Melodies of Beginnings is a project, initiated and led by Andreja Rauch. The first version of the project was performed in a duet of Henry Montes...
Stegnar, I sure hope you know what you are doing! Are you ready? Have you fed your cat? Drink your last whisky, have your last cigarette, read the ver...
When mother and daughter enter the stage to act as a mother and a daughter, they step into a different kind of a relationship, which makes them fellow...
A decadence of figures, performed by Leja Jurišić and Teja Reba in the performance Sofa, illustrates the erosion of cultural and neoliberal Eu...
Murder, My Sweet happens when two fine artists do a remake of a film noir by replacing the media of the moving picture with that of a gallery venue wh...
Štefka Drolc and Iva Zupančič; two brilliant Slovene theatre and film actresses, meet in a forest of memories where they talk about their liv...
The ever faster advancement of technological development from the onset of the industrial revolution to the present day makes us re-evaluate our under...
Miya Masaoka, musician, composer and performance artist, has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembl...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is a group exhibition, borrowing its title from a 1904 revolutionary pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin. The purpose her...
Action on The Three Bridges, 20’ In the heart of Ljubljana are “The Three Bridges”; an old stone bridge built in 1...
I like to laugh. I laugh often. I am often seen laughing. Antonia Baehr was sitting at the window of her small but stylish apartment...
The Oracle performance, evocative of the communication of the sun's position in a miniscule society rarely noticed, challenges the natural vertica...
This architecturally inventive work is an unfolding of a human body attempting to make a slow, gradual, controlled fall backwards. Body and building a...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back is a group exhibition, borrowing its title from a 1904 revolutionary pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin. The purpose her...
Choreographer/theatremaker Nicole Beutler worked with the participants on basic principles that surround her work and research: the physicalisat...
Spellbound is a group exhibition of international artists whose work gazes into the understanding, experience and influences of the world through...
“Liz Aggiss stood out for a number of reasons. Her practice rejects something which seems to be an unquestioned aspect of most other dance work ...
At This Moment, when everybody walks around in T-shirts of all sorts, the co-authors of the Explosion project enjoy the streets and the...
Cassils is an artist and bodybuilder who uses their exaggerated physique to intervene in various contexts in order to interrogate systems of power and control. ...
Eight women, dressed in mermaid costumes, sit on the river bank and through dance and movements create the atmosphere of happiness. “Women ...
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, exerci dictas vivendum nec no. At eos alia iracundia, cu ridens consetetur est. Torquatos efficiantur duo no. Qui et omittam digniss...
Also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy5eB4abmk (not a video transfer from a VHS tape, but a restored version)....
The video starts with a graphic sign from which emerge images, and this procedure points to the fact that any documentary is but an artefact. The narrator searc...
“[Blanket, the Surface of Her] is truly of the moment in the way it captures the aesthetic mood of the present, particularly its high-fashi...
The Female Body and Violence placed a new book on sexual violence entitled The Courage to Heal (LA and VŠŠD, 1998) into t...
Museum of Modern Art creates a repository Network Museum as an intersection of publicly accessible archives of audiovisual documents on cont...
Thinking loudly about gender, queer and (post)feminism Moderated by Marina Gržinić (Slovenia) Guest of honour and keynote speaker: Tanja Karpela, Mi...
"In my talk entitled In the Mix: Race, Whiteness and Gender in Popular Culture, I shall discuss how we can bring together people from differ...
Endless Medication is a theatre event created in 2003 by the Flemish performance artist Marijs Boulogne in collaboration with the Wallo...
The discussion, involving the active participation of artists introduced at the 2006 City of Women Festival, was a continuation of the idea first...
This paper examines the author's experience in projects in which women should have better access to modern technology. The rigorous prejudices and...
˝Edgy Women embraces and represents the most significant qualities of the best cabaret performance… An absolute dream to watch after years of ...
The Judeo-Christian West is supposedly the “natural” realm of democracy and freedom, the Islamo-Arabic East sectarian, feudal, and “...
We are burdened with the need to control our lives, wechase opportunities anxiously afraid of missing a moment, we document our every move so the slig...
Workshop duration: 7. 10. – 9. 10. 1998 od 15:00 – 20:00 The participants of the workshop improvized a rhytmic c...
"An empty stage. A chair with a jacket hanging over it. A microphone. Through the speakers we hear a familiar announcement which we might have he...
Zeena Parkins played her score for Jean Genet’s first and only movie Un Chant d’Amour. Genet’s cult film is based upon his nove...
The New York based video-artist Janene Higgins and musician-composer Zeena Parkins (the duo travels under the resonant name of LUXBEAT) present A...
Petits arrangements avec les morts. Directed by: Pascale Ferran 1994, 35mm, col., 108 min., (French spoken, English subtitles) Everythi...
En Avoir (ou pas) Directed by: Laetitia Masson 1995, 35mm, col, 90 min. (French spoken, English subtitles) Laetitia Masson is one of th...
Parfait Amour Directed by: Catherine Breillat 1995, 35mm, col., 113 min. (French spoken, English subtitles) Frédérique, d...
In April 1998 the International Festival Films de Femmes celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Since its beginning, back in 1978, the festival’s...
“These watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling, and sometimes gestating and gentle, must somehow be felt in th...
Transylvania is not gloomy vampire country, but an important European traditional music treasury, visited by folk roots, pilgrim collectors and musici...
“EPI PHA NIC is a series of 7 performances inspired by a 500-year-old human child, with sun-tanned, parchment skin and feather-adornments, who b...
During the festival, Dr. Keka provided preventive and curative interventions as well as treatment of minor dental-health ailments suffered b...
Kaffe’s accomplice at the City of Women gig is musician/composer Stevie Wishart. As a musicologist Wishart has explored and researched archaic m...
British director and playwright Anna Furse is the author of over forty performances. Her creativity has been strongly influenced by collaboration with...
In Italy in 1980 a series of reflections on sexuality and identity created a seminal network embracing several individuals and groups who propose thei...
Performance art and body art: both are in once again. An appropriate moment to look back at the emergence of performance art. A look back to better se...
Lesbian ConneXion/s is the first large-scale photo-exhibition in Europe on the theme of lesbian visibility. Sixty photographers from fifteen coun...
Nomadism’ is anotion borrowed from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (whose work, with that of feminist philosopher Luce ...
If someone in Slovenia says to you,”You are a feminist” the chances are quite great that they did not mean it as a compliment. To be calle...
Burlesque sells like hot cakes these days, well actually like warmed-up cakes with whole new flavours. It can be found in its simplest form, in partic...
»When I talk about it, I can’s sleep at night. But I want to tell. It has to be known. When we are gone, nobody will know what it was like...
All people are equal! On the basis of reality - and the ultimately ridiculous vacuity of this slogan - Stacy Makishi, the Hawaiian-born British m...
Kevin se zajebava! Sarkastično trga, razglaša in secira. Seka zvoke, rime, jih znova sestavlja, meša v nepredvidljivih zaporedjih. Paro...
»The theatre of repetition is opposed to the theatre of representation, just as movement is opposed to the concept and to representation which r...
The international animation film festival Animateka has since 2005 prepared a programme of educational animated film entitled Elephant aimed at childr...
Klatch & Trash will use various elements, such as the spoken word, tape recorders, music and video, to create monologues split into the voices of&...
Betti Forde and Jenni Craige are both into rhyme spitting, and with these two what you hear is what you get. Their names are porn nickn...
Pink for a girl and blue for a boy? This is what they said even before we were born. And afterwards girls were good and boys were naughty, whereas par...
Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece entitled I, Victim. premiered on the 13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of...
The environment of professional morning dance classes at Ljubljana Dance Theatre was the stage for television screens which presented a series of...
Lady Gaby has prepared a public literary per formance entitled Ambitions of a Young Woman especially for the City of Women. Her poetr y deals wit...
The NomadSPACE truck-gallery drove to Ljubljana from Bratislava; hidden within are artworks on the subject of humour. ...
The NomadSPACE truck-gallery drove to Ljubljana from Bratislava; hidden within are artworks on the subject of humour. ...
Hanka Paldum, the Bosnian singer who back in the Yugoslavia of the 1980s skyrocketed to stardom, is still shining – and with a new vigour! In th...
Humour Works is an international curatorial and artistic project which elucidates the positive and negative consequences of precarious – uncerta...
Within cinema, women look at the world from the perspectives of their own lives, experiences, happiness and sadness; but they can always f ind a way t...
The great saxophonist John Coltrane left behind two (spiritual) possibilities as to engagement in research and placement of world music. The...
The point is capital accumulation, not food, claims Donna Haraway and continues that the organism has been translated into problems of genetic coding ...
Lizzy is a »foxy« lesbian who crushes all lesbian stereotypes; she speaks her mind and directly readdresses lesbian sexuality. Throug...
Serious music and humour? Clare Cooper, a harpist from Sydney, Australia, combines the seemingly incompatible with a fair degree of hum...
Alexis O’Hara has developed a cabaret show entitled Limbic Transit System especially for the City of Women festival. It could just as well ...
The selection was made from amongst the artivist videos produced by groups and initiatives, such as Girlswholikeporno (sex work), ...
As a guest of the COWeb platform – City of Women Goes Web – Régine Debatty wrote a blog and held a lecture aimed at COWeb grou...
In her work, a series of photographs entitled The Reinvention of Hysteria: Iconography from the Salpêtrière Hospital (work in progress),&...
Lady Gaby has prepared a public literary per formance entitled Ambitions of a Young Woman especially for the City of Women. H...
Subtype: Single-channel video installation, expanded with objects. Edition: 5 + 2 AP. On this web-location: AP on loan for Web Museum One inevit...
One inevitable side effect of the process of globalisation and standardisation in Europe seems to be the assimilation and disappearance of certain loc...
Burlesque sells like hot cakes these days, well actually like warmed-up cakes with whole new flavours. It can be found in its simplest form, in partic...
When mother and daughter enter the stage to act as a mother and a daughter, they step into a different kind of a relationship, which makes them fellow...
Late-night television talk-show host David Letterman belts out a large hearty laugh; and a big part of the reason you smile while watching his show is...
Slovenia, 2007, DVD, 56’; in Slovene and Serbian, English subtitling) The amateur film Brut Figures – a film on homeless wome...
Based on her own experience as an artist lacking in formal education, Jana Prepeluh was – via a shoe cleaning street action entitled&n...
The artist drew inspiration for 130 Metres – her second appearance at the City of Women festival – from the ignition of a »beautiful...
cabaret-circus-workshop for performance artists and amateurs The Australian Company Finucane & Smith create intimate theatr...
The objective of the workshop, aimed at parents and children from the age of 6 upwards, was the creation of an installation with fireworks. At the wor...
Stand up and spit it out! The stand-up comedy of Ptuj-based Martina Ipša is not the mere cracking of unrelated jokes, but rather the ...
Hanka Paldum, the Bosnian singer who back in the Yugoslavia of the 1980s skyrocketed to stardom, is still shining – and with a new vigour! In th...
Performed on just two square metres, Access All Areas is an electrifying piece, exploring claustrophobia, anxiety and pressure in relation to ever-mor...
Although comics are inseparably related to the innumerable deceptive faces of humour, they are more about parodied and satiric (mocking) laughter, and usually...
Love Song Dedication is a deliberated and honest tribute to love. It works as an eruptive three-part sonata comprised of a series of improvised struct...
In this »speed-up« workshop, Alexis O’Hara guided participants in the direction and active production of unusual sounds, e...
Kamilya Jubran, born 1963 in Aka, spent her childhood years in the Palestinian village of Al-Rameh. At a very young age, she began studying traditiona...
The installation artist Milijana Babić has embarked on a search for a conceptual home, not a physical place, but an ideal one based on her ...
Belgium, France, Luxembourg; 2002; 35 mm; colour; 85' A Piece of Sky is a story about the dignity of two women, dignity that not...
If the limitations of my language are the limitations of my world, then the infinitude of my dialect is the infinitude of my space. And if, just a few...
In this robbers' cave lives Krawallmädchen with her heap of old synthesisers and toys. The beeps, squeals and racket of her junk ar...
Meta Krese's photographs appear in pairs. Stacked shelves in shoe stores on one side and, on the other, an empty factory hall that has become...
Singer is an interactive artistic installation that includes sewing machines, audio and video. The project is accompanied by the publication ...
A virus is an unfamiliar code wrapped in a familiar form. It spreads successfully through the body because the body mistakes it for one of its own. Th...
They say the Slovene national identity developed through the Slovene language and its literature. No surprise, then, that, over the long years of Slov...
Miriam Palma, born November 20, 1964, in the village of San Stefano Quisquina near Agrigento, Sicily, has been expressing her personal vision of the w...
A virus is an unfamiliar code wrapped in a familiar form. It spreads successfully through the body because the body mistakes it for one of its own. Th...
Bénédicte Liénard's film Une Part du Ciel ends with the protagonist saying "You just have to resiste.&quo...
One inevitable side effect of the process of globalisation and standardisation in Europe seems to be the assimilation and disappearance of certain loc...
Swim: An Exercise in Remote Intimacy is a stage work that combines elements of performance and Internet technology in order to connect its geogra...
The novel Ice Magnolia by Marjana Moškrič (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2002) tells the story of a girl's comi...
Croatia, 2002; beta, colour; 58' Sanja Iveković filmed 20 hours of material for her documentary, just under an hour long, which presents ...
"A Twopence of Imagination" team: Nataša Bivic, Alenka Veler, Petra Slatinšek, Pavel Koltaj It started as an expe...
A virus is an unfamiliar code wrapped in a familiar form. It spreads successfully through the body because the body mistakes it for one of its own. Th...
The show originated from a variety of different techniques used in theatre-situation comedy, burlesque, circus, improvisation, elements of street thea...
In content and motif the performance of this young and promising choreographer draws on different imaginative powers – human, animalistic, and mythologica...
The central concept of the international symposium and of the video/film screenings is to share visions on art and media, post-politics, post-modernism, post-so...
Transsexualism is usually viewed in two very distinct matters: a) as a highly intellectual issue of ''gender sublimation'' that quotes the cults...
'El-en-i' is a performance in which Tabar inserts a catheter into his heart until it starts to fibrillate, which proves that a tiny line between life an...
Interactive mechatronic performance. One performer is wearing a dreskeleton (an exoskeletal body interface), narrating a myth accompanied by four musical r...
Battaile's The Solar Anus: ''The Solar Anus is the intact anus of a woman's body at the age of eighteen to which nothing sufficiantly blinding c...
Battaile's The Solar Anus: ''The Solar Anus is the intact anus of a woman's body at the age of eighteen to which nothing sufficiantly blinding c...
Shulgin initiated his project Cyberpunk Rock. 386 DX in 1998. According to his words, this is "the world's first cyberpunk rock ban...
Weavers is a display of four individual exhibits – situations presented in a sequence of four stories. Each of the four moves before the viewer; each has ...
"Onone came into being inspired by a dream." (Alicja Zebrowska) With her eyes closed, Alicja Zebrowska had a glimpse ...
Austria/GB, 1998, 16mm, colour, 94' "A split personality cyborg of fluid gender zooms through time to collect (former, present, ...
In whose dreams of the future is the future female? The future is always an idea: be it a futuristic projection, a dystopian or utopian fantasy, a gra...
"As a child I often wondered whether there truly is a benevolent God who sees everything, and how he manages to do that, how does he not forget anything: n...
Austria, 2003, 35mm, colour, 74' The first words heard in the film are: "I feel a yearning to die..." On the next...
In the interactive performance of Blood is Sweeter Than Honey, the body of the performer is divided as with a butcher. Each of the eleven pieces of meat is dedi...
Apokalipsa Reading: Apokalipsa journal in collaboration with Drustvo SKUC hosted roughly 20 women poets and writers. In addition, ...
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In the Caprice (Re)lapse performance, the dancer surrenders her own expression to the record of memory which – although forgotten – has be...
A performance inspired by the extraordinary life and talent of the Slovenian sculptress Karla Bulovec. In the name of art, her extremely bohemian life with husb...
A performance inspired by the extraordinary life and talent of the Slovenian sculptress Karla Bulovec. In the name of art, her extremely bohemian life with husb...
A performance inspired by the extraordinary life and talent of the Slovenian sculptress Karla Bulovec. In the name of art, her extremely bohemian life with husb...
Upon a special jubilee and utterly festive anniversary of the City of Women, this year’s celebration is also joined by Image Snatchers, which will seduce ...
In the framework of the Via Negativa projects (Starting Point: Anger [Izhodiščna točka: Jeza], More [Še], Would Would Not [Bi ne bi], Viva Verdi...
Tuesday is somewhere in between; it’s not Monday which is cranky, nor Wednesday that is in the middle, or Thursday which anticipates the weekend. In my vi...
“Man is only an experiment, opposed by time, inevitability, fate and a stupid, constantly growing stronger prerogative of numbers. Humanity will kill man....
Performance for four projectors, a bicycle and a performer. The First Law of B.K. (Barbara Kukovec) is derived directly from the first law o...
What children of hate are being fed in this challenging performance? There is no doubt that this aims to reflect on the phenomenon of the war crimes of Yugoslav...
The work represents a collective game of building card towers. Apart from being just a game, the tower of cards is also an expression, meaning structure or argu...
Štefka Drolc and Iva Zupančič; two brilliant Slovene theatre and film actresses, meet in a forest of memories where they talk about their lives. They g...
The project problematizes the low presence and representation of women in public spaces. It derives from a simple question: if the Slovenian capital has as many...
Freedom is a violent project breaking away, with the constant risk of falling back under the sway of a power as securing as it is stifling. Freedom is...
“Why? I do it for the sake of my father. Who is he? An engineer at Litostroj who retired when I was 13. A member of the Communist Party of Yugos...
Body of the Voice continues the exploration of the space between voice, move, gesture and body. This solo performance is simultaneously the conti...
Genesis is weaved from the dreams of the five performers. The world of GENESIS comes into being first as a dream, then as an embodied image and form. Every mome...
Calypso is not from Homer, yet it is – the same as the immortal nymph Calypso – from a solitary land of shadows. It draws strength from the blacknes...
Story-telling does not necessarily imply words. We all know that you can often tell by someone’s expression or gestures much more than words can express. ...
Maja Delak’s eleventh performance is the first production by the newly founded Emanat (Emanat Institute). A dance piece based on the pleasure of the physi...
Screech Orchestra is music, song, and dance. Screech Orchestra, when asked “Is this possible?”, answers “Yes, it is impossible.” Scree...
In content and motif the performance of this young and promising choreographer draws on different imaginative powers – human, animalistic, and mythologica...
The actress enacts her own death as a deeply intimate and extremely theatrical sensation all at the same time. Drop Dead is a play in which we all must act-out ...
