News and announcements

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IZIDOR CANKAR AWARD for the On the Brink: The Visual Arts in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–1941) monograph

22 April 2021 | 13:00

We are happy to announce that the monograph On the Brink, published in conjunction with the eponymous international exhibition at the Moderna galerija in 2019, is the winner of the Izidor Cankar Award, given biannually by the Slovene Art History Society.

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Museum of Modern Art & Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova OPENED FOR PUBLIC

13 April 2021 — 2 May 2021

The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova will once again open their doors to all art-loving visitors on Tuesday, 13 April 2021. We kindly requested our visitors to follow all guidelines for the prevention of the spread of infections. The two museums will be open until at least 2 May 2021.

MG+MSUM again closed for public

01 April 2021 — 12 April 2021

The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova will once again be closed for the public at least until Friday, 22 January 2021. Until opening, you may view our video guided tours and lectures from our previous events.

EPUB | Degrowth and Progress

New e-publication issue

Degrowth and Progress is creating a polyphonic approach to some of the challenges and threats of our present times. This collection draws upon the complexity of ethical, ecological and political frameworks and reveals other perspectives on the current crisis through critical essays, storytelling, science fiction, biomorphic design, audiovisual traces of artistic practices and allegorical maps.

EPUB | Degrowth and Progress

Announcing a new e-publication on 17 February 2021

The Internationale Online platform has published a new e-pub entitled Degrowth and Progress. It was planned a long time before the pandemic but now shows that elements were pointing to a possible crisis of this nature long before its emergence. At the present time, one can no longer think in terms of abundance, in terms of the desire of accumulation and the capitalist utopia, which only creates inequality and exhaustion.

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LETTER OF SUPPORT for the Users of the Autonomous Factory Rog on the Occasion of Their Forced Eviction from Rog on 19 January 2021

20 January 2021 | 16:00

Curators and staff of Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, strongly condemn yesterday’s violent forcible eviction of the users of the Autonomous Factory Rog from the premises of the former factory Rog. Despite the years-long conflict between the users of the Autonomous Factory Rog and the City of Ljubljana, which has unfortunately not resolved in a consensus regarding the use of the premises, we believe that use of such excessive force as we witnessed yesterday during the forced evacuation of the premises is utterly inadmissible.

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OPEN CALL | Maritime Portal Residency

DEADLINE | 5 February 2021

An open call by the As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future platform reflects a common struggle against colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and the on-going process of southernization driven by a transnational chain of capital, infrastructure and technology.

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RECOMMENDED FROM THE BOOKSTORES | December 2020

January 2021

The Moderna galerija plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are currently closed, you may 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:

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SEASON GREETINGS 2021!

22 December 2020 | 18:00

EXHIBITION | Solidarity Spores

22 December 2020 | 10:00

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Museum of Modern Art & Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova OPENED FOR PUBLIC

19 December 2020 — 08 January 2021

The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova will once again open their doors to all art-loving visitors on Saturday, 19 December 2020, after almost two months of lockdown. We kindly requested our visitors to follow all guidelines for the prevention of the spread of infections. The two museums will be open until at least 12 January 2021.

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SEMINAR | Solidarity of Art

Wednesday, 9 December 2020 | 9.00—16:30 CET

Solidarity of Art explores and features projects of solidarity with Palestine through art.

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IGOR ZABEL AWARD 2020 to Zdenka Badovinac

Award ceremony: 4 December 2020 | 8 p.m. streamed live

Zdenka Badovinac, curator, art writer, and director of Ljubljana’s Moderna galerija is named this year’s Igor Zabel Award laureate. The award ceremony will be streamed live to an online audience in English language (YouTube Channel and Facebook Live).

Temporary closing of the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

From 24 October 2020

In accordance with the new government measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the Museum of Modern Art (MG+) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) are temporarily closed.

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LETTER OF SUPPORT to All Working at Metelkova 6

23 October 2020 | 12:00

We at Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM) are shocked and appalled by the demand of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia that the cultural, research, and civil-society organizations that have their offices at Metelkova 6 vacate the premises by the end of January 2021. This demand fails to show any trace of concern for the continued cultural, artistic, and civil-society work of organizations and collectives that have a thirty-year-long tradition and exceptional symbolic significance.

