Organ Vida - International Photography Organisation

07/04/2026

We’re excited to share the list of artists selected for the 14th edition of Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling!

The selection was made by a jury composed of Daria Tuminas, Morana Matković, Natálie Kubíková, Thomas Conchou, and the Organ Vida curatorial team.

Happy Spiraling opens on June 11 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.

Congratulations to all the selected artists - we look forward to welcoming you soon!

🌀 Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski
🌀 Madeleine Andersson
🌀 Aurélie Bayad
🌀 Maja Bojanić & Brin Žvan
🌀 Hiiona Choi
🌀 Jame St Findlay .girlfriend
🌀Hertta Kiiski
🌀Irma Name .name
🌀Rafael Roncato .roncato
🌀Gedvile Tamosiunaite

30/03/2026

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12/03/2026

7 days left to apply for 14th edition of Organ Vida Festival!

꩜ 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 ༄ *.
https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

😵‍💫 We invite artists from all over the world who work with image-based practices. We are open to mediums such as photography and video, but also hybrid practices that consider images in relation to sound, sculpture, or spatial expansion, such as installations or performances.

😵‍💫 Only finished projects ready for public presentation are accepted! Ten selected artists will have the chance to exhibit their work at the main curated exhibition during the 14th Organ Vida Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, opening mid-June 2026.

😵‍💫 Deadline: March 18th 2026 (Apply via Picter)

For more information about the open call, including eligibility, requirements, and how to apply, please visit Picter.

05/03/2026

[MEET THE JURY]

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling
Apply via Picter by March 18th

https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

🌀 Morana Matković graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, earning degrees from the Department of Art History and the Department of Croatian language and literature. She gained professional experience working at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU), Lauba – People and Art House, and DeltaLab – Centre for Urban Transition, Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Rijeka, as well as working independently as a curator and producer for a number of organizations and projects, among which was also Photographic Association ORGAN VIDA. She worked as a producer and project manager for Croatian Pavilion projects for La Biennale di Venezia – the International Architecture Exhibition (2021, 2023, and 2025) and the International Exhibition of Visual Arts (2024). Since December 2024, she has been employed as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

03/03/2026

[MEET THE JURY]

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling
Apply via Picter by March 18th

https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

🌀 Natálie Kubíková is a curator, researcher and cultural producer based in Prague. She currently serves as an associate curator and International Program Director at Kold Contemporary Gallery and a seminar lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, leading the guest lecture program. Kubíková is the founder and former director of Garage Gallery (2018–2025), an independent gallery and residency platform through which she realized an extensive program of exhibitions, publications and research-based projects supporting emerging artists and cross-disciplinary dialogue. Her recent curatorial projects include The Society of Dangerous Evidence: D***s on Bikes 2.0 (Fotograf Gallery, Prague, 2025); Estranged Tools and The Distance of Two Seconds (Garage Gallery, Prague, 2025); and Warm Inflation: Q***r Le***an Contemporary (GAMU, Prague, 2023). She has also curated and developed projects at MOLT Berlin, SpazioSERRA in Milan and Pickle Bar Berlin, including the lecture-performance Weirdos Attract Weirdos: Le***an Slurring! presented at Relais Culture Europe in Paris. She holds an MgA. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and pursued further studies at Cooper Union School of Art and at the School for Curatorial Studies Venice, where she focused on contemporary curatorial theory and exhibition-making practices.