The actress enacts her own death as a deeply intimate and extremely theatrical sensation all at the same time. Drop Dead is a play in which we all must act-out ...
What children of hate are being fed in this challenging performance? There is no doubt that this aims to reflect on the phenomenon of the war crimes of Yugoslav...
Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece entitled I, Victim. premiered in the context of the 13th City of Women Festival in 2007. The autobiog...
The project problematizes the low presence and representation of women in public spaces. It derives from a simple question: if the Slovenian capital has as many...
The project problematizes the low presence and representation of women in public spaces. It derives from a simple question: if the Slovenian capital has as many...
For years, the City of Women Festival and Emanat have successfully collaborated in the organisation of various workshops, and one of more notable has to do with...
For years, the City of Women Festival and Emanat have successfully collaborated in the organisation of various workshops, and one of more notable has to do with...
“Matilda is a woman; at least, she usually looks like one. She is not an artist; however, she does find inspiration in ordinary things, like bananas and m...
In his minimalist installations of the last two years, Anže Sever’s focus has been on visible reality and the hidden potentials of space, which he explor...
Arjan Pregl's artistic practice expands into social space, making use of and critically reflecting (on) various available media. Taking into consideration h...
Meta Grgurevič deals with questions of intimacy; cleansed elements of everyday life, traces of history and memory, playfulness of figures, enhanced triviality ...
A look through a lens of ice: the distorted world reflects a vague, glimmering surface peopled with twisted forms offering momentary glimpses of the viewer&rsqu...
Potočnik's banal direct realism attempts to present something spectacular or overlooked for the viewer to re-evaluate it. The choice of motives is dic...
In Pavilion, Peter Rauch continues to follow the method developed in his series Objects and Community, basing his approach on his understand...
In Piscis ludicrous / Transfixed Gaze (Lygophilia) she showcases a non-human-subject, the Mexican salamander known as axolotl – one of many non-furry frie...
Choreographic statements are part of the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive’s exhibition programme hosted by +MSUM's Draught Series. Documentat...
The works at the Triple Section exhibition connect urban situations in Brborović's two cities of residence. Though the works form parts of differ...
In recent years we have seen the emergence of urban community gardens, which are more than just about gardening, they are also a form of self-organizing and sel...
Primož Bizjak explores local histories, borders, and symbolic boundaries. His interest focuses on space and architecture as they relate to society and the time...
Sanela Jahić is an intermedia artist who constructs visual and technologically supported kinetic objects and installations. Through technological tools, she pr...
The Green Drawings is a project that uses the logic of free market capitalism to limit the total amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosph...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
Guided tours were offering reflections on the forming of the Slovenian contemporary dance and performance scene, on how certain things exist as echoes, at ...
The performance is a part of the opening program of Sites of Sustainability. Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts exhibition. The Kiki...
The lecture was a part of the opening program of Sites of Sustainability. Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts exhibition. The present...
A workshop with migrants led by the artist Ibro Hasanović at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova from 1 to 5 October 2018 resulted in clay sculptures...
In today’s Europe, arts institutions have to recognise their role in creating and maintaining sheltering structures for artists and students to meet, exch...
Although contemporary art frequently describes the future as dystopian, there are many art projects that do not describe time, but merge with it, last in it, de...
The conference focuses on the concept of contemporary art, especially on the question of how much it is able to shape ideas for the future. If modernism was to ...
A few key interpretations of the concept of contemporaneity were in Socialist Yugoslavia considered as formative for the construction of the model of self-manag...
The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges the exceptional achievements of cultural protagonists whose work supports, develops or investigates vis...
How can ideas of the incomplete and strange serve to think through contemporary art, its temporality and narratives? What is the place of intimacy and scale in ...
This paper departs from the experience of the current Shanghai Biennale to make an apology of biennial art and globalized art, in relation to the way they repre...
The Soweto Project: Socially engaged practice in a real-world situation creates a new vocabulary centred on people. Participatory practice in action to construc...
Globalism-“fin-de-siècle”-global museum-global discourse-global art? Did it happen this way, the promise of the brighter days to come? Howeve...
We can imagine a multitude of communal futures and pluriversal knowledge, instead of thinking in singular – however progressively glob...
Fokianaki will explore how institutional and curatorial practices respond to the current economic and socio-political shifts in the West as well as the shift of...
The artists are loudly declaring two consistent questions: "Was ist Kitsch? Was ist Kunst?" as a statement, aimed at the institutional critique of art...
Between 1999 and 2009, each Monday at 9 pm Aljoša Kolenz held a lecture seminar discussing a number of topics from the field of psychoanalysis with ...
On such varied topics as political representatives, the labor force, or the national basketball team, the public discourse in Slovenia is seeing a resurgent emp...
The fashion show was an event that exposed clothes worn by newborns, dead, warriors, suicides, fetishists and clothes that protect us during carrying out tasks ...
This is a period in which hype, accompanied by virtual reality and cyber space with its computer mediated communications, is undeniably over. Despite ideologica...
Goran Bertok conceived a sadomasochistic performance Flesh of a Slave, in which a man with a mask was tormented by a woman dressed as a nun piercing a...
Pumping the blue liquid out of his stomach... Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an a...
Pumping the blue liquid out of his stomach... Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an a...
It would be hard to have seen Mary Duffy's performance Stories of My Body and not be affected in some significant way. A performance which challenges your e...
It would be hard to have seen Mary Duffy's performance Stories of My Body and not be affected in some significant way. A performance which challenges your e...
Arcus Interruptus', which premiers at Robotronika, incorporates two seemingly disparate elements that combine to create an electro-mechanical interactive en...
Wine drops oozing on pale skin, they enhance pleasures that attract others, multiplied ......
Pain, torment, mutilated body are elements present in the art of Norwegian fakir and artist Håvve Fjell, where pain functions as a form of transfer. ...
Pain, torment, mutilated body are elements present in the art of Norwegian fakir and artist Håvve Fjell, where pain functions as a form of transfer. ...
Between 1999 and 2009, each Monday at 9 pm Aljoša Kolenz held a lecture seminar discussing a number of topics from the field of psychoanalysis with ...
Series of events which in their own way put into question the idea of beauty. Basically, it’s about meals, for example, suppers, made of human tissue whic...
The opening day of the third week began with the performance "Mach es jetzt" of Elena Kovylina which deals with death by hanging. __...
In performance, the artist exhibits his "butoh" white body, hung in convoluted poses. At first glance, the body is under control but actually, it...
Break21, the 6th international festival of emerging artists, was entitled Dead or Alive. The apocalyptic tone of the syntagm Dead or Alive involves the staging ...
The body connected to electronic devices turns into an instrument revealing a fanatic aria, which is an ode to the power of life. The performance took place on ...
The fashion show was an event that exposed clothes worn by newborns, dead, warriors, suicides, fetishists and clothes that protect us during carrying out tasks ...
The fashion show was an event that exposed clothes worn by newborns, dead, warriors, suicides, fetishists and clothes that protect us during carrying out tasks ...
Pain, torment, mutilated body are elements present in the art of Norwegian fakir and artist Håvve Fjell, where pain functions as a form of transfer. ...
Between 1999 and 2009, each Monday at 9 pm Aljoša Kolenz held a lecture seminar discussing a number of topics from the field of psychoanalysis with ...
The central concept of the international symposium and of the video/film screenings is to share visions on art and media, post-politics, post-modernism, post-so...
‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ (Leviticus 19: 27–28) ...
The Girl from Nowhere, a solo work by live artist/theatre maker Marisa Carnesky, explores women and displacement, otherness, ethnicity, cultural belonging, sexu...
Assuming the likeness of a catwalk show, but with his body naked, abject, monochromatic and bleeding, Franko B plays with the worlds of fashion and art whilst c...
In the interactive performance of Blood is Sweeter Than Honey, the body of the performer is divided as with a butcher. Each of the eleven pieces of meat is dedi...
The central concept of the international symposium and of the video/film screenings is to share visions on art and media, post-politics, post-modernism, post-so...
The artist deals with opening up the body and includes rituals of marking the body and bloodletting. Her works recognise the meaning of the body but at the same...
The artist deals with opening up the body and includes rituals of marking the body and bloodletting. Her works recognise the meaning of the body but at the same...
The opening day of the third week began with the performance "Mach es jetzt" of Elena Kovylina which deals with death by hanging. __...
‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ (Leviticus 19: 27–28) ...
Say Cheese is artist Oreet Ashery's series of experimental, process-based interactions with her alter-ego Marcus Fisher that took place in 7 bedrooms across...
Introductions: Katja Mahnič (Head of the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana); Urška Jurman (Program Director of t...
A selection of net-art was presented in the context of Break21: Dead or Alive festival: http://www.jimpunk.com/www/m.org.ue/ http://www.mouchette.org...
‘Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.’ (Leviticus 19: 27–28) ...
Notice: The documentation contains technical damage to original video materials....
Break21, the 6th international festival of emerging artists, was entitled Dead or Alive. The apocalyptic tone of the syntagm Dead or Alive involves the staging ...
Notice: The second part of the lecture performance is not published for acute damage to original video materials. ...
In Ljubljana castle, Oliver Kunkel displayed a glass box resembling an induction chamber or glove box, with a sealed opening that participants could stick ...
In the performance with subtitle Fingernail Tabar problematises the effect of otherwise completely legitimate, the majority decision of Slovenian citizens, that...
In the performance with subtitle Fingernail Tabar problematises the effect of otherwise completely legitimate, the majority decision of Slovenian citizens, that...
Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his ar...
The exhibition took place in two spaces, in the Gallery itself was the presentation of the paint and drawing bots and in a temporary exhibition space, a former ...
Recoil was inspired by dense urban environments and the micro-spaces people occupy during daily travel. Small, powerful magnets are incorporated into everyday c...
Acceptio corpus alieni is a medical term for denoting a successful proliferation of donor tissue or organ into the body of the host. Performance Acceptio belong...
Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his ar...
In the performance with subtitle Fingernail Tabar problematises the effect of otherwise completely legitimate, the majority decision of Slovenian citizens, that...
Pumping the blue liquid out of his stomach... Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an a...
Acceptio corpus alieni is a medical term for denoting a successful proliferation of donor tissue or organ into the body of the host. Performance Acceptio belong...
Notice: First part of the film is missing. The archive only has a short fragment from the last part of the film. Demokino is a virtual parliament t...
Demokino is a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, parado...
Demokino is a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, parado...
Demokino is a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, parado...
Demokino is a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters (participants) with the opportunity to decide on issues that are, parado...
Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his ar...
Autoinducer_Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry) exploits a traditional rice cultivation technique from SE Asia where Azolla is grown in large quantities and used as...
Autoinducer_Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry) exploits a traditional rice cultivation technique from SE Asia where Azolla is grown in large quantities and used as...
Sound intervention Error Trash v.1.3 continues experimentations of the 'Parallel Error Data 1.1' project where the process is focused on questions relat...
The two performers are connected to the instruments’ electronic network. They can produce sound by approaching each other and further, by establishing any...
In the individual development phases of the project Robot Partner, we strive to explore the basics of and the relationships in the partnership between man, othe...
Irena Tomažin's project is a 'one woman band' performance for “voice and two sound recorders in which she is weaving a story through the prim...
The project In Vitro and Transspecies is a complex continuation of the project Hair. It presents possibilities of biotechnology. With contemporary ...
A solo performance including sound, video, video motion capture, text and body positions, dealing with bodies, machines, and everything in-between....
Electromagnetic waves from space in the frequency 10.95 – 11.7 GHz are captured with a radio receiver and computer interface, and translated into signals ...
Arcus Interruptus', which premiers at Robotronika, incorporates two seemingly disparate elements that combine to create an electro-mechanical interactive en...
Battaile's The Solar Anus: ''The Solar Anus is the intact anus of a woman's body at the age of eighteen to which nothing sufficiantly blinding c...
Goran Bertok conceived a sadomasochistic performance Flesh of a Slave, in which a man with a mask was tormented by a woman dressed as a nun piercing a...
It would be hard to have seen Mary Duffy's performance Stories of My Body and not be affected in some significant way. A performance which challenges your e...
John did something which is a worse taboo than incest. He copulated with a corpse and later underwent a vasectomy as part of this action. Ultimate! When, w...
The performance researched the social status of Slovenian women art scene with the help of stimulation and arousal of a naked male participant. The male as a me...
'Epizoo' takes up one of the old themes of Body Art - the exposure of the artist's body - while adapting it to the new possibilities opened up by cu...
Interactive mechatronic performance. One performer is wearing a dreskeleton (an exoskeletal body interface), narrating a myth accompanied by four musical r...
Stephen J. Shanabrook presents two series of chocolate casts: casts of individual parts of violently murdered people stacked in a candy bar collection and ...
A system has been developed for the actuation of a body. A touch - screen interface to a multiple muscle stimulator allows the body's movements to be progra...
Transsexualism is usually viewed in two very distinct matters: a) as a highly intellectual issue of ''gender sublimation'' that quotes the cults...
Ive Tabar developed his artistic language (idiolect) in a truly unique way. Considering that he does not have an academic background, it can be said that his ar...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they be...
The point of departure will be the work of the Slovene-American writer Louis Adamič, whose 120th anniversary of birth was celebrated this year; the Sophia publ...
the lovest, revisited is a short documentary film (25 min), about JAŠA’s project entitled the lovest, a durational situational installation, a work...
Moderna galerija has a long-term relationship with the Livada elementary school, the school with the highest percent of non-Slovene pupils in the country. The t...
Nika Ham’s creative practice presents the special relation between her artistic work and her “day job”. Her creative impulse stems from her sp...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
The public perception of Bela krajina has been marked by the wire on the border, a subject of far more debates than the economic and social issues that this cut...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
The international exhibition of the visual arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, this year's main event in Moderna galerija, provides an overview of painting, ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
During the duration of Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia exhibition that posed the question of "What is the status of painting ...
In NATURE? I have only modified the pattern of one wing of Bicyclus and Heliconius butterflies. As a consequence, all these butterflies have simultaneously one ...
The robot for the materially deprived is constructed entirely from old computer hardware and a few spare parts that can be obtained at no cost. Computers are no...
Mat Fraser je multidisciplinarni performer, ki tematizira svoje omejeno telo v družbi, ki sovraži telesno nepopolnost. Z ignoriranjem laži politične korektn...
Notice: During the performance, there were technical difficulties. One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart is an unusual modern dance duet ...
The performance was a part of international festival 'Extravagant Bodies' (12 — 15 December 2007, Studentski centar, Zagreb) in pro...
Kapelica Gallery and Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška present superstar disco-noise-pop group MAYWA DENKI, featuring three human performers and...
Kapelica Gallery and Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška present superstar disco-noise-pop group MAYWA DENKI, featuring three human performers and...
Kapelica Gallery and Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška present superstar disco-noise-pop group MAYWA DENKI, featuring three human performers and...
Notice: Severely damaged sound and video on original miniDV tape. Kapelica Gallery and Centre for Urban Culture Kino Šiška present su...
Radioactive materials, their properties, and effects are one of the most tabooised fields of science and technology, and beset by entrenched opinions. The mix o...
Radioactive materials, their properties, and effects are one of the most tabooised fields of science and technology, and beset by entrenched opinions. The mix o...
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
Schizogram works through real-time cinematic abuse of analogue and digital technology. Interconnected AV equipment becomes sensitive, it is pushed to function i...
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
Radioactive materials, their properties, and effects are one of the most tabooised fields of science and technology, and beset by entrenched opinions. The mix o...
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz. Sound intervention Error Trash v.1.3 continues e...
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz....
The Arsenal DEPO programme is published on radioCona that was broadcasting the events on 88.8 MHz. In September 2008 Gallery Kapelica put together ...
The sound performance draws on the tradition of investigation in the field of experimental techno media associated with the production and distribution of sound...
With its technological concept, the performance sets itself apart from classic practices in audiovisual composition, as it intervenes in the field of technology...
In the performance, Ana speaks out and write down the names and surnames of 126 female artists which she has learned by heart by a predefined order. The number ...
In the performance, Ana speaks out and write down the names and surnames of 126 female artists which she has learned by heart by a predefined order. The number ...
“Ron Athey’s asshole has its own place in the history of contemporary performance art... His body is both shown to be holy (inspired by a divine som...
“Ron Athey’s asshole has its own place in the history of contemporary performance art... His body is both shown to be holy (inspired by a divine som...
The performance of Taja Ivančič resembles the stroke of a brush on the canvas of life. This gesture envelopes a woman, wife, mother, painter, lover, caretaker...
Paul Vanouse is an artist who uses molecular biology techniques as his toolkit. He posits that the DNA image is the most culturally authoritative artifact of ou...
Notice: The recording is damaged in the first 9 minutes. ...
Notice: The recording has acute damage to sound and video. Pumping the blue liquid out of his stomach... Ive Tabar developed his artistic language ...
Participating speakers: Aleksander Bassin (curator and art critic), Andreja Hribernik (exhibitions between 1965 and 1985 at the Art Pavilion Slovenj Gradec), Te...
Technical notice: The video has no sound. Wine drops oozing on pale skin, they enhance pleasures that attract others, multiplied ......
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
In the new edition of the Glossary of Common Knowledge (2018-2022) Geopolitics referential field is repeating from the previous edition (2013-2018) because...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
The conference was dedicated to the question of how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment movement (NAM) in light of the current global ge...
ELECTRIC INDIGO (Austria) “To call Electric Indigo the most important woman in the Austrian electronic scene would be an insult,&...
Nirmal Puwar's lecture Space Invaders looks at the 'arrival' of women and racialised minorities in spaces from which they have been histor...
Austria, 2003, 35mm, colour, 120' A butterfly flaps its wings and, according to Edward Lorenz's theory of chaos, it trigg...
Accompanied by one musician, Hasija Borić tackles the slippery terrain with great skill, a terrain over which more ink than blood has been shed, and sti...
"Five years after the birth of my feminist consciousness, I still have to question every assumption, every reaction I have in order to examine th...
"Onone came into being inspired by a dream." (Alicja Zebrowska) With her eyes closed, Alicja Zebrowska had a glimpse of Onone &...
Where do we/you work – in a kitchen, factory, shop, studio, office, on a spaceship, stage, or in a feminist festival? How do we work, for whom a...
S.O.S. EXTRATERRESTRIA Mara Mattuschka, Austria, short film, 1993, 35mm, bw, 10' "The world as a plaything for a gi...
Goran Bertok conceived a sadomasochistic performance Flesh of a Slave, in which a man with a mask was tormented by a woman dressed as a nun piercing a...
