The Split Film Festival will soon begin its jubilee, thirtieth edition, which brings numerous changes and news. The official opening will take place on Friday, September 12, 2025, at the Karaman cinema, with a screening of a film from the feature competition. However, the unofficial opening of the festival will be marked a day earlier, on Thursday, September 11 at 8 p.m., with the exhibition Dissenting 1–4 at the Kvart Gallery (Put Trstenika 1), which will certainly attract the attention of visitors.
This is an exhibition by Dutch multimedia artist and jury member Thomas Mohr, who will personally attend the opening and present his work through a short presentation and conversation with Split director Bruno Pavić.
The exhibition is part of Mohr’s broader project New Age, launched in 2023, which explores everyday life through the prism of media reality, personal archives and cultural expressions, often from a queer perspective. The project, which began in parallel with the election of Trump, obsessively following events inside the White House, involves systematically following political events and recording one’s own life through more than 280,000 photos taken with a smartphone. The images selected in this work are a selection of those shared and discussed in a private chat, focused on attempts to understand and cope with the tensions of the modern age without falling into despair. The series Dissenting forms the final part of a larger whole called Ageing, and is divided into four parts. The first two – Dissenting 1 and Dissenting 2 – cover 427 and 442 days of the author’s daily documentation and reflection.
Thomas Mohr (born 1954 in Mainz) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and in his artistic practice – which includes performance, painting, video and installations – he deals with perception and memory. Since 1985, he has been systematically building a personal visual archive that now numbers more than 900,000 photographs, taken in line with technological changes, using analog and digital cameras, and then smartphones. His archive encompasses a wide range of events – from those of social importance to extremely personal moments. The New Era project, which he has been developing since October 7, 2023, brings together various visual elements, explores ways of accumulating the daily flood of impressions and information from the screen and from the environment, and ways of coping with change in these turbulent and difficult times. The Dissenting 1–4 exhibition will be open until September 16, every day from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is free.