After Paris, Budapest, Venice and Barcelona the 9th International Conference on Degrowth will be held in Zagreb from August 29 to September 2, 2023.

Bearing the same title as the conference Planet, People, Care-It Spells Degrowth!, the exhibition is conceived in a conjugation and in a dialogue with the 9th International Degrowth conference in Zagreb. The focus of the exhibition is on potentialities of socio-metabolic transformation our societies need to undertake to return to their fairshare within planetary boundaries and maintain emancipation and solidarity for all in their population.

Curated by Ana Dević/ WHW, the exhibition at Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU), Zagreb gathers artists Marwa Arsanios, Željko Beljan, Marina Naprushkina, Rupali Patil, Dan Perjovschi, Selma Selman, Marko Tadić, and Cecilia Vicuña. The opening program starts with a book launch at 6 pm and presents A Decolonial Feminism by Françoise Vergès. The opening is scheduled for 8 pm. The exhibition is open until Sept 10th 2023.

The exhibition rethinks eco-social artistic practices from the perspective of political ecologies, eco-feminist and decolonial standpoints exploring how artistic agency and imagination can contribute to transformation of the unjust, extractivist logic of neoliberal order. Artists included in the exhibition are preoccupied with reconfiguring new subjectivities through reimagining commons, reusing, repurposing, agitating and sharing as well as igniting new imaginaries through collective desire, joy and solidarity.