"It's heavy content made to fit a lightweight form. It's rock + roll. It's foreign and a bit Berlin." (Eddie Ladd) ...
Electricity and dance have a common history. The legendary American dancer Loie Fuller was the incarnation of the fascination with electricity in the ...
The Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Mara Mattuschka, who was born in 1959 in Bulgaria, and at the age of 17, as a mathematical wizard, chose Austr...
One audio performance Echoes of Things Heard + Performing Q&A – or how does your 'kitchen of life' work? – a.k.a. CIK...
A social-philosophical jewel from Belgrade. Anti-sexist poems for special occasions, written by 'two beauties' with 'brains' and '...
The magical voice of a singer who concluded the tenth year's festival resonated from several Slovenian stages in 1994 as part of the then nom...
Anita Ponton’s work is interdisciplinary, combining installation, sound and film. It has references to film and theatre as regards its visu...
Oni and Pikacyu’s first works were self-released in the self-organised manner of the hyper-productive Japanese underground, which has its origin...
Always Love Your Man (Ama l’Uomo Tuo, Cara DeVito, 1975) is a portrait of the director’s grandmother and a telling critique of a patriarch...
Christen Clifford is a true American avant-gardist, a woman of candour and wit. Hailing from the grey working-class city of Buffalo in upstate New Yor...
This project could be called April: patiently waiting under snow, developing roots beneath a hardened crust before finally breaking through. I...
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANSWERS WE FIND WITH OUR PUSSIES On the occasion of the publication of Libidoc: Journeys in the Performance of Se...
The isolated figure of the lone female is central to Anita Ponton’s live performances that address such issues as violence, power and silence. ...
In Unspool (12’), the performer gradually emerges from underneath a heap of unspooled film in front of the screen, eventually returning to her o...
Aurélie Levaux lead a furniture decoration art workshop which took place each day between 10 am and 2 pm from 10th to 13th Octob...
The project Chairs for Nursing Mothers is somewhat a continuation of the 2005 project entitled Textiles to Enrich the World of Sick Children (items pr...
Belgium, 2003,11’ We watch yet another dream – at first sight more appealing but underneath no less essential and bloody &nda...
Talk with Shelbatra Jashari after the round table Life, Community and (Conditions for) Work. ...
Christen Clifford is a true American avant-gardist, a woman of candour and wit. Hailing from the grey working-class city of Buffalo in upstate Ne...
Avanti popolo is a sound installation which resonates patriotic songs from all over the world, as well as the anthems of various political regime...
This project could be called April: patiently waiting under snow, developing roots beneath a hardened crust before finally breaking through. It could ...
PPF – Podjetje za proizvodnjo fikcije (Company for the Production of Fiction) was an alternative female theatre group established in 1983 by Nev...
"My short and quiet life as a woman is to end in a noisy death and questions I never managed to answer: Is this a heroic act that ends with my su...
Women in European History From the Middle Ages to the Present Day Gisela Bock describes the political, social, cultural and legal...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archive...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archive...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archive...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archive...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archive...
The same as at the dawn of capitalism, today’s expansion of capitalist relations as well is also accompanied by an escalation of violence agains...
The exhibition was based on the documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently l...
The exhibition was based on the documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently l...
The exhibition was based on the documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently l...
The process of economic globalization has deeply transformed the organization of female labor, both in and outside of the home, as well as the directi...
How to reconnect feminist and anticapitalist critique? Husanović's critique of gender mainstreaming suggests ways to resist the neol...
Car Deconstruction has very simple premises. At the workshop/performance, the artist and a group of inquisitive girls disassemble a car. They not only lear...
Car Deconstruction has very simple premises. At the workshop/performance, the artist and a group of inquisitive girls disassemble a car. They not...
In performance, the artist exhibits his "butoh" white body, hung in convoluted poses. At first glance, the body is under control but actually, it...
Break21, the 6th international festival of emerging artists, was entitled Dead or Alive. The apocalyptic tone of the syntagm Dead or Alive involves the staging ...
With special isotypes created by artist Andreas Siekmann, Ask! (Actie Schone Kunsten) has organized various reverse graffiti actions in Utrecht w...
In his lecture "Inducing the Sublime: A Neurobilogoical Approach to Mystical and Ecstatic Experience" Stuart Swezey lectured about the ...
Silvia Federici gave a statement about her lecture in Slovenska Kinoteka, which she had on the 5th of October, 2014, titled The Return of Primiti...
Anat Ben-David is best described as a pop video performance artist. Originally trained as a visual and performance artist, she has developed from...
Say Cheese is artist Oreet Ashery's series of experimental, process-based interactions with her alter-ego Marcus Fisher that took place in 7 bedrooms across...
Jocelyn Pook is a composer who writes scores for concert, film, theatre and dance with the same apparent ease. She sculpted her classical musical...
"In my performances I assume various iconic personae, creatures who are always situated as trapped, or on the edge of breaking down. They are not...
A dedicated South African artist, Robyn Orlin has transformed choreography and performance art in her country, revealing and stigmatising it...
This project could be called April: patiently waiting under snow, developing roots beneath a hardened crust before finally breaking through. It could ...
Germany, 2000, mini DV, 15' "Of the female hackers I've met, Clara G. Sopht is the most intellectual and reflexive, but also...
The premiere of – a situation for dancing was staged February 2006 in New York’s Dance Theater Workshop. The project defined by it...
The lecturer Dubravka Duba Sambolec was talking about her artistical opus, which represents an articulation of epistemological and ontological interpr...
It all began five years ago with a note sent to the Slovenian women’s union of America: ˝My name is Mirjam M. Hladnik and I am a researcher at ...
International Baroque is a performance that looks at the mass media, commenting directly on the purpose and content of daily newspapers. The project a...
Dubravka Đurić (Serbia), writer, lecturer on the Faculty of Media and Communication in Beograd and at the Beograd center for women's studies and...
Barbara Borčič, director of SCCA – Ljubljana was talking about the ways of documentation and archiving of video and it's accessibilit...
Ela-não-é-francesa-ele-não-é-espanhol/ She-is-not-French-He-is-not-Spanish is the name of a music project by Inês Ja...
In Do You Remember Revolution (presented at the 1997 City of Women), Loredana Bianconi interviewed four Italian women with a revolutionary past (forme...
Otolith links three historical moments: the mutant future of the 22nd Century, the ambient fear of the early 21st Century and the post independen...
The current debate in economic and political theory points to the cultural sector's model function for the neo-liberal, globalised economy. Creati...
A multimedia approach, the employment of various materials and comic-strip art are common to three young authoresses who exhibited their works in two ...
Geneviève Castrée alias WOELV, Canadian comic artist, singer, guitarist and songwriter, gives us an excerpt from her book-record in prog...
"Pain body goes bye bye. Time to stop blaming. Let’s reverse thoughts. Where Neo meets Goethe and Jesus has party with Adolf in heaven.&quo...
Love calls, marking a rise to verticality, a new clarity, a sharper resolution. When we expose ourselves to this light, we notice that our very presen...
Traditional medicine encompasses a variety of healing skills that uses popular remedies, medicinal herbs, magic spells, conjurations and other witchcr...
femmeusesaction #7.1 is one of the artistic platforms of the multi-form femmeuses project which was established as a research project into the theoret...
Slovenian women are a small entity within the melting pot of North America. Yet their artistic and literary accomplishments are considerable, perhaps ...
Hiroko Tanahashi presented the opus of her work – mainly with the multimedia group post theater. post theater (New York/B...
Where do we/you work – in a kitchen, factory, shop, studio, office, on a spaceship, stage, or in a feminist festival? How do we work, for whom a...
"My film speaks of three women from a generation which went down in history as a generation of culprits and victims. Their different life ...
“Schüttehausproject / Schuettehouse project displays a powerful political and deeply artistically engaged position that re-frames, ind...
While bearing a pre-eminent concern for the gesture, the performative in relation to gender, as well as other theatre and performance related ...
The voice of Madigan Shive and her unique articulation and style – that encompasses everything from hard punk rock and experimentation with voca...
The femmeuses Workshop addressed certain key works by artists of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, including Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Valerie Expor...
"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone.˝ (Wi...
A presentation of research into visual music by Mary Ellen Bute “I will try to establish a discussion of the life and work of Mary Ellen Bute, who was ...
Notice: The original video material is acutely damaged. The sound of the composition is unrecognisable. ...
Notice: The original video material is acutely damaged. The sound of the composition is unrecognisable. ...
Notice: The original video material is acutely damaged. The content of the introduction is unintelligible. ...
Notice: The original video material is acutely damaged. The content of the press conference is unintelligible. In Ljubljana castle, Oliver Ku...
Natalie Rose LeBrecht has quite a lot in common with the New Weird America scene, and the likes of Devendra Banhart, Joana Newsom as well as CocoRosie...
The Tricky Women festival’s focus on female creators of artistic animated film is unique in Europe. The biennial festival, which takes...
"My short and quiet life as a woman is to end in a noisy death and questions I never managed to answer: Is this a heroic act that ends with my su...
The femmeuses Workshop addressed certain key works by artists of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, including Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Valerie Expor...
Endless Medication is a theatre event created in 2003 by the Flemish performance artist Marijs Boulogne. After a successful presentatio...
Endless Medication is a theatre event created in 2003 by the Flemish performance artist Marijs Boulogne. After a successful presentatio...
Endless Medication is a theatre event created in 2003 by the Flemish performance artist Marijs Boulogne. After a successful presentatio...
Bojana Kunst (Slovenia), researcher on the Faculy of Arts in Ljubljana and lecturer of the phD programme Philosophy and the theory of visual cult...
Bojana Kunst (Slovenia), researcher on the Faculy of Arts in Ljubljana and lecturer of the phD programme Philosophy and the theory of visual cult...
The lecturer Dubravka Duba Sambolec was talking about her artistical opus, which represents an articulation of epistemological and ontological interpr...
Car Deconstruction has very simple premises. At the workshop/performance, the artist and a group of inquisitive girls disassemble a car. They not only lear...
Grand Domestic Revolution (GDR) is a long-term “living research” project developed by CasCo– Office for Art, Design an...
Bettina Knaup (Germany), one of the curators of the international project re.act.feminis/performative arts of the 60's and 70's today, talked ...
Angelika Richter (Germany), art historian and curator, she presented the specific political and cultural situation of Eastern Germany, which has to.be...
The first part entitled Even Steven is most demanding on the dancers and tests both their attention and concentration in the controlled perf...
4:3 Composition and electronics: Elisabeth Schimana Flute: Cordula Bösze Terpsitone: Elena Golovasheva 4:3 is a resonatin...
This electro-acoustic duo isn't just any duo. It has a niche as well as a spine that is a rare combination. Both musicians reduce – if not i...
Geneviève Castrée does not expect workshop participants to have any drawing skills or be familiar with cartoon patterns. Nevertheless, s...
This cross-disciplinary workshop experience, conducted by Nathalie Claude, Alexis O'Hara and Miriam Ginestier, explored the development of solo pe...
Goodnight Stories An illustrated book for adults? Stories? Whoever reads such things these days! Maybe for the very reason that once upo...
Italy, video (beta) 2005, 52’ In her documentary Uno virgola due / One Point Two, Silvia Ferreri deals with what at first s...
The exhibition Depictors of Imagination is an all-embracing review of original illustrations by 28 Slovene women artists. It was concei...
La Souriante Madame Beudet / The Smiling Madame Beudet is considered Germaine Dulac's impressionist masterpiece. Based on an avant-...
˝When I first received an invitation to curate a video programme for the 12th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women,...
The exhibition Depictors of Imagination is an all-embracing review of original illustrations by 28 Slovene women artists. It was concei...
La Vie Autrement / Life Differently In Do You Remember Revolution (presented at the 1997 City of Women), Loredana Bianconi interviewed fo...
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 addressee of populism is commonly defined in cultural terms as a human embodiment of a specific way of life (culture?) considered common, average or ordinar...
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 f...
In the avant-garde rhetoric internalized by contemporary art, the ideas of social involvement and artistic achievement are almost identical, claiming that after...
In his speech, Arseny Zhilyaev talked about the generation of the first post-Soviet shuttle businessmen through the history of the labor biography of Sovi...
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. Eve...
The claim to artistic autonomy in the early modern period was never absolute. Different frames – from architecture to ideology – have always surroun...
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 ar...
The lecture presented a body of work and situations that have been in constant logical progression since 1992, probing the margins of technology, ecological tho...
Drawing from the art historic and critical apparatus of American post-WWII or Cold War criticism (specifically Jack Burnham and Rosalind Kraus), this lecture ad...
Today the Russian philosophy known as Cosmism has been largely forgotten. Its utopian tenets – combining Western Enlightenment with Eastern philosophy, Ru...
The 20th century had its invisible workforce: telephone operators. Not just "voices with a smile", they were shooting stars in a univer...
Nostalgic Technologies, a multimedia exhibition at Ljubljana’s Rog Factory, will encompass photographs and video screening. In her artistic...
Memory is always formulated by way of language, which is itself the basis of any human communication. Language reflects culture, politics, art, everyd...
Swiss folk-singer Sina, and jazz-singer Erika Stucky – two sisters in spirit, and two powerful women from Switzerland’s Val...
With the performance Gramatika, the Rijeka-based TRAFIK theatre group – which moves the borders between physical theatre, co...
Sijoče, osamljeno, znotraj in brez / Shiny, Lonely, Inside and Without is a research into the tension existing in the relationship bet...
Slovenia, video, 2006, 21’, first release The video is based on the HI-RES dance performance by Maja Delak and Mala Kline which was...
The exhibition Depictors of Imagination is an all-embracing review of original illustrations by 28 Slovene women artists. It was concei...
When the American-Russian Slavist, cultural critic and visual artist Svetlana Boym carried out research into nostalgia – which in the ...
So, what is Italian journalist Sabina Guzzanti actually doing in her documentary, which, by way of its very title – Viva Zapatero...
Yugo Yoga is a series of participatory performances that traverse visual art, live art & movement theatre by fusing elements of yoga, archived physical...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The video is a documentation of a year-and-a-half-long action of looking for work, evolving around an ad stating: Visual artist urgently looking for any ki...
The ad Visual artist urgently looking for any kind of work was published continuously for a year and a half in local advertising publications. Du...
Transcripts of text messages and telephone conversations related to the Visual artists urgently looking for any kind of work ad published in loca...
Evaluation of a-year-and-a-half-long project, in which the artist worked as a cleaner, a waitress, a vendor, a distributor... In all cases, apart from the ...
The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of an overview and analysis of women’s groups and their political, social, and cultural activi...
This film was conceived after the research project «Women's Remembering of Life in Socialism», started in 1999 by a group of women scientists, s...
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Fama was a common project of the Zagreb Frakcija magazine and Maska. The first issue was published in English and German, in collaboration wi...
Fama was a common project of the Zagreb Frakcija magazine and Maska. The first issue was published in English and German, in collaboration ...
Throughout 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) hosted a series of conversations around the importance of migration in the development of Middlesb...
At this partnership event with the Boro LIKE project, people were invited to talk about how they, their family and relatives came to settle in Middlesbrough and...
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 Ben...
The talk will investigate the concept of transparency in the writings of Paul Scheerbart, Sigfried Giedion, and Walter Benjamin. Transparency was debated and th...
Functionality, inventiveness and aesthetics of pure forms are only a few of the basic guidelines of the educational programme of the Bauhaus, school for archite...
Prof. Edvard Ravnikar, the Head of the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of Ljubljana, introduced a new experimental design programme &ndas...
Bauhaus: the Imperative of Transparency was critically question the interconnection of transparency and the ideas of the famous school in the fields of arc...
The seemingly paradoxical abstract mixtum compositum that is prospective archaeology consists of a practice that operates in accordance with two opposing arrows...
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 ...
The tracer of the movement Mojca Dimec is re-enacting a performance for the TrueClueRocket installation. The installation was crea...
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 ...
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 exh...
The lecture Towards an Aesthetics of Southern Uprisings by a curator and film theorist Olivier Hadouchi accompanies the Southern Constellati...
The Sower project, devised by Alen Ožbolt for Kapelica Gallery, proffers at least two levels of reading: first, the installation functions as an amazing interv...
The Sower project, devised by Alen Ožbolt for Kapelica Gallery, proffers at least two levels of reading: first, the installation functions as an amazing interv...
The Sower project, devised by Alen Ožbolt for Kapelica Gallery, proffers at least two levels of reading: first, the installation functions as an amazing interv...
The Sower project, devised by Alen Ožbolt for Kapelica Gallery, proffers at least two levels of reading: first, the installation functions as an amazing interv...
We invite you to the presentation of the thematic section of the new Šum journal issue entitled “/…/ gradually the idea of ‘contempora...
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 t...
Karol Radziszewski presents a rich selection of Central and Eastern European queer archival materials from the collection of the Queer Archives Institute (QAI)....
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 o...
The video documentation was edited specifically for Artemic Series presenting thoughts and interpretation of a selection of works from Moderna galerija Col...
A short presentation of the program of current exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova when reopenin...
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, b...
Note: the lecture was given in Spanish. The video is presenting a simultaneous translation to English. COVID-19 arrives riding on a crisis of ...
The marathon guide was part of the program to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the seventh anniversary of the opening o...
The marathon guide was part of the program to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the seventh anniversary of the opening o...
The marathon guide was part of the program to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the seventh anniversary of the opening o...
The marathon guide was part of the program to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Modern Art and the seventh anniversary of the opening o...
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In 2000, Moderna galerija in Ljubljana founded the Arteast 2000+ Collection and staged its first public presentation in an unrenovated building of a f...
In 2007, three Slovenian artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to that of the leader of the party,...
A guided tour of The Unmaking of Art – Revisited at the Sites of Sustainability. Manifestos, Pavilions and Crypts exhibition...
The exhibition comprises four chapters. The artist’s production in his OHO years is presented with a number of his rapid installations in parks, forests, ...
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The exhibition centres on the artist’s ongoing investigation into the idea of political gifts of culture, exploring their role within national and politic...
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 proje...
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The exhibition prepared by the Department for Restoration of the University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design (UL ALUO) and the Department for Conse...
The Technology of Making and Preserving Works of Art This project is the result of collaboration between Moderna galerija's Restoration-Conservation De...
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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 proje...
This is the first international exhibition of Wróblewski's work that is dedicated solely to his travels across Yugoslavia and his late work. It showc...
The second part of the exhibition Lewis Trondheim and Drunk Bunnies presented a Slovenian team of Drunk Bunnies - Izar Lunaček, David Krančan, Miha ...
The first part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern Ar...
The exhibition centres on the artist’s ongoing investigation into the idea of political gifts of culture, exploring their role within national and politic...