26/02/2026

[MEET THE JURY]

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling
Apply via Picter by March 18th

https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

🌀 Daria Tuminas is an independent curator and a co-founder of the Growing Pains—an Amsterdam based foundation working on the crossroads of visual arts, publishing, conversation, education and human connection. Since September 2025, she is the program leader of Curatorial Practices in Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. From January to May 2026, Tuminas is working for Stroom den Haag as a curator for visual arts. Since 2019, she has been curating regularly for FOTODOK, Utrecht, as well as developing exhibitions at the likes of Foam Museum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, BredaPhoto Festival, WORM etc. She regularly writes for multiple media, having contributed to: Foam Magazine; Trigger (FOMU); YET; The Photobook Review (Aperture); doc! photography magazine; Unseen Platform; Unseen Magazine; LensCulture; Belgian Platform for Photobooks; Archivo Platform; EXTRA; and more. Between 2017 and 2019, Tuminas headed Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam, and has contributed to multiple photobook-related reflections as a writer, an editor or a curator. She co-curated the symposium The Moving Page for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, contributed a chapter to How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018), guest-edited The PhotoBook Review #12 (Aperture, 2017), and has curated a number of exhibitions in connection to printed matter.

24/02/2026

[MEET THE JURY]

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling
Apply via Picter by March 18th

https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

🌀 Thomas Conchou is a curator and the artistic director of the Centre d’art contemporain de La Ferme du Buisson, located in the Greater Paris area. Actively involved in numerous initiatives supporting socially engaged art, he develops an interdependent and collaborative curatorial practice, notably through the Société des Nouveaux Commanditaires, where he serves as a mediator and producer for citizen-led artistic commissions. He is also engaged in action-research on the emancipatory potential of q***r artistic practices and edits The Master’s Clock, an editorial platform dedicated to the politics of time.

16/02/2026

Open call for 14th edition of Organ Vida Festival is out!

꩜ 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 ༄ *.

On screen, everything has become equally urgent and equally disposable. Nothing shocks. Nothing settles. Nothing lingers long enough to feel real. We are overstimulated, but underwhelmed. In 2026, Organ Vida is obviously spiraling.

This year, we are looking for those whose brains, like ours, sometimes feel foggy — maybe even a bit fried — but not rotten. Ex-doomscrollers. Recovering dopamine burnouts. Those ready to de-slop. Those capable of meaningfully hijacking the system — by maxxing it out, feeding it until it chokes, or just by causing friction. By tactically slowing it down. We’re searching for dirty players. Tricksters. Clever storytellers. Witty comedians. Spineful spirallers.

But we are also looking for ways out. A mental cleanse. Regenerated attention. Complex thought. Boredom. Slowness. Offlineness. Unlearning. Not more noise, but less. Not another viral moment, but a sustained gaze. A vibe shift. An absolute nothing. (Full text on Picter)

😵‍💫 We invite artists from all over the world who work with image-based practices. We are open to mediums such as photography and video, but also hybrid practices that consider images in relation to sound, sculpture, or spatial expansion, such as installations or performances.

😵‍💫 Only finished projects ready for public presentation are accepted! Ten selected artists will have the chance to exhibit their work at the main curated exhibition during the 14th Organ Vida Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, opening mid-June 2026.

😵‍💫 Deadline: March 18th 2026 (Apply via Picter)

For more information about the open call, including eligibility, requirements, and how to apply, please visit Picter:

https://site.picter.com/organ-vida-2026

05/01/2026

⏳ Only 5 days left to apply to our annual FUTURES Talent call!

We are looking for emerging and mid-career artists working in photography and video, as well as hybrid practices. The call is open to citizens of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Albania. Through this open call, five artists will be selected.

FUTURES is a European Photography Platform that brings together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging and mid-career artists worldwide.

Organ Vida, as a FUTURES member organization, is launching an open call for artists to join the platform in 2026. The call is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in photography and video, as well as hybrid practices that explore the relationship between images and sound, sculpture, or

22/12/2025

16/12/2025

Završili smo program Organ Vida Off godina 2025.! VIZKULTURA donosi pregled i dokumentaciju događanja. Izložba Emme Sarpniemi ostaje otvorena do 23.12. u KO:KE space, radnim danom između 17-20 sati te subotom 10-13 sati.

U festivalskoj off godini Organ Vida donosi nekoliko programa, među kojima i izložbu finske umjetnice Emme Sarpaniemi