Exhibitions

Through the exhibition, civil society organisations — members of the Civic Museum Council — talk about the ongoing challenges of today through the prism of visible and invisible borders.

With an exhibition inspired by a collection of spelling books the well-known writer also introduces herself as an artist in a different genre to the wider public.

Selected female authors from Europe and the rest of the world examining the actual role of photography in the articulation of the female experience.

A large, merry and colourful exhibition is set to open in Rijeka that will win the hearts of visitors, big and small, and anyone who appreciates the heart and ingenuity of the one and only Professor Balthazar.

In the form of an audiovisual installation, the exhibition deals with questions of how algorithms automatise people’s work and what is revealed when errors occur in algorithmic automated systems, such as postal systems.

Fiume Fantastika: Phenomena of the City is a central exhibition of the Sweet&Salt programme flagship, realized within the Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture project. Based on recent research by DeltaLab – Centre for Urban Transition, Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Rijeka, the exhibition follows the last hundred and fifty years of Rijeka’s urban history, during which the city experienced radical growth and became a global transport and industrial centre.

Multimedia exhibition: work and a woman’s appearance.

The installation Platform Ghosts by Italian artist and designer Silvio Lorusso and German artist Sebastian Schmieg, in collaboration with Italian experimental musician LOREM, will open in the framework of Dopolavoro flagship.

An exhibition created as a result of a joint investigation by architects, scientists, hackers and artists shows how forgotten research from 1971 which with Rijeka represents a predecessor of the idea of the Anthropocene can be applied as a tool for the prediction of the future of work and production in a space.

For this occasion this exhibition installation is composed of a devised card game of Open Ports – a game of invocation and the accompanying visual and textual materials with the help of which ports, connectivity and collaboration are spoken about.

An exhibition and discussions dedicated to the today often criminalised practices of “care”, the caring for one another, and “piracy” as an act of guardianship in the digital domain.

An interactive and multichannel video installation which examines the theme of the future of work and business, imagining what a desirable post-work world might look like. The emphasis is not on imagining some distant future, but on an alternative present which is based on that which is already possible today.

Interactive robotic installation that behaves just like a living being and reacts to visitors.

Apparatuses of power. Antiquity. Idleness. Deindustrialisation. Social imagination. Aesthetics. Feminism. Film. Industry. Collapse. Inaction. Post-work. Solidarity. Tourism. Utopia. Through contemporary art.

An international group exhibition which deals with the invisible economies linked to the sea. In their works, world-respected artists deal with unusual and radical phenomena, from strange online shops to the empires of amateur pornography and other golden coasts.

A retrospective exhibition dedicated to the neo-avant-garde artist Nan Hoover and her pioneer work in the field of new media art.

An exhibition which transforms the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art into a live collective body by exhibiting it with numerous interactions, with people and events.

This unique exhibition showcases the early works of one of the most famous artists in history – paintings that were taken down from the ceiling of the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc so that they could be restored and exclusively exhibited at the newly renovated 18th-century palace to which the City Museum of Rijeka is currently being relocated.

A current and critical reading of Sanja Iveković’s work in the context of wider artistic and social events.

The former military training ship, which gained worldview fame as the floating residence of the Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito during his state trips, is undergoing a thorough reconstruction and becoming the first Croatian ship-museum.

Apparatuses of power. Antiquity. Idleness. Deindustrialisation. Social imagination. Aesthetics. Feminism. Film. Industry. Collapse. Inaction. Post-work. Solidarity. Tourism. Utopia. Through contemporary art.

An exhibition about the echoes of social changes and turmoil in Eastern European countries in the 1990s.

Starting from Rijeka and the borders which have drawn and redrawn it throughout history, the exhibition induces visitors to reflect upon borders as personal, social, political and also economic, which are imposed on us or which we set ourselves; how and how much they affect our everyday life and how they are reflected in personal freedom and human rights.

A touring exhibition showcasing more than 200 pieces of archive and multimedia material, such as photographs, maps and films about a changed Europe after World War I, will open on 20 October 2020 at the 111th Brigada Hrvatske Vojske Square in Rijeka.

With a grand ceremony in the renovated baroque palace of the former sugar factory administrative building, the permanent display opens of the City Museum of Rijeka which covers the economic and social history of Rijeka from the 18th to the 21st centuries.

This exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr Franjo Kresnik, a citizen of Europe, a man above borders, one of the greatest experts of Cremona lutherie (violin making). In his honour, Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are on display.

The exhibition thematises the centenary of D’Annunzio’s occupation of Rijeka from the perspective of the women who lived in Rijeka and became his victims, just as the city itself became a victim of the extreme nationalism of that time – predominately Italian.