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B3 BEN AWARD 2020 to Jasmina Cibic

12 October 2020 | 10:00

Best Immersive and Time Based Art Award 2020 to Jasmina Cibic for The Pleasure of Expense that forms part of her FLAMIN Productions commission The Gift, a long-form research, exhibition and film project which Cibic is presenting across a variety of platforms during 2019-2021. The Gift currently features in Cibic’s major solo exhibition The Foundation of Endeavour, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM.

ONLINE SOURCE | Institute of the Cosmos

01 September 2020 | 10:00

A website by The Institute of the Cosmos containing numerous research materials about Russian Cosmism was launched on 1 September 2020. It also contains a lecture by Anton Vidokle, Immortality for All: A Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism from The Summer School. The Big Shift: the 1990s. Avant-gardes in Eastern Europe and Their Legacy organised by Moderna galerija in 2019.

LETTER of cultural workers of Belarus

19 August 2020 | 11:00

In solidarity with the fight of cultural workers of Belarus we are publishing their letter with demand to stop the acts of violence against civilians, release all political prisoners, hold new transparent elections and provide Belarusian citizens with free access to information and the right to peaceful assembly.

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The International Arteast 2000+ Collection Celebrates 20 Years!

24 June 2020

In 2000, Moderna galerija in Ljubljana founded the Arteast 2000+ Collection and staged its first public presentation in an unrenovated building of a former army barracks in the city’s Metelkova complex – in the building that now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova. Arteast 2000+ is the first ever museum collection conceived and assembled with a view to giving prominence to East European postwar avant-gardes.

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EPUB | Austerity and Utopia

04 June 2020 | 13:00

The Internationale Online platform has published a new e-pub entitled Austerity and Utopia. It was planned a long time before the pandemic but now shows that elements were pointing to a possible crisis of this nature long before its emergence. At the present time, one can no longer think in terms of abundance, in terms of the desire of accumulation and the capitalist utopia, which only creates inequality and exhaustion.

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CATALOGUE | U3, Dead & Alive

03 June 2020 | 10:00

The bilingual catalog of the 9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Alive & Dead has been published. The editor of the catalog is the guest curator of the triennial Vít Havránek with his contribution of the introductory text and the text of the artist Nika Autor. On 255 pages there are also contributions from other participating artists, photos from the exhibition, comments on the exhibited works and responses to the comments made during the exhibition.

L’INTERNATIONALE STATEMENT | Towards a healthy society

14 May 2020 | 14:00

In the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, the L’Internationale museums have firstly been concerned to offer an efficient solidarity to our freelance colleagues who have lost their income or access to healthcare. We have decided to follow a path of care, support and reflection for the immediate future and to focus on health in the broad sense of social and individual well-being.

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Welcome Back! MG+MSUM opened for public

5 May 2020 | 10.00

The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelova will be opened for public on Thursday, 5 May 2020, at 10 a.m..

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IMPORTANT NOTICE | Announcing the opening of the museums for public

29 April 2020 | 12:00

The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelova will be opened for public on Thursday, 5 May 2020, at 10 a.m..

Instructions for social distancing

Safe entry to the museum

FUNDRAISER | Artists for Moria

From 21 Aprila 2020

Sixteen international artists are donating their works for the refugees in Moria. All proceeds go to assist the efforts of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the island of Lesvos, Greece to expand the provision of water and sanitation infrastructures to the refugee camps and scaling up the recruitment of extra medical, paramedical, support staff and the acquisition of necessary equipment.

As You Go Journal

16 April 2020 | 13:00

At the current time, Biljana Ciric initiated a series of commentaries on the pandemic from Belgrade, Ljubljana, Addis Ababa, Bishkek, Shanghai, and Guangzhou to reflect challenges in a new reality. The As You Go Journal is published on the What Could Should Curating Do? (WCSCD) platform.

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Fill Two Needs with One Deed

From 17 March 2020 —

Moderna galerija is setting up a network of solidarity called “Fill Two Needs with One Deed”, aimed at two groups: artists and others in the field of culture who are ill or in the high-risk group and need help as they find themselves isolated in their homes, and the students and others who work as museum attendants and have remained without income virtually overnight as the museums closed.

IMPORTANT NOTICE | Help stop the spread of coronavirus

13 March 2020 | 10:00

From 13 March 2020, Moderna galerija and Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova is closed for public until further notice.

