FORUM 2.0 — NEXT GEN: Rethinking Shared Cultural Futures
19.11.2025.
How do we respond to crisis? How do we organise? What does cultural infrastructure mean when institutions fail? How do we embody power, resistance, and adaptation?
Two days weaving together critical conversations about networks, movements, and infrastructure with artistic practices exploring bodies, power, and resistance. From examining how different organisational forms navigate crisis, to Zagreb as a laboratory for cultural governance, to performances and installations that ask the same questions through art.
A crucial element of Forum 2.0 is bringing young artists and collectives from across Southeast Europe to Zagreb, creating a unique opportunity for cultural exchange and artistic dialogue. This initiative addresses the persistent challenges of limited mobility and visibility that emerging artists from the region face, while also enriching Zagreb’s cultural landscape with diverse regional perspectives.
The selected artists represent the dynamic creativity emerging from Southeast Europe, offering Zagreb audiences direct access to contemporary artistic practices that might otherwise remain geographically constrained. By positioning these presentations across both independent and institutional cultural spaces throughout the city, the Forum creates multiple points of encounter and genuine dialogue between local and regional artistic communities.
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▶ ▶ ▶ PROGRAMME
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DAY 1 | Monday, November 24
KNAP – Centar kulture na Peščenici
09:30-10:00 – Welcome by Kooperativa, City of Zagreb, and KNAP
10:00-12:30 – Crisis Response Mechanisms: Networks vs. Movements – Self-Organisation and Institutional Dialogue
→ Round table moderated by Milica Ilić
This dialogical session explores how different organizational forms respond to intersecting crises, political authoritarianism, economic precarity, climate emergency, and institutional breakdown. The round table creates productive friction between established networks, institutionalized cultural organizations, and emerging movements, employing a listening methodology that centers voices from self-organized practices.
With: • On the Move/FACE (Yohann Floch) • Culture Action Europe (Natalie Giogadze) • ENCC (Milan Vračar) • Flanders Arts Institute (Dirk De Wit, Lissa Kinnaer) •State of the Arts – SOTA (Sepp Eckenhaussen — researcher, Institute of Network Cultures, CARADT) • De Koer, Ghent (Leontien Allemeersch) • Cluj Cultural Centre (Lorena Copil) • City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb (Emina Višnić) • Pirate Care (Tomislav Medak) • DKC Sarajevo (Lea Bebek) • AKC Gnezdo Kruševac (Kaća Dimitrijević) • KC Magacin Belgrade (Luka Knežević-Strika) • Kino ARMATA Prishtina (Rozafa Maliqi) • Normalizuj.me Podgorica (Brano Mandić) HOST: Kooperativa – Regional Platform for Culture (Katarina Pavić)
The session examines how different organisational forms, from pan-European networks to regional self-organised movements, navigate crises and what they can learn from each other about resilience, solidarity, and transformation.
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:30 – Neighborhood Walk
→ Led by local cultural workers
Through a walk in the neighborhood, Lana briefly places the
participants in the role of tourists, introducing them to the history of
the buildings, different artistic details from their creation that have
marked them and today make them what they are, offering them an
opportunity for a new perspective of the space, but also for
understanding the complex process of urbanization, which is
applicable to the broader urban fabric.
15:30-17:00 – Sweet Cakes and Hot Takes: Archipelagos of Cultural Infrastructure – Zagreb as a Case Study
→ Round table / Interactive session moderated by Katarina Pavić
At KNAP Concert Hall
Zagreb as laboratory for different approaches to cultural infrastructure and governance, examining diverse models emerging in the city—from new institutional forms to civil-public partnerships to grassroots advocacy. Regional guests and Zagreb-based actors engage in dialogue about how different organizational paradigms address similar challenges: lack of infrastructure, need for participation, decentralization, and sustainable cultural ecosystems.
Featured Zagreb initiatives:
• Novi prostori kulture (NPK) • Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth • LOFT – Od malih nog(u) • Atelieri Žitnjak • Suputnici • Initiative for Klaonica •
Special desserts by radni trokut—funky fermented and fruit-based treats with a twist from Zagreb architect-turned-pastry experimentalist.
