Slovene artists and producers regularly participate at established festivals in Germany. In 2007, Gregor Podnar Gallery opened a new gallery space in Berlin.
Photon - Center for Contemporary Photography Photon joins the UK’s leading international fair for photography and image-based art with a curated selection of works of internationally acclaimed photographer Branko Lenart and visual artist Stane Jagodič, reflecting the development of photography in Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century.
The exhibition aim at showing the similarities and differences in cultural tradition and everyday life of Slovenia and Slovakia. The two countries have similar names and are often confused for each other. Many cultural and lifestyle features are shared, too.
A vibrant mix of leading and emerging voices from 26 countries includes also Slovenian author Goran Vojnović who appears alongside Pirkko Saisio (Finland) and Kotryna Zylė (Lithuania) in the Coming of Age strand, chaired by Dan Richards.
The festival edition under the title "The Imperfect Future – WOOD: Design between Symbiosis and Standardisation", features Aljaž Celjarc (Hiša Mandrova) among other European designers who present themselves through creation of wood. The event is organised by EUNIC Berlin.
The presentation of the "Launch of Flood Tide" by award-winning author Ana Schnabl, recently published in the UK by Divided Publishing. The author presents her book in conversation with Katharina Volckmer, journalist and author of The Appointment.
"Dirty Thirty: Thirty Years of Making a Scene", the Stripburger collective presenting the three decades of working on and creating the alternative scene itself