OPEN CALL | 3 research residencies at Museo Reina Sofía Madri, Spain

DEADLINE | 31 March 2020

The common goal of such Residencies is to foster research and participation in a process of reflection by making available MNCARS’ bibliographical and documentary resources, in addition to participation in research hubs linked to the project “Our Many Europes” and in research communities organised around the MNCARS Study Centre.

OPEN CALL | Spring Curatorial Program in Vienna

DEADLINE | 5 March 2020

Spring Curatorial Program 2020: Art Geographies focuses on issues of art, theory and politics dealing with borders, maps, myths, landscapes, territories, sound and other planetary phenomena of today’s geographies.

OPEN CALL | Geographic Focus Residency

DEADLINE | 16 January 2020 | 23.59

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute is looking for emerging Slovenian artists to join the 2020 edition of its Artists Development Programme (ADP), a 6 to 8 weeks long residency programme in Luxembourg, under the mentorship of renowned Finnish photographer Jorma Puranen.

The ICOM Slovenia 2019 Award goes to Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned

12 December 2019 | 12:00

Th annual award for the promotion of this year’s ICOM theme (Museums as cultural centers – the future of tradition) went to the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition curated by Bojana Piškur and staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova between 7 March and 10 September 2019.

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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A PERFORMANCE | Ištvan Išt Huzjan: The Last Kolo

Thursday, 10 October 2019 | 5 p.m. — 6.10 p.m.

On behalf of the artist Ištvan Išt Huzjan and the 9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Dead and Alive, you are invited to take part in the dance performance The Last Kolo.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Field Kitchen Academy | Educational Residency at Wüsten Buchholz.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 23 June 2019

The FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY is an interdisciplinary educational residency programme that gathers artists/creative minds, a resident chef and prominent experts from different fields together around a kitchen table through mind-opening acts and actions.

ANNOUNCEMENT | The Styria Artist in Residence Scholarship (St.A.i.R.)

DEADLINE | 30 August 2019

On behalf of the Regional Minister of Culture Mr. Christopher Drexler the Regional Government of Styria allocates scholarships for young people (maximum 40 years old) for the year 2020. These scholarships will be for international artists of all kinds as well as for art theorists. The scholarship requires the presence of the artists/theorists.

OPEN CALL | BIO 26: Designathon

DEADLINE | Sunday 21 April 2019

The Museum of Architecture and Design is launching an open call for participation in the 26th Biennial of Design, BIO 26 – Common Knowledge, curated by Austrian design curator and cultural producer Thomas Geisler together with assistant curator Aline Lara Rezende.

OPEN CALL | WHW Akademija, 2019 – 2020

Application Deadline: 29 April 2019

Curatorial collective What, How and for Whom / WHW announces an open call for applications to participate in the second year of WHW Akademija, an international art study program based in Zagreb, Croatia. The program runs from 4 November 2019 to 31 May 2020.

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CATALOGUE | Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Catalogue of the Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition published by Moderna galerija with research texts by Bojana Piškur, Chương-Đài Võ, Samia Zennadi, Teja Merhar and Anej Korsika.

NEW ARRIVALS at MG+MSUM Bookstores

01 March 2019 | 10:00

Miha Maleš, Faces of Dream and Maks Kavčič monograph.

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DRAUGHT SERIES

2019

Draught is a series of solo exhibitions on the ground floor of Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM presenting younger artists and fresh new ideas in the field of contemporary art.

OPEN CALL | Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans

Deadline: 11 January 2019

Independent Curators International (ICI), in collaboration with Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (CAC), produces the Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans, Louisiana. From 22 to 28 March 2019, a one-week professional development program offers curators the opportunity to explore art production and international connections currently developing in New Orleans and the greater Gulf of Mexico region.

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70+7 | On this day ...

28 December 2006

This year, Moderna galerija is celebrating its 70th anniversary and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, a part of Moderna galerija, its 7th anniversary. On this day 16 September 1996 Moderna galerija presented an exhibition of New acquisitions of Moderna galerija of Zdenko Huzjan.

ONLINE EXHIBITION | Transfer | Circuits

08 October 2018 — 31 December 2018

For a number of years, City of Women festival and Web Museum by Moderna galerija, Ljubljana collaborates in inventory and archiving of the rich contents from the festival's history. The exhibition Transfer | Circuits curated by Lenka Đorojević and Alja Lobnik have selected 35 archival video materials of artists from the field of performing arts who have played a crucial role in the formation of the performative scene and practices.