Concept Zdenka Badovinac Curators selectors Afiaty Riksa, Zdenka Badovinac, Ekaterina Degot, Tandazani Dhlakama, Galit Eilat, Charles Esche, ...
The second part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern A...
The third part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern Ar...
The fourth part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern A...
The first part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern Ar...
The first part in a series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern Ar...
Wildly differing in style, Wach and Tuka's latest two-handers both play with ideas of disappearance to our sense of being. The episodic ritual of ...
The video Mercedes Matrix documents a collective performance, originally performed at the 2019 edition of Krass Kampnagel festival in Hamburg, in which the arti...
Fragments from an eight-hour video installation, 2002-2006, 66' The position of women in society is the main theme that runs through a large pa...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] Pierre Hassner (9:55) Responses: John Dunn (9:55-14:43); Žarko Puhovski (14:43-20:40); István Hont (20:40-28:30); Pierre Hassner (...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] The international symposium (in English and Bosnian) took place in the Information Center of the Moderna galerija Ljubljana. It con...
Programme [PDF] Silva Mežnarić, Univerza v Zagrebu, Univerza v Ljubljani (00:00-07:40) Responses (07:41-17:55) The international symposium ...
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The symposium took place at 10 a.m. on Friday, 17 December 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Maistrova 3, Ljubljana. Participants: Aleksande...
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The notion of constituencies and the concept of constituent museums employs the L’Internationale confederation from the start, in an attempt to ...
The notion of constituencies and the concept of constituent museums employs the L’Internationale confederation from the start, in an attempt to ...
The notion of constituencies and the concept of constituent museums employs the L’Internationale confederation from the start, in an attempt to ...
The notion of constituencies and the concept of constituent museums employs the L’Internationale confederation from the start, in an attempt to ...
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Video documentation with Q&A session. Camera and Edit: Urša Rahne. Copyright: BY-NC-SA....
Up close: Preservation, Protection and Conservation-Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Works of Art Camera, editing: Filip Čop....
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Video documentation. Camera and Edit: Urša Rahne. Copyright: BY-NC-SA....
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During the exhibition opening of the What Do Crocodiles Dream About? there was a performative reading by Cristian Inostroza taking place on a box filled with so...
In the performance Work on Yourself the artist performs exercises based on Pilates, body workout, and similar forms of training. The aim of his exercises is to ...
The lecture talks about the processes of collective communication with Earth as a form of art. In practice, this is about discovering the philo-sphere – t...
Petra Varl graduated from Academy of Fine Arts and Design (1989). She participated in a series of alternative art actions and projects. In Metelkova, in 1994, she painted over 70 meters of the walls of former barracks with a large bar chart. For the Urbanaria project (Soros Center for Modern Art), she painted a "s...
Zoran Mušič was born on 12 February 1909 in Bukovica near Gorica (now Gorizia, Italy). As a child he shared the fate of many Slovenians from the Primorska region, who were forced to seek refuge in Štajerska and Koroška during the First World War. After finishing secondary school in Maribor, he enr...
Dragica Čadež completed her studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, under Prof. Boris Kalin. The same teacher mentored her through her two-year post-graduate studies. In 1982, she became the first female Slovene sculptor to teach sculpture at the University. She taught at the Pedagog...
Zdenko Huzjan was born in Lendava (1948). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Gabrijel Stupica, then went on to pursue postgraduate studies in painting there under Professor Janez Bernik. In 1997 he was appointed full professor of drawing and painting at the Art Pedagogy Department of the Faculty of ...
Born on 19 January 1956 in Ljubljana. In 1979 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a degree in printmaking (under Profs. Marjan Pogacnik and Joze Brumen). Initially working alternately in the fields of printmaking and painting, he has dedicated himself exclusively to painting since ...
Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect who has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts/HFBK in Hamburg, Germany, since 2011. Students of her course Design for the Living World develop participatory design projects. Potrč's artworks have been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Americas, in...
Dušan Kirbiš is a visual artist and Professor for art and color theory at the University of Ljubljana. Dušan Kirbiš is visual artist, working primarily in painting but also focusing on photography, sculpture and site-specific art. His works has been included in the National Collection of the...
The art of Mladen Stilinović can be said to have two sides. One, in a critical, yet humorous, ironic, and often poetic way, deals with the issues of social power and the position of the poor and exploited. The other speaks about issues beyond reason and language: pain, emptiness, death, nothingness. This aspect is oft...
Marija Mojca Pungerčar is a former fashion designer in the Slovene textile industry and a member of the group Linije Sile, she graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1989) and took an MFA in 2001 in new genres from San Francisco Art Institute, California. She has been a freelancer in...
Vedran Peternel has lived in Paris since 1978 where he is involved in music and radiophony. Peternel has collaborated in projects by such groups as Dirty Three, Hurleurs, Curl, Ezekiel, Theo Hakola, and is a co-founder of the Oko 3 group, as well as the illegal off-scene Garage. He also participates in t...
Jože Barši has degrees in architecture and sculpture; not surprisingly, his practice meanders across many fields: from the deconstruction of the sculptural object in the mid-1990s, to a shift to some sort of architectural explorations of space and their subseguent expansion into installations, the use value of ...
In 1979, the painting Koper was created. The city in which Aleksij Kobal was born in 1962 and grew up became the motif of the earliest painting of his opus. The work was painted two years after the artist moved to Ljubljana to enrol in the School of Design. In this new millieu he was, contrary to Koper, soon recognised...
Ema Kugler, director, screenwriter, set designer, costume designer, and picture and sound editor, is a multidisciplinary artist with a unique and distinctive authorial expression. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. Her field of interest covers different media: performance, installation, video n...
Vadim Fishkin (born 1965 in Penza, USSR) lived in Moscow until 1996; he currently lives and works in Ljubljana. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture, from which he graduated in 1986. His work explores the relationships between science, personal experience, desire, and the imagination, between metaphysics ...
Tadej Pogačar (born in 1960 in Ljubljana) is a visual and intermedia artist. After studying ethnology and art history at the University of Ljubljana he went on to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he completed also his postgraduate studies. He is the founder and director of the P.A.R.A.S.I...
Braco Dimitrijević was born in Sarajevo in 1948. He had his first one man show in 1958 at the age of 10. From 1968 to 1971 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (MA). From 1971 - 1973 he finished post graduate work at St Martin’s School of Art in London. In 1972 he recived British Council grant. ...
In 1984, three groups – the multimedia group Laibach (established 1980), the visual arts group IRWIN (1983), and the theatre group Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre (SNST) (1983–1987) – founded the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective. That same day, the three groups founded a fourth group, the ...
Bogoslav Kalaš was born in Ljubljana, where he graduated from the Technical Engineering School in 1962. He went on to study painting under Professors Marij Pregelj, France Mihelič, and Gabrijel Stupica at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1962–1966), and later completed postgraduate studies in painti...
Nika Špan (1967, Ljubljana) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, pursuing a postgraduate degree in sculpture from the same academy and studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as the recipient of a Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst scholarship. An independent visual arti...
Born in Ljubljana on 30 July 1947, Andraž Šalamun finished high school in Koper. Following that he first went to study atomic physics at the University of Ljubljana, but found that he was not well suited to the subject, so he changed his major to comparative literature and philosophy. In Ljubljana he lived...
Neven Korda holds M.A. in sociology; he is a director, video and multimedia artist with a diverse artistic practices in the field of performative arts and the art of projection. He has been occupied with questions of video as an artistic expression and as a medium. He talks about a so called pure video. Korda started u...
Metod Frlic graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 1989, under Prof. Lujo Vodopivec, who also mentored him through his post-graduate studies, which he completed in 1996. He has held numerous one-man exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad. H...
Miran Mohar is a member of the Irwin artists group and a co-founder of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, the graphic design studio New Collectivism and the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre. Together with four other members of Irwin (Dušan Mandič, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek and Borut V...
Miha Štrukelj graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2001, obtaining the title Master of Fine Arts. He has received several awards, including Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2008/09, the Henkel Drawing Award in 2008 and the Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant in 2014. He has a...
Anish Kapoor is regarded as one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Maneuvering between various scales of works, different materials and spaces, his concave or convex mirrors swallow the viewers and recesses carved in stone and often pigmented seem as to disappear. Kapoor is a best known for his powerf...
Marko Košnik collaborated with several extreme alternative groups (Junajtit Adis, Laibach, Cavis Negra, Most), primarily as a creator of concepts, scripts, music, video and ambient projects. In 1986 he founded the Egon March Institute, a creative unit for theory, research and production in the field of new media...
Since the 1980s, Ulf Rollof (b. 1961) has worked with a multitude of different materials and expressions—sculpture, works on paper, moving images, experimental painting, mechanical installations, and photography. The exhibition Urgent features some twenty works, ranging from his early watercolors to photographs, ...
Marko Peljhan is an artist and researcher working in and between art, technology and science. His projects, initiatives, and collaborations span a vast area ranging from ecology and social reflection to tactical media, technology, space explorations and geopolitics. In 1994, Peljhan founded the non-profit art instituti...
Apolonija Šušteršič originally studied architecture in Slovenia, before moving to Amsterdam in 1993 to pursue studies in visual arts at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. For the next five years, she was professor and head of Monumental Department (Department of Public Art) at the Royal I...
Ilya Kabakov is a Soviet-born American conceptual artist. He is considered one of the most important Russian artists of the 20th century. He was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, but evacuated to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to avoid capture and Nazi persecution. From 1945 to 1951, he studied at the Art Sch...
Tugo Sušnik was bom on 24 November 1948 in Ljubljana. He spent his childhood in London (1956-1965) and New York (1965-1968). He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1971-1976, with professors Nikolaj Omersa, Zoran Didek, Kiar Meško, Gabrijel Stupica), and in 1979 completed his specia...
Sanja Iveković is one of Europe’s most eminent contemporary artists, and the most established in Croatia today. She hails from a generation who, in the former socialist Yugoslavia, were referred to under the all-embracing title of New Art Practice. Sanja Iveković is one of the pioneers of co...
Dušan Tršar spent his childhood years in Planina near Postojna. Between 1952 and 1955 he attended the Blacksmiths’ School in Kropa. He graduated in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In 1966 he specialized in sculpture under the professor Boris Kalin. In 1979 he started lecturi...
Ivan Kožarić was born on the 10th of June 1921 in Petrinja He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb from 1943 - 1947. He completed his specialisation in 1949 with professsor Antun Augustinčić. He began exhibiting in 1953 and held his first one man show in 1955. In 1959/60 Kožarić spe...
Jakov Brdar studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and completed specialized study in 1979. He studied at the University of Paris in Paris, and from 1988 to 1991 he worked in Berlin and exhibited at the Pergamon Museum. In his statues there is always love for form and substance. Statues are aesthetic...
Žiga Kariž is a Slovenian visual artist working at the crossroads of classical visual art, mainly painting, conceptual art and new media. He exhibits his artworks all around the world. Since 2010 he has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, where he also graduated and ...
Sašo Vrabič is an audiovisual artist. Finished studies in paintings and MA in graphic art and video at Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. From 1996 he's been active at many group and solo exhibitions, and festivals over Europe, both Americas and Asia. He received some awards mo...
Marina Abramovic is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Yugoslavia during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both h...
Sergej Kapus graduated from the department of art history and sociology at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. He began to exhibit his works in 1975. He has authored several theoretical and critical essays on modern painting, which have been published in magazines and art catalogues. In 1991 he curated the exhibition Image ...
Matjaž Počivavšek was born in 1955 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, completing postgraduate studies in sculpture under Slavko Tihec in 1980. He further studied at the New York Studio School (1980–1981) under William Tucker, and at the École Nationale Sup&...
Duba Sambolec was born in 1949 in Ljubljana. In 1975 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana with a degree in sculpture, and completed her postgraduate studies in sculpture under Drago Tršar in 1978. In sculpture, she has explored the pushing of its formal and traditional boundaries, which ...
France Kralj was born on 26 September 1895 as the second son of Janez Kralj (a 1/4 estate owner and folk artist) and Margareta, born Sever, in Zagorica, house number 13 in the parish of Dobrepolje in Carniola. Baptised on 27 September (Andrej Ramoveš, priest, Franc Erčulj and Frančiška Strah, godparents...
Born in 1900, to Margareta and Janez Kralj at Zagorica near Dobrepolje, as the third of the four surviving of their six children. He graduated in 1920. During his school years, he contributed illustrations to the hand-written school gazette Domače vaje (Homework). His artistic talent was honed by the prox...
Born in 1961 in Innsbruck, Austria, Barbara Doser today lives and works in Vienna, where she studied art history, gaining her doctorate in 1989. Since 1993, Barbara Doser has worked as a freelance artist, working in such areas as video feedback, processes in experimental and documentary videos, vide...
The sculptor Lojze Dolinar was born in Ljubljana on 19 April 1893 into a family of modest means, his father was a baker. He received his first training in the sculpture department of the Men's Trade School in Ljubljana and later studied sculpture under Professor Josef Mtillner at the Vienna Academy (1910-1911) and ...
Veš slikar svoj dolg (V.S.S.D., Painter Do You Know Your Duty) was the name of a tandem of artists Janez Jordan and Alen Ožbolt; remaining individually anonymous, they conceived V.S.S.D. as an independent entity (also expressing themselves in the first person singular in interviews and texts), as an “expa...
Marina Gržinić, PhD, is a philosopher, artist and theoretician. She lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art Practices and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at ZRC SAZU (Scienti...
Diana McCarty (USA / Germany): media artist and software developer; co-founder of Bootlab, a Berlin-based IT network production, presentation and distribution group, as well as the Faces and Nettime mailing lists. ...
Stane Kregar, a painter, a priest, a teacher, Prešeren's prize winner, graduated from the Theological Faculty in Ljubljana and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. After returning to Ljubljana, HE began to exhibit in 1937 within the Club of Independent Slovenian Artists. In the development of Sloveni...
Oleg Kulik was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961. He graduated from the Kiev Art School in 1979 and the Kiev Geological Survey College in 1982. Between 1990 and 1993 he served as the Art Director of the Regina Gallery in Moscow. He received the Berlin Senate grant (1995/1996) and the order of Officier de l’Ordre des ...
Živko I. Marušič (formerly also Ziuko Marušič, Živko Niero Marušič; full name Živko Ira Marušič) was born on 20 September 1945 in Colorno, a small town near Parma in the Italian province Emilia Romagna. Between 1967 and 1971 he studied at the Accademia di belle Arti in Ve...
Oskar Kogoj graduated in 1966 from the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Corso Superiore di Disegno Industriale in Venice. After graduating from the Istituto Statale d'Arte he worked there as an assistant until 1969, simultaneously he collaborated with Baby Mark Studio in Milan in the design of items for children. Fro...
Valie Export was one of the pioneers of feminist video art of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a leading innovator in the use of modern technology in the visual arts. She has created video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, feature and experimental films, documentaries, photography, sculpt...
Prior to the siege of Sarajevo, Edin Numankadić was a painter whose work could be denoted in terms of a continuation of the tradition of abstract gestural painting. The banal fact that there was no paint or canvas available in Sarajevo was not the only reason for his turning away from the autonomous kingdom of Moderni...
Franc Purg is an award-winning artist working in the public realm, at the intersections of technology, community and urban sustainability. His socially-engaged work has been exhibited extensively around the world, including Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Moderna Museet Stockholm, ...
Rene Rusjan began her career In the late 1980s, often as part of so called Young Slovenian Sculpture, within the spaces of the former Yugoslavia and in those days still rare occasions abroad. During the war in Bosnia she left sculpture and joined volunteers in Bosnian refugee camps in Ljubljana. Doubts about the meanin...
Vlasta Delimar is a visual and performance artist with a focus on eroticism, nakedness and female body. She's exploring the emotional-visual potential of each individual. She lives and works in Zagreb. She graduated from The School of Applied Arts in Zagreb in 1977 where she studied history of a...
At the very heart of Finucane & Smith are performer and writer Moira Funicane and director and playwright Jackie Smith. Their creative work is distinguished by intimate and emotionally intense shows and performances, which draw from the aesthetics of silent movies and the thrill of the gothic. T...
Jackie Buet is director of the Women's International Film Festival of Créteil and Val-de-Marne (Films de femmes), where she's responsible for programme and dissemination activities throughout the year. She co-founded the festival with Elisabeth Tréhard in 1979. Furthermore, she works in ...
Vladimir Leben studied at the Secondary School of Design and Photography and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. He has exhibited at solo and group shows at home and abroad; one of his most acclaimed (collaborative) projects was Galapagos. He is a co-founder of the Museum of Too Modern Art. He works in pai...
Tanja Lažetić graduated in architecture from the University of Ljubljana in 1994. She works in the fields of photography, video, performance, ceramics and artist’s book. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Moderna galerija (four times at its U3 triennial), the Museum of Contemporary Art Metel...
Since the late 1980s, the work of artist, curator and researcher Darko Fritz has revolved around a significant investigation into the use of technology in culture. His curatorial work and research on New Tendencies and early digital art has earned international acclaim with exhibition...
Imi Knoebel was born as Klaus Wolf Knoebel in 1940 in Dessau. From 1962–64 he studied at the Darmstadt Werkkunstschule, in a course based on the ideas of the pre-Bauhaus course taught by famous artists Johannes Itten and László Moholy-Nagy. Shortly after Knoebel started attending the Kunstakademie D...
Arjan Pregl graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1998. In 2001 he completed postgraduate studies in painting at the same academy, attending the final semester at the IUP Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA). He then went on to pursue postgraduate studies in printmaking, which he completed in 2004...
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Irena Pivka is artist, scenographer and architect. Irena Pivka, new media artist, architect, scenographer are working together with Brane Zorman on a series of collaborative projects. Working through different backgrounds, they connect digital electroacoustic creativity with space, listening to w...
Mariusz Kruk from 1978-1982 studied painting at the Academy of fine Arts in Poznań. In the years 1983-1994 he was a lecturer at Academy of fine Arts in Poznań and again from 2005. In 1983 he established the Koło Klipsa group, which was active until 1987. Since the time of leaving the group he has worked b...
Parker’s deliberate use of banal objects poses yet another challenge. She takes the very constituents with which we structure our lives, the supposedly safe certainties of house, garden shed, school, silver trophy, cathedral and coffin - and, by pushing these personal and public monuments in unexpected directions...
Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires. Argentina. Studied at the Ontario College of Art. Toronto (1981), The Banff Center School of line Arts, Banff, Canada (1984), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1985) and in Now York. The Whitney Independent Studies Program. Lives in New York. ...
Nada Prlja is using different mediums, her projects are multi-layered, site or condition- specific. She works mainly in installation, video installation, live art, public art projects. Prlja’s main aim is to affect society in the most direct of ways; it challenges critical discourse around ...
