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AIR Celeia
updated 8 hours ago
Since 2005, the AIR Celeia Artist-in-Residence programme for international artists and curators has been run by the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, which since 2025 is a part of the Celje Regional Museum. It is based on inter-disciplinarity and participation, with the aim of building a dialogue and cooperation between foreign and local artists and curators as well as between art and the broader community.
If you are interested in participating, consult the Residency Programmes in Slovenia infographics for detailed information.
Šempeter Studio
updated 9 hours ago
Šempeter Studio , established in 2021 and managed by KUD Manifest cultural society, is a fully equipped artistic space for creative experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration and connection with the local community, intended for visual arts, new media projects, sound and light art, as well as film and music projects. The space, which connects the live-in studio and a separate project studio, serves as a year-round art residence.
Center Rog
updated 9 hours ago
Center Rog is a production space and creative hub founded by the Municipality of Ljubljana in 2021, bringing together traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation under the concept of creative industries. Located in the renovated former Tovarna Rog bicycle factory and opened in 2023, it is organised around a network of workshops where members can learn to use a wide range of tools and technologies across nine specialised labs, including the Textile Lab, Wood Lab, Metal Lab, and Food Lab. The complex also features nineteen project studios and five residential apartments, which regularly host international artists, researchers, and lecturers.
Arte Utile Residency
updated 12 hours ago
The residencies Arte Utile (established in 2019) and Arte Utile Journey (established in 2022) take place in the town of Slovenj Gradec, in the Pino Poggi Studio. They are managed by raum AU in collaboration with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška. The Arte Utile Residency welcomes Slovenian and international artists from the fields of literature, new media art and visual arts, while the Arte Utile Journey Residency hosts artists from the fields of New Media Art, Visual Arts and Architecture. The selected residents research and reinterpret the Arte Utile artistic movement and engage deeply with artistic practices that address contemporary social and political challenges. The programme encourages artists and theorists to develop new approaches and ideas within this conceptual framework.
Slovenska matica
updated 12 hours ago
Founded in 1864 with a view to raising the level of education and knowledge, Slovenska matica is the oldest cultural and scientific association in Slovenia. Its publishing programme has a long tradition of translating major philosophical texts, as well as covering history, art history, and literary history. Beyond publishing, Slovenska matica organises panel discussions, symposia, round tables, and literary events on a wide range of topics relevant to Slovenian society. In 2017, the Slovenian parliament passed a law granting Slovenska matica special cultural and scientific status.
Umetniške rezidence v Sloveniji: izkušnje, izzivi in priložnosti
updated 13 hours ago
Umetniški rezidenčni programi so skozi čas igrali pomembno vlogo pri omogočanju prepotrebne mednarodne mobilnosti umetnikov, njihovi profesionalizaciji in povezovanju. V zadnjih desetletjih so se močno razmahnili in postali sestavni del sodobnega kulturnega ekosistema. Ponudba programov, ki umetnikom omogočajo čas in prostor za raziskovanje, produkcijo ali mreženje na različne načine, je zelo pestra – ne le v svetovnem merilu, temveč tudi znotraj nacionalnega konteksta. Da bi povezala različne izvajalce rezidenčnih programov v Sloveniji, je Motovila februarja 2026 v Centru Rog organizirala srečanje, na katerem so izmenjali svoje izkušnje. Kdo so izvajalci, kako oblikujejo svoje programe v koraku s sodobnimi trendi in s kakšnimi izzivi se pri tem soočajo?
Arts Residencies in Slovenia: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities
updated 14 hours ago
Artist-in-residence (AiR) programmes have long played an important role in facilitating the much-needed international mobility of artists, their professional development, and collaboration. Over recent decades, they have burgeoned into an integral part of the contemporary cultural ecosystem. Programmes offering artists time and space for research, production, or networking are remarkably diverse – not only globally, but also within the national context. To connect the various organisers of AiR programmes in Slovenia, Motovila organised a meeting at Center Rog in February 2026, where participants shared their experiences. Who are the organisers, how are they keeping their programmes in step with contemporary trends, and what challenges are they facing in the process?
City Art Gallery Ljubljana
updated 16 hours ago
The City Art Gallery Ljubljana (Mestna galerija Ljubljana) is a fine art exhibition space in the old centre of Ljubljana that has been operating continuously for over 60 years. It has a broad exhibition programme and organises presentations of Slovene artists abroad. Since 2009 the gallery has been operating within the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana public institute.
Celica Hostel
updated 16 hours ago
Situated in the centre of Ljubljana, Celica Hostel stands within the former military complex that was developed during the 1990s into the Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, an alternative culture territory with numerous clubs, studios, galleries and a very distinctive architecture. The building that now houses the hostel is a former military prison, hence also the name Celica Hostel, with celica meaning a (prison) cell.
Besides its distinctive look, the hostel boasts a gallery, a small museum, a special room to chill and meditate and a garden, where music concerts often take place during the summer. Due to all that, Celica has received multiple awards, among them being the title of the "No.1 hippest hostel in the world", given by Lonely Planet.
Carinarnica
updated 16 hours ago
Carinarnica (in English, "Customs House") is a cultural centre, established in 2016 in Nova Gorica, a city on the western border of Slovenia. It is a cultural, inter-city juncture for the development of non-governmental and urban culture, located in the building of the former border-crossing between the two cities, between Italian Gorizia and Slovenian Nova Gorica. It is a meeting point for open-minded people who care for the urban culture of both cities.