Exhibition “Z/zemlja” at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb

Exhibition “Z/zemlja” at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb

The exhibition “Z/zemlja” is a three-year exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb (25 November 2025 – 26 March 2028) that brings together themes related to soil cultivation, practices of treating the soil, and food growing, demostrating good agricultural practices associated with ecology and sustainability. Z/zemlja is also examined and presented on a semantic level: what symbolic, cultural and existential questions does soil open up in human life? Z/zemlja is likewise examined through various urban themes we explore within the project What Kind of Cities Do We Want? – including industrialization, urban gardens, and urban crises (e.g. the post-earthquake city).

Dr Tihana Rubić, project member, is a collaborator on the exhibition, particularly in several of its thematic sections. Her insights and the themes explored in the exhibition emerge from several years of ethnographic research conducted within the project in Zagreb and Kutina: food production, urban agricultural practices, green public spaces, (de)industrialization, urban (land) governance policies, and other.

Exhibition author:
Željka Petrović Osmak, MA, Senior Museum Advisor, Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb

Collaborators:
Assoc. Prof. Tihana Rubić, PhD, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Suzana Marjanić, PhD, Senior Research Advisor (Permanent Appointment), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
Olga Orlić, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
Aida Brenko, PhD, Senior Museum Advisor (retired)