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| name               = Lighting Guerrilla Festival
| local name         = Svetlobna gverila
| logo              = Sg logo eng.tif
| street             = Metelkova 6
| town               = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| website            = http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/
| email              = core@mail.ljudmila.org
| telephone          = 386 (0) 31 401 556
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| founded by         = 
| founded by 2       =
| organised by       = Strip Core
| organised by 2     = Forum Ljubljana
| frequency          = annual
| dates and duration = May-June, 20 days
| duration weeks     = 20,21,22,23,24 (2012) 22 (2013) 36,37,38,39,40,41 (2014) 
| festival dates     = 27.5.2015 - 16.6.2015, 16.5.2016 - 18.6.2016, 17.5.2017 - 17.6.2017, 11.5.2018 - 16.6.2018, 16.5.2019 - 16.6.2019, 15.6.2020 - 11.7.2020, 24.5.2021 - 19.6.2021, 23.5.2022 - 18.6.2022, 22.5.2023 - 17.6.2023, 24.5.2024 – 25.6.2024
| contacts      = {{Contact
  | name        = Katerina Mirović
  | role        = Head, Programme Selector
  | street      = 
  | town        = 
  | website     = 
  | email       = core@mail.ljudmila.org
  | telephone   = 386 (0) 31 401 556
  | fax         = 
}}{{Contact
| name                = Aleksandra Stratimirović
| role                = Programme Selector 
| email               = studio@strati.se
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{{Contact
| name                = Matjaž Brulc
| role                = Programme Selector 
| email               = 
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First held in [[established::2008]], the [[Lighting Guerrilla Festival|Lighting Guerrilla]] (''Svetlobna gverila'') is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival ''Lighting Detectives'' (''Detektivi svetlobe''), it is founded and run by [[Strip Core]], otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of [[Forum Ljubljana]].

The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.
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==Venues, locations and collaborations==

Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the "matter" of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the [[Match Gallery]], [[Mala Galerija BS]], the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture|Kino Šiška]], the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], [[RogLab]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], [[Cirkulacija 2]], the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts|Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]], etc., but most of the program takes place outdoor.  

It is also sometimes venturing outside of Ljubljana, having its pre- and post-festival stops at the [[Simulaker Gallery]] in Novo Mesto, the [[Centralna postaja]] in Maribor, the [[Hrastnik Cultural Centre]], [[Layer House]] in Kranj and some other places. 

The festival has closely collaborated with festivals like the [[Spring Festival]], the [[Strictly Analog Festival]], the [[Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts]], [[Festival IZIS]], [[CestaArt]] festival Gornja Radgona, [[R.o.R]] festival, SKLAD (Macedonia), Lumina (Portugal), Interference (Tunis), Visual festival (Finland), Visualia (Croatia), Art & Light festival (BiH), LAACT XXIII (Poland) … and institutions such as the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]], the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Architecture]], the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]], [[Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana]], [[Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana]], etc. It has been a part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.

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== The invited artists == 

Both local and international artists and producers are invited, in fact, many of them. Some of the attendees included Aleksandra Stratimirović (SE/RS), Alessandro Lupi (IT), Andrej Štular (SI), Artificiel (CA), Atsara (FR), Beam Team (SI), Bernard Murigneux (FR), Danilo Milovanović (SI), Dimitri Xenakis (FR), Erik Matrai (HU), Francois Donato (FR), Jakub Nepraš (CZ), Janez Grošelj (SI), Katja Paternoster (SI), Laurenz Theinert (DE), Leonid Tishkov (RU), Luka Savić (SI), Marko A. Kovačič (SI), Marko Batista (SI), Maro Avrabou (FR), Matej Bizovičar (SI), Matthieu Tercieux (FR), Max Sudhues (DE), Michael Candy (AU), Moritz Wehrmann (DE), NatanEsku (SI), Nika Erjavec (SI), Nicholas Bernier (CA), Tadej Droljc (SI), Tilen Sepič (SI), Sophie Guyot (CH), Robert Sochacki (PL), Stran22 (SI), and Tim Etchells (UK) …

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== See also ==
* [[Strip Core]]
* [[Forum Ljubljana]]
* [[Strictly Analog Festival]]

==External links==
*[http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/en Lighting Guerrilla Festival website]
*[https://www.slavorum.org/ljubljana-light-art-festival-will-turn-slovenian-capital-into-spectacular-bucket-list-destination About Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Slavorum, 2017]
*[http://thelightdesign.ro/en/the-freedom-of-using-light-an-interview-with-the-light-artist-aleksandra-stratimirovic/ An interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović, cofounder of the LGF, Thelightdesign.ro, September 2016)]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr4dt1P070 Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović] (in Slovenian)
*[https://arsphotonica.net/svetlobna-gverila-ljubljana-2023 ARS PHOTONICA – Texts on Light in Fine Art]


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