The 24th Queer Zagreb Season, with a programmatic focus on trans artistic voices, will take place from May 2 to May 30, 2026, bringing together 30 artists from around ten countries across Europe, as well as the USA, Argentina, and Egypt.
We are announcing the Queer Zagreb program symbolically today, March 31, on the International Transgender Day of Visibility, as a significant part of this year’s program is dedicated to themes of trans identity in art. The trans community is among the most stigmatized communities worldwide and continues to face violence, as well as numerous forms of social, political, and economic pressure and challenges. For this reason, it was especially important for us to place at the center of Queer Zagreb—and our artistic focus this year—artists whose voices do not regularly reach wider audiences and the public. The experiences of the trans community and trans artists must not be reduced to mere tools of populist social polarization. Through programs like this, Queer Zagreb opens up a broader space for dialogue, one that allows for the recognition of the complexity, resilience, and creative strength of the trans community.
Throughout May, the festival will feature numerous theatre and dance performances, exhibitions, talks, and film screenings across a range of venues, including the Zagreb Dance Centre, Gavella Drama Theatre, KNAP, the Zagreb City Museum, and KIC. A particularly notable collaboration is with KNAP, within which we are presenting a special program, Queer Pešća, featuring three of our recent co-productions: Babin kuk gori by Gonzalo Quintana, Ministranti by Zlatko Paković, and Only Under by Bruno Isaković and Ana Mrak.
In addition to those already mentioned, the program of the 24th Queer Zagreb includes the following artists: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens (USA), Gabrijel Lazić (Croatia/Slovenia), Rajna Racz (Croatia), Køteren og Terrieren (Norway), Maiamar Abrodos (Argentina), Natalia Villamil (Argentina), Hazem Header (Egypt), Fernando Troya (Spain/Netherlands), and RAM Botero (Philippines). The program also includes the exhibitions Trans Balkan by Aleksandar Crnogorac (Serbia) and Archivo de la Memoria Trans, the first archive of its kind in the world, which will be presented at the Zagreb City Museum.
A detailed program schedule will be available within a week on the Domino association’s website.
