This Monday the exhibition Perceptions came to Croatia’s capital. Forum Gallery in central Zagreb became a home for art pieces by ten female artists from Zagreb and Labin: Monika Milas, Glorija Blazinšek, Alba Miočev, Marina Rajšić, Hana Hanak, Sanda Črnelić, Meri Files, Anja Juričić, Iris Poljan and Eni Blašković.Curators Stephanie Peršić and Marta Radman with artists /...

The lockdown has been a challenging time for club and venue owners, but when it comes to the DJ collectives it was a flourishing period. One of the collectives formed during the pandemic was Staple, a union of three individuals, Karlo Bošnjak, Ivan Petrović and Edi Kanurić, who celebrated minimal sound.During 2020 and 2021, ro-minimal, deep and minimal tech became popular on the...

DJ and electronic music producer Tom Bug is surely one of the most popular names on the Croatian house music scene. He has been spinning records in clubs all over Europe for over 20 years, but his local popularity started to grow when he formed his club night Dobar House, that soon became a renowned record label. In 2020 Elena Mikac, an aspiring new DJ, became an essential member...

Autonomous Cultural Center Medika has been a hub of creatives for years. Several artists founded the union Attack in 1997 to provide space for organizations on the independent cultural scene. After a decade of search for the venue, they illegally moved into the abandoned medicaments factory Medika, which, a year later, became their official workplace according to the permission of...

Jan Kincl is a Croatian music producer who has been on the scene since the early 2000s. The last time I visited Jan’s studio, it was his home with shelves full of records and a long table full of music production gear. That apartment is not the same anymore. The post-pandemic situation of Cycle Studio as a music production company looks completely different. He does not live there...