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Culture is an area of lively discussion, active negotiation, positive tension, ambiguity, and creativity. It's an ever-evolving ecosystem that requires structure and it is a space for growth that includes various cultural actors: professionals and amateurs, organisations, initiatives, individuals, as well as the broader community.

In the fall of 2023, the City of Zagreb founded New Spaces of Culture – a public institution that aims to provide a place where producers and promoters of culture and art, its interpreters, archivists and the audience at large meet and converge.

Established on the principles of participation, decentralisation, and diversification of cultural programming, this unique institutional platform brings together diverse stakeholders to co-create and develop programs in collaboration with civil society, the local community, city neighbourhoods, public institutions, international partners as well as all interested citizens.

Novi prostori kulture kao pokretač kreativnog razvoja grada.

The initiative for the establishment of New Spaces of Culture came from more than 50 artists, cultural workers and experts, while jointly working on the Cultural Development Plan of the City of Zagreb 2024–2030. It is here that the need for a new, decentralised cultural infrastructure in the city of Zagreb, was clearly identified.

The construction of new as well as the renovation of existing city buildings and facilities will ensure access to cultural activities to many people, at various Zagreb locations.

As a unique meeting point for culture and art, various programme innovations, citizens’ participation in organising and implementing events, education, networking and partnership development, it is these cultural micro-locations that will develop into unique creative incubators and places of dynamic community cultural development across generations. Under the leadership of New Spaces of Culture, these venues are intended to operate as hubs, on the principle of participatory programming models that follow the “from citizens to citizens” organisational logic.

New Cultural Spaces aims to strengthen the development of cultural life, make culture and art accessible in every neighbourhood in Zagreb, and to recognise diversity of audiences and their needs.

Many institutions and initiatives are already organising various activities in city neighbourhoods and many of them are being additionally supported and empowered through the Culture and Art in the Community programme. With New Spaces of Culture, these actors will now have a partner that will be continuously implementing and promoting their work city-wide and will thus make them a one-of-a-kind and recognisable city project for all its citizens. In addition to providing professional institutional leadership and prime working conditions for new and existing initiatives, New Spaces of Culture will further solidify the local cultural offering with in-house event production.

The foundations on which New Spaces of Culture rest are increasing accessibility and inclusivity of culture and the promotion of cultural and artistic creation, cultural diversity and civil society development.

In this regard, the broad programme spectrum that the institution plans to initiate, encourage, and develop includes one-off and multi-day events and manifestations, discursive programmes, artistic residencies and workshops, as well as festivals, conferences, and non-formal cultural education. Whether organised independently or in collaboration with cultural actors and city neighbourhoods, these programmes will encompass both popular and experimental music, literature of all styles and genres, visual and performing arts in all their forms, audio-visual art, and interdisciplinary and new artistic and cultural practices.

A city without culture and art is merely a network of streets and squares. That’s why we need more from our neighbourhoods, more from our city.

We need a place where creativity meets practical knowledge, where art doesn’t recognise the line between “high” and “low”, where old and new are building a future together, where collaboration is valued more than competition, where technology serves humanity and progress, and where culture means inclusivity and diversity: from programmes and spaces to audiences and organisers. For this, we need new spaces for play and imagination. We need a new cultural and social dynamic. We need New Spaces of Culture.

Zagreb is a city where culture is accessible, spatially decentralised and inclusive, and where its actors are creating cultural programmes in professionally managed and kept spaces.

Expert and collaborative management of existing, renovated and newly-built spaces for contemporary culture with professional working conditions and organizing innovative cultural programmes city-wide.

Promote the accessibility and inclusivity of culture and the arts as contemporary society values.

Develop and promote culture and the arts in the local community.

Encourage cultural diversity and the development of civil society.

Develop participatory models for cultural management and programming.

Foster innovative cultural, artistic, stylistic, and programmatic action modes.

Encourage interdisciplinary approaches and the development of new cultural practices.

Promote education, critical thinking, diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunities for all.

Encourage and promote innovation in cultural and artistic work.

Develop and promote professional infrastructural and production working conditions.

Encourage expert cultural management according to the highest standards.

Provide program and events production support.

Encourage collaboration and partnerships with the local community, civil society, art organisations, and local and global partners.

Creativity and innovation

Accessibility and decentralization

Inclusivity and diversity

Quality and actuality

Openness and partnership

Transparency

Participation

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Expert and collaborative management of existing, renovated and newly-built spaces for contemporary culture with professional working conditions and organizing innovative cultural programmes city-wide.

New Spaces of Culture. A Driver of Creative Urban Progress.

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Zagreb is a city where culture is accessible, spatially decentralised and inclusive, and where its actors are creating cultural programmes in professionally managed and kept spaces.

Expert and collaborative management of existing, renovated and newly-built spaces for contemporary culture with professional working conditions and organizing innovative cultural programmes city-wide.

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