Admission Free Festival

The Admission Free Festival is an annual art festival featuring artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations in the urban context of Celje. The festival is a project of the Art Society of Celje (DLUC), whose members run it in collaboration with the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Art kino Metropol Celje and the Celje Central Library.

Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out and move the traditionally closed gallery space out onto the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes a display space, a depository of art materials and a place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors and passer-bys are encouraged to discover the festival events in a non-linear way and allow them to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.

Programme

The Admission Free Festival features a wide, constantly shifting selection of performances, exhibitions, installations, projections and public readings. Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments. Each festival addresses a different theme, such as "intolerance", "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, "shame", "nature and light", and "a look back".

The festival initially featured works primarily associated with the Art Society of Celje, with society members Franc Purg, Manja Vadla, Željko Opačak, Andreja Džakušič and Simon Macuh playing a very active role, but past editions have also featured works by artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Japan and Belgium.

The participatory nature of the festival is underscored by the active participation of students from the local high school and their collaboration with established artists on their projects, as well as interventions that regularly involve the public.

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