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Na knap Festival of Short Dance Form
updated 14 hours ago
The Na knap Festival of Short Dance Form, founded in 2025 by the En-Knap Productions, is a contemporary dance festival that brings into dialogue dance on stage, on film, and in virtual reality. Conceived as a unique experiment, the festival explores what happens when these distinct media meet within a short, playful, and intense format. The short form here is not a limitation but a challenge – an opportunity to distill movement to its essence and invite audiences into concentrated encounters with dance in its many temporalities and technologies.
Zofka Kveder, writer and journalist
updated 31 hours ago
Zofka Kveder (1878–1926), writer and journalist advocating for women’s rights, brought to the fore questions and issues that Slovene literature and society tended to marginalise. Her literary creativity is representative of the Central European “moderna” movement of her time. Her works shed a new light on the life of women, describing various stages of a woman’s life, from young to old age. Her characters also represent variety in terms of their class identity.
Srečko Kosovel, poet
updated 31 hours ago
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) is one of key Slovenian poets. His opus remains highly influential even 100 years after his death and firmly places him among the most important poets in all of Slovenian history.
Contemporary dance Platform
updated 32 hours ago
Since 2007, Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room annually organises the Contemporary dance Platform. The festival grew out of the Young Dancers' Festival, derived from the need to continually present the work of younger Slovene dance makers and was closely linked to the education programmes of Plesna izba Maribor. In 2010 the festival expanded its programme to include professional contemporary dance production, thus becoming a presentation of national and international makers in the field of contemporary dance art.
Since 2014 the festival is organised in collaboration with Performa Festival, run by MKC Maribor Youth Culture Centre. The new entity is now called Festival Performa & Platforma.
Mladi levi Festival
updated 32 hours ago
The Mladi levi Festival (in English: Young Lions Festival) is an annual international festival of contemporary performing arts, organised by the Bunker Institute. It foregrounds bold and exploratory approaches to theatre and dance, bringing into dialogue emerging voices and established progressive artists. It takes place every August and was launched in 1998 under the auspices of the international network Junge Hunde. Since 2004, its primary venue has been the Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station.
Conceived as an interdisciplinary platform for exchange and collaboration, the festival unfolds beyond conventional local and international frameworks. It is distinguished by a dynamic and convivial atmosphere, where artistic experimentation meets a strong sense of community.
Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival
updated 32 hours ago
Organised since 2006 by the Flota Institute, Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival is held annually at the end of August in Murska Sobota, in Slovenia’s eastern Prekmurje region. It features high-quality Slovene and international dance performances, contributing to the decentralisation of the contemporary dance scene, and also offers workshops, artist talks, and improvised dance gatherings.
Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives
updated 32 hours ago
Launched in 2008 by Dance Theatre Ljubljana, the biennial Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives serves as a platform for emerging artists in contemporary dance, while also addressing the creative and systemic challenges shaping the development of the field in Slovenia.
The festival experiments with diverse programme formats, facilitates dialogue between artists, producers, and theoreticians, and critically engages with key issues in dance education, production, and promotion.
Galerija Fotografija
updated 35 hours ago
Along with the Photon Gallery, the Galerija Fotografija ("Photography Gallery") is one of two private galleries specialised in photography in Ljubljana. Established in 2003 and nowadays located in the Center Rog, the gallery popularises high-quality photography of established Slovene and international authors. In addition to annual exhibitions the gallery also organises lectures, screenings of master photographers, and project presentations. The gallery entered the international art market in 2009, participating in the Viennafair, and since 2010 in the Paris Photo fair. Since 2005 the Galerija Fotografija annually holds at least one charity auction.
Center Rog
updated 35 hours ago
Center Rog is a production space and creative hub founded by the Municipality of Ljubljana in 2021. It brings together traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation based on the concept of creative industries. Located in the renovated former bicycle factory Tovarna Rog and opened in 2023, it is organised around a network of workshops where members can learn to use a wide range of tools and technologies across nine specialised labs, including the Textile Lab, Wood Lab, Metal Lab, and Food Lab. The complex also features nineteen project studios and five residential apartments, which regularly host international artists, researchers, and lecturers.
Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts
updated 2 days ago
The Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje manages the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art, Likovni salon Celje, and Račka Gallery of Erotic Art. It was also the first art institution in Slovenia that systematically introduced artist-in-residence activities in its programme.