To Make the World a Better Place — Publication of the Retrospective Exhibition
overview of thirty years of Andreja Kulunčić’s artistic work through practice, theoretical reflection, and participatory action
The publication To Make the World a Better Place accompanies the eponymous retrospective exhibition of Andreja Kulunčić, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 2025, and offers a comprehensive and critical overview of more than thirty years of her artistic work in the field of socially engaged art.
An analytical and visual insight into an artistic oeuvre developed through participatory, research-based, and collaborative methods, with a focus on feminism, trauma, migration, self-organisation, and self-education, as well as on the meta-level — artistic methodology as a political and ethical position.
The publication brings together texts by curators and theorists who have long engaged with and contextualised the work of Andreja Kulunčić—Martina Munivrana, Irena Bekić, Anca Verona Mihuleț, Katharina Schlieben, and Miško Šuvaković—and demonstrates how her artistic practice does not stop at representing social issues, but actively produces spaces of dialogue, solidarity, and collective action.
Alongside theoretical essays, it includes extensive documentation of the works, an exhibition floor plan, a timeline of the artist’s practice, as well as an overview of the participatory and educational processes that formed an integral part of the exhibition. The book functions both as an archive and as a tool — for reading, learning, and further reflection on socially engaged art today.
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Year: 2025
Language: Croatian / English