2023
SCREENING | Stitching Palestine, a documentary film by Carol Mansour, 2017
Tuesday, 7 November 2023 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/3827/stitching-palestine/
Screening within the Palestine Cinema Days festival.
COMMENTARY #1 | Jošt Franko and Etaf Abdelrahman: Gaza
27 November 2023 – 1 March 2024
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/3840/commentary-jost-franko-and-etaf-abdelrahman-gaza/
The Commentary Series
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/visit/3839/exhibition-series-commentary/
The vestibule of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, houses Commentary, a series of mini exhibitions that allows artists to comment in a variety of media, formats, and ways of expression, on certain crucial moments and developments in the contemporary political landscape worldwide. Between November 2023 and March 2025, the series was dedicated entirely to Palestine.
2024
COMMENTARY # 2 | Sliman Mansour: The Sea is Mine
6 March – 1 November 2024
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/3902/commentary-sliman-mansour-the-sea-is-mine/
SCREENING | Aida Returns – عائدة, directed by Carol Mansour, 2023
Monday, 18 March 2024 | 18:00
Screening of the film by the same author like the previous year, which was rejected in other film festivals because of being about Palestine.
DISCUSSION | Conversation on Palestine, with the participation of Majd Nasrallah and Žiga Smolič, moderated by Bojana Piškur
Thursday, 4 April 2024 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/3916/conversation-i-palestine/
VIDEO: https://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/en/networkmuseum/3/22/?artworkid=1911
EXHIBITION | Constellations of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon
23 May 2024 — 03 December 2024
Opening program: https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/3941/program-of-events/
GUIDED TOUR | exhibition curators Bojana Piškur and Angelina Radaković, curators of The Non-Aligned Art Collection Laboratory from Montenegro (Nada Baković, Anita Ćulafić, Natalija Vujošević) and participating artists: Basim Magdy, Essa Grayeb, KURS (Miloš Miletić & Mirjana Radovanović), Mona Rouhana Benyamin, Nika Autor
Thursday, 23 May 2024 | 12:00
https://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/en/networkmuseum/3/22/?artworkid=1923
ARTIST TALK | Essa Grayeb, Retro Images, Modern Interpretations
Thursday, 23 May 2024 | 19:00
https://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/en/networkmuseum/3/22/?artworkid=1922
Presentation of the artist's work.
During the opening, there was a bazaar by the No-Border Craft group, where crocheted products with a Palestinian theme were on sale.
Music selection and live visuals by Ramzi Hazboun
Thursday, 23 May 2024 | 20:00
TWO-DAY EVENTS | Gathering Within Constellations
05 November 2024 — 6 November 2024
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4021/gathering-within-constellations/
SCREENING | Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory, director: Mohanad Yaqubi, writers: Reem Shilleh & Mohanad Yaqubi, editors: Ramzi Hazboun & David Osit, 2016
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 17:00–19:00
GUIDED TOUR | of the exhibition Constellations of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon by Essa Grayeb, Bojana Piškur, Angelina Radaković
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 19:00–20:00
OPENING | of the exhibition Gaza Remains the Story organized by the Palestinian Museum
COMMENTARY # 3 | Gaza Remains the Story
05 November 2024 — 09 March 2025
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/exhibitions/4009/gaza-remains-the-story/
The exhibition was prepared by the Palestinian Museum.
They Claim There is No Resistance, poetry workshop
Wednesday, 6 November 2024 | 16:00–18:00
Participants: Bayan Abu Nahla, Essa Grayeb, Sima Kokotović, Massimiliano Mollona, Alice Ongaro Sartori, Angelina Radaković
ARTIST TALK |Essa Grayeb: In the Sweet Hours and Bitter Hours: Suspension and the Politics of Waiting in Palestinian Art
Wednesday, 6 November 2024 | 18:00–19:30
AUCTION | Raising money for the children of Palestine
Friday, 8 November 2024 | 18:00 – 20:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4013/public-auction-raising-money-for-the-children-of-gaza/
Auction of items from the Palestinian Archive, curated by artist and architect Apolonija Šušteršič and her fellow travelers, presenting their insightful experiences during multiple visits to Palestine between 2015 and 2017.
The event was part of the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana.
2025
WORKSHOP | Nour Shantout: The Protest Dress
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 | 10:00 – 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4070/nour-shantout-the-protest-dress/
FILM SCREENING | Foragers, directed by Jumana Manna, 2022
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4071/screening-of-the-film-foragers/
A two-day program of events to present L'Internationale e-publication Collective Study in Times of Emergency.
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4069/collective-study-in-times-of-emergency-launch/
FROM THE LAND'S LIVING PULSE #1 | Noor Abed, screening and talk with the curator Angelina Radaković
Saturday, 7 June 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4187/screening-and-qa-with-noor-abed/
The screening opened Moderna galerija’s series of film screenings entitled From the Land’s Living Pulse and journeying through water, myth, ritual, and resistance – woven by the visions of women filmmakers from the Middle East. Curated by Angelina Radaković (The Mosaic Rooms, London).
LECTURE | Toufic Haddad: Through the Gaza Looking Glass
Thursday, 19 June 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4211/lecture-toufic-haddad-through-the-gaza-looking-glass/
Video: https://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/en/networkmuseum/3/23/?artworkid=1952
LECTURE | Rana Anani: Gaza, Through the Looking Glass
Sunday, 24 August 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4243/lecture-rana-anani-gaza-through-the-looking-glass/
Video: https://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/en/networkmuseum/3/23/?artworkid=1963
FROM THE LAND'S LIVING PULSE #2 | War Torn Ecologies: Resistant Worlds
Sunday, 24 August 2025 | 19:30
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4208/series-the-living-pulse-of-the-country/
Screenings of short films by Jumana Emil Abboud, Ruba Salameh, Shada Safadi and Manal Mahamid.
Both events were part of Moderna galerija's summer school Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship public program.
FROM THE LAND'S LIVING PULSE #3 | Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, And still, it remains, 2023 and Inas Halabi, We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction, 2019
Wednesday, 15 October 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4208/series-the-living-pulse-of-the-country/
WRITING WORKSHOP | Sanabel Abdel Rahman: Tracing Magical Terrains
Thursday, 16 October 2025 | 16:00–19:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4257/writing-workshop-sanabel-abdel-rahman-tracing-magical-terrains/
The writing workshop was based on Palestinian folktales and related to the screening of films by Arwa Aburaw, Turab Shah, and Inas Halabi, shown at the +MSUM the day before.
FROM THE LAND'S LIVING PULSE #4 | Marianne Fahmy, screening and talk with Janja Banko, curator at the Slovenian Cinematheque
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 | 18:00
https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4208/series-the-living-pulse-of-the-country/
