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Established in 1997 at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Centre, KUD Mreža (mreža meaning "network") carries out a rather wide range of cultural programmes, from running art galleries and promoting concerts, to mediating information on funding opportunities and managing an archive of press clippings and other materials regarding Metelkova mesto.

Alkatraz Gallery, established in 1996 as an artist run space, located in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, Ljubljana

Background

Initially, KUD Mreža was primarily engaged in visual arts projects at Metelkova, yet it also functioned as a formal vehicle for various other initiatives that were active there. Its predecessor was, in a way, Mreža za Metelkovo (The Network for Metelkova), the collective that worked to establish this autonomous cultural centre. As such, KUD Mreža has been carrying out certain communal Metelkova functions since its founding.

In 2000, together with the Society for the Protection of Atheistic Feelings (DZAČ), KUD Mreža founded Menza pri koritu, a very active Metelkova venue that hosts concerts, poetry evenings, theatre shows, workshops and many other events. As of 2015, the association ceased being actively involved there.

Core projects

KUD Mreža runs a couple of programmes for educating children and youth about the Metelkova cultural centre. In collaboration with schools from Ljubljana as well as from elsewhere, Mreža (sometimes in collaboration with other institutions, such as Bunker Institute) organises guided tours and visits to the many artist studios, clubs, galleries, urban art projects and even concerts at Metelkova. Various children's workshops regularly happen under its auspices.

KUD Mreža also operates the Alkatraz Gallery, where contemporary art exhibitions, performances and installations take place, and the adjacent Asylum Studio, which hosts artists of different creative orientations (street art, dance, sculpturing, music, etc.) in its artist-in-residence project. Another KUD Mreža-run gallery is the unique Night Window Display Gallery Pešak, which displays its artworks behind the windows of one of the Metelkova buildings. Consequently, the artworks can only be seen by way of a telescope set on a nearby tower.

Since 2000, KUD Mreža organises the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, bringing concerts, exhibitions, urban interventions, video projections and lectures to a number of Ljubljana venues. For a time, it organised the similarly diverse Personal–Collective Festival, primarily oriented towards mingling improvised music, dance and visual arts.

Numerous educational programmes were also organised by KUD Mreža, amongst them a very ambitious and extensive, EU-funded sound and lighting training programme.

Music series FriForma and Metabonma

The jazz and improvised music cycle Džez pri koritu, for many years held at Klub Menza pri koritu, was in 2016 recast as the FriForma series. Still focusing on improvised music, FriForma takes place at many different venues, among them, the Vodnik Homestead, the Pocket Teater Studio, Kapelica Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Klub Gromka and even various churches.

Some of its guests have been Seymour Wright, Daichi Yoshikawa, Rie Nakajima, CRAM records, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Lucio Capece. Before that, Džez pri koritu hosted artists in the vein of Marc Ribot, Tristan Honsinger, Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe, Seijiro Murayama, Kazutoki Umezu Kiki Band, Linda Sharrock, Good for Cows, Gutbucket, etc.

This cycle is complemented by the Metabonma, a series for staging contemporary composed music and classical music. Featuring the likes of Bruce Hamilton, Mak Grgić, Oskar Laznik, Marko Hatlak and Drumartica, the series takes place exclusively at Metelkova, where such music is only rarely heard.

Urban art projects

Since 2003, KUD MReža has been leading a programme called Urban Art Projects (Urbani likovni projekti), alternatively also called Gesamtkunstwerk Metelkova mesto. Devoted to renovations and artistic augmentations of public spaces at Metelkova, this programme is responsible for more than a hundred projects, from smaller interventions with semi-permanent installations to bigger ones, such as parks and the aforementioned Night Window Display Gallery Pešak.

Other international projects

In 2013, KUD Mreža became part of the international research project called "The Future of Work" and led the consortium (featuring Projekthaus Potsdam-Babelsberg and Zaaigrond filmproductions) that secured financing by the European Cultural Fund (ECF). The Future of Work is a 4-episode web-documentary by Abel Heijkamp (NL) and Julij Borštnik (SI), who documented their research into contemporary labour conditions in the Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and Europe in general.

