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LECTURE | Siegfried Zielinski: PRO-SPECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES. Travelling through DEEP TIME OF THE MEDIA into Possible Futures

Tuesday, 10 December 2019 | 6 p.m.

A lecture in the context of Parallel Systems. Establishing and Forming Media Art series.

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SYMPOSIUM & DOCUMENTARY FILMS | Bauhaus: The Imperative of Transparency

02 December 2019 — 03 December 2019

Bauhaus: the Imperative of Transparency will critically question the interconnection of transparency and the ideas of the famous school in the fields of architecture, art and education, and in society in general.

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EVENT CALENDAR | December 2019

01 December 2019 — 31 December 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM | Museal Episodes, Ljubljana

06 November 2019 — 07 November 2019

This November, Moderna galerija in Ljubljana and Slovenian Book Agency are organizing a symposium Art and Its Institutions in the Fight against Populism; it will be attended by museum directors, curators and other agents in the field of modern and contemporary art.

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Via Negativa PERFORMANCE | Olja Grubić: Naked Life

11 October 2019 — 25 December 2019

‘Naked Life’ invites us to rethink what it means to be a living species in a living world, to have a body, conditions of existence, probabilities of life, an individual and collective welfare, forces that could be modified…

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EVENT CALENDAR | September 2019

01 September 2019 — 30 September 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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EVENING LECTURES and PERFORMANCE | Marko Peljhan, Eda Čufer, Walid Raad

Thursday, 29 August 2019 | 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+ & 10 p.m. | Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

Last two evening lectures of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy by Marko Peljhan, Here We Go Again...Resolutions, Decision-making and Strategies and Eda Čufer, EAST ART MAP – Is it Art or Art History?, followed by a performance by Walid Raad, LES LOUVRES and/or KICKING THE DEAD at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre in frames of the Mladi levi festival.

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EVENING LECTURES | Charles Esche & Viktor Misiano

Tuesday, 27 August 2019 | 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+

Two evening lectures on the 4th day of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy by Charles Esche, Places for Art to Happen about experimental institutionalism in Europe and the art of the last 30 years and Viktor Misiano about Russian 1990s and the Dialectics of the transitional period.

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EVENING LECTURES | Arseny Zhilyaev, Branislav Dimitrijević

Monday, 26 August 2019 | 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+

Two evening lectures on the 3rd day of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy by Arseny Zhilyaev, "Labor" Market: Post-Soviet Art through the Prism of the Shuttle Traders Model and Branislav Dimitrijević, "Turbo-Folk Made Me Do It!": Schizo-anthropology of the Genre.

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EVENING LECTURES | Inke Arns & Keti Chukhrov

Sunday, 24 August 2019 | 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+

Two evening lectures on the 2nd day of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy by Inke Arns, On Re-Reading Avant-Gardes and Becoming Alt-Right and Keti Chukhrov, Evil, Surplus, Power – the Three Media of Art.

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OPENING LECTURES | Zdenka Badovinac & Boris Buden

Saturday, 24 August 2019 | 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+

Two evening lectures on the 1st day of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Opening lecture by Zdenka Badovinac, Artists’ archives – war, self-histories and piracy followed by Boris Buden's, Contemporary Populism and Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Language.

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FILM SCREENING | Anton Vidokle: Immortality for All

Friday, 23 August 2019 | 6:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. | auditorium MG+

A pre-event of the Summer School The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy with a trilogy on Russian Cosmism. Combining essay, documentary and performance, Vidokle quotes from the writings of Cosmism’s founder Nikolai Fedorov and other philosophers and poets.

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SUMMER SCHOOL | The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy

23 August 2019 — 30 August 2019

This year’s Summer School, organized by Moderna galerija, Ljubljana for the second year in a row, will continue to draw on the topics related to the legacy of Eastern European avant-gardes. A particular emphasis will be placed on the major changes caused by the collapse of socialism, the end of the Cold War and the restoration of capitalism in the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

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PRESENTATION | Art & Design in Austria

Wednesday, 7 August 2019 | 4 p.m. | Museum of Modern Art auditorium

Presentation of three outstanding events in Austria this fall: Contemporary Art Fair viennacontemporary, Vienna Design Week festival&nb...

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SUMMER THURSDAYS at MG+MSUM 2019

04 July 2019 — 29 August 2019

In July and August, Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Every Thursday between 6 and 8 p.m. there will be free guided tours and other events.

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PRESENTATION OF SPECIAL ISSUE: ŠUM#11 | Hypersonic Hyperstitions

Friday, 7 June 2019 | 6 p.m. | Moderna galerija auditorium

A short introduction will be followed by a moderated discussion with Dr. Manabrata Guha, author of the text "An Exegetical Incursion of the Emergent 'Intelligent Battlespace'".

