Event archive
8/1 - 3/2 
Haystack – Ivan Kožarić (HR)
A temporary hay sculpture near Korzo as a symbolic start of the harvest in the year of the European Capital of Culture.
6/12 - 31/1 
Violins Above Borders / Stradivari in Rijeka – Kresnik and Cremona
The Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka is holding an exhibition entitled “Violins Above Borders / Stradivari in Rijeka – Kresnik and Cremona“ to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Franjo Kresnik, “the man who read violins”, a Rijeka native who made violins and cracked the code to making the…
30/11 
Minority Literatures Revue: Egypt
The Kulturtreger association and the Booksa literary club will organise the Minority Literature Revue - Egypt festival in Rijeka, the European Capital of Culture 2020, and offer literary and film programmes to the Croatian audience
27/11 - 10/12 
Cultural Heritage Volunteering exhibition
The Cultural Heritage Volunteering exhibition will open at the Kortil Gallery on 27 November 2019 at 7 PM
22/11 - 5/1 
Goran Petercol: Retrospective exhibition
The exhibition “Don’t Worry About Poetics, It Will Come On Its Own“, which is organised as part of the European Capital of Culture project, will combine Petercol’s paintings, spatial interventions, light installations, sketches and photographs and will shed a new light on his art, as well as the act of producing art itself, which the…
19 - 21/11 
Three-day Terra Effluviens seminar
Local and international researchers (architects, designers, philosophers and biologists) will meet in Rijeka to open up a discussion on the prospective environmental future of the planet.
4 - 10/11 
ECoC at the Puppet Theatre Revue
This traditional international puppetry festival plans to present a special ECoC programme in 2019 comprising international shows, interactive programmes and workshops and presentations.
24 - 27/10 
IETM Rijeka Plenary Meeting 2019
In October, Rijeka will host the central plenary session of the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM), which focuses on the relationship between the audience and artist. We expect almost 500 artists, performers, cultural professionals, producers and cultural managers from across the globe to come to Rijeka.
18/10 - 18/11 
Three new works of art at the Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers within the “Recognising the Absence” artistic programme
The preliminary programmes of Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture continue on Friday, 18 October 2019 starting at 18:30, with the presentation of three works of art installed in front of the Memorial Centre ‘Lipa Remembers’ within the “Recognising the Absence” artistic programme. The works by Diana Sokolić, Josip Pino Ivančić and Bojan Koštić…
11 - 12/10 
Retox: Local food and sustainability
You are invited to the inaugural two-day Retox conference on the sustainability of the food system - sustainable local food production and distribution and the link-up between the producers and customers via short food supply chains and solidarity models of mutual support.
4/10 - 10/11 
International exhibition “We’re not like them”
In the fourth exhibition "episode" of the Risk Change project, we will once again deal with one of the most controversial phenomena of today: migration processes.
12/9 - 31/1 
D’Annunzio’s Martyr exhibition
Forming part of the pre-programme of the "Borders – Between Order and Chaos", this exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of d'Annunzio's occupation of Rijeka by personifying the city as a woman and alluding to his many mistresses, who were left physically and emotionally drained after he ended their relationship, just like the city of Rijeka