KUD Mreža also participated in Trans Europe Halles (TEH), a European Network of Independent Cultural Centres, with Metelkova hosting the TEH meeting in 2006.

Improcon Festival

Coordinated by the Croatian association Gokul, two Austrian partners and the Klub Metulj, Improcon was founded as a "congress of free improvised music, arts and thoughts" in 2014. Mostly taking place in the Croatian border town Kumrovec, this 4-day festival hosts dozens of artistic persuasions, and in 2016, KUD Mreža also entered into this endeavour.

External links

Gallery

Alkatraz Gallery, interior, 2009

Alkatraz Gallery, established in 1996 as an artist run space, located in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, Ljubljana

Tomaž Tomažin, V čast klobuku [In honour of the hat], light box, detail, in the Tomaž Tomažin and Damijan Kracina / Serious players exhibition, curated by Jadranka Ljubičič, Alkatraz Gallery, 2010

Naoko Mashiba dance concert at Asylum Studio, KUD Mreža, 2016

The Revolting Women Social Workers present their calendar I Want My Part Of The History! at the Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, A - Infoshop, in the scope of the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns in 2014

Urbani likovni projekt at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, KUD Mreža, 2015

Anna Ehrlemark, Urbani likovni projekt at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, KUD Mreža, 2012

ImproCON at Kumrovec, KUD Mreža, 2015

Urbani likovni projekt Miha Perne in Edvin Dobrilovič at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, KUD Mreža, 2015

Urbani likovni projekt Tina Drčar at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, KUD Mreža, 2015

FriForma series, Cram at Kapelica Gallery, KUD Mreža, 2016

FriForma series Daichi Yoshikawa & Samo Kutin at Pocket Theater, KUD Mreža, 2016

Night Window Display Pešak at Baabure exhibition, Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, KUD Mreža, 2016

Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), KUD Mreža, 2016

Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet workshop at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), KUD Mreža, 2016

Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone

Klub Menza pri koritu in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone

Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone

Poster for the 25th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, 2024.

