SOCRAT Final Event: Exhibition SHARED GROUNDS

The international exhibition Shared Grounds, focusing on the cross-border outcomes of the SOCRAT Creative Living Labs, officially opened in Pula on 7th of July 2026 at two locations: Archaeological Museum of Istria and Historical and Naval Museum of Istria, was organised by Region of Istria.

The exhibition presented video storytelling outcomes from all thirteen SOCRAT Creative Living Labs organised across Croatia and Italy: three laboratories held in Istria region, one laboratory in the Kvarner region, three in Zadar region, three in the Veneto Region, and three in the Puglia Region. In addition to the partner’s CLLs storytelling videos, exhibition included selected results of the three laboratories held in Region of Istria, that conceptually were unified under the curator’s concept called Shared Grounds.

At 8 p.m., the Archaeological Museum of Istria hosted the opening of an exhibition featuring Italian artist-mentors Filippo Laterza and Michele Giangrande, alongside Croatian artists, fashion designer Staša Doblanović Randall and sculptor Rino Banko, who participated in the SOCRAT Creative Living Labs dedicated to Textile and Fashion Design and Ceramics and Sculpture, held in Istria.

Later that evening, at 10 p.m., the Historical and Naval Museum of Istria located at the Pula Castle hosted the audiovisual performance Ho-Ruk! Hop-Jan!, created by Croatian authors Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz, Andrea Matošević, Miodrag Gladović and Davor Sanvincenti together with Italian mentor Michele Sambin. The work originated within the SOCRAT Creative Living Lab held in Pula in December 2025.