About Us
Ganz nova kultura promjene / Ganz New Culture of Change is a not for profit non governmental organisation and a collective of artists, producers, and curators fostering artistic experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical engagement with contemporary social issues. Dedicated to fostering a culture of change missing from the national and broader regional context, we offer new perspectives on the dominant narrative and create spaces for artistic and social transformation.
Founded in 2019, we support hybrid artistic practices that merge theater, dance, visual arts, music, sound, community art, science, and/or technology. Our theater projects push the boundaries of conventional stage languages, tackling urgent themes such as climate change, patriarchy, privilege, and the digital society. Our interdisciplinary initiatives integrate visual art with scientific research and activism—for example, Listen to the Forest!, a multimedia project responding to deforestation in Croatia.
Education and knowledge exchange are at the core of our work. Through research residencies and educational programs, we continue a long-standing tradition of non-institutional artistic education, initiated by our members in 2008. A key part of this legacy is our Vocal Lab, dedicated to research, experimentation, and knowledge transfer in vocal performance—where traditional singing meets contemporary and experimental vocal practices, acoustic ecology, ecopoetics, and therapeutic singing.
Ganz Team
SILVIJA STIPANOV, curator and project manager
She graduated in languages and literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, completed a one-year Devising Theatre course in London, and undertook a two-year cultural management training program at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management.
From 2004 to 2018, she was part of the core creative and production team of Kultura promjene at the Student Centre in Zagreb, where she conceived, organized, led, and coordinated the realization of several thousand programs across various artistic disciplines. She is the author of Edukultura, a long-running educational program in performing arts, and one of the co-founders of Klubvizija SC and I’MM_Media Lab (now Radiona).
In 2011, she was awarded a CEC ArtsLink fellowship in New York. That same year, she launched and curated the Ganz novi festival, an international festival of developmental theatre. From 2012 to 2018, she co-curated the repertoire program of Teatar &TD alongside Nataša Rajković.
She has conceptualized, managed, and/or implemented eight long-term European collaborative projects funded through the Culture Program 2007–2013 and Creative Europe. She served as the artistic director of the Ganz nove Perforacije festival in Zagreb, Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Zadar, Osijek, and Koprivnica (2019–2020) and was the selector for the Zoom Festival in Rijeka in 2020.
Since 2021, she has been collaborating regularly with Matija Ferlin on the production and distribution of his award-winning works (Sad Sam Matthäus, Canti di prigionia), with U.O. Omnibus on the production of Screenagers Vol.2 and the international distribution of Matijević & Chico performances. She also collaborates with Vedrana Klepica, Demirel Pašalić, and Azra Svedružić on the production and distribution of their original projects.
silvija.stipanov@gmail.com
VEDRANA KLEPICA, author of theatre projects, director, dramaturge
She works as a playwright, dramaturge, and director. Her plays have been performed in Croatia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, France, Serbia, Australia, and Argentina and have been translated into six different languages. She has participated in some of the most important festivals and residency programs for playwrights and theatre creators.
Her produced works include J.A.T.O., Radio Kundera, To Fuck Because We Want To, The Tragic Death of an Economic Analyst, The Sky is Grey and You Can See the Factory Chimney Exhaust, Moby Play, White Kidneys, Our Upbringing, Instructions for Understanding Multiannual Plants, The Lepa Brena Project, The Final Address of a Lonely Guitar of Musician and Entrepreneur Miroslav Škoro from the Turbulent Year of Pre-Election Isolation, Keinberg, and Things That Burn Easily.
In 2024, she is participating in the European Residency Program for Playwrights, a co-production between Centro Dramático Nacional, Maxim Gorki Theater, Lietuvos Nacionalinis Teatras, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, and Zagrebačko kazalište mladih (ZKM).
vedranak@gmail.com
DEMIREL PAŠALIĆ, photographer, cinematographer, musician, designer and multimedia artist
He graduated from the FAMU (Film Academy) in Prague, Czech Republic, in the cinematography department 3F. Since 1995, he has been working as a cinematographer, still photographer, theater photographer, designer and musician, and has actively exhibited his projects as a photographer and multimedia artist in solo exhibitions. He collaborates with numerous artists on their projects, as a musician he signs original musical works and has been actively playing for three decades, and has also successfully collaborated with numerous cultural institutions, both with institutions and with independent cultural and artistic organizations. Since 2003, he has been a member of the HGU (Croatian Music Union), and since 2007, he has been a member of the ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Visual Artists of Applied Arts).
Complete Curriculum Vitae: https://www.slusajsume.com/o-autorima/
info@slusajsume.com
AZRA SVEDRUZIC, multimedia artist
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and has been actively exhibiting since 1995. She creates various environment and location-based art works, visual arts, installation, multimedia and hybrid projects, performances and videos. She has shown her works and projects several times in solo and group exhibitions and has also been represented at international film and video festivals (Slovenia, Germany, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Cyprus, Serbia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Chile). She is an cultural worker and activist, participating in many collaborative and cultural projects. She is a member of HULU (Croatian Association of Fine Artists).
Complete Curriculum Vitae: https://www.slusajsume.com/o-autorima/
info@slusajsume.com