2026
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dating hairy cabbage heads ☑ snacking on rotten potatoes ☑ vomiting ectoplasm ☑ vampiring father figures ☑ conceptualizing porn ☑
In 2024, we went rogue – ugly on purpose. But everyone else did too. Ugliness smeared itself across every screen, spinning subversion into spectacle. The "wrong shoes" suddenly matched the "glazed-donut face." Geeks turned chic. Substance became The Beauty. The ugly image became what we feared most: a quirky accessory, an aesthetic, a commodity. Content that multiplied, mutated into a mush of internet everything and nothing. Unstable and impermanent – more sensation than substance, more affect than image. Fast, anxious, meaningless. An endless spiral.
ballerina cappuccina ꩜ tralalero tralala ༄ *. Samantha the Afghan hound ༄ *. three questions to ask in early dating ꩜ Venus retrograde ༄ : *. stuck in situationships ༄ *. what I eat in a day ꩜ dom dom yes yes
On screen, everything has become equally urgent and equally disposable. Nothing shocks. Nothing settles. Nothing lingers long enough to feel real. We are overstimulated, but underwhelmed. In 2026, Organ Vida is obviously spiraling.
Oupi Goupi ꩜ delulu ༄ : *. puppies ꩜ pottery and paw prints ꩜ packing bento for my daughter ꩜ girl, so confusing girl ༄ *. girl, healing isn't linear ༄ chihuahua energy ꩜ "I am fucking crazy but I am free" ༄ : *. ???
This year, we are looking for those whose brains, like ours, sometimes feel foggy – maybe even a bit fried – but not rotten. Ex-doomscrollers. Recovering dopamine burnouts. Those ready to de-slop. Those capable of meaningfully hijacking the system – by maxxing it out, feeding it until it chokes, or just by causing friction. By tactically slowing it down. We're searching for dirty players. Tricksters. Clever storytellers. Witty comedians. Spineful spirallers.
But we are also looking for ways out. A mental cleanse. Regenerated attention. Complex thought. Boredom. Slowness. Offlineness. Unlearning. Not more noise, but less. Not another viral moment, but a sustained gaze. A vibe shift. An absolute nothing.
We hope to see images that recall moments when visual culture felt less gloomy. When the aura of the era was curiosity, joy and community. When nobody was watching so closely, and it was possible to get excited about the future. We are not searching for art that clings to this period nostalgically, but art that shows these moments have not vanished – that they still tick, faintly but stubbornly, in the cracks of the system, or live feral and off-grid, entirely beyond it.
Happy Spiraling
Exhibition
11/06 – 06/09
Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition opening: 11/06 @ 8 pm
Julie Bena: LURE
Exhibition
11/06 – 06/09
Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition opening: 11/06 @ 8 pm
Kevin Osepa: Ocho Día. Eight Days, Nine Nights
Exhibition11/06 – 06/09
Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition opening: 11/06 @ 8 pm
Paula Tončić: COCCYX CUTZ
Exhibition11/06 – 06/09
Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition opening: 11/06 @ 8 pm
Exhibition opening: 11/06 @ 8 pm
The Vibes Are Off
Talk & Book Promotion
12/06 20:00h
SKD Prosvjeta Gallery
With: Tihana Bertek, Barbara Gregov, Joanna Walsh, Günseli Yalcinkaya & Lana Pukanić
Al Hassan Elwan: Gesamtkunstvibe
Lecture
12/06 at 19:00h
SKD Prosvjeta Gallery
Portfolio reviews
12/06 at 11:00h
SKD Prosvjeta Gallery
With: Ajda Ana Kocutar, Daria Tuminas, Lovro Japundžić, Morana Matković, Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Address
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb
Croatia
SKD Prosvjeta
Address
Croatia
Organ Vida
info@organvida.com
Ozaljska 71
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Curators
Barbara Gregovbarbara.gregov@organvida.com
Lovro Japundžićlovro.japundzic@organvida.com
Lea Venelea.vene@organvida.com
Curatorial associates: Ana Škegro, Morana Matković
Producer: Franka Bihar
Exhibition design: Marin Berović, Ana Lisonek
Design: Alma Šavar
Web: Osam
Web and text editor: Sara Gurdulić
Translation: Tihana Bertek
Proofreading: Mak Maslać
Photographer: Ive Trojanović (925 studio)
Translation: Tihana Bertek
Technical support: Neža Knez, Filip Pacak, Domagoj Žuna
Press and Public Relations
Inesa Antićpress@organvida.com
Main Festival partner: MSU Zagreb
Festival partners: FOTODOK, SKD Prosvjeta
Festival is supported by:
City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Mondriaan Fund for visual arts & cultural heritage
Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zagreb Tourist Board
Cross-Looking, co-funded by the European Union
Organ Vida receives financial support for its organizational development from the “Kultura Nova” Foundation.
Media Partners
Kulturpunkt, Vizkultura, Mood.hr