Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art

Contact

Art Stays mednarodni festival sodobne umetnosti

Jadranska ulica 4, SI-2250 Ptuj

http://www.artstays.si

info@artstays.si

Phone386 (0) 40 467 459, 386 (0) 51 361 800

Organised byArt Stays Cultural Association

FrequencyAnnual

Festival dates10.7.2025 - 15.9.2025

Established in 2003, the Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art is the main summer event of visual arts in the Ptuj region. Since 2009 it is one of the two branches of the Art Ptuj Festival, consisting also of the music part of the festival named Arsana.

The Art Stays Festival consists traditionally of a week long, condensed festival days, and a longer exhibition featured on several locations in Ptuj including the partner institutions: Ptuj – Ormož Regional Museum, Mihelič Gallery, Ptuj, and Salon of Art, Ptuj.

Bioalloy, a body art performance by Gary Cass & Chandrasekaran, performed at the Art Stays Festival, 2010

Some recent editions

The 2010 edition transformed the colony character of the festival's past events into an academy: emerging artists participated in a 10-day festival workshop led by international guest professors such as Gary Cass (University of Western Australia), S. Chandrasekaran (Head of the Department of Fine Arts at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore), and Raphael Di Luzio (New Media Programme, University of Maine, USA). Artists from 12 countries on 4 continents participated, including those from Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland, USA, Singapore, Australia, Finland, and Ireland. Beti Bricelj, BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), Dušan Fišer, and Tanja Špenko represented Slovenia.

The 2015 edition adopted the concept of a Wunderkammer and featured numerous workshops, performances and screenings as well as nine group exhibitions or individual artistic interventions that remain open throughout the summer. The artists invited by Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari include Fernando Prats, Hannah Collins, Ann & Patrick Poirier, Perino & Vele, Dragoljub Raša Todosijević, Zoran Todorović, Hongbo Li, Zhang Qiushi, Lei Wang, Tina Dobrajc, Goran Bertok, Boštjan Novak, Tomaž Plavec, and others.

A guided tour around the exhibitions of Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 2015

See also

• Art Stays Cultural Association

External links

• Art Stays Association's website
• Art Stays Festival on Celeste Prize website

Gallery

Bioalloy, a body art performance by Gary Cass & Chandrasekaran, performed at the Art Stays Festival, 2010

"HOLE - in search of opera without Opera", a new music media performance by Lynn Book, Katharina Klement, Robin Starbuck and Doris Schmid, performed at Art Stays Festival in 2011

A site-specific project, set up at the Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art by Jeongmoon Choi, 2011

An artwork by Jordi Alcaraz, presented at the "Wunderkammer â The Grand Tour" exhibition at the 2015 edition of Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art

A guided tour around the exhibitions of Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 2015

A collection of posters for the Art Stays festival, as used between 2015 and 2015.