Art news from ‘Slovenia’

KUD MREŽA/GALERIJA ALKATRAZ: Blindfold

KUD MREŽA/GALERIJA ALKATRAZ Ljubljana, 18.11.2011 Blindfold  Ulla Karttunen 25th November  - 9th December 2011 curator: dr. Mojca Puncer Galerija Alkatraz kindly invites You to the opening of the exhibition: Blindfold by the artist Ulla Karttunen, on Friday, 25. November at 8 pm, at Alkatraz Gallery, Metelkova City. The exhibition will open Mr. Ville Cantell from the Embassy [...]

CIMAM Annual Conference in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo

CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – will hold its 2011 Annual Conference “Museums and the City” in Ljubljana and Zagreb on November 14, 15 and 16. The conference will be followed by a tour to Sarajevo. We expect an audience of around 170 museum directors and curators [...]

Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana: OPEN DAY 07

Alkatraz Gallery will be attending: Open day 07 event, held at LX Factory, Rua Rodrigues Faria 103, Lisbon, on 11th November 2011 and will present video works of the following artists: Meta Kastelic, Damijan Kracina, Tomaž Tomažin, Neven Korda and Tomaž Furlan Damijan Kracina_ photo by Sabina Tanja Zalar Curators:  Jadranka Plut & Ana Grobler [...]

Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana&Gallery SC, Zagreb: Break of Whiteness

Mirjana Batinić & Robertina Šebjanič 4. – 18. November 2011 Curators: Maja Lozić and Jadranka Plut Authors of sound: Vladimir Ilić – Lenjin 2, Mario Sammut – Cygna, Mirjana Batinić, Robertina Šebjanič Production: Alkatraz Gallery 2010 Coproduction: Gallery SC, Zagreb You are cordially invited to the discussion and opening of the exhibition Break of Whiteness [...]

29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

Kusum Normoyle, S.I.T.E (Screaming in the Everyday: Ljubljana), performance, 2011. Photo by Jaka Babnik. The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World 23 September–20 November 2011 Symposium: The Event as a Privileged Medium in the Contemporary Art World Friday, 4 November, 11 p.m.–7 p.m. Saturday, 5 November, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Location: the [...]

Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana: Cross Border Experience

If you're trapped in the dream of the other, you're fucked! an international exhibition in the framework of the Cross Border Experience conference (25.-30.10., Ljubljana) / www.crossborderexperience.org Škuc Gallery 27th – 28th of October: Thursday – Friday: 12.00 – 20.00 26th of October at 20.00: Opening of the exhibition with a lecture by Rena Rädle [...]

Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak: Sisyphus Actions

Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak have been working as an artist's cooperative since 2002. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nika Oblak graduated in painting, in 2002, and received her M.F.A. in video, in 2005. Primoz Novak graduated in sculpture, in 2002, and received his M.F.A. in sculpture, in 2006. [...]

Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana: Refuge

Erik Ruin, Away, 2010. Exhibition for the winner of the Grand Prize of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana: Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Refuge 22 September–20 November 2011 Opening: Thursday, 22 September at 9 pm Alkatraz Gallery Metelkova City Masarykova ulica 24 Ljubljana, Slovenia Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Admission is free. www.mglc-lj.si [...]

Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana: Re-made

The opening of Viktor Bernik's exhibition ˝Re-made˝in the Alkatraz Gallery Viktor Bernik / Re-made 02 September 2011 > 16 September 2011 Re-Made can be allocated amongst those works of Viktor Bernik where the content and the form are fundamentally linked to the sites in or for which they are created. The space the work-event is [...]

The 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

23 September–20 November 2011 Brody Condon, The Twentyfivefold Manifestation, 2008.  Performance at Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur.  Courtesy Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem. The art event—the central theme of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana—experienced a remarkable development in the twentieth century and today appears as a privileged medium. It is employed as a medium by a [...]