was erected in Rijeka as part of the European Capital of Culture programme. It is a large sculpture shaped like a...
Virtual tour of the ECoC Mrkopalj neighbourhood through the eyes of a Dutch art collective and Rijeka’s Tajci Cekada
By: Ri2020The video, entitled STILL.Mrkopalj 360, takes you on a virtual tour of the location, as experienced by the artists themselves during their stay there through their daily walks, meetings with the locals who helped them explore Mrkopalj, and ...
Summer in Rijeka – European Capital of Culture brings many events
By: Ri2020Rijeka, the city that in this incredible year 2020 bears the European Capital of Culture title, after two months of mandatory isolation, returns into focus of the cultural public, artists and the audience. About ten music festival and weeke...
“Secrets of Lujzijana” discovered in the European Capital of Culture neighborhood of Delnice
By: Ri2020The artistic programme “Secrets of Lujzijana” tells the story of several significant segments of life in Delnice. The historical – through which Delnice inherits their wealth and testifies to the inception of this important ro...
New CEO of Rijeka 2020 – Mrs Irena Kregar Šegota
By: Rijeka 2020Emina Visnic requested her dismissal as CEO of Rijeka 2020 after completing the demanding process of redefining the company’s programme and budget, believing that under new (post-Covid-19) ECOC project circumstances she should personally ...
Culture in the time of corona – the ECoC programme in conditions of “the new abnormal“
By: Rijeka 2020At a press conference that brought together numerous journalists, a cultural and artistic programme was announced to be held in Rijeka during May and June, coloured by measures of reduced social contacts and a ban on public gatherings.