MOBR: SMC Zagreb #1, 2015

Invited by the Museum of Broken Relationships.
Sunday, May 15
Zagreb, Upper Town

In 2014 we invited the Zagreb Museum of Broken Relationships to Basel to set up their emotional overview over some of the world’s most heartbreaking love stories. It was an intense time of preparing the exhibition of broken hearts together including the contribution our own traumas. Everyday during the build up we walked up the hill to the Markthalle to eat. There we sat in Room F where a few weeks later our SMC Basel premiere would take place. We ate fried rice and spring rolls and Olinka decided to practice the social muscles of Zagreb as well. Two years later the time had come. MOBR invited SMC to be part of the Change of Heart festival in the shiny upper town of Zagreb – a district that has the shape of a heart indeed. Upper town had quite some surprises to offer. A pleasant one: Only a few days before the show, the mayor’s secretary invited us to do the club in the most splendid hall of her mayor’s palace. Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! But it was stunning. On the heights of the city in a pretentious palace under a massive chandelier we put a spell on Zagreb. And build so many new relationships, some of which might be broken again today of course.