Culture of Slovenia

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In Focus

GO2025 The City Yet to Become

Miha Kosovel

While winning the bid for the European Capital of Culture speaks of a city's vision for the future, Miha Kosovel of Razpotja magazine introduces the term transfrontal and reminds us of how understanding the history of a region can better prepare us for the mental and physical shifts needed in co-creating a new reality.

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In this postcard celebrating Nova Gorica in the 1950s, we find many symbols of the city's identity that continue to mark it today.

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows around 80 festivals in 2021, with nearly a dozen taking place in June and many more to follow throughout the summer.

This month you can check out the Lighting Guerrilla installations around Ljubljana, or the International Triennial Ecology and Art at the former textile factory in Maribor, get immersed into the music showcase MENT Ljubljana, or see the finest selection of horror movies at the Kurja polt Genre Film Festival.

Explore all the upcoming festivals at the interactive Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

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The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.

Slovene art abroad 2010 –

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  Italy Bologna Arena del Sole ERT

  
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  Four performances of "Saint Joan of the Stockyards - Sveta Ivana Klavniška", a Slovene production of Bertold Brecht's play by Mladinsko Theatre in collaboration with Cankarjev dom. Featuring music by Laibach and cast members from Slovenia, Italy, and Luxembourg. Coproduced by Emilia Romagna Teatro Bologna/Teatro Nazionale, TNL – Théâtre National du Luxembourg, ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival, and Teatro Stabile di Bolzano. The play premieres on the 18th of April.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  A photography exhibit "The Real World is Out There - Stvaran svet je tamo nekde" by Robert Marin and Nemanja Knežević. The event is supported by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Austria Klagenfurt Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia Klagenfurt

  
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  An exhibition by painter Matjaž Borovničar and sculptor Luka Širok, as part of the "A Window on to our Neighbour", organised by the Union of Slovene Fine Arts Associations (ZDSLU). Co-organised by the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia Klagenfurt.

  
  

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Images

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  Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015

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  The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016

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  Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

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  Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775

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  The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.

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  A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

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  Narodni dom (National House) building by František Škabrout, built in Ljubljana 1894–1896. In 1927 the National Gallery of Slovenia rented some rooms in the building that housed also sport and leisure activities. Postcard, 1910.

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  The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014

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  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Maribor, designed by Styria arhitektura d.o.o.

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Overview

Slovene Poetry

Nataša Velikonja

Poet Nataša Velikonja has collected data on Slovene poetry from various sources, from its earliest liturgical and folk beginnings to today’s diverse production.

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Osmo/za

Osmo/za is a collaborative space on the 8th floor of the 1960s' Avtotehna skyscraper at Slovenska 54 in the very centre of Ljubljana. It was set up in 2017 by a consortium of three NGO art/cultural producers with a rich and varied history: Ljudmila, which engages in the development and popularisation of open culture, free licences and software, and in new ways of data distribution; Delak Institute, a production house exploring post-gravity art and outlining a path for space culturalisation; and Projekt Atol Institute, whose activities range from art production to scientific research and technological prototype development and production.

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Soda 4060, workshop led by Staš Vrenko at Osmo/za, 2018.

In Focus

The Rebirth of Industrial Spaces through the Prism of Culture and Creativity

Tea Pristolič

From London and Paris to Berlin and Amsterdam, if we mention only Europe, some of the best contemporary museums and galleries are set in former industrial buildings, taking advantage of vast spaces, preserving cultural heritage and giving back to people what they had been creating before in a different manner.

Slovenia stepped on this path in the early 2000s and is committed to renovating, rebuilding and breathing new life into such buildings. Through revitalisation, cities, townships and private organisations are transforming these sites and structures into places that offer platforms for creative industries. However, the means towards this goal and the results vary distinctively.

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Stara mestna elektrarna Elektro Ljubljana (SMEEL), known in English as the Old Power Station, 2006.

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Slovenia on the Global Music Map

Peter Baroš

Slovenian musicians and bands have a colourful history of international success in the music industry. But before such success becomes a topic of nostalgia, SIGIC's Peter Baroš tells of new initiatives helping today's music acts reach for the stars hanging over the global music map.

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VOLKSWAGNER 3, Laibach in collaboration with RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and composer Izidor Leitinger, 2009. A sonic suite in three acts making connections between Wagner, modernism and jazz, crossbred with pop art.