Elena Fajt is a visual artist and costume designer. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, France, Denmark, Germany, USA… She was an artist-in-residence several times in the USA. She has made more than forty costume designs for theatre, dance performan...
Zoran Todorović is an associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, where he teaches transmedia research at the Department of New Media, which he helped establish. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in major art institutions and at festivals of new me...
Ksenija Čerče graduated in 1999 and finished her Master’s degree in painting in 2002 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Prior to that, between 1988 and 1996, she completed the studies of Design of Fashion and Textiles at the Faculty of Science and Technology (FNT TT). In 2003 sh...
Ive Tabar is one of the more visible artists working in the specific field of medical performance in the context of body-art or live-art among other internationally acclaimed artists of the field like Orlan, Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose, Kira O'Reilly, Stelarc, Franco B, Ron Athey. Tabar draws his performance theme...
Viktor Bernik, born in 1971, graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he studied painting with Profs. Metka Krašovec and Bojan Gorenc; he went on to complete a specialist degree with Professor Gorenc and later continued his studies in the United States. He took part in severa...
Samira Kentrić is an artist and an author of book and magazine illustrations. Her illustrations have been published by the prestigious American Illustration, and in 2015 she received an international Special Book Award. In her art, she takes a personal note on her view and critique of the social environ...
Saša Kerkoš graduated from visual communications at the Ljubljana Academy for Fine Arts, studied also at the Academy of Industrial design and Arts in Helsinki and at the Academy of FIne Arts in Zagreb. She is designer, illustrator, comics artist and mentor st various workshops. ...
Ištvan Išt Huzjan graduated in 2005 from the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia in Italy. He registered his own book-publishing house 21st Century Books in 2006. In 2009 he finished the artist-in-residency program Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and fini...
Kristina Leko was born in 1966 in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb. Since 1997 she has been working on video installations with an accent on establishing communication by video-link. In Ljubljana, she presented her project as a debate, a video and slide presen...
Uroš Weinberger finished his studies in painting in 2003 and in 2005 completed his Master's of Arts degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He received several awards, such as Prešeren Student's Award by University of Lju...
JAŠA (Mrevlje-Pollak) is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary Slovenian visual artists and the most recognisable voice of a generation whose education, artistic practice and project exhibitions broke through on the local and foreign art scene, thus ensuring visibility in the international art sp...
Boštjan Kavčič was born in 1973 in Šempeter near Gorica. He attended elementary school in Tolmin, and the secondary school for electrical engineering in Nova Gorica. He graduated in Banking and Finance from the Maribor Faculty of Economics and Business in 1997. Because of his great love of ...
Maja Bajevic is one of the most significant contemporary artists of Eastern European background. Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, such as Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2011; Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland, 2010; the Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa in Venice, 2008; the National Galler...
Traditional painting generally presents woman as an object of desire. She can be soft and seductive, or even vulgar; she can be anything but the subject who desires. That is simply unthinkable. The British painter, Sadie Lee depends in her work on both traditional subjects, as well as traditional methods of o...
A visual artist, Nataša Skušek’s installations problematizes the stereotypical roles attributed to women by society: Boš Že Videla (You Will See!), Nevidna Grožnja (The Invisible Threat), Break 2.2 Ljubljana, (2003); Wedding, Point of View ~ Standpunkt Euroscreen21projects (2005);...
Lana Zdravković is researcher, publicist, political activist, producer and performer (not necessarily in that order). She has a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of postgraduate studies, University of Nova Gorica (Comparative studies of ideas and cultures, philosophical module: the transformation of mo...
Živa Moškrič has a BA in Visual Communication Design from Ljubljana’s Academy of Fine Arts, as well as a masters’ in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. Through Nostalgia formed part of her project work in London, since which time she ...
Marko Batista, born in 1976 in Ljubljana, where he currently lives and works. Batista graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2005 and finished his MA degree at Central Saint Martins in London in 2007. He is a sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer. He focuses on themes such as displac...
Meta Grgurevič obtained a postgraduate degree in Arti Visive e Discipline dello Spettacolo, specialization painting, from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in Italy in 2007. In 2010 she was awarded a grant from the Ministry of Culture in Slovenia. Between 2002 and 2006 she had a grant fro...
Staš Kleindienst finished his BA in painting in 2007 and MA in fine art in 2009 at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2014 he won the OHO Group Award, the main national visual arts award for young visual artists. ...
Joni Zakonjšek, originally from the Primorska region of Slovenia, lives and works in Bela Krajina, where she devotes herself entirely to painting. In 2003 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under Professors Emerik Bernard and Marko Uršič, and later completed her specialization studi...
Oreet Ashery is a Jerusalem born, London based, interdisciplinary visual artist working across performance, photography, video, objects and writing. Ashery’s performative practice engages with socio-political paradigms and tends to include participatory and delegated elements. Ashery exhibits, perf...
Polonca Lovšin is an architect and artist who explores self-organized initiatives and alternative forms of activism in architecture and city planning. Lately, her focus has been on the relation between town and country, particularly on urban farming as a practice that could save the countryside and towns, nature...
Kira O’Reilly is a UK based artist whose practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of bodies. Since graduating from the Univ...
Franko B makes drawings, installations, sculptures and performances, as well as works in many other mediums and disciplines. Over the years he has built up a sizeable body of work and become internationally known. He lives and works in London and is Profesor of Sculpture at l'Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di To...
Azra Akšamija is a Sarajevo born artist and architectural historian. She is the Class of 1922 Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of the Arts at MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program. In her multidisciplinary work, Akšamija investigates the politics of identity and memory ...
Kikimore started creating noise in January 2016 on so-called Noise tea parties at Rampa Lab in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which started within the organization ČIPke – Initiative for researching the conditions of women who are active in the context of science, technology and media art. Their performances are based on ...
Peter Rauch graduated from the Faculty of Architecture; his honours thesis was a theoretical project entitled “Meaning in Contemporary Architecture”. He continued his studies at Central St Martins in London, where he completed his Master’s degree in Communication Design and Photography. Currently...
London artist Marisa Carnesky has been working in performance for over twenty years, creating cutting-edge cabaret, live art and theatre. She is best known in the UK for her large-scale multimedia live art ride Carnesky’s Ghost Train, which is permanently installed in Blackpool in northern England. She showed two...
Meta Krese graduated in agronomy, received her master's degree in cultural anthropology and studied photography in London. Just this year, she completed her studies at the Danish school for journalism, part of the SEENPM Network. She works as a journalist and a photographer. She is also the...
Barbara Kapelj Osredkar (1974) is an author, director and set and costume designer. Her most acclaimed works include The Tasks of Women: Hemming, Knitting, Weaving, Sewing (2000), A.D. Anno Demoni (2002), Drive (2005), The City of Sights (2006), the audio-visual i...
Sanela Jahić graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2008 with a thesis entitled “Social Subject in a Kinetic Object” and received her master’s degree in 2010 in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. ...
Urša Vidic is Slovenian visual artist and set designer working in Ljubljana and internationally. Her set designs have been seen on stages of Ljubljana City Theatre, Slovene National Theatre Maribor, Celje People’s Theatre, The Old Power Factory Ljubljana, Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenian Perma...
David Krančan graduated with a degree in visual communication from the Department for Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He is a member of the editorial team at Stripburger. In 2014, he created a comic book for children, titled Grdina and Drunken Rabbit a year later. Both are ba...
Alenka Spacal: artist, theoretician, fine arts critic and curator; involved in the feminist fine arts and theory; she has a masters in aesthetics from Ljubljana University where she finished doctorate studies. ...
Robertina Šebjanič (SI) based in Ljubljana, is working in the cross-field of art – technology – science. Her art – research focus is oriented towards the exploration of water habitats and marine life, which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle the philosophical questions o...
Milijana Babić (1974) is a visual artist whose work often enters the field of live art. She lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia. She graduated in sculpture at the Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, Republic of South Africa, 2001, and received her MA at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana,...
Dame Darcy is one of America's most productive and most universal artists, with work ranging from comics, painting and illustration, film (short live-action and animated films), performance, doll-making and musical creations. She achieved international recognition with her naively drawn baroque/gothi...
Nataša Lušetić is artistic director of Sub Rosa. Born in Zagreb, she studied at East 15 in London and Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Since her graduation in 1991, she has been working internationally as a theatre director, performer and pedagogue. Her directing work includes 5...
The Otolith Group (founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) uses the form of the essay film to test the hypothesis that agravic space-time may be reconceived as a temporary heterotopia for concentrating the apprehension of disorientation that accompanies global crisis. Through their understanding of mi...
Vicki Smith, visual artist, works also as an educator for teachers in internet and other informational technologies and also in design. ...
Leena Saarinen, Scientific research of new-media art and informational technology with emphasis on computer mediated communication, she is also an engineer, poet, new-media artist and dramatist. ...
Karla Ptacek, worked for two decades as a performance artist in New York, writer, collaborator in numerous multimedia projects, scientific research of distributed performances. ...
Ana Čigon is an artist creative in the fields of video, film, performance and new media. She holds an MA in video (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana) and an MA in Interface Cultures at Kunstuniversitaet, Linz, Austria. Her projects tackle social and feminist topics, such as the underrepresentation of women ar...
Igor Prassel is co-founder, artistic director and one of the producers of the International Animated Film Festival Animateka. He also worked with the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb as a programming collaborator and as worked with other film and contemporary art festivals. He was co-edit...
Bojana Kunst is a full professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies / ATW – Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where she is leading the international master program Choreography and Performance. She...
Candida TV was born from the melting of different realities: underground cinema, video production, rave parties, street theaters, independent radios, underground bulletin board systems on the net and counterculture pop-magazines in the last seven years in Rome. Candida is a core of 12 people, fusing the experiences of ...
Mito Gegič participated in the CEEPUS exchange program on the Fine Art Academy in Zagreb in 2006. Graduated in 2008 in the field of painting on the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Currently working the MFA in painting. Lives and works in Škofja Loka and Ptuj in Slovenia, EU. ...
Tina Dobrajc graduated from Master programme (MFA) of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2011. In 2007 she Graduated from painting (BFA) at the Academy of fine arts and design Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently living and working in Škofja Loka, Slovenia....
Nina Slejko Blom graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and finished the masters program at the Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a post studio artist, often examining the art world, its institutions and power structures in her work. Website: http://ninaslejko.com/ ...
Uroš Potočnik graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2006 and in 2012 completed his master's degree in the subject of Photo-painting. He lives in Bele vode near Šoštanj. He works in the fields of painting, photography, video, scientific illustration, noise...
After his degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice Primož Bizjak lived in Madrid until relocating to Munich. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions internationally, mostly in Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy, where he participated at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and at ...
Mara Verna has travelled extensively to produce public art and live art documents. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals, residencies, and conferences in Canada and internationally, namely South Africa, France, Germany, Mexico, and the U.K. The site-specific nature of her practice revol...
"The artist Olga Kisseleva's approach to her work is much the same as a scientist's. A discrepancy detected during a procedure or within the workings of a structure oblige her to formulate a hypothesis, in order to explain the complication in question, and wherever possible, to propose a solution...
Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982) based in London having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital/new med...
Tamara Vukov (Canada), a.k.a. Pomgrenade, has been active in experimental and documentary film and video production, community radio and sound, and all around media jamming and social activism for over ten years. She is a member of the Montréal-based Volatile Works/Oeuvrages volatils media arts co...
Estela Žutić and Gilles Duvivier are a couple, both conjugally and artistically. Active for the most part in the field of radical performance, their indigenous backgrounds – both as individuals as well as artists - are brought to the fore. Gilles, who hails from Belgium and has a degree...
Anita Ponton’s work is interdisciplinary, combining installation, sound and film. It has references to film and theatre as regards its visual component and conceptual framework. Trained as a painter and sculptor, Anita Ponton works principally in performance, situating her body as site, as process ...
Born in 1980 in Liege, Belgium, Aurélie Levaux studied at a teacher’s training college where she specialised in work with the handicapped. She has also passed the qualification exam for dressmaking, and took a degree in illustration at the Institut Supérieur de Beaux-Arts Saint-L...
Born in 1978 in Gyeongju (South Korea), Juhyun Choi lived and worked in France where she finished her studies of fine arts at the École Supérieure de l’image in Poitiers. She applies her multimedia authorial approach in video arts, animation, illustration and, in particular, comi...
Lara Ritoša Roberts is a visual and performance artist, trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (MA Fine Art, 2007), Camberwell College of Arts (BA Sculpture, 2004) and Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique London (Prof Dipl. Corporeal Mime, 1998). In 2007, Lara founded ...
Irena Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer and vocalist, and post-graduate student of philosophy. Her main professional interests are dance & theatre performances and experimental musical improvisation. The first of her six original projects was her dance debut Hitchcock’s Metamorphoses whilst h...
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Kiki Omerzel is active in contemporary visual arts, illustration, story writing and design. She has been producing the Diaries series since 1997, and her artistic endeavours in this direction are based on the concept of a diary, and...
Pila Rusjan is a pseudonym under which Polona Zupan has been creating works since the year 2000. She studied photography and digital media at the Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts in Ljubljana. She is a videoartist, author of documentary, live-action, and animated films, is currently focusing on video ...
Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué are shooting stars within the contemporary Lebanese art world. Through their internationally seen and recognised work, they are greatly contributing to the development of critical and experimental contemporary Arab culture. Both were born in Beirut and studied ...
A choreographer, performer, researcher and writer, Mala Kline won a series of major Slovenian awards for her choreographic works, including the Golden Bird Award (2005), two Triton Awards (2005), four Moving Cake/Gibanica Awards (2005, 2013), and the Ksenija Hribar Award for choreography (2013). She holds a PhD in...
Nina Meško is a contemporary dancer and a choreographer, who has been employed as an independent professional adviser for dance at Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti (JSKD). She has been working as a professional dancer and choreographer for more than a decade. Her projects show an articul...
Christina Linortner studied Architecture at technical universities in Vienna and Delft (Netherlands). Egermann and Linortner are today active within the framework of Vienna’s Manoa Free University, which was founded in 2003 as an institution dedicated to collaborative practices in the field of...
Eva Egermann is a Vienna-based visual artist working in a variety of media and in several collectives and projects. She studied visual arts at Vienna’s Academy for Fine Arts department of conceptual art practices. In addition to editing the monthly magazine MALMOE, Eva Egermann works in a vari...
Stefanie Seibold is an artist, curator and performer based in Vienna. She has participated in several exhibitions and projects in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Brussels, and since 1999 has lectured at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz (Austria). Stefanie Seibold has just returned ...
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, the theorist, writer and video artist Svetlana Boym lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University. Her work exp...
Katja Kobolt (PhD) works on junctures of art, writing and teaching. In her individual and collective practice Katja has been focusing on breaking the impossibilities and building up structures, mainly by introducing different methods of work and display (with-in art and beyond) for generating new mo...
Performer Dragana Alfirević studied art history at Belgrade University, and completed her specialist studies within the context of the Body Unlimited Program at Novi Sad Academy. In 1998 she co-founded the international Craft Theatre company, and is today active in theatre production and education,...
Vladislav Knežević graduated from the Academy of Drama Arts (TV and Film Direction Dept.) in Zagreb and De Vrije Academie (Audio-visual Dept.) in Den Haag. Professionally works as a freelance director for TV and various productions since 1993. He is into experimental film, video and sound processing since 1988. He ha...
Justyna Koeke (1976) graduated from the Academy of Visual Art in Krakow in 2002. Between 2000 and 2005, she studied at the Art Academy in Stuttgart, where she has been an assistant professor since 2005. She is a versatile artist mainly active in the field of sculpture art and performance. She works...
Born in 1977, visual artist and performer Tkáčová worked as an assistant at AFAD, visual art academy in Bratislava, and as program curator at the Hit Cultural Centre in Bratislava. Since 2000, Anetta Mona Chişa and Tkáčová have – as a team –...
In her work, Melanie Bonajo examines the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort with a strong sense for community, equality, and body-politics. Through her videos, performances, photographs and installations, she studies subjects related to how technological advances and commoditybased pleasures increase feel...
Jana Prepeluh founded the Čumnata gallery and shop in Ljubljana where she scheduled thoughtful urban art projects and organized street-fashion shows. Together with Aleksandra Čalič she created a short video entitled Punk nije mrtav Kenedi (Punk Is Not Dead Kenedi). She also worked as a ...
'Kanak Attak' is a community of different people from diverse backgrounds who share a commitment to eradicate racism from German society. The group is not interested in questions about your passport or heritage, in fact it challenges such questions in the first place. Kanak Attak challenges the conser...
Born in 1975, Anetta Mona Chişa is visual artist and performer, who since 2001 has been working as a curator at the Trnava Synagogue Centre for Contemporary Arts in Slovakia, and since 2002 as a curator at the Department for New Media at the Academy for Art in Prague. Since 2000, Chişa and Lucia T...
kleines postfordistisches Drama (kpD, small post-fordist Drama) comprises Brigitta Kuster, Isabell Lorey, Marion von Osten and Katja Reichard. The group began in 2003 as part of the project Atelier Europa. kpD’s militant and reflexive and collaborative research and production methods was an inspira...
Myriam Laplante is a Canadian artist born in Bangladesh, based in Bevagna, Italy. She lives in a state of permanent doubt. Her work is a parody of the world, cynical and absurd, melancholic and disorienting, that often emanates from a bizarre and fantastic imagery. She works in performance, installa...
Tejal Shah graduated with a BA in photography from RMIT, Melbourne, spent a year as an exchange student at The Art Institute of Chicago and another summer trying to get an MFA from Bard College in upstate New York. Their* practice incorporates everything and anything, including video, photography, perfor...
Born in 1977, Petra Feriancova completed, after seven years in Italy, her post-graduate study of visual arts in London, made several trips to the Middle East, and returned to Bratislava where she – we might say by a strange coincidence – opened the Bastart Gallery. Located beneath h...
Jaka Babnik graduated in sociology of culture and history from the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana). Between 1998 and 2006 he worked as a photographer and editor of photography for the skateboard magazine Pendrek. He wrote and directed several renowned Slovenian skateboard films, such as Damage&...
Thierry Kuntzel was a french film theorist and videomaker Thierry Kuntzel, whose distinguished writings are among the major contributions to the textual analysis of film, also produced an original body of videotapes and installations. Kuntzel's theoretical texts propose significant applications of psychoanalytical ...
Barbara Kukovec is an actress, a performer and a dancer who has recently diversified into visual media and especially photography. She is a graduate of the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre and has a Master’s degree in performance from Goldsmiths College (2006) in London. On the basis of her integrated approach to wha...
