Ljubljana

Initiatives

Venues

• Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, *2010
• Alkatraz, gallery, *1996, [1]
• Behemot, bookshop *2005
• BioTehna, biotech laboratory *2013
• Bunker
• Cirkulacija 2, contemporary art association, *2007
• Cukrarna, *2021, [2]
• Gromka, club, *1995, [3]
• Jakopič Gallery, *1988
• Kapelica Gallery, *1995
• Kapsula, bookstore and project space
• Kersnikova Institute, *2000
• Krater, production space for transdisciplinary practices
• KUD Mreža, *1995, [4]
• Ljudmila, *1994
• Metelkova, autonomous cultural centre, *1993
• MGLC Švicarija, arts centre, *2017, [5]
• Osmo/za, arts and science space, *2017
• P74 Gallery
• Rampa, hackerspace *2013
• Škuc Gallery, *1978
• Steklenik, gallery for sound, bioacoustics and art, *2019.

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• Past spaces: Kiberpipa (2001-2015), Avtonomna tovarna Rog (autonomous centre, 2006-2021).

Other initiatives

• ArtNetLab, Society for Connecting Art and Science, *2000
• Borghesia, music band, *1982
• CONA, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, *2007
• Ekran, film magazine, *1962, [6]
• Galerija BOKS Society, *2010, [7]
• Informator, *2000
• Institute for Labour Studies, *2012, [8]
• Institute for Sonic Arts Research
• IRWIN, *1983
• IRZU, *2008
• Kersnikova Institute
• Look Back and Laugh, publishing, *c.2012
• Maska, *1993
• MoTA
• Neodvisni, platform for local independent performing art
• Projekt Atol, *1992
• Radical Education Collective
• So0gledi
• Sploh, *1999
• Šum, magazine, *2013
• Tribuna, magazine, *1951
• Workers and Punks’ University, *1998.
• ZASUK, art workers union, *2022

Events

• Adela, festival of generative arts, *2023
• Algopolis, live coding meeting, *2021
• Blind Date Convention: Art Book Fair, *2010
• City of Women, festival, *1995
• Earzoom, festival, *2009
• IFCA, festival, *1995
• Indigo, festival, *2016
• Red Dawns, festival, *2000
• Sonica, festival, 2011
• Strictly Analog, festival, *2013
• Tactics&Practice, series of conferences and seminars on new media arts, *2010
• Topographies of Sound, sound arts festival, *2017
• TO)pot, sound walks festival, *2021
• Vector Hack, festival, *2018
• V-F-X Ljubljana, festival of experimental audiovisual practices, *2021

Past events

• Naive Yearly: Room for the quiet, odd & poetic web, conference, 2024
• konSekvence, exhibition, 2023
• International Computer Music Conference, 2012
• Eclectic Tech Carnival, 2012
• Autonomous Interactive Radio, 2012
• This Is All Film! Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951-1991, exhibition, 2010-2011
• Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers, seminar, 2010
• Senza Televisione, 2009
• Haip, multimedia festival of open technologies, 2004-2012
• hEXPO, festival, 2000
• Crossing Over, video mini-festival, 1999
• Beauty and the East, Nettime conference, 1997
• Media in Media, exhibition, 1997
• Retrovizor, film screenings, 1993-2010
• Video CD, festival, 1983-1989
• Disko FV, 1981-1985

Art workers

• Aina Šmid
• Aleš Vaupotič
• Alenka Gregorič
• Alenka Pirman (1964)
• Ana Hofman
• Barbara Borčić
• Bojana Piškur
• Borut Savski
• David Potočnik (1986)
• Dunja Kukovec (1975)
• Gal Kirn
• Gorazd Krnc (1973)
• Ida Hiršenfelder
• Irena Tomažin
• Janez Janša
• Jelena Petrović
• Jurij Meden (1977)
• Jurij Smrke
• Katja Kobolt
• Luka Frelih (1974)
• Luka Prinčič
• Luka Zagoričnik
• Maja Smrekar
• Marc Dusseiller
• Marko Košnik
• Marina Gržinić
• Marko Batista
• Marko Peljhan
• Michael Benson
• Miha Vipotnik (1954)
• Narvika Bovcon
• Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (1976)
• Neven Korda
• Nika Oblak & Primož Novak
• Robert Bobnič
• Robertina Šebjanič
• Saša Spačal
• Špela Petrič (1980)
• Tanja Vujinovic
• Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
• Tilen Žbona (1976)
• Tjaša Pogačar
• Tjaša Pureber
• Tomaž Grom
• Vanja Mervič
• Vuk Ćosić (1966)
• Zemira Alajbegović (1958)

Publications

• Osemdesata / The Eighties, eds. Adela Železnik and Ana Mizerit, Ljubljana: Moderna galerija, 2017, 24, 80 pp. (Slovenian)/(English)

• Petja Grafenauer, Daša Tepina, "Art and Rebellion: The Struggle for Freedom and Autonomy at the Ljubljana 2020/2021 Protests", Third Text 36:5, 2022, pp 409-428.

• Daša Tepina, Petja Grafenauer, "Art and Revolt: From the Socialist Republic of Slovenia to Today", Anthropos 56:1, 2024, pp 37-58. [9] (English)

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