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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.

Titled Happy Spiraling, the 14th edition of Organ Vida searches for meaning in everyday life saturated with images. We ask how contemporary visual culture not only reflects reality, but also how it actively produces it: shaping the ways we see ourselves, understand the world, and make art. The featured works confront the realities of an oversaturated image economy—one that manipulates, exhausts, entertains, and consumes us, while still leaving room for resistance through humor, play, imagination, and collective weirdness.

Organ Vida brings together expanded photography and hybrid image-based practices that drift through the messy overlap of visual art, digital culture, and online life. The central group exhibition, Happy Spiraling, features works by Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Madeleine Andersson, Aurélie Bayad, Maja Bojanić & Brin Žvan, Hiiona Choi, Jame St Findlay, Hertta Kiiski, Irma Name, Rafael Roncato, and Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė.

Alongside the group exhibition, four solo presentations continue and expand the festival’s theme into new territories. Julie Béna presents LURE, a small retrospective and site-specific installation conceived for the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. Drawing from cabaret and Surrealism, Béna moves through a shifting cast of comic archetypes, approaching art as a space where critique slips into absurdity, theatricality, and play.

In collaboration with FOTODOK, Organ Vida also presents Ocho Día. Eight Days, Nine Nights, a major solo exhibition by Kevin Osepa curated by Daria Tuminas. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition abroad, the project revisits disappearing rituals from Curaçao through themes of mourning, spirituality, memory, and longing.

Additional solo presentations include Sara De Brito Faustino’s A Home With No Roof, an installation that transforms domestic interiors into uncanny psychological spaces, and Paula Tončić’s COCCYX CUTZ, which draws on the hypnotic atmosphere of casinos, flashing reward systems, and the seductive logic of addiction, tension, and surrender.

The festival’s discursive program features lectures and conversations on image overload, digital exhaustion, and the emotional rhythms and aesthetics of internet culture. A central part of the program is the launch of the publication The Vibes Are Off, featuring essays by Al Hassan Elwan, Cem A., Tihana Bertek, Barbara Gregov, Maximilian Lehner, Lea Vene, Joanna Walsh, Steven Warwick, and Günseli Yalcinkaya, with a visual contribution by weecolors.

Organ Vida is curated by Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, and Lea Vene.

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling is on view June 11–September 6, 2026 at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.