Category:Showcase

Looking for an artistic or cultural collaboration in Slovenia? Explore these curated shortcuts to major promotional platforms, including showcase festivals, professional arts and culture intermediaries and other resources. Get on board!

International showcase festivals and platforms

Curated programmes featuring emerging and established artists, usually accompanied by lively debates on the development of specific cultural and creative sectors:

• Architecture & design: BIG SEE Festival in Portorož (usually in May)
• Dance: Gibanica Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art at various venues in Ljubljana
• Film: Festival of Slovenian Film at the Portorož Auditorium (usually in October)
• Music: MENT Ljubljana at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (usually in February)
• Theatre: Maribor Theatre Festival at the Slovene National Theatre Maribor (in June)
• Theatre: TRIGGER Showcase Festival of independent performing arts at various venues in Ljubljana and Maribor (usually in March)
• Theatre: Crossings International Festival of Independent Performing Arts at various venues in Maribor (usually in May)
• Theatre: Mladinsko Showcase at the Mladinsko Theatre (usually in April)
• Visual arts: Annual Etc magazine in connection with the Ljubljana Art Weekend (usually in May)
• Visual arts - comics: Tinta Festival at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (usually in October)

Facilitating international collaboration on a national level

Ministries

• Ministry of Culture
  • European Affairs and International Cooperation Service
• Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  • Department for Cultural and Scientific Diplomacy cooperates also with a network of Slovene embassies and consulates.

Agencies and hubs

These specialised organisations or programmes at the national level engage in information dissemination, professional advice, various grant programmes, participation in international fairs or festivals, and subsidies for international cooperation.

• Design: Centre for Creativity
• Film: Slovenian Film Centre (SFC)
• Literature: Slovenian Book Agency (JAK)
• Music: SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre
• Creative Europe Desk Slovenia

Useful online resources

We highly recommend exploring these excellent websites, which offer accurate, up-to-date information on activities and key figures in specific cultural and creative fields.

• Dance: Choreographers Directory Slovenia by Emanat Institute
• Design: Made in Slovenia, a curated collection of original Slovenian gifts and souvenirs by the Centre for Creativity
• Film: Slovenian Film Database by the Filmoteka Institute for Promotion of Film Culture
• Film: Slovenian Film Guide by the Slovenian Film Centre
• Literature: Database of Translations by the Slovenian Book Agency
• Music: Musicslovenia.si, platform for the promotion of music from Slovenia by a consortium, represented by SIGIC
• Music: Odzven.si, a showcase music magazine by SIGIC
• Theatre: Sigledal.org, Slovene theatre portal by Novi ZATO. Institute in collaboration with the Slovenian Theatre Institute
• Visual arts: DIVA Station, a research and study archive of video and new media art by the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts
• Visual arts: Web Museum, a repository for digital AV contemporary art and time-based art by the Museum of Modern Art
• Visual arts: Raz_Ume Database of artists and exhibitions of the 20th and 21st century by the Museum of Modern Art