Maja Delak is a choreographer, dancer, performer and pedagogue. She studied contemporary dance at CNDC L'Esquisse in Angers, France, and at numerous dance seminars, lead by internationally renowned pedagogues. She was, from 1993 to 2002, a member of the international dance group En-Knap, and a progra...
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen was born in 1970 in Manila, Philippines, and now lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. A graduate from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, she primarily engages in video and performance art. Her productions involve scripted texts/songs; composed music as well as intricate ...
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is an artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artwork. Her work has been shown and performed in a myriad of museums, art spaces and public spaces all over the world, it has been written and spoken about, as well as awarded in abundance. Since 1977 up until today, she has...
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. She began making ...
Cornelia Sollfrank is a conceptual artist, interdisciplinary researcher and educator. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and Fine Art at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (1987-1994). Since 1998 she has taught at various universities and art schools and wrote on issues in the nexu...
Esther Ferrer is well known for her individual performances as well as for the works she made as a member of the group ZAJ from 1967 until its dissolution in 1996. In the early 1960’ s, together with the painter José Antonio Sistiaga she created the Taller de Lliure Expressió (Free Ex...
Conny Blom was born 1974 in Sweden and he is currently living and working between Landskrona, Sweden and Bukovje, Slovenia. In his artistic practice Blom works in many different media and frequently examines hierarchies and reveals alternative readings by remediating pre-existing material. Censorship and copyright...
Tina Valentan works as an independent cultural artist. She has graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2007. Valentan has been active in the field of contemporary dance for many years. Over the last years she has been focusing on performing for other choreographers. Her solo and group projec...
Anna Ehrlemark is a comic artist, illustrator and linguist. She lives in Gothenburg, but has been known to move a lot. She started drawing with the Croatian comic bandits KOMIKAZE and worked as a designer and organizer for Kud Mreža and Menza pri Koritu in the cultural center&nb...
Jošt Franko completed his postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths University. He has exhibited at home and internationally, also at the Finnish Museum of Photography (2017), the New York Photo Festival (2010), the Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (2019), and the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (2020...
Adrijan Praznik (1988, Ljubljana) je leta 2016 diplomiral na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, smer slikarstvo, pri mentorju mag. Žigi Karižu in somentorju dr. Tomislavu Vignjeviću. Prejemal je štipendijo Mestne občine Ljubljana za nadarjene študente ter prejel nagrado Akademije za li...
Nataša Živković is a versatile artist creative in different fields of performing arts, from contemporary dance, theatre to performance. After finishing ballet school, she got dedicated to contemporary dance and collaborated with a number of choreographers. Despite being a graduate in comparative...
Dr. Darja Zaviršek is a sociologist, full-time professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Ljubljana, where she deals with studies of handicap, ethnicity and gender. She is the author of numerous books at home and abroad, including Women and Mental Health (1994); Hendikep kot kulturna ...
In 1998, Kerry Grant was an activist and co-ordinator of special programmes at East Thames Housing in London. ...
Margaret Eggers was an activist and co-ordinator of Greenwich Women’s Aid in 1998....
Ibro Hasanović studied product design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and contemporary art and cinema at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. His works have been recently exhibited at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Munchner Stadtmuseum, Garage Museum of Contemporary ...
Katarina Stegnar (1976) is an actress, performer, movement artist, researcher, deviser who has been active in Slovenian theatre since 1999. With her creativity she has left a mark particularly in the independent scene – she’s one of the most active collaborators of the platform for research, devel...
Suzana Brborović (b. 1988) is an insightful young artist, winning two prestigious awards while still just a student: the ESSL Award for young artists from Central and South-East Europe in 2011 and the Student Prešeren Award in 2012. In 2013, Brborović graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and De...
John Grzinich is a mixed-media artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, image, site, and collaborative social structures. Since 2003, he has been an event and project coordinator at MoKS, a non-profit artist-run project space in southeast Estonia situated in the rural commu...
Roberto Foddai is an artist from Sardinia. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Sassari in 1995 and works mainly in photography. Foddai’s work is story-based. With it he communicates about significant cultural and social issues while reflecting upon cinema, memory and nostalgia. The most ...
Perry Bard is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. Her work has been shown internationally, among others at the MoMA New York, P.S.1, Sao Paolo Biennial, Montreal Biennial, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid... Her project Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake won a Honorary Mention in...
Lara Day is a writer, photographer and editor based in Hong Kong. Her work covers art, culture and travel topics and appears regularly in international publications such as TIME magazine and Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia. She holds degrees in English Literature and Publishing from the University of Oxf...
Stefania Bonatelli was born in Italy but spent most of her childhood in Colombia. She is a graduate of DAMS (Department of Arts, Music, Entertainment), Turin, and SDAC (Cinema Art School) in film directing, Genoa, Italy. Her work has been shown in numerous art exhibitions and festivals, the most recent i...
Katharina Hesse graduated in Chinese and Japanese studies from the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris. Hesse initially worked as an assistant for German TV (ZDF) and then freelanced for Newsweek from 1996 to 2002. In 2003 and 2004 she covered China for Getty&rsquo...
Born in Belgrade, Katarina Mootich began her fashion training in 1991 with a scholarship to the Marangoni Institute for Fashion Design in Milan. From 1997 she studied in London at Cordwainers College and in 2003 was appointed designer for Lanvin’s Autumn/Winter 2003 and Spring/Summer 2003 wome...
Since graduating in 2001 from the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten Judith Witteman's artistic practice focuses mainly on performance and live art as well as drawing. In the year 2010 she played a lead roll in Blue Desert, a film by Eder Santos shot in Brazil and Chile. Her exhibitions include: Bee...
Yvonne De Rosa was born In Naples in 1975. After graduating in Political Science she moved to London and studied at the Central St Martins. In 2006 she won the Woman International Prize in Photography and in 2007 her series Afterdark received the first prize from the International Photography Awards, as ...
Petra Reimann was born in Hanover, Germany. She is living and working in Berlin capturing backyards, street life and the architectural soul of the city. Constantly, intuitively scanning everything around her, Reimann spends every spare moment and a few borrowed ones pursuing shadows and reflections ...
Maflohé Passedouet is a French artist of Gypsy origin. She works mainly in the performance and theatre fields as well as showing her works in galleries and museums internationally. Her performances are interactive in nature, using new technologies, sound, video, dancers, acrobats, musicians and ac...
Born in Swaziland in 1982, Nandipha Mntambo graduated with MA in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2007. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Brett Kebble Art Awards Curatorial Fellowship, and in 2006 she was one of five young artists selected for the MTN New...
Vesna Milicevic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (1971) where she lives and works. She graduated in 1988 with MA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. As an interdisciplinary artist, her work investigates the relationship between intimate and social facts, as well as questions national and personal iden...
Born in Nicaragua in 1971, Jessica Lagunas grew up in Guatemala where she studied graphic design. Through various media, such as installations, video performance and objects, her art projects use a minimum of elements for expressing her concerns about the condition of woman in contemporary society. ...
Dr. Bara Kolenc is an independent artist and philosopher from Ljubljana. Her fields of work are performative, interdisciplinary and visual arts. She got her bachelors degree (philosophy and comparative literture) and her PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. Her theoretica...
Nina Thilas-Mohs was born in Sweden in 1973 and, although graduating in English Literature (1993), she dedicated her life fully to dance and performance. Today, she works in London both as a lecturer at Kingston University London, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Performance and Screen Stud...
A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Andreia Chaves’ work had captured the attention of the international media even before her graduation from the Polimoda Fashion Institute in Florence, Italy. Chaves’ ambition is to bring a fresh perspective to fashion, “fusing the mastery and tradit...
Alexandra Eldridge was born in 1948 in New Jersey. She spent many years living in an art community inspired by the ideas of William Blake. Today, she lives and travels a great deal from her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Her work has been exhibited around the globe. Selected exhibitions include: ...
Nathália Mello, a Brazilian performance practitioner, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in Theatre Direction from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University in 2007 and completed her Master’s degree in Dance Theatre: History of the Body at Trinity Laban in London in 2010. Natháli...
Rose-Gabriel De La Lyre is a French artist who lives and works between Lyon and Vienna. She is 2008 gold medallist of the Salon of the Castle Grammont, Pont de Chéruy. A graduate of the Ecole de Condé (1998), her work spans oil painting, drawing and photography with strong references to Pre...
Denise Grünstein was born in 1950 in Helsinki. She lives and works in Stockholm and is one of the best known and most highly respected profiles in Swedish photography. Her most recent solo exhibitions include “Figure Out”, Kiasma, Helsinki and KristinehamnsKonstmuseum, Kristinehamn, 2010...
Carolyn Cowan is a photographer living and working in London. Her aesthetically lit nudes are always about redemption, stunningly moving and beautiful. She is a seeker of light as well as a fashion designer, counsellor, yoga teacher and mother. To relax, she lies on a bed of nails, runs almost every day ...
Hrafnhildur Benediktsdóttir is an Icelandic artist based in London. During her M.A. (The Body in Performance, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance), she presented Preparation as a part of “Lingering Whispers”, curated by Predrag Pajdic. She has since collaborated wi...
Jo Andres first became known on the kinetic downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s for her film/dance/light performances. As a filmmaker, Andres has directed music and art videos as well as her own film performance works. She drew acclaim for her 1996 film Black Kites, which screened at th...
J. L. Nash’s artistry is with words. Born in England (1969) but was raised in Africa, her first writing job was at 15, for the community magazine ‘Cultures’. After working in Europe, the Pacific Islands, Africa and Australia as a teacher and University Professor in Education, she now works i...
Cassils is an artist who uses the physical body as sculptural mass with which to rupture societal norms. Implementing rigorous physical training practices and queering their knowledge of kinesiology and sports science, they formally manipulate the body into shapes that deify expectations. Bashing through...
Haegue Yang works with everyday, often domestic, materials, to create colorful installations that frequently combine industrial materials with sensory effects using light and scent. She has also created a number of different performance and video works. Her exhibitions include Arrivals, Kunsthaus Br...
The work of artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (based in Berlin) often revisits materials from the past, usually photographs or films, referring to and excavating unrepresented or illegible moments of queerness in history. These works show embodiments that are not only able to cro...
The work of artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (based in Berlin) often revisits materials from the past, usually photographs or films, referring to and excavating unrepresented or illegible moments of queerness in history. These works show embodiments that are not only able to cro...
Elisabeth Schimana is a performer, free-lance composer, radio artist and artistic process manager working in an electronic environment. She is a founder of the Institute of Media Archeology (IMA). ...
Marta Vergonyós (1975) is a visual artist and a documentary maker who graduated in Fine Arts. She studied at the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). She has produced several documentaries, performances and installations. She has worked as curato...
Nicola Canavan, born North East England (UK) began working nationally and internationally after graduating in 2006. Canavan's practice is rooted in action-based performance and spans live work, documentation of its products & traces and the re-presentation of these in other forms. Canavan acknowledges...
For the last twenty years Rocío Boliver has been active in the actual international art circuit. In 1991 she started her performance career with the reading of her porno-erotic texts, concentrating her proposals in criticizing repression of women. “In this pasteurized socie...
Barbara Hammer was a visual artist primarily working in film and video honoured with a major retrospective at The Tate Modern, London for the month of February 2012. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented a retrospective of her films with 44 different films from September 13-October 13,...
Martine Neddam is a French artist living in Amsterdam. Her work of art uses language as raw material: speech acts, modes of address, texts in the public space are embodied in objects, sculptures, installations and large scale public commissions. Since 1996 she created virtual characters on internet who l...
Teja Reba is an independent artist and performance maker based in Ljubljana. Since 2016 she has been the program director of City of Women – Association for Promotion of Women in Culture and main curator of its annual International Festival of Contemporary Arts. She was also activ...
Reaching beyond the everyday understanding of liminal corporeality, Leja Jurišić occupies various positions of radical performative expression, as if naturally, and almost effortlessly, belonging to the realms of dance, performance art, and political art at the same time. She moves ...
Anže Sever is a senior student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the context of Society of Artists, DUM he collaborated with program director Tevž Logar within a four-year exhibition project (2013–2017) dedicated to establishing a model for long-term cooperation with younger artists. ...
Anat Ben-David is a pioneer of the video-performance genre in Israel, performing and exhibiting from an early age. "Physical performance and visual arts have always been the focus of my life. At a very early stage I knew that I wanted to combine my talents, and started thinking of new forms of art.&...
Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing) and the campaign New Unions (2016–ongoing). With BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, ...
Iza Pavlina (1991) is finishing her postgraduate studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where she, among other things, received a special achievements award in 2015. Her work is characterised by her interest in topics related to sexuality, paraphilias and pornography. She creates ...
After graduating in humanities at Bologna University in 1979, Loredana Bianconi worked as a film critic, as well as in the organisation of film events and several international video festivals. Further to this she worked for RAI 3 (Italy’s state broadcaster) and became involved in scriptwritin...
Liz Aggiss is a performer, choreographer, dance film-maker and Professor at the University of Brighton. She studied in New York with Hanya Holm and at the Nikolais/Louis Dance Theatre Lab, and in London with Hilde Holger. She has toured her performances live internationally since 1980 and has received nu...
Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik is a choreographer, dancer, dance teacher and videast, often collaborating with musicians, actors, singers and dancers in her projects. She studied at London Contemporary Dance School and attended seminars in Slovenia and abroad. As a videast she has worked with choreographers su...
Miya Masaoka, musician, composer and performance artist, has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological response...
Antonia Baehr is a choreographer / director, performer and film-maker. What characterises her is a non-disciplinary work and a method of collaboration with different people, using a game-structure with switching roles: each person is alternately director / author and performer for the other one. She grad...
Nicole Beutler (Munich, 1969) is a choreographer, curator and performer. She has been living and working in Amsterdam since 1993. She studied Fine Arts at Münster and Munich arts academies, German Literature at the University of Münster and Dance and Choreography at the SNDO at the Theatre Scho...
Igor Zabel was a Slovenian curator and art historian who, in his theorethical and curatorial work, tirelessly called for the profound exploration of those social, cultural, and political undercurrents that had the potential to give us a better understanding of the modern and contemporary art. Igor Zabel Association for...
Working at the intersection of art installation and performance, Claude Wampler engages and experiments with liveness and the art object, concealment and revelation, the performance of the spectator, and the productivity of failure. Using video, painting, photography, lighting, sound, sculpture, costume, and ...
Rosa Reitsamer is a sociologist, writer and DJ. She has been working and researching in areas related to the representation of women in visual arts, popular culture and music, and is also the editor of the queer magazine Female Sequences. In 2002, in conjunction with Anthony Auerbach, Rosa Reitsamer orga...
Simona Semenič is a Slovenian playwright and performer. She completed her dramaturgy studies at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana. Simona is a recipient of the Prešeren Fund Award, the highest Slovenian national award for artistic creation. She is al...
Marijs Boulogne, theatre maker, playwright and performer, graduated as theatre director in 2002 at Rits (Brussels). Her works have been translated in seven languages and have been performed in many countries under her own direction. She wrote and directed Voulez-vous poeper avec moi, Herzschmer...
Vedran Vučić dedicates his work to the study of symbolic expression and myth, as well as media transformation in contemporary arts. He applies chaos theory, fractals as well as other arithmetical approaches in his music compositions, and, in co-operation with some international institutions, has also w...
Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty is a French-born Iraqi activist, political scientist, journalist, and author of the documentary films Dar Al Salam (2001) and On Democracy in Iraq (2003). She has a Master in Political Science from the Sorbonne (2000) and a DESS from the Poitiers Documentary ...
Wendy Houstoun is a movement/theatre artist who remains committed to finding new forms to address her themes. Over the years, her work has developed a uniquely distinctive style that combines movement with text, and meaning with humour. Since 1980, Wendy has worked extensively as a solo performer, ...
Mojca "Mimi" Žorž is a performer, illustrator, and makeup artist. She creates "one woman" solo shows combining movement and visual elements – animation, hand-made props, and set design that are based on her illustrations. She is influenced by the old circus, silent movies, and book...
Janene Higgins' videos and digital media have been described as "abstract narratives: undefinable journeys filled with sudden layerings and allurings." Her videos began as a direct offshoot of her graphic design, incorporating collage, text, and image-layering into a time-based artform. Long a fan of the ...
Multi-instrumentalist/composer/improviser, Zeena Parkins, pioneer of contemporary harp practice and performance, reimagines the instrument as a “sound machine of limitless capacity.” Parkins has built three versions of her one-of-a-kind electric harp and has extended the language of the acoustic h...
SheBoom grew out of the percussion performance in the spectacular artwork: Keltic Clyde Firewitch – designed and directed by Jane Sutherland and brought to life under the musical direction of Erin Scrutton. Jane and Erin first collaborated planning a Reclaim the Night March in 1989. Th...
Lætitia Masson is a French film director and screenwriter. She studied at Femis. Masson has directed more than 20 films and a few series and documentaries since 1991. Her film À vendre was nominated in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Can...
Stevie Wishart is a composer, performer and improviser. She explores medieval and contemporary extremes, using voices, ancient technologies such as the hurdy gurdy, and electronic music technologies of our own time. She has composed for modern orchestras and vocal groups an...
Lunka Erszi "Ikola" is one of the most outstanding Transylvanian Romany singers of the 90’s. Her performances are said to have been admired by Marta Sebestyen, and her rare appearances in the West have brought the world’s musical elite to their knees. Of course, her emotional singing, wi...
Dancer and choreographer Kitt Johnson is one of a kind on the Danish dance and performance scene. For more than twenty-five years she has been developing her own, very particular, artistic universe; a universe that is at once minimalist, expressive and innovative. Her work is characterized by an extreme body ...
Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new music and working across disciplines for years. From a background of classical violin, a zoology degree, studying West African drumming, and a master’s degree in music technology, she is now mostly known for her “live sampling” performances o...
The group's founding director, Stevie Wishart, conceived of Sinfonye as a group combining improvisatory skills derived from historical research, and where possible informed by related traditional music. In 1987 Sinfonye was awarded the highest prize in the Festival van Vlaanderen in Bruges and m...
Tatiana Bazzichelli is the artistic director and founder of the Disruption Network Lab. Former programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin from 2011 to 2014, she developed the year-round ‘reSource transmedial culture berlin’ project and curated several conference events. She combined...
British director and playwright Anna Furse is the author of over forty performances. Her creativity has been strongly influenced by collaboration with Peter Brook in Paris and her work at the Grotovsky Theatre Laboratory in Poland. At the beginning of the nineteen-eighties she formed a feminist theatre compan...
Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received a First-Class Honours degree from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy and the University Tillyard prize. Braidotti then ...