17:00-18:00 – Break
18:00-19:00 – JA SAM GOLA VODA / I AM BARE NAKED WATER
→ Performance by Miloš Janjić, Ivona Mitić, and Iva Katarinčić BRINA (Belgrade)
At KNAP Concert Hall
Choreographic research exploring human adaptation to environmental destruction through the lens of host-guest relationships in nature. The work investigates power structures in both natural and social constructs, drawing from Serbia’s struggles with aggressive resource management policies. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining storytelling, lecture performance, installation, and dance, the piece examines public acceptance of vulnerability in adaptation as survival mechanism and source for collective political action.
About the artist: Miloš Janjić is a Belgrade-based multimedia artist, choreographer, and performer collaborating with the independent cultural scene across the region since 2016. He is the initiator of “Plestelin” festival and a member of BRINA collective. The work has been presented at Performissima Festival (Paris), Dance Marathon (Ljubljana), BAZAAR Festival (Prague), and RE KVI FEM (Tivat).
19:00-20:30 – Welcome Reception
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DAY 2 | Tuesday, November 25
BOOKSA & SUPUTNICI
10:00-10:30 – Coffee & Arrivals at BOOKSA (Martićeva 14D)
10:30-12:30 – Voices in Motion – Artists’ Conversation
→ Structured panel moderated by Ena Grabar & Dejan Košćak
At BOOKSA
Conversation with artists selected through open call to Kooperativa membership across Southeast Europe. This session creates space for dialogue about their practices and how their work connects to the Forum’s broader questions about mobility, cooperation, borders, self-organization, and transformation.
Topics:
Creating art in contexts of crisis, authoritarianism, or limited freedoms
Bodies and spaces as sites of power, vulnerability, and resistance
Challenges of cultural mobility and cooperation across the region
New sustainable models and collectives
How artistic practice relates to organizational questions raised on Day 1
Participating artists:
• Miloš Janjić / BRINA (Belgrade) – Choreographic research on adaptation, power structures, and environmental crisis
• Anna Belorukova (Novi Sad) – Video installation examining body as site of power and resistance
• Nađa Gavrilović (Kruševac/Belgrade) – Photography documenting student protests in Serbia 2025
This session bridges artistic practice and the political/organizational discussions from Day 1, allowing artists to engage with representatives from pan-European networks and regional movements.
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
17:00-20:00 – Voices in Motion
→ Artistic Presentations / Public
At SUPUTNICI
“DOCUMENT OF THE BODY”
→ Video installation
Foxes Fluff (Anna Belorukova & Ilia Belorukov, Novi Sad)
About the artists: Foxes Fluff is a duo founded in 2013, now developing their practice in Novi Sad, Serbia. Their work moves between contemporary dance, sound, and site-specific performance. Their performances have been presented in Russia, Germany, Finland, Spain, Norway, Estonia, and Serbia.
“COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE: STUDENT PROTESTS SERBIA 2025” –
→ Photography exhibition opening
Nađa Gavrilović (Kruševac/Belgrade)
Series of photographs documenting student protests that took place in Serbia in 2025. Captured from position of both participant and observer, the images reflect atmosphere, rhythm, and emotion of collective resistance.
About the artist: Nađa Gavrilović (2005) is a young artist from Kruševac, currently studying Architecture in Belgrade. She explores photography as tool for observing social change and expressing personal and collective perspectives.
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▶ ▶ ▶ ABOUT THE VENUES
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KNAP – Centar kulture na Peščenici (City of Zagreb cultural institution)
Main venue hosting Day 1 programme. Founded in 1955, KNAP serves the Peščenica-Žitnjak district through cultural and educational programming.
BOOKSA (independent cultural space)
Hosts Day 2 morning session. Founded in 2004 by the Kulturtreger association, Booksa is dedicated to literature in all forms, operating as a community space for reading, working, and cultural exchange.
SUPUTNICI (independent cultural space)
Hosts Day 2 afternoon public programme. Independent cultural space contributing to Zagreb’s alternative cultural scene, providing a platform for experimental and participatory artistic practices.
WORKING LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZED BY: Kooperativa – Regional Platform for Culture
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: City of Zagreb