by Nadija Mustapić, Tajči Čekada, Milijana Babić, Nika Rukavina and Branka Cvjetičanin

2023

Unannounced artistic action at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia,
on December 15th 2023,
during the opening of the exhibition titled “The Visible Ones”.

A collaborative, unannounced artistic action by five artists – Milijana Babić, Branka Cvjetičanin, Tajči Čekada, Nadija Mustapić, and Nika Rukavina – conducted at the opening of the Rijeka edition of the inter-institutional project/exhibition “Vidljive” (“The Visible Ones”), December 15th, 2023, at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.

This site-specific performative action involved the group of artists arriving at the exhibition opening with their “heads in bags,” followed by sending a press release after the performance, where the artists revealed their identities and reasons for protest and dissatisfaction.

In a widely publicized press release, # The Invisible Ones outlined the reasons for their protest, expressing their disagreement with the inter-institutional project/exhibition. The release highlighted several organizational issues, including a lack of dialogue between curators and artists, the objectification of female artists, unpaid work, lack of funding for travel expenses, inadequate production and technical conditions, unclear acquisition policies, and other shortcomings.

More:
Večernji list, fiuman.hr, torpedo media, Art Kvart article with the #The Invisible Ones press release, Art Kvart review, Art Kvart review #2