Venue
The P74 Centre and Gallery is since the beginning housed in the dislocated premises of the Gymnasium Šentvid on the periphery of Ljubljana. Since 2008 is the activity of P74 combined with another branch of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute: the Kapsula Gallery, located in the very centre of Ljubljana (Podhod Ajdovščina).
Mission and programme
The centre fosters knowledge, encourages the exchange of new ideas, and promote innovative and challenging models in contemporary art and culture, what is achieved with the P74 programme of solo and group exhibitions as well with other visual, new media and experimental music projects of national and international character.
Artists' books
Since the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute began in 2003 with the public competition for artists' books for artists of all nationalities living and working in Slovenia and since it in 2005 started with the production of artists' books, the venue became the home of its growing Artist's Book Collection. In early summer 2009 the P74 was also the venue of the practical oriented workshop for artist books.
Exhibitions
Since the beginning the P74 Centre featured the projects of emerging Slovene artists featuring solo or group shows. Some of the artists that have started here include Sašo Vrabič and Žiga Kariž as well as Tanja Lažetić, Dejan Habicht, Miha Knific, Nika Zupančič, Tobias Putrih, Metka Zupančič, Lada Cerar, Vesna Bukovec, Jure Engelsberger, and Tomaž Tomažin. Each year one of the solo exhibitions is dedicated to the recipient of the OHO Group Award.
In last years the P74 increased the cooperations with national and international guest curators to include work of Slovene artists within international context. The project The Renaming Machine curated by Suzana Milevska in the Jakopič Gallery in 2008. Works of IRWIN, Tanja Lažetić/Dejan Habicht, and Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art amalgamated with art of i.e. Sanja Iveković, MONUMENT, Oliver Musoviќ, Dan Perjovschi, and Žaneta Vangeli to re-define the residues after the renaming overwrites the old references on the historic »mystic pad«. On the end of 2009 Milevska organized in P74 also the first solo show of filmmaker and author Hyto Steyerl in Slovenia. Further, three Slovene artists were in the same year integrated into the project Obviously, it's not obvious / GIFT, curated by Lotte Juul Petersen, currently the curator at Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge, UK). In the artist book she pointed out mostly Danish and Slovene artist as Soren Assenholt, Jacob Borges, Polonca Lovšin, Olof Olsson, Tomaž Tomažin and Pernille Kapper Williams.
By the guest curator Miško Šuvaković prepared exhibition Hidden Histories of the OHO Group gave in 2009 the new light to the problem of the character of neo-avant-garde excess and the experimental work of the famous Slovene OHO Group. In the same year P74 celebrated the 15th anniversary of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art with the show This is not America.
Space
Dimensions: Gallery 1 - 50m² (10m x 5m x 2.6m H) incorporating 24 linear metres of wall space; Gallery 2 - oval space 50m² incorporating 14 linear metres of wall space; installation system: hammer-and-nail installation, no hanging system; lighting: halogen lighting system and natural light from windows; other facilities: VCS, DVD, TV monitors; climate control: none; sales policy: sales not permitted; security: no security system
See also
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