Lighting Guerrilla Festival

Contact

Svetlobna gverila

Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/

core@mail.ljudmila.org

Phone386 (0) 31 401 556

Organised byStrip Core

 Forum Ljubljana

Frequencyannual

Festival dates23.5.2025 – 14.6.2025

Events

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Human tiles by Ocubo projected on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

First held in 2008, Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a unique festival that explores, elaborates and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated in 2007 as a workshop at the festival Lighting Detectives (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by Strip Core, otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of Forum Ljubljana.

Galerija za eno noč / One Night Gallery by Strip Core TV on YouTube

Programme

Each year's programme includes exhibitions, installations, workshops and performances dedicated to a certain topic—among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness and the role of light in shaping the urban experience. The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana's streets, squares, bridges, parks and gardens.

Venues and locations

Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the "matter" of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the Match Gallery, Mala Galerija BS, the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kino Šiška, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, RogLab, Španski borci Culture Centre, Cirkulacija 2, the Slovene Academy of Science and Arts, etc., but most of the programme takes place outdoors.

It also sometimes ventures outside of Ljubljana, making pre- and post-festival stops at the Simulaker Gallery in Novo Mesto, the Centralna postaja in Maribor, the Hrastnik Cultural Centre, Layer House in Kranj and other places.

Collaborations

The festival has closely collaborated with festivals like the Spring Festival, the Strictly Analog Festival, the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Festival IZIS, CestaArt festival Gornja Radgona, R.o.R festival, SKLAD (Macedonia), Lumina (Portugal), Interference (Tunis), Visual festival (Finland), Visualia (Croatia), Art & Light festival (BiH), LAACT XXIII (Poland) … and institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Architecture, the Museum of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, etc. It has also been a part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.

The project by students of the Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana - a spatial installation In a Vortex with light charting and adapted optical illusions. 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana. Author: DK

Invited artists

Both local and international artists and producers are invited. Some of the attendees have included Aleksandra Stratimirović (SE/RS), Alessandro Lupi (IT), Andrej Štular (SI), Artificiel (CA), Atsara (FR), Beam Team (SI), Bernard Murigneux (FR), Danilo Milovanović (SI), Dimitri Xenakis (FR), Erik Matrai (HU), Francois Donato (FR), Jakub Nepraš (CZ), Janez Grošelj (SI), Katja Paternoster (SI), Laurenz Theinert (DE), Leonid Tishkov (RU), Luka Savić (SI), Marko A. Kovačič (SI), Marko Batista (SI), Maro Avrabou (FR), Matej Bizovičar (SI), Matthieu Tercieux (FR), Max Sudhues (DE), Michael Candy (AU), Moritz Wehrmann (DE), NatanEsku (SI), Nika Erjavec (SI), Nicholas Bernier (CA), Tadej Droljc (SI), Tilen Sepič (SI), Sophie Guyot (CH), Robert Sochacki (PL), Stran22 (SI), and Tim Etchells (UK) …

See also

• Strip Core
• Forum Ljubljana
• Strictly Analog Festival

External links

• Lighting Guerrilla Festival website
• About Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Slavorum, 2017
• An interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović, cofounder of the LGF, Thelightdesign.ro, September 2016)
• Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović (in Slovenian)
• ARS PHOTONICA – Texts on Light in Fine Art

Gallery

Anchovies over Ljubljanica river by French collective Aerosculpture, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Laboratory of Water Glass and Light by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Secret Garden by Marjeta Zupančič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Greenhouse Effect by French atrists Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

The Dark Room by Swiss design studio Büro Destruct, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Trapollo HH 34 by Marko Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Lighting Guerrilla Festival instalation at Match Gallery. Recycling was the main theme of the Festival in 2009

Kind Spirits by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Nocturnal readings on the asphalt by Andrej Štular, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux located between the Dragon Bridge and Ljubljana Central Market at Vodnik Square, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

(Room)mates by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Closeup of (Room)mates project by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Personal readings by Spanish group Luzinterruptus, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Trap for readers by Marko Crnobrnja, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Human tiles by Ocubo projected on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Garland of 9 cars by French space designer Benedetto Bufalino, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Cellwise by Daan Brinkmann & Nenad Popov, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Visual piano by photographer and light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert from Germany, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Sparks of Prometheus by Marko A. Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Into the Blu, a light garden by the Swiss artist Sophie Guyot, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Šajn’n’flaj by Kaja Avberšek and Darja Osojnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Metascope by Boštjan Čadež, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Gravitational painting on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre by Portugese/Belgian duet Ocubo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Gravitational painting on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre by Portugese/Belgian duet Ocubo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Od oblike do oblike [Form from Form] in Match Gallery by Dan Adlešič, Tilen Sepič and Matic Potočnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival in co-production with Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, 2013

Fragments of the World, video installations showing animals captured in the urban world created by men, Vžigalica Gallery by Bertrand Gadenne, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Strašila [Scarecrows] by Marko A. Kovačič and Brane Ždralo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Soulshine guerrilla - lighting graffiti by Borut Bučinel at Glej Theatre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Svetlobni dom - light instalation by Sophie Guyot at Novi trg in front of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2014

Permanent installation Tree Particle by Boštjan Drinovec at the Lighting Park, a unique park-art ambiance formed by light artistic interventions outdoors. Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2016. Author: DK

Light installation City – Sketch by artists Andrej Štular and Janez Grošelj at Lighting Guerrilla Festival in 2022, Ljubljana. Author: DK

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