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Maribor Art Gallery
updated 5 hours ago
With its collection of more than 3,000 art works by Slovene artists from the end of the 19th century up to the present, the Maribor Art Gallery (Umetnostna galerija Maribor (UGM)) is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture, and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations, and interactive art projects. UGM serves as a regional museum of modern and contemporary art in the area of the Municipality of Maribor, its founder, as well as in the greater area of north-eastern Slovenia. The gallery also manages the Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection in the City Park. The researchers can benefit from its rich Library and Archive. In 2015 UGM has been in charge of the Slovenian pavilion featuring JAŠA at the Venice Biennial.
UGM Studio
updated 5 hours ago
A gallery space in the very centre of the city of Maribor run by Maribor Art Gallery since 1985 had been known as the 'New Rotovž Salon' and renamed into the UGM Studio in 2014. It featured exhibitions of contemporary art, design and architecture. At the beginning of a year, a call for international artists and producers was published, inviting new contemporary art projects to be presented at the studio.
Since 2025 the premises have been managed by the Municipality of Maribor and the UGM Studio ceased its activities as an exhibition venue.
Festivals in Slovenia
updated 14 hours ago
Since 2012, the annual festivalscapes are provided as an infographic, conceived by the Culture.si team at the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory. The interactive calendars include the festivals from the Culture.si database arranged by weeks and by field. You can see specific types of festivals, e.g., music festivals only, by clicking on the corresponding artistic field.
Take a look at the Festivals in Slovenia infographics.
The European Digital Platform Europeana
updated 22 hours ago
The origins of Europeana, the European platform for access to Europe's digital cultural heritage, date back to April 2005, when French President Jacques Chirac, along with the Prime Ministers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Hungary, sent a letter to the then President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. In this letter, the signatories called for the creation of a virtual European library to make European cultural heritage more accessible to all users through digitisation.
Three years later, in November 2008, the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet) was established as a prototype, which subsequently became Europeana. Europeana, funded by the European Commission under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), now provides all internet users – cultural workers, cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, researchers, artists, and journalists – with access to more than 50 million items. These include:
- more than 33 million photographs and images,
- more than 27 million textual items,
- over 1,200,000 audio and audio-related items,
- more than 360,000 videos, including many historical recordings,
- and more than 8,000 3D models of archaeological finds, buildings, and other cultural and historical artefacts.
To date, more than 3,000 European institutions have contributed content to Europeana, including museums, galleries, libraries, archives, theatres, and non-governmental organisations. These include the Dutch Rijksmuseum, the British Library, and the French Louvre Museum. Institutions do not collaborate with Europeana directly, but rather through national aggregators, which collect content and data from individual organisations, verify them, add metadata such as geolocation, and link them to other materials and databases through associated persons, places, or topics. All Europeana aggregators are members of the Europeana Aggregators' Forum (EAF), a network of national, regional, domain, and thematic aggregators that aims, among other objectives, to exchange knowledge and best practices to support the aggregation and sharing of data with Europeana.
Evropska digitalna platforma Europeana
updated 22 hours ago
Portal Culture.si bogati tudi Europeano - največjo evropsko spletno knjižnico kulturne dediščine! Prek Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice kot nacionalnega agregatorja prispeva slikovno gradivo, vezano na slovensko kulturo in sodobno umetnost.
Asociacija, Association of Arts and Culture NGOs and Freelancers
updated 28 hours ago
Asociacija (English: "Association") is an association of non-governmental organisations and freelancers active in arts and culture in Slovenia. It strives to advocate their interests and generally better the conditions for the dynamic cultural and artistic production of the so called 'independent sector'.
Established in Ljubljana in 1992 as an informal network, Asociacija officially registered as a non-profit cultural organisation in 2003 and – via funds obtained from the European Social Fund – got professionalised in 2009. The organisation has about 50 major NGOs and a few hundred of freelancers as members.
Tretaroka Association
updated 28 hours ago
Established in 2005, the Tretaroka Association (3rdHand Association) is an organisation of quite a diverse and elusive character. It runs a multi-disciplinary and socially engaged programme that reflects the collective's backgrounds in design, art, cultural politics and social sciences. Proactive in setting up collaborative, educational and experimental platforms, the association is responsible for the Independent Biennial and Design Biotop.