2. CULTURAL AND INFORMATION
CENTER..::KIC::.. Zagreb - Croatia
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• foster contemporary art production in visual arts,
literature and film, provide a space for public panels on
cultural, political and social phenomena
• Zagreb's oldest cultural center with a 50 year long
tradition of high intensity public debates and education of
ordinary citizens
established in 1964 by the Municipality of Zagreb
4. • KIC includes Forum Gallery, KIC Photo gallery,
KIC ART cinema / multimedia venue
as well as publishing house
• VISION: public institution in the field of culture, which,
through its activities, promotes culture and high artistic
achievements, follows and encourages social and
cultural events in Zagreb and Croatia, and provides
versatile information in and on culture
• MISSION: to serve as the main centre for culture and
information in Zagreb and Croatia. To be a point of
synergy in the field of culture, that connects and
promotes various phenomena and trends in
contemporary cultural-artistic social movements
5. THE FORUM GALLERY
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founded in 1969 by the group of artists (Edo Murtić, Ferdinand
Kulmer, Kosta Angeli Radovani and others) that aimed to advance
general visual culture through an active affirmation of their own
aesthetic program and complete control over all programmatic and
organisational aspects of gallery activities
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in the context of the socialist political system, the concept of The
Forum Gallery filled a logistic void within the institutional support of
fine arts, a role performed in the West by privately run, commercial
galleries
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first “artists-run collective” in the region, appeared on the art scene
as a critique of established institutional and commercial gallery
practice
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contemporary art, emphasis on conceptual art practises
Forum Gallery Award: Goran Škofić (2013.)
recent exhibitions: Marijan Jevšovar, Ivan Kožarić, Ben Cain...
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PUBLIC DEBATES, BOOK
PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL
designed to stand DISCUSSIONS
as a reflection of Zeitgeist, and as a point
of synergy and meetings around various ideas and
projects
• offer a wider and more diverse audience (from students to
professors, cultural workers to the ordinary people and
disadvantaged groups) the diversity of cultural and social
scene
• through the choice of guests, whom are always experts on
discussed topics guarantee opinions and insights from
first-hand
8. • a place for people to deliberate and express different
points of view
• allow conflicted groups, individuals and attitudes to reach
consensus, bringing people and their ideas closer
together, building and influencing public opinion
• cultivating the spirit of civil disobedience and public
awareness, educating citizens to think for themselves,
listen to their conscience and not to leave big issues up
to public authorities to decide
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• various workshops (creative writing, film making etc.)
special programmes for disadvantaged groups such as national minorities, political prisoners, The
Homeland War soldiers suffering from PTSD, victims of rape and sexual violence
10. KIC ART CINEMA
specialised in independent, European films, with an
emphasis on documentary films dealing with topics like
human rights, minorities, LGBT, local
community…
host to LUX Film Days, Subversive film festival, Human Rights Festival,
Zagreb Film Festival, Vox Feminae, 100 years of Indian Cinema,
Jewish Film Festival, Dokukino.
11. we organise discussions with
renowned film authors (Masterclass
with Avi Mog rabi, Mads
Brug ge r, S iniš a Jurič ić e tc . ).
s ome re c e nt title s : Io sono LI,
Tzvetanka, Les Neiges du
Kilimandjaro, Welcome, Amalia,
Filme do Desassossego, The
Ambassador, Meet the Fokkens, Uus
Maailm, Aleksandrinke, Ai Weiwei:
Never Sorry, How much does your
building weigh Mr. Foster?, Vivian las
Antipodas, Sofia's Last Ambulance,
Family Meals...
12. KIC PUBLISHING HOUSE
• Que- sais –je? / What do I
know? Edition, 10 titles
(Terrorism, Cathedrals, Aztecs,
History of clothes, Architecture,
Shamanism, Hellenistic
Civilisation...)
• The Dictionary of
Symbols, Jean Chevalier
and Alain Gheerbrant
• Cultural management,
animation and
marketing, Milena
Dragićević – Šešić and
Branimir Stojković
13. KIC PHOTO
GALLERY
• since 2001 photo exhibitions
• photography as an art form, source of information,
document
• role of photography in contemporary culture, art and media
• critique of prevailing socio-political processes
• promotion of young artists (Ana Mihalić, Petra Mrša, Toma
Bačić...)
14. ABOUT ME...
• Dina Pokrajac
• B. A. In Journalism,
• M. A. in Political science and European
Studies
• Programme coordinator, assistant
editor at Cultural information centre
and Scarabeus publishing house,
assistant coordinator at Subversive
Festival
15. • public debates cycle on topics of Europe, migrations and
identity
• public debates cycle Ethnology of the quotidian (in
cooperation with the Institute for Folklore and Ethnology)
• workshops on writing and presenting the Other in the
media (in cooperation with TV and Radio Student, Faculty
of Political Science)
• main agenda: dealing with contemporary socio-political
issues, propagating disclosure of socio-destructive
tendencies and counteracting them accordingly, fighting of
typical stereotypes
• public debates cycle on issues dealing with devastation of
public space, the right to the city, the need to explore and
understand the city, the identities of its local communities
and their environments