Vlasta Jalušič is one of the founders of the Peace Institute in Ljubljana. She earned her PhD in political science (1996) from the University of Vienna. She is the author of several books, articles, and chapters in books on the women’s movement and feminism, gender and political theory...
Eva D. Bahovec is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Women Studies, Institute of Educational Research, and Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her main research interests are in the areas of contemporary philosophy, sociology of education, and w...
Maja Dekleva is a performative artist – a director, author and performer as well as an artistic director of the festival Goli oder (Naked Stage). Besides her important part in working within the Narobov Colletive, she is a member of the international collective Orcas Island Project, author of clown...
Lady Gaby is a Berlin based Australian spoken word and performance artist, creative writing and projects coordinator as well as event promoter, has been involved in the international spoken word scene since the 90s. organiser of Fuel, From the MOUTH OF DAMES, The Poetic Groove, lady gaby devotes energy i...
Geffen Miron a.k.a. Geffen 3 is an Israeli singer who began her music career in a Japanese karaoke club during a journey around the world. After returning to her homeland, she founded a band, studied theatre acting (Romania/Australia/Germany) and (Israel/Germany) drama, and performed as a theat...
Martina Ipša was one of the people that helped create the stand up comedy scene in Slovenia and 12 years later she is still present. After more than 1500 performances, she is regarded by some as the best female comedian in her country and one of the best in the region. She h...
Rosie Dennis began her career as a writer, poet and director, and over recent years she withdrew from classic theatre projects to become intensely engaged in a comprehensive artistic expression as a performer, improviser and vocalist. Indeed, she explores vocal expressions that are – in addition to...
Alexis O’Hara is a transdisciplinary artist whose work comprises elements of cabaret, pop music, spoken-word, stand-up comedy, vocals and electronics, drag, photography and installation. The eclecticism of her work attracts international programmers from various disciplines. She has presented ...
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1994. Like a bonsai plant, she is small but old. She has been making art for over 30 years. A cross-fertilization of theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work is as complex as it is accessible; humorous as it is challengin...
Clare Cooper has been an active member of the Sydney arts community since she co-founded the NOW now festival and experimental music series. Most of her projects these days centre around futuring and speculative design applied to context, performing, community organising, improvisation and graphic s...
Keiko Uenishi (also known as "o.blaat"), is a sound art-i-vist, socio/environ composer, and a core member of SHARE.nyc, currently based in Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. and Vienna, Austria. She is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one'...
Katja Praznik holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Ljubljana. She teaches cultural policy and courses related to the political economy of the arts at University at Buffalo in New York. Her research is centered on the politics of unpaid artistic labor during the demise of the welfare state. Bef...
Sabina Potočki is a freelance producer and dancer working in art and culture. In 1984 she graduated from the School of Economics and Business in Maribor and that same year continued her studies at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism in Ljubljan...
Dunja Kukovec is a curator, publicist and producer. She has curated, co-curated and organized numerous cultural events and exhibitions, mostly in Slovenia, but also abroad. Selected projects: co-curator of Belgrade October Salon (2014), co-founder of the international feminist project Bring-In, Take-Out ...
Aleksandra Keka Calic is a Doctor of Dental Medicine who has worked in the field of dental care since 2003. In addition, in the last decade, she is devoting herself to researching interdisciplinary relationships between modern medicine and humanistic theory, and researching contemporary concepts of health and...
Régine Debatty is a writer, curator, critic, and founder of we-make-money-not-art.com, a blog which received 2 Webby awards and recently received an honorary mention at the START Prize, a competition that acknowledges ” innovative projects at the interface of science, technology and art&rdqu...
Kevin Blechdom is a female artist originally named Kristin Erickson, born in Florida in 1978. With a laptop, self-made computer music programs, piano chops, a 5-string banjo, Blechdom sings from from the heart. Kevin Blechdom’s second latest solo album, Gentlemani...
Girlswholikeporno were Águeda Bañón (1974) and María Llopis (1975), from Spain. The project emerged in Barcelona in 2002, with the ambition to offer a personal view on porn and sexuality, by questioning and subverting the construction of identities, fantasies and sexualities a...
Betti Forde and Jenni Craige are both into rhyme spitting, and with these two what you hear is what you get. Their names are porn nicknames deriving from the most notorious of all alcohol-addiction therapists, and one of the most famous so-called nutritionists. The contempt for women, very much...
Born in 1975 in Zagreb, Ivana Sajko works as a playwright, director, theatre theoretician and author of radio productions and multimedia projects in which she works with artists from various fields. In addition to her collaboration with American composer David Simons, with whom she released a CD ent...
Jocelyn Pook is a composer who writes scores for concert, film, theatre and dance with the same apparent ease. She sculpted her classical musical education on the viola, which in the world of composition places her as an artist of linear and horizontal music events. Listening to her work more carefully, ...
Andrina Mračnikar (born 1981 in Hallein, Austria) studied directing at the AGRFT (Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television) in Ljubljana and directing & screenplay at the Vienna Film Academy. She has won numerous prizes, primarily for the documentary film Andri 1924 – 1944 and Der Kä...
Natalie Rose LeBrecht, who released her first albums under the name Greenpot Bluepot, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Devoted to studies in sound, texture and emotion, LeBrecht creates an intriguing sphere of her own in her artwork, and somehow preserves a fantastic sense of humour in the process. She ...
PPF – Podjetje za proizvodnjo fikcije (Company for the Production of Fiction) was an alternative female theatre group established in 1983 by Neva Faninger, Mojca Dreu and Tanja Lesničar-Pučko; later they were joined by Monika Skaberne and Seta Knop. The Company operated within the context of &Sca...
Shelbatra Jashari is a conceptual multimedia artist, actress and dancer/performer who works cross-medially in film, movement, sound, space and text. Her work researches the sculptural elements of the human body, the human condition and it's representation in various political and thinking systems. Hu...
Silke Mansholt was born in Leer, Germany, and has lived and worked in Brighton, England, since 1998. She has studied graphic design, fine art, performance and dance, as well as trained in expressive dance, shamanic trance practices, reiki, reflexology and movement therapy. Further to this she initiated a...
Kathleen Hanna s a New York City-based artist, best known for her groundbreaking performances as a member of the 90’s punk band, Bikini Kill, and her multimedia group, Le Tigre. The Punk Singer, a documentary about her life, premiered at festivals and saw a nationwide theatrical release. She is cu...
JD Samson is best known as leader of the band MEN and for being one-third of the electronic-feminist-punk band and performance project, Le Tigre. For more than a decade JD's career as a musician, producer and DJ has landed her at the interse...
Le Tigre are: Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, J. D. Samson. Their first album Le Tigre (Mr. Lady) was published in 1999; it was followed by the musically more sophisticated and verbally much more radical Feminist Sweepstakes in 2001 (Mr. Lady/Chicks on Speed Records). In th...
Uršula Cetinski is a professor of German and comparative literature. She graduated from the University of Ljubljana and took a master's degree in cultural management at Johannes Kepler University in Linz. In the 1980’s she was a journalist and editor of culture at Radio Študent, and publish...
Valentina Čabro is a dancer and choreographer and mother of three young children, who started dancing before she even became aware of it. She spent her childhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany, and her school years at academies in Essen, Montpellier, Hamburg and Rotterdam. In 1996 she came to Slo...
DEJAN SRHOJ (1978) is an independent performer in the field of contemporary dance. From 1998 to 2001 he was a ballet soloist in the SNG Opera Ljubljana. Since 2001 he has been a freelance artist. He is a co-founder of Fičo Balet where he has worked as a performer and choreographer. In addition, he has worked as a chor...
Lina Saneh (born in Beirut 1966) is a theater maker. She has acted in and has written and directed several plays, among them: Les Chaises, 1996 ; Ovrira, 1997 ; Extrait d'Etat Civil, 2000 ; Biokhraphia, 2002; Appendice, 2007. She made her first video, I Had a Dream, Mom ...
Andreja Dugandžić lives and works in Sarajevo. Her art devolops through collage, performance, writing and sound. Exploring the mundane and daily domestic life, she is concerned with the wider socio–cultural and gendered dimensions of food, cooking, household labour and its economics. Andreja has...
Starke – all female electro band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Operated mostly in the framework of DIY, their expression abandoned common musical conduct forms and deviated from usual matrices and styles. Their lyrics are full of female power, criticism, irony and observations of technologized landscape ...
Hanka Paldum began her successful career in 1980 with the release of her first album Čežnja (Longing). She has worked with the most famous names in popular music in Ex-Yugoslavia, including Milić Vukašinović, Goran Bregović and Bodo Kovačević. Thanks to hits – such as Zelene Oči (Gre...
Gwendoline Robin studied at the Brussels’ La Cambre – École Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Visuels, majoring in urban and rural space. Rather than relating her projects to the spectacular tradition of fire art, she introduces the elements of conceptualism. Thus, in accepting an i...
Organized since 1998, with the belief that cinema has an impact on the promotion of gender sensitivity, the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival uses the ef fective narrative of cinema to enhance the visibilit y of women and their problems, as well as to create ye t another milieu in an ef f...
CURE Foundation is a feminist-activist organization that promotes gender and sex equality and works for positive social change through educational, cultural and research programs. By organizing affirmative collective actions, CURE celebrates the strength and power of women, and helps to empower individuals to become in...
Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik is a research advisor at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. She is also an associate professor at the University of Nova Gorica and a visiting professor at the University of Stavanger. S...
Anja Salomonowitz was born in 1976 in Austria. She studied directing and editing at the film and television department at Vienna Academy for Music and Applied Arts. Since 1997 she has made five short, less noticed films on video, and a longer documentary film You Will Never Understand This, which at...
Antoinette Jadaone graduated cum laude with a degree in Film and Audio-Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines in 2006. Originally a Broadcast Communication major, she was intent on pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a sportscaster. A dream that Antoinette abandoned when she rea...
Formed in 1998, Uluru has, over the years, transformed itself from a didgeridoo orchestra into an ethno- experimental ensemble. Today it comprises the following members: Maruša Jenič (violin, percussion, vocal), Ksenija Jus (electric guitar, vocal, percussion), Valentina Praprotnik (percussi...
Kamilya Jubran was born in Akka in the State of Israel, to Palestinian parents who are from a northern Palestinian village in Al-Jaleel. Elias Jubran, Kamilya's father, an authentic instrument maker and a music teacher was her first source of classical Arabic musical education. In Jerusalem, Kamilya ...
Born November 20, 1964 in the village of San Stefano Quisquina near Agrigento (Sicily), Palma, who is a political philosopher by education, works in film (playing, singing, accompanying silent movies) and music. She will present her project Cantabile non troppo, a solo work involving voice, percussion in...
Alicja Zebrowska studied at the Art Institute of Lublin University, receiving a degree in sculpture. For two years she was a visiting student at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Sculpture Department, receiving her Master's from the Wander Bertoni Studio. Her work has been shown in Poland, the U...
Born 1970, living and working in Vienna. Studies of philosophy, history, film and theatre studies in Vienna. Lecturer at the Institute of Art and Design/TU Vienna. Director of mosz records. Schwentner's practice spans from her early abstract experimental films through sculptural and photograp...
Over the last two decades, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in experimental film and video. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance, Super-8 film, found footage, digital animation, and Pixelvision video. With ...
Werner Hasler plays jazz trumpet and is the leader of the band Manufactur; their intriguing tapes in the field of electro-acoustic research are available through the Zürich distributor RecRec. Although he has had a lot of experience in collaborating with Japanese sound designers and dance ...
Benedicte Lienard studied film direction at L'Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain la Neuve. Before her debut fiction feature Une Part du Ciel in 2001 (released in 2002), she directed several short fiction films, as well as short and feature-length documentaries, and worked a...
Ursula Ramoves lives and works in a village called Susa in Poljanska Valley. She studied singing with Ileana Bratus Kocjan for ten years. In 1999, she self-published an album titled Sugar Free Baby, which received excellent reviews: 'One of the most beautiful voices one can hear in these parts n...
Krawallmädchen has been involved in sound research since 1999 and also plays in the Minipli 550 band, in addition to Räuberhöhle. Both bands have performed in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain. Räuberhöhle use numerous synthesisers (such as casio sa-11, casio m-200, c...
Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) lives and works in Mumbai, India where she has studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts from 1992 to 1997. She had solo shows at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Arnolfini in Bristol, OK in Linz, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Voorlinden Museum and Ga...
Fe-mail is the name of the electronic duo Maja S. K. Ratkje and Hild S. Tafjord, who are both members of the well-known Norwegian band SPUNK. The music of Fe-mail is created through pure improvisation and without any pre-recorded sound. It is characterised by the use of old-fashioned...
Bettina Knaup works internationally as a curator and cultural producer at the intersection of art, politics and knowledge production with an emphasis on Live Art, Performance and Gender. She studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies. Her projects include: the “op...
Vesna Leskošek, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include gender studies, welfare state, social inequalities, poverty and young people. Her doctoral thesis on the first-wave feminism in Slovenia was published in a monog...
Helen is a writer, theatre-maker and digital artist. She is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision and one of the coordinators of UpStage, a platform for cyberformance. A diverse career has led to her experimental ar...
Even during her student years, Hanna A. W. Slak received several Slovene and foreign awards for her short films. Her first feature film, Slepa Pega (Blind Spot, 2001), which she both wrote and directed, was awarded at the 2002 Cottbus Film Festival, and also received the Don Quixote A...
Katrien Jacobs: sholar, writer and activist in the field of digital art and culture, who has lectured and published widely on netporn, sex art and censorship. Currently she is assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. ...
Robyn Orlin has over 20 years of experience and many creations behind her. She studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance and completed a master’s degree in fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has worked as a choreographer, producer, dancer and teacher in diverse media including ...
The trio explores the boundaries and shared space in and between the realms of composed and improvised music, drawing on their own diverse influences of jazz, musique actuelle, rock, new music, early music and 20th century classical music. The Queen Mab Trio has been creating and performing for almost six yea...
Zorica Jevremović is a Serbian theatre and video director, playwright, choreographer, intermedia theorist (film, television, animated film, comic strip), literary historian and feminist. Her work also includes that of a dramaturge in alternative and informal theatrical and film groups....
Ruth Mader was born in Vienna in 1974. She studied film direction at the Viennese Faculty for Music and Applied Arts (department for film and television). Following three short films/videos made between 1997 and 2001 (Ready for What, Gfrasta, Null Defizit). Struggle is her first full-length fea...
Hans Scheirl is a transgender, trans-media artist, who has worked in avant-garde cinema, super-8 film, video, performance, fluxus, pornographic text, manifesto, drawing, installation & experimental music. Scheirl's films have been presented at film festivals and art institutions around the world ...
Karen Wong has been interested in and working at the intersections of new media, urban strategies and architecture for a number of years. She is interested in the imbrications of physical and virtual spaces and the disruptions between public domains and private spheres, particularly with regards to women...
Katy Deepwell is Head of (Post-Graduate) Research Training at University of the Arts, London. She is the author of Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland (London: IB Tauris, 2005); (ed) Women Artists and Modernism(Manchester Univ Press, 1998); (ed) New Feminist Art Criticism (Manc...
Feminalz is a collective of transgender entities, expressed through their choreographic and performative practice in the techno-burlesque Image snatchers. In the author's points, social norms are being challenged, the fools are made of political correctness, they perform sharp political satire, they change their ro...
Jelena Rusjan’s (1979) educational path led from the Secondary School of Ballet to the Department of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she also graduated. She moved to Ljubljana in 2004, where she has collaborated in several performances as actor and dancer, such as Galerija mrtvih...
CocoRosie is a Brooklyn based duo, two sisters, Bianca and Sierra Cassady. They became quite a hit in New York, as they managed to win a series of good reviews in their short creative career, becoming the unburdened underground stars of an upcoming, fresh, neo-folk musical trend. In the la...
Sanja Ozbolt is a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher. She studied dance at schools and seminars of modern and contemporary dance in Maribor, Zagreb, Rovinj, Vienna, London and Ljubljana. After studying in Ljubljana, she furthered her knowledge at the London Contemporary Dance School in England (1981 - 1983). ...
Rok Vevar has dedicated most of his efforts in recent years to creating a historical overview of contemporary dance in Slovenia. In 2012 he opened his flat to the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive in order to ensure that the Slovenian contemporary dance scene, students, researchers and the interested public had ac...
Ida Hiršenfelder is a Ljubljana, Slovenia based media art critic, curator for media art, and theorist who studied Sinology, and for a time, lived and studied in Beijing. Since 2014 she is a collaborator of MG+MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for Network Museum online aggregator of co...
P L A T E AU R E S I D U E is a young art duo made up of geographer and artist Aljaž Celarc (1989), and Eva Pavlič Seifert (1989), an art historian and theorist of visual art. Their art touches the fields of ecology, art, design and science, using and transcending the specific characteristics...
Ever since she returned from the London Contemporary Dance School, where she completed her master’s degree, Snježana Premuš’s choreographic and dance work has been informed with fundamental exploration of the body through choreography and dance. Her first works already signalled different creat...
Alja Lobnik is a PhD candidate at the Humanities and Social Sciences interdisciplinary programme at the University of Ljubljana. She works as a publicist and critic for Radio Študent’s Culture and Humanities Redaction, and for the Bunker’s Kriterij.si platform, while she has also been published ...
Clémentine Deliss is a curator, publisher and cultural historian. Between 2010 and 2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. She is currently professor of Curatorial Theory & Dramaturgical Practice at the University of Arts & Design, Karlsruhe....
iLiana Fokianaki is a writer and curator based in Athens and Rotterdam. In 2013, she founded State of Concept Athens and is the co-founder of the research platform Future Climates. Fokianaki is currently a lecturer at the Dutch Art Institute....
The siblinghood Axt und Kelle inducts all craftsmen/women who have learned a carpenter construction or subconstruction trade into their ranks. At the end of the 70s and into the beginning of the 80s select members of existing brotherhoods felt the need to organize themselves together with fellow craftswome...
American Alicia F. is a true cross-disciplinary artist – she is a classically trained soprano, able to play many musical instruments, and is also an accomplished poet and photographer. She lives between London and Paris and travels to exotic places satisfying a passion for spirituality and mys...
Christen Clifford has performed in theatres across the US and internationally, as well as appeared in film and on television. Her work has been published in major US periodicals and received praise from the likes of the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, and USA Today. She ...
Waltraud Grausgruber representative of the association Culture2Culture, which organises cultural, scientific and interdisciplinary events focusing on women, film & video, as well as Tricky Women, the only female animation film festival in Europe. ...
Birgitt Wagner: representative of the association Culture2Culture, which organises cultural, scientific and interdisciplinary events focusing on women, film & video, as well as Tricky Women, the only female animation film festival in Europe. ...
