Location: Kvart Gallery (Put Trstenika 1)

Dates: September 11 – September 16, 2025

The Split Film Festival is about to launch its milestone 30th edition, bringing numerous changes and new features. The official opening will take place on Friday, September 12, 2025, at the Karaman Cinema, with the screening of a feature film in competition. However, a day earlier, on Thursday, September 11, at 8 p.m., the festival’s unofficial start will be marked by the exhibition Dissenting 1–4 at Kvart Gallery (Put Trstenika 1), which is sure to attract the attention of visitors.

The exhibition presents the work of Dutch multimedia artist and jury member Thomas Mohr, who will personally attend the opening and introduce his work through a short presentation and conversation with Split-based director Bruno Pavić.

The exhibition is part of Mohr’s broader project The New Age, launched in 2023, which explores everyday life through the lens of media reality, personal archives, and cultural expression, often from a queer perspective. Initiated in parallel with the election of Trump and an obsessive monitoring of events inside the White House, the project involves systematic observation of political developments while documenting his own life through more than 280,000 smartphone photographs. The images selected for this work are drawn from those shared and discussed in a private chat, focusing on attempts to understand and cope with the tensions of contemporary times without succumbing to despair. The Dissenting series forms the final segment of a larger body of work titled Ageing and is divided into four parts. The first two – Dissenting 1 and Dissenting 2 – cover 427 and 442 days of the artist’s daily documentation and reflection.

Thomas Mohr (born 1954 in Mainz) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. His artistic practice—spanning performance, painting, video, and installation—deals with perception and memory. Since 1985, he has systematically built a personal visual archive that today comprises more than 900,000 photographs, taken while following technological shifts, from analog to digital cameras and later smartphones. His archive encompasses a wide range of events, from those of social significance to deeply personal moments. The New Age project, developed since October 7, 2023, brings together diverse visual elements, investigating ways of accumulating the daily flood of impressions and information from screens and surroundings, as well as ways of coping with changes in these turbulent and challenging times.

The exhibition Dissenting 1–4 will remain open until September 16, daily from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

More information about Split Film Festival: https://splitfilmfestival.hr/