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EVENT CALENDAR | May 2019

01 June 2019 — 30 June 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | The non-aligned contemporaneity?

27 and 28 May 2019 | auditorium of the Museum of Modern Art

The conference will be dedicated to the question how to harness the historical visions of the non-alignment in the light of the current global geopolitical situation. Another important question will tackle the legacy of culture in the spirit of NAM's internationalism and its potentials for the present day.

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BOOK PRESENTATION | RED LIGHT – YUGOSLAV PARTISAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT 1941–1945

Friday, 24 May 2019 | 6 p.m.

Presentation of the book RED LIGHT – YUGOSLAV PARTISAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT 1941–1945, published by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and Kolektor – the Visual Arts Center.

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FILM SCREENINGS | Sinners: Maca's and Anka's Fate & Sinner without Sin

Thursday, 18 May 2019 | 6 p.m. | auditorium Moderna galerija

On sin in the 1930s. Heavy drinking in Croatian villages, the fate of a country girl in the big city of Belgrade, promiscuity, unprotected sex, sexual harassment, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, and suicide – these are the themes of two silent films in the program of the international survey exhibition On the Brink.

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FILM PROGRAM | On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)

Next screening: Thursday, 4 July 2019 | 6 p.m.

The next screening of the film program will present a film by Mladen Širola, Abandoned Child from 1930.

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EVENT CALENDAR | May 2019

01 May 2019 — 31 May 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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PROGRAMME | On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941)

25 April 2019 — 15 September 2019

GUIDED TOURS Sunday, 12 May 2019, at 11 a.m., guided by exhibition curator Marko Jenko Saturday, 18 May 2019, at 5 p.m., guided by Mih...

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SYMPOSIUM | Black Metal Theory: Void, Lack and Destruction. Black Metal and Negativity

18 April 2019 — 19 April 2019

Perhaps the time is right for the second wave of black metal theory or perhaps it is time to put black metal theory in oblivion to resurrect in another time and another place.

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The 2019 Rihard Jakopič Prize and Honorable Mentions

12 April 2019 | 20:00

The 2019 Rihard Jakopič Prize and Honorable Mentions will be awarded by the Association of Slovene Fine Artists Societies, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Moderna galerija and the Slovene Association of Art Critics on Friday, 12 April 2019 at 8 p.m. at the Moderna galerija.

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EVENT CALENDAR | April 2019

01 April 2019 — 30 April 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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SIMPOZIJ | Bauhaus – Baumensch

Thursday, 21 March 2019 | 6 p.m.

Human. Art. Technology. Bauhaus. Živadinov, Zupančič, Sadar, Ahčan: theater director, doctor of biomedicine, fashion designer, plastic surgeon

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EVENT CALENDAR | March 2019

01 March 2019 — 31 March 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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BOOK PRESENTATION | James Bridle: New Dark Age. Technology and the End of the Future

Wednesday, 20 January 2019 | 17:00 | Moderna galerija Auditorium

In his brilliant new work, James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance and the hollowing out of empathy.

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SLOVENE CULTURE HOLIDAY | 8 February 2018

Friday, 8 February 2019 | 10.00–18.00

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the Slovene Cultural Holiday, 8 February, with guided tours and workshops.

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EVENT CALENDAR | February 2019

01 February 2019 — 28 February 2019

Programme of the Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova for the current month with guided tours, round table debates, discursive programme, talks, workshops and lectures.

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PROGRAM | Time Without Innocence. Recent Painting in Slovenia

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 | 17:00

Last round of artists' talks: Joni Zakonjšek, Tina Dobrajc, Mito Gegič, Sašo Vrabič.

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INFORMANCE | Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič, Miha Turšič | Cosmism::2001 / Černigoj / Zajec

Thursday, 24 January 2018 | 18.00 | Moderna galerija

The event is processed with sound structure of URSONATE by Kurt Schwitters from 1932 performed by Blaž Šef, Tjaša Ribizel, Matej Kurinčič and Miha Mihaljčič. Other collaborators of the informance are Ivan Lotrič and Dario Seraval.

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PERFORMANCE | JAŠA: At the Dawn of yet Another Age of Absurdity: Composition No. 6

Friday, 18 January 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 p.m.

At the Dawn of yet Another Age of Absurdity: Composition No. 6 is a new edition in a series of performative interventions developed by the Slovenian artist JAŠA in the last two years as a summary and a continuation of the scenario of his 29-week stay at the Venice Biennial in 2015.

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