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KiBela Art Space has been developed within Multimedia Centre Kibla together with an Internet café, Kibela.Tif graphic studio and Za:misel Bookstore. Its programme has been running since the year 1996 when Multimedia Center Kibla has been established. In the second half of the 90's plans for KiBela have begun to take form with the help of experience and common knowledge-in a time when emergence of new technologies and art approaches has already become self-evident and necessary when planning a contemporary gallery.
KiBela hall is on the ground floor of Narodni dom in Maribor and was rennovated in January 1999 with the purpose of installing visual and other forms of art. Often KiBela is cooperating with other spaces and institutions, sometimes is preparing site-specific outdoors prjocets.
The fundamental concept of KiBela Art Space is that of liberating and connecting traditional and electronic art media, presenting artistic (non)messages and artist+ (ir)responsibility, integrating art with science and technology and establishing new aesthetics and ecology of the mind. The concept is contemporary, multimedia and intermedia related.
KiBela has worked towards establishing links between alternative and established art and culture, between young and older generations, between the domestic and foreign art scene, between classical and electronic media, between art, technology and science and between different aesthetics and thinking.
In more than 10 years of KiBela operation it was released more then 200 social art openings, performances, presentations and other art events with the exclusive approach of installing art in the space: various art aesthetics in space being such by content or by media that artists use in a creative way. Since 2004 are all events of KiBela, what is more than 100, very good visualy and textualy documented on KiBela internet archive.
KiBela is also a multi-purpose entertainment space for organizing seminars, presentations, round tables, press conferences and rich cultural programs, including exhibitions, theatre performances, video projections, concerts, literary readings, debate clubs, etc.
The gallery collaborates and presents the recent works of international, national and regional multimedia and visual artist following the curated programme of house and external, freelanced curators.
Through KiBela distribution channels many of Slovene artists were presented through years in different art spaces around the world. So, KiBela as art space is known as partner of many international projects of similar organisations from Graz, London, Zagreb, Belgrade and the United States, having the aim of presenting new approaches through intermedia as well as classic fine arts.
One of the recent projects X-OP - eXchange of art operators and producers. It goes about gradually growing network of artists, researchers, operators, producers and centers with the aim to establish European platform for creation of art and exchange. By long-term cooperation the partner centers are establishing and further developing infrastructural and information supportive environment in relation to information technology, digital culture and art creation in wide aspect from art production and presentation to research and education. Beside Ace Kibla and KiBela are in the partners consortium Museum Lapidarium (Novigrad, Croatia), Media in Motion (Berlin, Germany), Egon March Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia, MoKS – Kunsti ja Sotsiaalpraktika Keskus, Center for Art and Social Practice (Mooste, Estonia), CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), Politechnic of Tomar (Tomar, Portugal), MAA – Taidekoulu, Art School (Helsinki, Finland), Apartment Project (Istanbul, Turkey) and Rahmenwerk – Transforming Freedom (Vienna, Austria). In 2009 they held sessions in Berlin, Novigrad and on Philippines on the Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium. As it goes about the project from Ace Kibla, the role of the KiBla Art Space ist to give its exhibiting place for presentations - like the improvisational audio-video performance between Tengal (Manila), Marko Batista (Ljubljana), and Ana Pečar (Maribor), what happened in november 2009.
Since 2009 KiBela attends international art fairs. In July 2009 KiBela was hosted on the Art Vilnius 09 fair, the very first international art fair in Baltic region, which happend as part of the European Capital of Culture 2009 in Lithuania. KiBela as the only Slovenian gallery presents two Slovenian artists of the younger generation: the sculptor Boštjan Novak and the painter Jure Zadnikar. In September 2009 KiBela took part on curated fifth edition of Preview Berlin - the emerging art fair presenting computer controlled instalation Robot Partner 0.2 - Automated Table Modification by Stefan Doepner, German artist, living and working in Ljubljana.
Since 1998, starting with the esseys collection of Eduardo Kac with titles Teleporting An Unknown State and Telepresence, Biotelematics and Transgenetic Arts, KiBela published more than 25 publications. The recent once: catalogue Performing Pictures from Geska Helena Andersson & Robert Brečević, catalogue AES+F: Action Half Life, catalogue Sonic from Ksenija Čerče, DVD Digital commune in Maribor, DVD with the title Zapri oči in glej from Alenka Pirman and others.
Dimensions: 132m² (8.7m x 15.2m x 3.5m H) vaulted space with 6 columns, incorporating 20 linear metres of wall space; installation system: hammer-and-nail installation, sculpture pedestals; lighting: halogen lighting system; climate control: none; sales policy: sales not permitted; security: security system installed
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