Marko Tadić's 'Funga Robo' Exhibition at Trotoar, Zagreb

Marko Tadić's exhibition 'Funga Robo' at Trotoar in Zagreb runs until May 23, 2026. The show presents recent works exploring speculative future cities through artistic ecologies, merging fungal mycelia and robotics. Tadić uses bricolage with found materials, including furniture, urbanistic books, journals, and 1950s-60s Zagreb photographs, to create hybrid displays combining archival and performative elements. Anthropomorphized black-and-white figures resembling paper puppets embody a collective extraterrestrial mycelium, suggesting non-invasive, decentralized spatial reorganization. The exhibition space itself becomes a hybrid zone between home and theater, bypassing conventional wall displays. Curated by Martina Marić Rodrigues, the show references curator Marco Scotini's concept of objects as spaces of new possibilities and Frederic Jameson's maxim on imagining capitalism through the end of the world. Tadić's work addresses postsocialist and post-social conditions, capitalist dismantling of shared urban assets, and environmental catastrophes like earthquakes, storms, and fires, while fostering ecological optimism and alternative visions of sustainable futures.