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Bažato Gallery
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Bažato Gallery was founded in 2021 by Matjaž Bažato. Its mission is to exhibit and promote artworks by contemporary Slovenian artists, particularly from the fields of painting, sculpture and photography. Artists who have exhibited their works in the Bažato Gallery include Marko Šajn, Mirko Bratuša, Jelka Flis, Herman Gvardjančič, Ivo Prančič, Ana Sluga and Jane Štravs. Exhibitions are complemented by occasional discussions with the artists, while the gallery’s website also offers a wide range of virtual exhibition experiences and an online gallery shop. The gallery is located in the Astra building, itself an important work by an acclaimed Slovenian architect Savin Sever.
GONG Gallery
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The GONG Gallery is an art gallery dedicated to presentation and promotion of high-quality international art production in the fields of photography, multimedia projects, architecture, and more. It is situated in Nova Gorica, near the Slovene-Italian border - its name actually combines abbreviations for the Italian town of Gorizia and the Slovene town of Nova Gorica. The gallery’s mission is also to foster intercultural dialogue among artists of different nationalities, particularly Slovenians, Italians and Austrians. Its exhibitions present both acclaimed and emerging talents.
Krimifest
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Krimifest, founded in 2025, is the festival of crime fiction. Its mission is to showcase the quality of Slovenian and international crime fiction and to stimulate the debate about the literary genre. To achieve this goal, Krimifest features discussions, book presentations, film screenings, quizzes and other events, bringing together readers, writers, literary experts, and even professionals from the field of criminal investigation. To highlight the best crime fiction writing, the festival also bestows two awards: the Pila Award for the best Slovenian crime novel of the last two years and the award for the best Slovenian crime short story.
Sovre's Study
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Sovre's Study (Sovretov kabinet) is a residency for translators established in 2020. It takes place on two locations: in the village Dol pri Hrastniku and at the homestead Pri Kovačevih in the village Volčji Grad. It has been run by the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators in collaboration with the municipality of Hrastnik, Cultural and recreational center Hrastnik and the homestead Pri Kovačevih. The residence in Dol pri Hrastniku hosts from three to six residents per year while the residence in Volčji Grad usually accepts two.
DSAF Residency
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DSAF Residency is a residency for animation authors established in 2024. It has been run by the Slovene Animated Film Association (DSAF). It is intended for animation filmmakers at different stages of their careers. The programme offers two- to four-week research and preproduction residencies for DSAF members in Angoulême, France, while in Slovenia, residencies for international creators are available in Nova Gorica, Ljubljana and Maribor. The programme covers accommodation and travel costs, an artist fee and mentoring by Slovenian and international professionals from various fields of animation production.
Studio Asylum
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The Studio Asylum (Atelje Azil) is at once an artist-in-residence programme and the actual space where this programme is held. Located at the autonomous cultural centre Metelkova mesto and run by KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association, the studio has been functioning since 2006. It is located in the attic of the building called Hlev, and is divided into a living and working space, with the latter sometimes also becoming a performing and exhibiting site.
Goga Literary Residency
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The Goga Publishing House began to develop the Goga Literary Residency programme for domestic and international authors in 2008. Since 2014 the programme has had a permanent location – the writers’ residence in the heart of the old town of Novo mesto, right above Goga Bookshop. Its location enables direct contact with the town’s rich history and the local cultural community while offering artists-in-residence a peaceful working environment.
Cultural Center Libertas
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Libertas is a cultural venue that was established in the former salt warehouse in the town of Koper. Since the municipality of Koper bought the warehouse in 2020, various cultural events have taken place in the building, most notably the contemporary arts festival IZIS. In 2025 the municipality began the renovation of the venue that will end in 2026. The renovated venue will consist of two multipurpose halls, a gallery, two outdoor venues and a cafe and will be dedicated to various branches of art such as theatre, music, literature, film, new media, architecture, and more.
PARL (Performance Art Research Ljubljana)
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PARL (Performance Art Research Ljubljana) is an international summer education and research programme for performance art makers which takes place every year in Ljubljana. It offers its participants the space and time to research, an environment to develop their projects, an opportunity to present their work and a chance to open up their collaborative network. Each participant is provided with studio space at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre and with help from a team of experienced coaches who focus on all the aspects of the projects from conceptual to esthetic issues. In addition, every performer can show his or her work in progress to the public and gain additional insight.
MUZA Museum and Gallery
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MUZA Museum and Gallery consists of two important collections which are the property of the bank Nova Ljubljanska Banka and were proclaimed as a national treasure of the Republic of Slovenia in 2018. The gallery section of MUZA contains a representative art collection of works by Slovenian artists of the 20th and 21st century, while the unique museum collection consists of objects, documents and materials related to money, banking and banking practices. Both collections are preserved and presented to the public in the center of Ljubljana, in the Ljubljana City Savings Bank building, built in 1905 in Historicist and Art Nouveau style. They are often complemented by contemporary exhibitions, lectures and other educational events.