A two-day international conference entitled "The First World War and Avant-Garde Art" featured 21 exhibitors from Germany, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, the United States and Croatia.
Opening the event, MSU director Snjezana Pintaric said the conference was the introduction to a series of events by which Croatia was marking the centenary of the First World War.
The conference was organised by the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde and the Marinko Sudac Collection. The event is financially supported by the Croatian Finance Ministry.