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Nika Ham’s creative practice presents the special relation between her artistic work and her “day job”. Her creative impulse stems from her specific situation as a young artist working part-time as a museum attendant at the Museum[]

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 publishing house is soon to publish his work From Many Lands translated into Slovene[]

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 third workshop was focused on creating a stop-motion animated film with mastering the[]

Teaser for a single channel HD video, 23 min 43 sec, stereo.

On such varied topics as political representatives, the labor force, or the national basketball team, the public discourse in Slovenia is seeing a resurgent emphasis on the “national extraction” of the citizens of Slovenia. Frequently[]

Alenka Puhar casts light on the social climate of the 1960s, when photographer Stojan Kerbler took his first anthological portraits of children, by looking at a number of critical accounts in the press and literature of the time, portraying the[]

The Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory acknowledges the exceptional achievements of cultural protagonists whose work supports, develops or investigates visual art and culture in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Named in honour of the[]

In today’s Europe, arts institutions have to recognise their role in creating and maintaining sheltering structures for artists and students to meet, exchange and develop self-engineered and trans-border forms of collectivization. Faced with[]

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, develop with it, and thus, in their own way, co-create the future. The present has become[]

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 large extent oriented towards the future and postmodernism towards the past, then we[]

A few key interpretations of the concept of contemporaneity were in Socialist Yugoslavia considered as formative for the construction of the model of self-management in socialist society, most notably in its cultural sphere. In the artistic practice,[]

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 framing what is said and unsaid across the platforms of contemporary art?

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 represent the experience of particulars involved in global synecdoches without the mediation of[]

The Soweto Project: Socially engaged practice in a real-world situation creates a new vocabulary centred on people. Participatory practice in action to construct a hopeful future against the neoliberal present.

Globalism-“fin-de-siècle”-global museum-global discourse-global art? Did it happen this way, the promise of the brighter days to come? However, as the philosopher Louis Althusser is always reminding us, the future lasts forever.

We can imagine a multitude of communal futures and pluriversal knowledge, instead of thinking in singular – however progressively global this singularity should become. The seemingly-real, well-received terms of[]

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 liberal democracies towards what Nicos Poulantzas has named authoritarian statism. She[]

We invite you to the presentation of the thematic section of the new Šum journal issue entitled “/…/ gradually the idea of ‘contemporary art’ was formed”, dedicated to the establishment of the concept of[]

A guided tour of The Unmaking of Art – Revisited at the Sites of Sustainability. Manifestos, Pavilions and Crypts exhibition, by the Technical Assistant of the Museum of Modernity. []

The lecture was a part of the opening program of  Sites of Sustainability. Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts exhibition. []

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

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The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

The First World War monuments produced in interwar Yugoslavia are today usually discussed separately, within the context of the successor state to which they belong. The symposium will attempt to present a picture of this production that is as[]

Choreographic statements are part of the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive’s exhibition programme hosted by +MSUM's Draught Series. Documentation and archiving process present such kind of use of time in dance work that inventories[]

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 and experimental video Circular Storytelling. []

the lovest, revisited is a short documentary film (25 min), about JAŠA’s project entitled the lovest, a durational situational installation, a work in progress punctuated with events, which took place in the basement of Museum of Modern[]

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’s own reflection. The spectacle takes place in the bowels of the earth, phantasmagorical[]

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 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Unlike the ordinary public guided tours[]

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 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Unlike the ordinary public guided tours[]

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 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Unlike the ordinary public guided tours[]

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 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Unlike the ordinary public guided tours[]

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 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Unlike the ordinary public guided tours[]

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 Conservation-Restoration of the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova[]

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, fields, and rivers: working with wooden sticks, string, candles or rolls of paper,[]

In Piscis ludicrous / Transfixed Gaze (Lygophilia) she showcases a non-human-subject, the Mexican salamander known as axolotl – one of many non-furry friends that have long transfixed the human mind – through different narratives: []

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 make the town home. []

Throughout 2018, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) hosted a series of conversations around the importance of migration in the development of Middlesbrough and the Tees Valley. The oral histories and graphic illustration that document these[]

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 atmosphere. Current environmental politics put great faith in the free market to govern[]

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, the Prime Minister of Slovenia at the time, Janez Janša. While they renamed[]