Miriam Ginestier is a performer, filmmaker, curator, DJ and Artistic Director of Studio 303, Montreal and the Edgy Women Festival. In 2003, she was awarded a prize for her outstanding contribution to queer culture in Montreal. ...
Heather Kravas has been studying a wide variety of dance forms since childhood. She has worked and danced in New York (Judson Church, The Kitchen), where she has had the pleasure to perform with DD Dorvillier, Peter Jacobs, Jennifer Allen, Amy Cox, Yvonne Meier, Okkyung Lee and others. ...
Canadian Antonija Livingstone chose a nomad way of life and work that has taken her to Montreal, Berlin, Stockholm and Brussels. Since 2000 she has undertaken her own research within the Brussels-based Bains::Connective art laboratory, and often works with established dance artists, including Vera M...
Since 1993, Magdalena Lupi Alvir, a graduate of AGRFT in Ljubljana, has been active as a dramaturg at the Ivana Pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka. As a dramaturg, author of dramatizations and a playwright she has collaborated with various Croatian and Slovene theatres. She is co-founder and ar...
The voice of Madigan Shive and her unique articulation and style – that encompasses everything from hard punk rock and experimentation with vocal techniques to purely ethereal song – instantly draws the attention of the listener. Using the strings of her favourite instrument – the ...
Cécile Proust, the founder of the femmeuses project, is a French dancer and choreographer who has long been interested in the issues related to gender construction – in art as well as society. Thus in addition to contemporary dance, she is involved in various so-called 'women's&...
Rebekah Wilson a.k.a. Netochka Nezvanova works as an independent composer, electronic musician, installation artist, filmmaker and software developer. ...
Nathalie Claude is an actor, director, choreographer, dancer, writer and musician. She is an important player in the experimental theatre scene in Montreal. Her creations provide a magnetic mix of pathos and humour, and have been performed in convents, graveyards as well as in conventional theatres. &...
Lamathilde is a video artist living and working in Montreal. Her work focuses on the representation of gender, the image of women and the perception of the human body. ...
Dayna McLeod is a video and performance artist. Peppered with feminism, her work is ripe with humour and sexual situations. Some viewers may be offended, and often are. ...
Mary Duffy went to art school and university before qualifying as a teacher. She has a Master's degree in Equalities Studies and received an honorary doctorate of Laws by the National University of Ireland in recognition of her work for disability art. She has as a teacher, actress, painter, poet, ra...
Julie Kramer, who directed Baby Love, co-developed and directed Clifford’s 17 Guys I Fucked. Her New York credits include the Ensemble Studio Theater, the New York Fringe Festival, The Variety Arts Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Georges, and ABC TV. Her award winning direction has...
Jelena Petrović, PhD, completed her doctoral studies at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana Graduate School of Humanities (ISH) in 2009, defending the doctoral dissertation entitled Gender and Women's Authorship in Literary Culture and Public Discourses in Yugoslavia between Tw...
Mara Vujić – born in Pula (Croatia) in 1974, graduated from the Art History Department of Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She is a freelance curator and producer mainly interested in the visual and performing arts. Mara Vujić participated in the production and organization of various events, projec...
Silvia Federici is a long-time feminist activist, teacher and writer. In 1991, she was one of the founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She has been active in the anti-globalization movement and the anti-death penalty movement. She is the author of many essays on political philosophy,...
Nirmal Puwar is part of the sociology department at Goldsmith College, London. Her publications include Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place (2004), a co-edited book on South Asian Women in the Diaspora (2003) as well as a special double issue of the journal Fashi...
Barbara Albert was born in Vienna in 1970, where she later also studied performance art, German, and journalism. In 1991 she enrolled at the Vienna Film Academy, at the department for directing and screenplay writing. While still studying, she was acquiring experience as an assistant director and directo...
Hasija Borić was born in 1953 in Jajce (BiH), has studied in London and Wroclaw (at the Grotowski Institute) and worked in several Croatian and Bosnian theatres. After the war she returned to Sarajevo despite her very successful collaboration with the Volkstheater in Vienna, where she still makes guest ...
Laurence Rassel is a Cyberfeminist and member of Constant vzw, an artist-run organisation in Brussels which links artistic and theoretical thinking on the Internet and digital communication. Constant is active in gender issues, alternatives to copyright, networks, etc, developing projects in different pl...
Marie-Françoise Stewart-Ebel, a paradoxical* feminist for 30 years, hands in the pot of gender politics and still an optimist activist, is firmly looking towards the future, inspired by the generations of feminists who kept questioning the societies in which they lived to invent better ones: suffragett...
Born in1975 in Montelimar, France, where she was educated prior to 2000, Gaëlle Denis received a master’s in animation direction from London’s Royal College of Art. Part of this course involved a semester at Kyoto University of Arts in Japan, and eventually culminated in her award-w...
Wendy Van Wynsberghe reported on the 'Cyberfeminist Working Days', organised by Constant vzw in 2000. She recorded events and conducted interviews. She was astonished by the content, the people, and positively intrigued with an aftertaste of "More of this, please!" and "What i...
The Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Mara Mattuschka, who was born in 1959 in Bulgaria, and at the age of 17, as a mathematical wizard, chose Austrian as her second citizenship, is one of the most important figures in experimental film in Europe. She is also the connecting link between Valie Export and the...
Born Linda Elizabeth Borden to an upper-class family, she legally changed her name to Lizzie Borden after hearing about the famous 19th century axe murder case in which the main suspect had the same name. Lizzie Borden studied painting at Wellesley, and worked as a film critic in New York City while...
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal t...
Binna Choi has been the director of CasCo– Office for Art, Design and Theory since the summer of 2008. She has been running CasCo’s cross-disciplinary programme, which focuses on the construction of social space and issues of collaboration, collective production, and the common vis-à-v...
Maiko Tanaka takes up her curatorial practice as a public, political, and collective form of research that can enable the production of new subjectivities and aesthetic forms. Since 2010, she collaborated with Binna Choi on CasCo’s “The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual&rd...
Sanne Oorthuizen is part of the curatorial team at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, where she works closely with Binna Choi on programming, curating, generating resources and community development. Her interests lie in socially and politically engaged art practices that call fo...
On stage at Club Luz are one of Wales most charismatic and innovative performers Eddie Ladd - "I do Trent like if he were Welsh and a girl" - and composer/D.J. Dewi Evans. Inspired by Kraftwerk, The Fall, Bowie, Brel, Laurie Anderson, and Kylie, the singer at the lone microphone ...
Hiroko Tanahashi is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts Film and Television Program at New York University (BFA) and of the MFA Program in Multi Media Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design, New York, where she focused on interactive media arts. She has worked as art director for film and s...
Mildred Gerestant uses many of her experiences, including growing up as first generation of Haitian parents, being seen as a woman and perceived as a black man on the streets of NY, as well as a transsexual, drag queen, gay man, gender-illusioning woman. So far she performed in many U.S. American cities,...
Ask! is a group of cultural workers making alliances with (migrant) domestic workers in the Netherlands and elsewhere to research and address the conditions and demands of domestic work today. Ask! stands for Actie Schone Kunsten, a punning name using the traditional Dutch term for ‘fine arts’, wh...
A social-philosophical jewel from Belgrade. Anti-sexist poems for special occasions, written by 'two beauties' with 'brains' and 'ovaries'. – This is how the commercial machinery for this young duo could be set in motion. The two Bitcharke ('bitch' pronounced phonetically...
Werker Magazine (based in Amsterdam) is a contextual publication about photography and labour initiated by MarcRoig Blesa (1981, Madrid) and Rogier Delfos (1981, Amsterdam). This collaborative project inquires into the possibility of formulating a contemporary representation of work. It asks such questionsas:...
The magical voice of a singer who concluded the tenth year's festival resonated from several Slovenian stages in 1994 as part of the then nomad, excuse me, travelling ethno-festival Okarina, including the rain-washed Ljubljana castle. Mónika Juhász Miczura – to friends and fans si...
In her practice, Ruth Buchanan uses sculpture, video, performance, sound, and graphics to construct both literary and built spaces that investigate the parameters of artistic action. Recent exhibitions and performances include: A Wavy Line Is Across The Middle Of The Original Plans, Kolschiner Kunst...
Our Autonomous Life? (OAL) was conceived and developed alongside the Grand Domestic Revolution in 2011-2012 in collaboration with artist Maria Pask and cultural anthropologist Nazima Kadir. Since the broadcast of the first season on Utrecht local television, some members of the evolving cast and writers ...
Oni and Pikacyu’s first works were self-released in the self-organised manner of the hyper-productive Japanese underground, which has its origins in the tape culture of the 1980s. The dripping of Afrirampo music in the west was significantly facilitated by their USA tour with Smegma veterans, the Europe...
Dina Rončević went through professional retraining to be an auto mechanic as part of her graduate work on Animation and New media department in the Art academy in Zagreb (2010). She worked as an apprentice in a few car/motorbike shops, as a stop motion and puppet animator on several films and she was a...
Lilijana Burcar is an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) where she teaches literature in the context of its sociopolitical ramifications. Her research interests include systemic feminist theory, anticapitalism, neocolonial studies and social justice with focus on contemp...
Sara De Bosschere began her theatre career with the Koninklijk Jeugdtheater children’s company in 1986. After graduating from the Dora van der Groen theatre academy in Antwerp, she co-founded the Theater van De Roovers collective in 1994, since which time she has successfully adapted and staged suc...
Eduardo Raon has a classical musical education, but is nevertheless a versatile musician. It was perhaps due to his interest in electronic music – as well as rock, jazz and improvisation – that he was something of a black sheep at Lisbon’s Conservatory of Music, where he studied the har...
Inês Jacques initiated her musical studies in 1994. She played with recognised musicians like the pianist Rui Caetano and the Gualdino Barros Quartet. Currently, she studied jazz singing under Joana Machado, and is also active as a choreographer and dancer. She studied dance in Lisbon and Holl...
Geneviève Castrée was one of many artistic names of the 25-year-old Canadian comic artist and musician Geneviève Gosselin. She lived in the Pacific Northwest and was been drawing comics since 1996 when she produced her first photocopied mini comic books. Geneviève published&nb...
Eleni Laperi (b.1949, Tiranë) is an art scholar, curator and art critic. She is a graduate in Painting of the Higher Institute of Arts in Tirana (1972). Laperi was appointed the designer of the art magazine “Shqiptarja e Re” (“The New Albanian Woman”) (1972-1980) and the designer ...
Suzana Milevska is a theorist and curator of visual art and culture from Macedonia. Her interests include postcolonial critique of hegemonic power regimes of representation, feminist art and gender theory, participatory and collaborative art practices. She holds a PhDin visual culture from Goldsmiths Col...
Metka Maček is a herbalist with a rich compendium of pharmacopoeic knowledge of plants. She was part of the 2006 City of Women festival with the pharmacopeic market project. She passes her knowledge on to the young and the older through guided tours of her homestead and lectures and presentations in urb...
Joseph Valenčič writes, lectures and produces documentary films about the history of Slovenian-American emigration in popular culture. In the year 2005 he participated in the documentary Americans for TV Slovenia and was a co-author of the biography of the actress Nora Gregor, the star of Renoir's film ...
Jasmina Husanović teaches cultural studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla. Her research field and interests include cultural studies, political philosophy, social theory and emancipatory practices in the field of arts, cultural production and knowledge production. She has published numerous scien...
Barbara Korun was born in Ljubljana, where she graduated in the Slovene language and comparative literature. She lives and teaches in Ljubljana, publishes poems, and occasionally writes about literature. Barbara Korun’s 1999 poetry collection The Edge of Grace (Mladinska Knjiga) received an aw...
ELECTRIC INDIGO (Austria) “To call Electric Indigo the most important woman in the Austrian electronic scene would be an insult,” wrote Sven Gaechter, editor-in-chief of Profil magazine; in fact this is true from several aspects – the female, electronic as well as internationa...
Trick-C is one of the few longstanding DJanes in Slovenia. Succumbing to the sound of electronic music in 1992, and on the back of five years of spinning for friends at private techno parties, she realised this was what she wanted to do for a living. Her first DJ set at the The Day After party in Graz (A...
Miss House Wife should not be judged by her age; she is already well established and one of Slovenia’s finest DJanes with a long track record of public displays of her amazing capabilities behind the decks and the production of equally inspiring music. Her mission is the promotion of a healthy elec...
An art historian, visual art critic and feminist theoretician, Dr Tanja Mastnak has been in recent years ever more active in the field of education. In her doctoral thesis entitled Kreativni potencial obrobnega: ženske v likovni umetnosti [The Creative Potential of the Marginal: Women in ...
Sabine Ercklentz plays it 'the old way' in the United Women's Orchestra, as well as salsa and 'more tangible' jazz, but during her musical exploration she uses it only as a 'sound source'. She practically doesn't use the mouthpiece, and hardly ever a mute, asserting that air an...
Andrea Neumann is classically trained pianist, who – all of a sudden – got inside the instrument, and reduced it to strings, resonance board and metal frame; during the performance this remnant is connected to a mini mixer board by way of which sound is deformed, reformed and transformed. The...
Maud Nelissen is a Dutch composer and pianist who has particularly dedicated herself to the creation of musical accompaniment for classic silent films. She worked in Italy with Charlie Chaplin’s last music arranger Eric James, who was himself a veteran of music hall and film accompaniment in the silent ...
Feminist, socialist, and pioneer filmmaker of the French avant-garde during the 1920s and 30s, Germaine Dulac (1882-1942), played a seminal role in the evolution of cinema as both art form and protagonist of social practice. Beyond her theoretical writings and passionate struggle for the legitimisat...
Christine Tohme is a Beirut-based curator who has been organising public events in Lebanon, and creating exchange platforms involving Lebanese and foreign artists. In 1994 she became one of the founding members of Ashkal Alwan (Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts) a non-profit arts organisation which s...
Born in Beirut, Waël Noureddine was no longer able to bear the sectarian conflicts that he feels continue to tear Lebanon apart, and in 2002 he left for Europe. His completed works include Ça Sera Beau: From Beirut with Love (Super-16, 2005), Homage to Carlos: Ri...
Dubravka Đurić is a poet, essayist and editor of ProFemina magazine; she is also a lecturer at the Belgrade Centre for Women’s Studies. ...
Barbara Borčić je umetnostna zgodovinarka in anglistka; študirala medijske študije in antropologijo na ISH – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij v Ljubljani. Programska svetovalka Zavoda za sodobno umetnost SCCA−Ljublja...
Silvia Ferreri studied acting at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and, among others, was a student of Lina Wertmuller, Giancarlo Giannini and Citto Maselli. Ferreri simultaneously graduated from the Catholic University of Milan with a degree in modern literature, specialising in s...
Born in Montréal, Caroline Martel is a documentary artist. She has BA in communication studies and an MA in media studies from Concordia University. Since 1998, she has synthesised documentary theory and practice in a variety of projects. Hold the Line (Dernier Appel, 2001) was her ...
Renata Jambrešić Kirin is a researcher at the Zagreb Institute of Ethnology and an associate of a local women's studies centre. In her research she mainly investigates ethnological, cultural-critical and feminist perspectives of war and women's role in it. ...
Ajla Demiragić is an assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Sarajevo University Faculty of Arts, and is particularly interested in feminist literary theory and history. ...
Šejla Šehabović is a poet, writer and journalist of the younger generation. She teaches Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian language and literature at Tuzla grammar school. She also works as an editor of Razlika (Difference), a paper aimed at critics and art theorists. ...
Maruša Krese was a writer, journalist and psychotherapist who for the past fifteen years had lived and worked abroad. She wrote poetry published by prominent foreign Slovene language publishers abroad. Prior to the year 2006 neither her poetry collections nor her book Pisma Žensk o...
Sina is the most successful folk artist in Switzerland; all her five albums have gone gold or platinum. She has been touring with her band throughout Switzerland and Europe for more than twelve years, as well as engaged in crossover projects involving Bulgarian choirs, a Chinese underground band and Ruma...
Sabina Guzzanti is an Italian actress and comedienne who is heavily involved in the satirical. A graduate from Rome's Academy of Dramatic Arts, she began her television career in 1988. Famous in Italy for her impressions of everyone from porn-stars to politicians, Guzzanti has been antagonistic from ...
Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer, who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana. Curated numerous exhibitions presenting both Slovenian and international artists. She initiated the first collection of Eastern European art, Moderna ga...
Karol Radziszewski received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. He works with film, photography, installations and creates interdisciplinary projects. His archive-based methodology crosses multiple cultural, historical, religious, social and gender references. Since 2005 he has been the publisher and ed...
Andrzej Wróblewski was a painter, art historian and critic, one of the leading representatives of postwar Central and Eastern European art. Born in Vilnius in 1927, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he became Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Painting, and graduated in art history from ...
Lewis Trondheim (1964) is the founder of the most influential French independent comic book publishing house L'Associacion, the editor of the author's line at the Gallic giant Delcourt and the author of more than a hundred comics from autobiographical to avant-garde to cheerful commercials, including the infamo...
Selma Selman, artist and Romani activist, earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Banja Luka University’s Department of Painting, and graduated from Syracuse University (USA) with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Transmedia, Visual and Performing Arts. Her search for contemporary political resistance stems fr...
About works in the AV archive The AV archive contains About MG+MSUM Moderna galerija was founded in 1947 as a museum of modern art. The initiative for the erection of a national museum and exhibition ground devoted to modern art, as opposed to the National Gallery, was made by Iz...
Zavod Kersnikova, a nonprofit cultural institution, which combines art and computer production of individual projects, has established Kapelica Gallery in 1995. It is one of the main venues of the contemporary artistic exploration. Kapelica Gallery presents various genres which are charaster...
Maska is a non-profit organization for publishing, production (performances, interdisciplinary and visual art works), education and research. In recent years, it has strengthened both the local and international performing arts scene as one of the rare organizations which also affirms theoretical and artistic creation....
Rok Vevar, the founder of the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive (2012) has dedicated a great deal of time and effort to creating an historical overview of the development of dance in Slovenia, in the process compiling his own documentary and audiovisual archive. Most of the material concerns contemporary scenic arts, dan...
Source: KUD Mreža Ljubljana-based cultural and artistic association KUD Mreža (Kulturno & Umetniško Društvo Mreža) is active ever since the founding of Metelkova mesto in order to improve the alternative cultural centre’s infrastructure and productional conditions, always focusin...
The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture – City of Women was founded in 1996 in Ljubljana. Its main goal is to organise affirmative actions to draw the attention on the disproportionate participation and representation of women in the arts and culture. Its largest event is the organisation ...