BOOK OF THE MONTH | Monument – Drago Tršar & Hello World. Revising a Collection

28 September 2018 | 14:00

In October we highlight two publications that were published with the exhibitions. Catalogue on the Monument – Drago Tršar exhibition & catalogue of Hello World. Revising a Collection exhibition, held this year at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart.

IN MEMORIAM | Geta Brătescu (1926–2018)

19 September 2018 | 16:00

Geta Brătescu, one of central figures of the Romanian avant-garde has died at 92.

L'INTERNATIONALE | Our Many Europs

17 September 2018 — 19 September 2018

Last week, between 17 and 19 September, a meeting of L’Internationale, a confederation of seven museums – MACBA (Barcelona), Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Antwerp), SALT (Istanbul and Ankara), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) – was held in Madrid.

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CATALOGUE | Monument – Drago Tršar

At MG+MSUM bookstores from 4 September 2018

On the occasion of Monument – Drago Tršar exhibition, Moderna galerija published an extensive publication, with 256 pages and 215 reproductions. Monograph was edited by Marko Jenko, who is also author of the text; biobibliography was prepared by Bojana Rogina, and designed by Darko Pokorn.

OPEN CALL: Managing Editor L’Internationale online platform "Our Many Europes" (2018–2022)

Application deadline: 5 October 2018

Valand Academy and L’Internationale confederation of European museums wish to appoint a Managing Editor for L’Internationale online platform. The position is linked to the four year programme "Our Many Europes" (EACEA 32/2017), and appointed as an Adjunct at Valand Academy for the duration.

OPEN CALL | 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil: Imagined Communities

Deadline: 10 August 2018, by 6:00 p.m.

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo, make public the opening of Artist applications for selection to participate in the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil.

EXHIBITION at MIMA | New Mappings of Europe: This Is Water

16 June 2018 — 07 October 2018

The exhibition at MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in the context of New Mappings of Europe project looks at the long histories of migration that have forged the current shape of the UK. It is about the rich languages, cultures and identities that are formed by many ethnicities and nationalities coming together. It highlights the dominance that some groups of people hold over others and the damage that racism continues to have.

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THREE PUBLICATIONS | Glossary of Common Knowledge | The Constituent Museum | The Long 80s

L'Internationale Confederation | 30 April 2018

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2019 VENICE BIENNALE | Marko Peljhan

20 April 2018 | 12:00

Marko Peljhan is an artist and researcher working in and between art, technology and science. His projects, initiatives, and collaborations span a vast area ranging from ecology and social reflection to tactical media, technology, space explorations and geopolitics.

The Lives of Monuments: World War II and Public Monuments in Slovenia 1945-1980

02 February 2018 | 12:00

The student documentary exhibition The Lives of Monuments, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue Življenja spomenikov: Druga svetovna vojna in javni spomeniki v Sloveniji 1945-1980/ The Lives of Monuments: World War II and Public Monuments in Slovenia 1945-1980, which will be available in the bookstores of Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova from 8 February on.

SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION | Dedicated to Zoran Mušič in Trieste

26 January 2018 | 10:00 | Revoltella Museum, Trieste

After the extraordinary discovery of Zoran Mušič’s Dachau drawings, the Revoltella Museum in Trieste is preparing a symposium dedicated to Zoran Mušič and followed by the opening of the exhibition, where the found drawings will be on display for the first time.

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Café and snack bar + Kantina

From 21 December 2017 | 10 a.m.—6 p.m.

+ Kantina is a space that provides alternative economies for affirmations of the knowledge of migrants and it aims to build social networks and exchange ideas in the wider area of Metelkova.

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CALL FOR PAPERS | International Symposium: Social Choreography

Date: 10 November 2017 | Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2017

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, as well as a title and a brief bio-bibliography, in either Word or PDF format to info@sde.si. The deadline for submission is 10 October 2017.

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SPECIAL OFFER | Adam Harvey: Privacy Gift Shop

20 June 2017 — 21 July 2017

From 20 June to 21 July 2017 the Depository Bookstore at Museum od Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM will host Privacy Gift Shop, a project by Berlin-based American Adam Harvey produced for Aksioma Project Space.

