The Moderna galerija plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are currently opened, and you may also order publications by post. Please send your request to info@mg-lj.si and specify the publication. You may pay on delivery or on our bank account. Some recommendations:
The MG+ bookstore recently received two publications about Tobias Putrih from the Gregor Podnar Gallery in Berlin: the older from 2007 is entitled 99-07 and is in English, while the newer Solar Limb / Routine Inspection from 2015 is in English and German. Both contain texts by many authors and numerous colour photographs.
Price: 30,00 €
The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put forward the notions of “self” and “system.” First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let’s construct a space where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch lost in a library of artists’ books. Let’s invent our right to do so. Let’s enter the world of smell and write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manage—from making objects to performing one’s own existence? Device, organon, animal. This book arises from the 2018 activities of the MA Fine Arts program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It reflects the conviction that an art school can be a pedagogic nexus dedicated to the transmission of knowledge, experimentation, and research, as much as a locus for civic and critical debate and exhibition, involved in its community, locally and globally.
Price: 23,00 €
McKenzie Wark, Capital is dead Is this something worse?
Cena: 23,00 €
Laura Raicovich, Culture strike Art and Museums in an age of Protest
Cena: 24,99 €
For Marc Augé the prevailing idea of “the Future” rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Price: 20,00 €
In her book Strukturni rasizem, teorija in oblast (Structural Rasism, Theory and Governance) Jovita Pristovšek provides a comprehensive analysis of structural and institutional racism. By placing the concept of race as a central analytical tool for thinking about the "post-political" global space, she analyzes the place and role of this violent political construct, which must not be psychologically deduced to biases, but must show the processes of its naturalization – not only in political life but also in theory.
Price: 20,00 €
Alexi Kukuljevic, Liquidation World; On the art of living absently examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves by a paradoxical disidentification—through the objects that take their places. They have mastered the art of living absently, of making something with nothing. Traversing their own morbid obsessions, they substitute the nonsensical for sense, the ridiculous for the meaningful.
Price: 20,00 €
We recently received new publications from Maska Press:
We recommend three editions of the Maska - Performing Arts Journal noumbers 200. Potentiality No. 200aabbcc, Actualities No. 200aabbcc andYugofuturism No. 200aabbcc.
Price: 10,00 €
Branislav Jakovljević, Učinki odtujitve: performans in samoupravljanje v Jugoslaviji, 1945-1991. Price: 19,00€
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Mark Fisher, Kapitalistični realizem: Ali ni alternative? Price: 15,00€
With the Nonument Group: The Exhibition is Outdoors exhibition at the Museum for Architecture and Design, premiere on 25 May 2021, we wish to promote the NONUMENT publication at the MG+MSUM bookstores.
Jacques Rancière, On the Shores of Politics
As the ideals of democracy appear increasingly beleaguered, Jacques Rancière presents an argument of pressing importance. The task confronting us, he argues, is to undermine the crude realism that has governed politics and theory since the declaration of an »end of history« in the 1990s.
Price: 16,00€
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Brad Evans, Adrian Parr, Conversations on Violence: An Anthology
Whether physical or metaphorical, institutional or interpersonal, violence is everywhere. A seemingly immutable fact of life, it is nonetheless rarely engaged with at the conceptual level. What does violence actually mean? And is it an inevitable part of the human condition? Conversations on Violence brings together many of the world's leading critical scholars, artists, writers and cultural producers to provide a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence.
Price: 24,99€
At the occasion of the opening of extensive posthumous exhibition of Božidar Dolenc (23 February – 6 June 2021) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova we highlight catalogs related to photography.
Also featuring a new catalog Autography, Uncanniness, Rebellion: the Photography of Božidar Dolenc. Božidar Dolenc is one of the most prominent and most renowned artists in the field of photography from the second half of the twentieth century in Slovenia. The exhibition and catalog present the work of an artist who, with his non-conformist spirit, created photographic poetics recognizable by almost painful relentlessness and semantic bitterness, distinguished by the special visual aesthetics of alternative culture events.
Price: 22,00€
Med drugimi tudi:
● Stojan Kerbler, Retrospektiva, Price: 28,00€
● Božidar Jakac in fotografija, Price: 30,00€
● Tomaž Gregorič, Fotografije 1995 - 2000, Price: 12,00€
● Gojmir Anton Kos, Slikar v dialogu s fotografijo, Price: 20,00€
● Lojze Spacal, Slikarjevo oko in fotoaparat, Price: 20,00€
● Slavko Smolej, (1909 – 1961), Price: 10,00€
● Franc Ferjan, (1885 – 1964), Fotograf zasebne in socialne resničnosti, Price: 7,50€
Politics of Feelings/Economies of Love was edited by a collective cultural initiative of cultural workers, artists and curators named k.r.u.ž.o.k. It brings a set of deliberations about the possibility of a relationship between ideology and social emotions, sexuality and nationalism, between love and emotional community in the nationalist and/or capitalist fundamentalism.
Price: 15,00
Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Futurability. The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
Cena: 19 €
Judith Butler
The Force of Nonviolence, An Ethico-Political Bind
Noam Chomsky in Robert Pollin
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Cene: 20 €
