programme

A long-term programme organized in collaboration with Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

The conference, part of the EKO 8 – International Triennial of Art and Environment, will take place on 22 May 2021 online.

The international conference – prepared in collaboration with the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana – reconsiders the universal during the era of global capitalism and pandemic, and aims to rethink our common future and the presence of art in the (entire) world that is (not yet) our world. Speakers include: T. J. Demos, Boris Groys, ruangrupa, Apolonija Šušteršič, Alberto Toscano, and Alenka Zupančič.

Twenty years after Ljubljana hosted the European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta 3, we return with Šejla Kamerić, Kathrin Rhomberg, and Renata Salecl to its central theme – “borderline syndrome and energies of defence” – and look at it through the lens of today’s realities. 

November/December: different events on establishing and forming new media art in Slovenia and beyond.

This long-term programme examines architecture in regard to its heterogeneous relationship to power from different philosophical perspectives.

6 December 2018, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Participants: Clémentine Deliss, Zoran Erić, iLiana Fokianaki, Ana Janevski, Nomaduma Masilela, Cuauhtémoc Medina González, Lívia Páldi, Marjetica Potrč, Marcelo Rezende, Adam Szymczyk

Presentation of Šum #10.1 journal and a discussion on the establishment of the concept of contemporary art in Slovenia.

ICA, London, 5 June 2018, speakers: Edit András, Chandra Frank, Katya García-Antón; chaired by Juliet Steyn

ICA, London, 30 November 2017; participants: Fouad Asfour, Lina Džuverović, Sanja Iveković, Urška Jurman, Klara Kemp-Welch

Wednesday, 20 September 2017, Ljubljana; a talk with the Swedish philosopher Sven-Olov Wallenstein who is considered a key author in the philosophy of architecture.

The Architecture ≠ Art programme examines the relation between art and architecture.

8 & 9 December 2016, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Participants: Edit András, Manuel Borja-Villel, Ekaterina Degot, Okwui Enwezor, Charles Esche, Beáta Hock, Tímea Junghaus, Magdalena Radomska, Peter Weibel, and WHW

Together with the DUM Association of Artists we invite you to a series of lectures and a discussion on the questions of how we can (still) establish and preserve the autonomy and sovereignty of art in contemporary society and what that actually means.

A two-year programme to reflect on the current role and status of criticism in visual arts and culture; in collaboration with SCCA-Ljubljana.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 6 p.m., +MSUM, Maistrova 3, Ljubljana Participants: Mag. Mara...

This lecture series will prepare PhD students, researchers, and scholars for the challenges of contemporary (academic) publication practices.

Educational comic workshop for children and youth with the aim to familiarise with contemporary visual arts and the basics of comics drawing.

International conference with speakers: Keti Chukhrov, Miklavž Komelj, Ravi Sundaram, Raluca Voinea

A series of lectures on contemporary art and curatorial practices, art theory and art history; in collaboration with SCCA–Ljubljana/World of Art programme.

Presentation of the book Igor Zabel: Contemporary Art Theory & discussion: Reflections on Contemporary Art

1 & 2 October 2010, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
International symposium with: Alfred H. Barr Jr., Martin Beck, Beatrice von Bismarck, Michael Fehr, Bogdan Ghiu, Søren Grammel, Paul O'Neill, Kerstin Stakemeier, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Philip Ursprung, Jelena Vesić, Beti Žerovc