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Moderna galerija has long collaborated with the Department of Restoration of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana on several projects involving young future professionals, who join in the research, diagnostics,[]

Moderna galerija has long collaborated with the Department of Restoration of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana on several projects involving young future professionals, who join in the research, diagnostics,[]

How does that reflect in the visual arts? How does art confront the point where absolutely everything can be taken away from us? Not simply as physical death, but as death while still alive. One of the fundamental issues of 20th century art was how[]

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A short presentation of the program of current exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova when reopening after the quarantine.

The video documentation was edited specifically for Artemic Series presenting thoughts and interpretation of a selection of works from Moderna galerija Collection brought to you by Moderna galerija staff to their public at the time of[]

Moderna galerija is setting up a network of solidarity called “Fill Two Needs with One Deed”, aimed at two groups: artists and others in the field of culture who are ill or in the high-risk group and need help as they find themselves[]

Karol Radziszewski presents a rich selection of Central and Eastern European queer archival materials from the collection of the Queer Archives Institute (QAI). The QAI, established by Radziszewski in November 2015, is a non-profit artist-run[]

The Rojava Film Commune, a collective of filmmakers founded in 2015 and based in the autonomous region of Rojava (which means “West” and refers to the western part of Kurdistan in contemporary northern Syria), inaugurate their[]

The seemingly paradoxical abstract mixtum compositum that is prospective archaeology consists of a practice that operates in accordance with two opposing arrows of time. One of these arrows is oriented vertically into the deep time of cultures that[]

General knowledge associates the concept of transparency with glass. However, glass not only stands for transparency, but also for a lack of aura. As Walter Benjamin held in Experience and Impoverishment, “glass is at all the enemy of[]

The talk will investigate the concept of transparency in the writings of Paul Scheerbart, Sigfried Giedion, and Walter Benjamin. Transparency was debated and theorized across the intellectual field, from architecture, the visual arts, and cinema, to[]

Functionality, inventiveness and aesthetics of pure forms are only a few of the basic guidelines of the educational programme of the Bauhaus, school for architecture, art and design, which today denotes a recognisable expression – not only in[]

Prof. Edvard Ravnikar, the Head of the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of Ljubljana, introduced a new experimental design programme – the B Course – in 1960. Along with his colleagues, he wished to convey to the[]

Bauhaus: the Imperative of Transparency was critically question the interconnection of transparency and the ideas of the famous school in the fields of architecture, art and education, and in society in general. It was also elaborate on the[]

The collective performance of artists and other experts in the field of visual art from all over Slovenia who have co-shaped the national cultural program is a reference to the traditional folk dance performed in a circle. In terms of art history,[]

The tracer of the movement Mojca Dimec is re-enacting a performance for the TrueClueRocket installation. The installation was created 30 years ago by Franc Purg in the year of the fall of Berlin Wall and is now partially[]

Iza Pavlina’s artistic interventions in the porn industry do not touch only on the issues that overlap with art, such as the construction of media images and their aesthetics. She asks what real opportunities young female artists have in[]

30 Seconds for Preservation happens as a periodical routine at a certain time each day when a group of people simultaneously open all the widows of the exhibition space in order to let the air flow freely through the space - from the inside out[]

The lecture presented a body of work and situations that have been in constant logical progression since 1992, probing the margins of technology, ecological thought, autonomy, privacy and biospheric strategies. Peljhan will use the notion of[]

Drawing from the art historic and critical apparatus of American post-WWII or Cold War criticism (specifically Jack Burnham and Rosalind Kraus), this lecture addressed the consequences of systematic exclusion of the Eastern European neo-avant-garde[]

The claim to artistic autonomy in the early modern period was never absolute. Different frames – from architecture to ideology – have always surrounded artists and shaped the idea of “free expression”. The lecture looked at[]

The most common definition of the 1990s is the “transitional period”, which means that it was a time between times. In the realms of politics and art, that time was fertile for flamboyant and megalomaniac projects, which quickly collapsed[]

 In his speech, Arseny Zhilyaev talked about the generation of the first post-Soviet shuttle businessmen through the history of the labor biography of Soviet engineer Alexander Dolgov, who after the collapse of the USSR became a private[]

When the pop-musical genre called Turbo-folk emerged in Serbia in the 1990s, it provoked a number of controversies and affective antipathies and sympathies. Even though Cultural theoreticians and public intellectuals have mostly dismissed it as the[]

With the advent of the Alt-Right there’s a new subculture on the block. Some claim that the avant-garde tactic of transgression is now exclusively to be found on the right. What used to be punk in the 1980s today is alt-right. Although there[]

In the avant-garde rhetoric internalized by contemporary art, the ideas of social involvement and artistic achievement are almost identical, claiming that after art’s self-sublation such involvement is art’s principal goal. Yet despite[]

Badovinac’s contribution reflected on the specificity of the archives built by some Eastern European artists about the 1990s, especially about the wars in the Balkans, and on the question of the impact that artists’ archives have on[]

The addressee of populism is commonly defined in cultural terms as a human embodiment of a specific way of life (culture?) considered common, average or ordinary. The avant-garde art, in contrast, epitomizes precisely the opposite: the exceptional,[]

Today the Russian philosophy known as Cosmism has been largely forgotten. Its utopian tenets – combining Western Enlightenment with Eastern philosophy, Russian Orthodox traditions with Marxism – inspired many key Soviet thinkers until[]

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]

In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because we feel such wide referential fields can never be fully exhausted. The first edition[]