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31 May 2026
7 Jun 2026
Screening of the Slovenian documentaries "The Mountain Won't Move " directed by Petra Seliškar, "Oho Film" directed by Damjan Kozole, "The Street of Brotherhood and Unity" directed by Maja Weiss, "Punk Under Communist Regime " directed by Andrej Košak.
28 Nov 2025
12 Apr 2026
The exhibition "Paths of Impressionism – Slovenian Modernism and Dachau" presents over forty exceptional loans from the National Gallery of Slovenia and other lenders, tracing the artistic evolution from late 19th-century realism to the more expressive currents of modernism. The exhibition underscores the significant role Slovenian artists played within a broader pan-European movement, bringing to light lesser-known masterpieces now poised for rediscovery.
29 Jan 2026
1 Mar 2026
The film "Little Trouble Girls" by director Urška Djukić begins screening in German cinemas.
The Slovenian Cultural Centre in Berlin (SKICA Berlin) is Slovenia's second cultural centre abroad, after the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre in Vienna (SKICA Vienna), founded in 2011. Both are a joint project of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The centre promotes Slovenian contemporary arts and cultural heritage, fosters cooperation, and creates synergies between Slovenian creators and German cultural institutions.
SKICA Berlin was inaugurated in November 2016 with the German premiere of the silent performance When I Was Dead, directed by Diego de Brea and performed by the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana ensemble at Babylon Cinema. The piece was inspired by Ernst Lubitsch's silent film Als ich tot war (1916), a copy of which was rediscovered at the Slovenian Cinematheque archive in 1994.
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Dance and performance have remained a core strand. SKICA supported the visual performance O (die ShOw) – O (šOv) for deaf and hard-of-hearing children, featuring Jan Rozman, Dan Pikalo, and Tanja Padan. In February 2026, the inclusive dance performance SinnIch / I mean by Jan Kress, Jan Rozman, and Julia Keren, was shown at FELD Zentrale für junge Performance. The monodrama Frau Judit, based on Ivan Cankar's text, and the installation and durational performance The Monuments | Chapter 16 | Poetic Justice by JAŠA were both presented at Kühlhaus Berlin.
SKICA also supported the award-winning lecture-performance Sex Education II: Fight by Tjaša Črnigoj (Maska Institute/Mladinsko Theatre) and Žiga Divjak's Crises at RADAR OST within the ACT – Art, Climate, Transition European cooperation project.
An ongoing highlight in dance is choreographer Edward Clug's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with music by Milko Lazar, performed by Staatsballett Berlin, running from February 2025 into the summer of 2026.
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SKICA Berlin has built a varied music programme spanning jazz, contemporary classical, folk, and experimental sound. In 2026, Close-up Slovenia: Jazz & Beyond at Stadtgarten Köln presented Jure Pukl Analog AI, Mrk, and Širom.
Earlier concerts have featured the jazz quintet Estonia meets Slovenia with Mirna Bogdanović, Oto Gvardjančič, and Gal Golob; the Signum Saxophone Quartett with Slovenian musicians Blaž Kemperle and Alan Lužar; the folk-rock band Katalena; the experimental trio Pantaloons; sound artist Brane Zorman; and singer-songwriter Katja Šulc, who blends poetry, contemporary folk, traditional heritage, and endangered languages. At Berlinale 2025, SKICA supported live concerts connecting music to the Slovenian film screenings, including a performance by Ecliptic.
SKICA Berlin has connected Slovenian literature to Germany's major book fair circuit and Berlin's poetry scene. At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 — when Slovenia was Guest of Honour under the Honeycomb of Words programme — SKICA supported author events featuring Drago Jančar, Maja Haderlap, Mojca Kumerdej, and Aleš Šteger, as well as poetry pairings presenting collections by Tomaž Šalamun and Srečko Kosovel, and a conversation between Milan Dekleva, Mojca Kumerdej, and Matthias Göritz.
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SKICA has also supported readings at the Poesiefestival Berlin, including a reading by poet Barbara Korun, and an event with Blaž Božič, Sergej Harlamov, and Nežka Struc on the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Day. The Leipzig Book Fair has served as a recurring platform, in partnership with the Slovenian Book Agency and TRADUKI.
The annual SloVision programme at Sputnik Kino, co-organised with the Slovenian Film Centre and curated by Bernd Buder, presents highlights of contemporary Slovenian cinema; the 2024 edition, Between a Thriller and an Essay, featured six fiction and documentary films.
In 2026, SKICA supported the world premiere of Cosmonauts, held at the Berlinale at Urania Berlin.
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Slovenian documentaries by Petra Seliškar, Damjan Kozole, Maja Weiss, and Andrej Košak were screened at the Doxumentale Berlin festival. SKICA also supported screenings of three films about the NSK State collective, From Kapital to Capital: The States in Times of NSK, An Apology for Modernity, and 4:33 Laibach Remake, all directed by Igor Zupet. From January to March 2026, Urška Djukić's Little Trouble Girls was on release in German cinemas with SKICA's promotional support.
The exhibition Paths of Impressionism – Slovenian Modernism and Dachau at Gemäldegalerie Dachau (November 2025 – April 2026) brought over forty loans from the National Gallery of Slovenia, tracing the evolution from late 19th-century realism to early Modernism.
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In 2024, Contemporary Slovenian Graphics from the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana featured Zora Stanič, the Laibach collective, David Kucler, Berlin-based Neža Jurman (alias Nez Pez), and the duo Mateja Rojc and Simona Hudolin (Small but Dangers) in a collaborative exhibition exploring utopia across art, architecture, and design.
SKICA maintains a partnership with frontviews gallery as a recurring platform for Slovenian visual artists in Berlin. In April 2026, the group exhibition Dear Father at HAUNT//frontviews featured works by Maja Babič Košir, Nevena Aleksovski, and Helena Tahir. In 2023, photographer Vanja Bućan's solo exhibition Birds of Paradise at frontviews formed part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP) in Berlin, in partnership with Galerija Fotografija.
The solo exhibition Lygophilia by interdisciplinary artist and researcher Robertina Šebjanič was shown at the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, co-organised with SKICA. A conversation with Šebjanič on her installation and the concept of the aquatocene was part of the wider platform More Than Human: Shaping After the Anthropocene (2024–2025).
SKICA also supported a series of lectures around Maja Smrekar's Dooms of Love exhibition, bringing together theorists Vid Simoniti and Jens Hauser in conversation with the artist about technology, politics, and the Fluxus movement.
The presentation of Igor Štromajer's book of computer-generated poetry, derived from encoding image files of his erased internet artworks, was a significant new media literature event supported by SKICA.
During Berlin Fashion Week 2026, the Ljubljana Fashion Week pop-up ON BOARD Berlin presented Slovenian fashion designers at HOŠEK Contemporary. SKICA promoted the EUNIC Berlin NEXT! festival edition The Imperfect Future – WOOD: Design between Symbiosis and Standardisation at Aedes, featuring Slovenian designer Aljaž Celjarc of Hiša Mandrova. Studio Raketa's chair Jon was included in the group exhibition Sitzen Machen at the Deutsches Design Museum.
Previously, SKICA co-organised with Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory and the Centre for Creativity/Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) the lab talk New Praxes, New Tools: Emerging Slovenian Architects, and promoted The Future of Living, a selection of contemporary Slovenian design curated by Mika Cimolini and Matevž Čelik.
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SKICA Berlin collaborates with the Slovene Arts & Culture Residency programme on Kastanienallee in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. An annual open call by the Ministry of Culture invites Slovenian creators to apply for a month-long stay with travel costs covered, supporting a range of Berlin-based projects.