NIKA AUTOR | The News Belongs to Us! | Among Top Five Pavilions

15 May 2017 | 10:00

CATALOGUE | Andraž Šalamun

05 April 2017 | 10:00

The catalogue of a retrospective exhibition Andraž Šalamun presents essays of four authors in Slovenian and English, who interpret the opus of the painter and place them historically in the context of Slovenian and wider pictorial art.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | War, Revolution and Memory

17 February 2017 — 18 February 2017

In what ways did the change of political paradigm make these monuments undesirable in the post-socialist countries? Have processes of denial and suppression contributed to the cancellation of an inherent ideological charge of these monuments? If so, are we allowed to treat them exclusively as aesthetic objects, particularly when they are preserved in fragments?

DISCOUNT | MG+ Bookstore | Depository Bookstore | 8 February 2017

08 February 2017 | 10:00

Special offer on books and catalogues on Day of Culture, 8 February 2017.

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GLOSSARY OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE | Other Institutionatlity

17 January 2017 — 18 January 2017

International Success of the NSK Project

12 January 2017 | 10:00

The book NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst––An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia., edited by Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner, is one of the four finalists for the prestigious Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | War, Revolution and Memory | OPEN-CALL

Deadline, 1 November 2016 | 24:00

Open call for submission of abstracts for International conference War, Revolution and Memory: Post-War Monuments in Post-Communist Europe in Zagreb. Deadline: 1 November 2016.

LIBRARY WINDOW 7 | John Cage in Black Mountain College | May—July 2016

10 May 2016 — 30 June 2016

Library Window are temporary exhibitions of publications that are available at the MG+MSUM Library. Each exhibition in the windows at +MSUM's library presents a particular topic from library's collection of books to the museum visitors such as monographs and exhibition catalogs of artists and art groups, art magazines, publications in the field of art theory, book collections and last but no least valuable and rare publications.

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DISCOUNTS | MG+ Bookstore | Depository Bookstore

27 April 2016 — 11 September 2016

Special offer on catalogues till September 2016.

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Europeana 280

21 April 2016 | 11:00

Europeana 280 – an EU-level initiative to encourage awareness of the art treasures held in each country and across Europe and to support the launch of the new Europeana Art History Channel.

DISCOUNTS | MG+ Bookstore | Depository Bookstore | February

01 February 2016 — 29 February 2016

Special offer on books and catalogues in February 2016.

DISCOUNTS | MG+ Bookstore | Depository Bookstore | January 2016

01 January 2016 — 31 January 2016

Special offer on books and catalogues in January 2016.

Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art: Lesson 1 at MSU Zagreb

MSU Zagreb, 08 December 2015 — 31 January 2016

Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art | LESSON 1

DISCOUNTS | MG+ Bookstore | Depository Bookstore | December 2015

03 December 2015 | 10:00

Special offer on books and catalogues in December 2015.

PERIPHERAL EXPRESSIONISMS | International workshop

03 December 2015 — 06 December 2015

Jacobs University Bremen organises an international workshop in the framework of artistic networks and cultural exchange between Germany and its eastern neighbors in the context of the European avant-garde.

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OPEN CALL for Slovenia-based artists

22 July 2015 — 31 December 2015

Open call for participants of the 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia – U3 at Museum of Modern Art, MG+ curated by Boris Groys.

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STATEMENT on the hunger strike of Miha Turšič, acting director of KSEVT

09 October 2015 | 18:00

Moderna galerija has complied with Miha Turšič’s request to stage his hunger strike on the museum premises during the museum’s opening hours.

L'INTERNATIONALE ONLINE | research platform

2015 — 2020

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Negotiating Institutions - TATE Liverpool

11 December 2014 | 10:00

The MEETING Negotiating institutions takes place today at Tate Liverpool. It is conceived within the terms of the project The Uses of Art and it aims to debate the conditions of a negotiation that involves cultural institutions and groups from different parts of Europe.

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11th KEF (Short Electronic Form) Competition "30 sec in exyu"

08 February 2011 | 00:00

Participating authors are expected to answer to the contest topic with works that last no longer than 30 seconds or can be viewed, heard or consumed during that time. The KEF production consist mainly of short videos, but works appear also in the form of spoof ads, web banners, audio jingles, screen savers, even web sites etc.