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 | role                = Head of the association
-| email               = natasa.s@guest.arnes.si
+| email               = natasa.serec@gmail.com
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 | role                = Artistic Director of Alkatraz Gallery
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+| email               = jadranka.plut@gmail.com
 }}
 | accounts =
 http://www.facebook.com/kud.mreza
 http://vimeo.com/kudmreza/videos/
+https://twitter.com/kud_mreza
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 {{Teaser|
+Established in [[established::1997]] at [[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone|Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Centre]], [[KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association|KUD Mreža]] (''mreža'' meaning "network") carries out a rather wide range of cultural programmes, from running art galleries and promoting concerts, to mediating information on funding opportunities and managing an archive of press clippings and other materials regarding Metelkova mesto.
-Established in [[established::1997]] at [[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone]], [[KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association|KUD Mreža]] (meaning ''KUD Network'') nowadays carries out a wide range of activities, from leading an art gallery and promoting concerts, to maintaining an archive and mediating information on cultural funding opportunities. It also manages an archive of photographic, audio and video materials regarding Metelkova mesto and the events occurring there.
+{{image|Alkatraz Gallery 2010 Exterior Photo Jasmina Klancar.jpg}}
-Since 2003, it has also been coordinating the renovations of buildings within Metelkova Mesto.
-{{image|Alkatraz Gallery - 01.jpg}}
 }}
 ==Background==
-Initially, KUD Mreža Association primarily engaged in visual arts projects at Metelkova, but it also functioned as a formal vehicle to the various other initiatives that were active there. Its predecessor was, in a way, ''Mreža za Metelkovo'' (The Network for Metelkova), an initiative that worked to establish and coordinate this autonomous cultural centre in the first place.
+Initially, KUD Mreža was primarily engaged in visual arts projects at Metelkova, yet it also functioned as a formal vehicle for various other initiatives that were active there. Its predecessor was, in a way, Mreža za Metelkovo (The Network for Metelkova), the collective that worked to establish this autonomous cultural centre. As such, KUD Mreža has been carrying out certain communal Metelkova functions since its founding.
-In the year 2000, coupled with the [[Society for the Protection of Atheistic Feelings (DZAČ)]], KUD Mreža also founded the [[Klub Menza pri koritu]], turning it into a very active Metelkova venue that now hosts concerts, poetry evenings, various workshops (circus, stage technique, etc), and many other events. As of 2015, the association is not active in this club any more.
+In 2000, together with the [[Society for the Protection of Atheistic Feelings (DZAČ)]], KUD Mreža founded [[Klub Menza pri koritu|Menza pri koritu]], a very active Metelkova venue that hosts concerts, poetry evenings, theatre shows, workshops and many other events. As of 2015, the association ceased being actively involved there.
 ==Core projects==
-Since 2000, KUD Mreža is organising the [[International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns]], which features performances, concerts, exhibitions, urban interventions, as well as video projections, round tables, book presentations, and lectures. For a time, it also organised the similarly diverse [[Personal&ndash;Collective Festival], which was primarily oriented towards contemporary improvised music, dance, and visual arts.
+KUD Mreža runs a couple of programmes for educating children and youth about the Metelkova cultural centre. In collaboration with schools from Ljubljana as well as from elsewhere, Mreža (sometimes in collaboration with other institutions, such as [[Bunker Institute]]) organises guided tours and visits to the many artist studios, clubs, galleries, urban art projects and even concerts at Metelkova. Various children's workshops regularly happen under its auspices.
-KUD Mreža also operates the [[Alkatraz Gallery]], where contemporary art exhibitions, performances and installations take place, and the adjacent [[Studio Asylum]], which hosts artists invited to its Artist-in-Residence project. The latter was launched in 2006, and is operated together with the [[Art Center Prosenjakovci]]. In this same field, KUD Mreža also occasionally runs art auctions and organises art workshops (painting, graphic art, sculpture, metal sculpture, etc.).
+KUD Mreža also operates the [[Alkatraz Gallery]], where contemporary art exhibitions, performances and installations take place, and the adjacent [[Asylum Studio]], which hosts artists of different creative orientations (street art, dance, sculpturing, music, etc.) in its artist-in-residence project. Another KUD Mreža-run gallery is the unique [[Night Window Display Gallery Pešak]], which displays its artworks behind the windows of one of the Metelkova buildings. Consequently, the artworks can only be seen by way of a telescope set on a nearby tower.
-Another core endeavour are the "Urban Art Projects" [Urbani likovni projekti], devoted to the renovations and art exhibitions in public spaces at Metelkova, from setting up the so called Hajlends Park at Metelkova mesto, to creating mosaics at various façades, setting up graffiti, etc.
