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{{Teaser| The Admission Free Festival is an annual art festival featuring artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations in the urban context of Celje. The festival has taken place since 1990, but it only gained formal standing in 1999 as a project of the Art Society of Celje (DLUC), whose members run it in collaboration with the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Art kino Metropol Celje, and (since 2012) the Celje Central Library.

Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out, so to speak, by moving the traditionally closed gallery space out into the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes both a gallery and place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors, both unintentional and intentional, are not meant to "follow" the events of the festival in a traditional, linear way, but to discover the festival and allow it to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.

Programme

Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments. Each festival centres on a common theme, which is chosen each year in advance. The jubilee 10th edition of the Admission Free Festival in 2009 addressed "intolerance", and other themes include "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, and "shame". The 2016 festival was themed nature and light and featured close cooperation with the Lighting Guerilla Festival. The 2018 version was dedicated to long-time Art Society of Celje member Adolf Mljač, and the theme of the twentieth anniversary was "a look back".

Interactivity

Festival interventions regularly involve the public. For example, at the 12th edition of the festival visitors were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in Simon Macuh's work Bedroom – Good Night and Pleasant Dreams. The following year, guests could rest while taking part in KOLEKTIVA's Rent a Tent project.

An important aspect of many projects is also hospitality and gastronomy. At early festivals there were, for instance Take a little Bit of my Heart (1999) by Željko Opačak and works by Andreja Džakušič and Boris Oblišar who believed that the joint preparation of food a priori involves participation of artists and the public and creates new social spaces. More recently Andreja Džakušič organised a lunch and Klaus Mähring invited people for coffee at the 12th Admission Free Festival, while Mark Požlep presented his Drunk Cook Book and Manja Vadla hosted a picnic at the 13th festival (2012).

Typically artists work in the city and with the city for the festival, and art interventions fill the city space with art in a communicative and unobtrusive manner. The artworks are integrated into the local environment and many of them are created on-site and specially for the occasion.

Past festivals

A great deal of the organisation of the festival has always been in the hands of Celje Visual Artists Association members, especially active ones have been Franc Purg (during the first beginnings of the festival), Manja Vadla (from 1990 to 2010), Željko Opačak, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, and others.

Among the artworks presented at the early festival editions there were The Buyer Sets the Price (2005) by Milena Kosec, A Lucky Raffle Ticket (2005) by Manja Vadla, The Counts of Celje Today and Still (2000) by Dalibor B. Zupančič and others. Artists seek to shed light on the local situation and look for suggestions to improve the social environment, such as Litter (2005) by Franc Purg or his more recent action that included growing paradise at the 12th Admission Free Festival. Since its beginnings the festival has expanded and besides the members of Art Society of Celje there are also many guest artists from Slovenia and abroad.

The 13th Festival also included some collaborative projects as public reading that took place at many city locations and was done by Petra Kapš, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Sara Heitlinger, and others.

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 {{Teaser|
-The [[Admission Free Festival]] is an annual art festival with artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations taking place in the urban context of [[SI-3000 Celje|Celje]] since 1990. It was formally established in [[established::1999]] as a project of [[Art Society of Celje]] (DLUC) members who run it in collaboration with [[Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Art kino Metropol Celje]], and (since 2012) [[Celje Central Library]].
+The [[Admission Free Festival]] is an annual art festival featuring artistic interventions, actions, performances, and installations in the urban context of [[SI-3000 Celje|Celje]]. The festival has taken place since 1990, but it only gained formal standing in [[established::1999]] as a project of the [[Art Society of Celje]] (DLUC), whose members run it in collaboration with the [[Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Art kino Metropol Celje]], and (since 2012) the [[Celje Central Library]].
-The concept of the festival is based on involvement and arises from artists' needs to surpass the conventional limitations of the gallery space as such, using town streets as an exhibition space, interacting with random passers-by, visitors, or city inhabitants.
+Though centred on the Likovni Salon gallery, the festival invites different generations of visual and performance artists to turn the idea of the gallery inside out, so to speak, by moving the traditionally closed gallery space out into the streets of the Celje town centre, where it becomes both a gallery and place of random encounters and exchanges. Visitors, both unintentional and intentional, are not meant to "follow" the events of the festival in a traditional, linear way, but to discover the festival and allow it to spark reflection about the manifold ways art interacts with everyday life.
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 ==Programme==
-Presented projects are created as a reflection on current affairs of Celje, its citizens and wider social developments and address a common theme, selected annually. In 2008 the topic was "forbidden", the jubilee 10th Admission Free Festival discussed "intolerance" (2009), following themes have included different aspects and influences of sound (2010), "admission free at home" (2011) and "collectivism" (2012).
+Projects presented at the festival reflect the current affairs of Celje and its citizens as well as broader social developments.  Each festival centres on a common theme, which is chosen each year in advance. The jubilee 10th edition of the Admission Free Festival in 2009 addressed "intolerance", and other themes include "collectivism", the impact of sound on art, and "shame". The 2016 festival was themed nature and light and featured close cooperation with the [[Lighting Guerilla Festival]]. The 2018 version was dedicated to long-time Art Society of Celje member Adolf Mljač, and the theme of the twentieth anniversary was "a look back".
 ===Interactivity===
-The interventions actively involve the public, for example at the 12th edition of the festival visitor were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in [[Simon Macuh|Simon Macuh's]] work ''Bedroom &ndash; Good Night and Pleasant Dreams'' while a year later visitors could rest while participating in [[Kolektiva Institute|KOLEKTIVA's]] project ''Rent a Tent''.
+Festival interventions regularly involve the public. For example, at the 12th edition of the festival visitors were asked to bring sleeping bags to participate in [[Simon Macuh|Simon Macuh's]] work ''Bedroom &ndash; Good Night and Pleasant Dreams''. The following year, guests could rest while taking part in [[Kolektiva Institute|KOLEKTIVA's]] ''Rent a Tent'' project.
 An important aspect of many projects is also hospitality and gastronomy. At early festivals there were, for instance ''Take a little Bit of my Heart'' (1999) by [[Željko Opačak]] and works by [[Andreja Džakušič]] and [[Boris Oblišar]] who believed that the joint preparation of food a priori involves participation of artists and the public and creates new social spaces. More recently [[Andreja Džakušič]] organised a lunch and [[Klaus Mähring]] invited people for coffee at the 12th Admission Free Festival, while [[Mark Požlep]] presented his ''Drunk Cook Book'' and [[Manja Vadla]] hosted a picnic at the 13th festival (2012).

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Interactivity

Past festivals

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