Skopje, 9 March 2023 (MIA) - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) will open on Thursday evening the exhibition 'Landscape of Anxiety: Culture and Art for Future Coexistence With Environmental Crises and Climate Change", which refers to climate conditions and environmental challenges. 

Participants in the exhibition include Tihomir Topuzovski, Ivana Vaseva, OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) – Denis Saraginovski and Slobodanka Stevcheska, Ivana Mirchevska, Darko Alexovski, Nikola Uzunovski, Zorica Zafirovska, Kiril Arsovski, Biljana Garevska, and Darko Bazerko. 

The exhibition is focused on environmental changes that generate urgent situations through extreme weather conditions, loss of biodiversity, the devastated environment, uncontrolled trajectories of exploitation of basic resources such as water and air, global growth, and unwanted migrations.

According to curators of the exhibition, Topuzovski and Vaseva, the works are a result of collaboration between artists, experts, activists, formal and informal associations, institutions, enabling visibility, proposing or encouraging solutions, or representing forms of activism that involve the public around the current issues and challenges. 

As part of the opening of the exhibition, artist Zorica Zafirovska will give the 'Anxiety Tour' which includes five videos. 

"The 'Anxiety Tour' takes us on a narrative journey through the conditions of our greatest natural treasures,including the Vardar River, Matka, and Vodno Mountain," said the MoCA. 

As part of the exhibition, there will also be a public program opened by Adam Nocek, professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology from Arizona State University in the USA on March 12 (Sunday) at 12:00.

The exhibition is part of the project of the same name, which entailed a six-month research and took place in several locations across the country such as Veles, Bitola, Prespa and Skopje in cooperation with members of the ecological society from Veles “Vila Zora”, the initiative “Bitola na Točak”, the public institution National Galichitsa Park and the Natural History Museum of R.S. Macedonia. Within the scope of the research, it was discussed about possible collaborations, the use of artistic approaches and methodologies through which the relevant institutions will be influenced to solve a series of urgent problems.

Collaborators of the exhibition are: ecological society “Vila Zora”, Veles, Institute for Communication Studies Skopje, Natural History Museum of R.S. Macedonia. The project is fully financed by FOOM (Open Society Foundation – Macedonia).