ESR Commons Talk II.: “Solidarity in Art in the Croatian and Ex-Yugoslav Context (1960s–70s)” with Darko Šimičić

The ESR 2025 Mentoring Session with Darko Šimičić will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, at 2 pm CEST. The invitation will arrive via email and is open only to those who applied to the ESR in 2025.

🎤 Darko Šimičić, art critic and curator

Darko Šimičić is an art critic and curator based in Zagreb. His archival work centres on the Tomislav Gotovac Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

The 90-minute session brings together the ten ESR 2025 residents, currently in residence in Budapest, Dubrovnik and Lidice. In the first part, Darko Šimičić will speak about Solidarity in Art in the Croatian and Ex-Yugoslav Context (1960s–70s). He will examine how artists and cultural workers organised collective responses to catastrophe and war, focusing on the artistic mobilisation after the 1963 Skopje earthquake and the post-war Sarajevo scene. Everyone who applied to ESR 2025 is invited to join. The second part is a closed conversation between Darko and the ESR 2025 residents.

🎤 Hosted by Miloslav Vorlíček (Head of Residencies, Lidice Art Collection – Lidice Memorial)

ESR 2025

📍 ESR 2025 takes place in three locations – Budapest, Dubrovnik & Lidice – from Monday, 17 November to Tuesday, 16 December 2025.

Funders and Partners

🌍 Project partners: Lidice Art Collection — Lidice Memorial(CZ),Pro Progressione(HU), Art radionica Lazareti (HR).

🇪🇺 ESR is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible.

🫂 The Call for Curators, ArtMap and Artalk support ESR 2026.