+Since 2000, KUD Mreža organises the [[International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns]], bringing concerts, exhibitions, urban interventions, video projections and lectures to a number of Ljubljana venues. For a time, it organised the similarly diverse [[Personal&ndash;Collective Festival]], primarily oriented towards mingling improvised music, dance and visual arts.
-===Music cycles FriForma and Metabonma===
+Numerous educational programmes were also organised by KUD Mreža, amongst them a very ambitious and extensive, EU-funded sound and lighting training programme.
-Active since 2007, the music cycle Džezz pri Koritu (held at [[Klub Menza pri koritu]] ) has been remade as the concert cycle FriForma, which focuses on improvised music and uses various venues, among them [[Pocket Teater Studio]], [[Klub Gromka]], and [[MoTA Museum of Transitory Art]]. Some of its guests were Daichi Yoshikawa,  Rie Nakajima in Pierre Berthet, the CRAM music collective, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Lucio Capece; before that, Džezz pri Koritu brought artists like All Included (SW, NR), Marc Ribot (US), Kazutoki Umezu Kiki Band (JP), Mario Rechtern (AT), Linda Sharrock (AT), Good for Cows (US), Gutbucket (US), etc.
+===Music series FriForma and Metabonma===
-This cycle is complemented by the Metabonma, a series that focuses on staging contemporary classical music and which featured Bruce Hamilton (US), SI Brass (SI, AT), [[Marko Hatlak]] and [[Drumartica]].
+The jazz and improvised music cycle Džez pri koritu, for many years held at [[Klub Menza pri koritu]], was in 2016 recast as the FriForma series. Still focusing on improvised music, FriForma takes place at many different venues, among them, the [[Vodnik Homestead]], the [[Pocket Teater Studio]], [[Kapelica Gallery]], the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]], [[Klub Gromka]] and even various churches.
+Some of its guests have been Seymour Wright, Daichi Yoshikawa, Rie Nakajima, CRAM records, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Lucio Capece. Before that, Džez pri koritu hosted artists in the vein of Marc Ribot, Tristan Honsinger, Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe, Seijiro Murayama, Kazutoki Umezu Kiki Band, Linda Sharrock, Good for Cows, Gutbucket, etc.
+This cycle is complemented by the Metabonma, a series for staging contemporary composed music and classical music. Featuring the likes of Bruce Hamilton, [[Mak Grgić]], [[Oskar Laznik]], [[Marko Hatlak]] and [[Drumartica]], the series takes place exclusively at Metelkova, where such music is only rarely heard.
+===Urban art projects===
+Since 2003, KUD MReža has been leading a programme called Urban Art Projects (Urbani likovni projekti), alternatively also called Gesamtkunstwerk Metelkova mesto. Devoted to renovations and artistic augmentations of public spaces at Metelkova, this programme is responsible for more than a hundred projects, from smaller interventions with semi-permanent installations to bigger ones, such as parks and the aforementioned [[Night Window Display Gallery Pešak]].
 ==Other international projects==
-In 2013, KUD Mreža became part of the international research project called "The Future of Work, and has led the consortium that has secured financing for it by the European Cultural Fund (ECF). The Future of Work is a 4 episode web-documentary by Abel Heijkamp (NL) and Julij Borštnik (SI), who are documenting their research into contemporary labour conditions in the Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and Europe in general. The other partners of this project are Projekthaus Potsdam-Babelsberg (GE) and Zaaigrond filmproductions (NL).
+In 2013, KUD Mreža became part of the international research project called "The Future of Work" and led the consortium (featuring Projekthaus Potsdam-Babelsberg and Zaaigrond filmproductions) that secured financing by the European Cultural Fund (ECF). [[The Future of Work]] is a 4-episode web-documentary by Abel Heijkamp (NL) and Julij Borštnik (SI), who documented their research into contemporary labour conditions in the Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and Europe in general.
+KUD Mreža also participated in Trans Europe Halles (TEH), a European Network of Independent Cultural Centres, with Metelkova hosting the TEH meeting in 2006.
+===Improcon Festival===
-KUD Mreža also acted as the Slovene host for the international project ''La caravane des dix mots'', which takes place in more than 40 countries world-wide. It has also participated in Trans Europe Halles, a European Network of Independent Cultural Centres.
+Coordinated by the Croatian association Gokul, two Austrian partners and the [[Klub Metulj]], Improcon was founded as a "congress of free improvised music, arts and thoughts" in 2014. Mostly taking place in the Croatian border town Kumrovec, this 4-day festival hosts dozens of artistic persuasions, and in 2016, KUD Mreža also entered into this endeavour.
 == See also ==
 *[[Alkatraz Gallery]]
+*[[Asylum Studio]]
+*[[Night Window Display Gallery Pešak]]
 *[[International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns]]
+*[[Vodnik Homestead]]
 *[[Klub Menza pri koritu]]
 *[[Art Center Prosenjakovci]]
+*[[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone]]
 == External links ==
 *[http://www.kudmreza.org/ KUD Mreža website]
+*[https://pesakpesak.wordpress.com/ The Gallery Pešak website]
 *[http://thefutureofwork.eu/ The Future of Work website]
+*[https://vimeo.com/friforma/ Video recordings of FriForma concerts]
+*[http://improcongress.org/ ImproCon website]
+*[https://www.facebook.com/improcon/ ImproCon on Facebook]
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