“Institute for the Remains of the Future”: Weekly Programme (12–16 May) Celebrating 25 Years of Shadow Casters

Programme within the performative exhibition Institute for the Remains of the Future – 25 Years of Shadow Casters
As part of the performative exhibition Institute for the Remains of the Future – 25 Years of Shadow Casters, a series of open programmes, screenings, workshops and encounters will take place from 12 to 16 May, expanding the exhibition archive into a living space of sharing, research and collective remembrance.

The programme brings together artists, filmmakers, educators and audiences around questions of performative heritage, collective memory and the future of archives — through open rehearsals, pseudo-documentary workshops, film screenings and conversations.

More about the exhibition and the Institute:
Institute for the Remains of the Future

Wednesday, 13 May 2026
11:00–19:00
Shadow Casters Open Office

18:00–20:00
“Loop Friction for a Text That Refuses to End” — Leo Vukelić, open rehearsals

The open performative process of artist, scenographer and director Leo Vukelić guides the audience through a space between text, repetition, memory and performance in the making. The rehearsals are conceived as a public laboratory of work — a place where the performance is not yet complete, but is shaped in front of the audience and together with it.

Leo Vukelić (b. 1972, Zagreb) graduated in sculpture from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Magdalena Jetelová. He works at the intersection of theatre and contemporary art and is the co-founder of the artistic organisation Tigar Theatre. Throughout his career, he has realised around 150 professional theatre projects as scenographer, costume designer, director, lighting designer and video author, alongside numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.

He has collaborated with Boris Bakal and Shadow Casters since the performance Father Courage (2014), followed by a series of collaborative intermedia and performative projects such as The Buzz of the City, Ex-position, Battle on the Neretva and A Little Retrospective of Death, in which he develops spatial and performative concepts on the border between theatre, the city and contemporary art.

Today he works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, where he teaches in the fields of creative technologies, visual and media arts, and culture and management.

Thursday, 14 May 2026
11:00–19:00
Shadow Casters Open Office

14:00–16:00
Repeated first (pseudo-)documentary workshop session
Viktorija Pilon & Boris Vuković

Due to audience interest, the first session of the workshop dedicated to (pseudo-)documentation, archives and the living legacy of performing arts will be held again. Those who did not attend the first session are also welcome — no previous experience is required.

The workshop explores ways of recording memories, processes and elusive traces of performance through conversation and collective film work.

More about the workshop:
Living Heritage of the Archive of Shadows

18:00–19:00
Films by Mara Šuljak

A screening of film and video works by Dubrovnik-based multimedia artist Mara Šuljak. Šuljak graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) and the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU), and her artistic work spans film, video, installation and visual arts. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and film festivals in Croatia and abroad.

The programme presents a selection of works that, through personal, visual and experimental approaches, explore the space of the image, memory and cinematic language.

Friday, 15 May 2026
11:00–19:00
Shadow Casters Open Office

12:00
Opening of the Secret Archive of Shadow Casters

A unique public opening of part of the archival material created over 25 years of Shadow Casters’ work — documents, sketches, scenographies, videos, notes, photographs and fragments of projects that have shaped one of the most important independent artistic platforms in the region.

16:45–19:00
Workshop II: (Pseudo-)documentation
Viktorija Pilon & Boris Vuković

The second workshop session continues the exploration of the archive as a living process and is also open to new participants.

Saturday, 16 May 2026
11:00–19:00
Shadow Casters Open Office

11:00–13:00
Froomatineja — The Best of Frooom!

A selection of the most interesting short films created within the Frooom programme — a platform for film literacy and the creative work of children and young people. The programme offers an overview of works by young authors created over the years through workshops, mentorships and film experiments.

More about Frooom:
About the Frooom programme

16:00–19:00
“Only the Sky Is the Limit” — Film Club

An afternoon film club and gathering brings together participants and audiences around the themes of film, community and participatory artistic practices. The programme emerges from the long-term work of the Only the Sky Is the Limit platform, which connects different generations and experiences through film.

More about the project:
Only the Sky Is the Limit

Institute for the Remains of the Future is part of the celebration of 25 years of Shadow Casters — a multimedia artistic organisation that, through performance, film, urbanism, archives and participatory practices, continuously explores the relationships between space, memory and community.

The programme is realised in collaboration with the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Savska cesta 18, Zagreb.

Project partners: MOTS Trnjanska Savica, Student Centre in Zagreb, Croatian School Museum, Faculty of Science – Department of Geology, Jadran Film.

Institute for the Remains of the Future is supported by: the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society.

The “Living Heritage” programme is supported by: the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society.

Frooom! is supported by: the City of Rijeka, HAVC, AEM, the City of Zagreb, the City of Split, the City of Velika Gorica a and the City of Koprivnica.

Only the Sky Is the Limit is supported by: the City of Rijeka, HAVC, AEM, the City of Zagreb and the City of Koprivnica.

Shadow Casters are supported by: Erasmus+; HAVC; the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth; the Agency for Electronic Media; the Croatian Association of Film Authors and Producers; Primorje-Gorski Kotar County; the City of Split; the City of Koprivnica; the City of Rijeka; and part of the programme and projects is implemented through the Clubture network, supported by the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and the Kultura Nova Foundation.