KRAK - Centre for Contemporary Culture

KRAK wants to position itself as the platform of alternative learning, collaboration and coexistence with a focus on contemporary artistic strategies and inventive cultural protocols. The name KRAK has emerged as an acronym for Kombiteks Workers' Club and is pointed at the importance of cultivating local industrial heritage and workers' culture of Yugoslav self-management socialism. KRAK was conceptualised within the Revizor Foundation for Science and Arts based in Bihać and completed in cooperation with the Administration of the City of Bihać, as the owner of the premises, and the key sponsor Open Society Foundation and its branch office in Sarajevo, Open Society Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although Bihać has several cultural premises that are all organised as public institutions, the launch of an alternative and independent space in the filed of culture represents a necessity of the city of Bihać and its urban life. KRAK would be oriented and focused on contemporary cultural practices such as visual arts, architecture, design, alternative education and ecology, with interaction with the most diverse types of citizens. The idea and motive for launching such a centre, stems for the specific political, social and cultural conditions in the country in the past two or three decades.