Aksioma Project Space

Contact

Aksioma projektni prostor

Resljeva 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.aksioma.org/

aksioma@aksioma.org

Phone386 (0) 590 54 360

Managed byAksioma Institute

Janez Janša, Artistic Director

Phone386 (0) 41 250 669

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In 2011 Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art opened a new venue in Ljubljana dedicated to the exhibitions and presentations of the internationally acclaimed new media art projects. Its programme focuses on artistic explorations of the social and political aspects of the 'technological unconscious' and strives to deconstruct the 'normality' of the media and other ubiquitous communication tools. Aksioma Project Space opened in March with the exhibition A Hidden Landscape by Trevor Paglen, a writer, photographer and radical geographer, and has later on featured artists such as Critical Art Ensemble & Institute for Applied Autonomy, Telekommunisten, and Heath Bunting.

The exhibitions in the Project Space are accompanied by a bilingual brochure with original text or interview, written especially for the occasion. The Paolo Cirio's Realityflowhacked, for example, was introduced by Bruce Sterling's Sculpting the Flow of Reality.

Exhibition space

The entrance to the gallery is at Komenskega 18. The size of the exhibition space is 41,5 m2 and it is equipped with spot lights ans neon lights. It has "U" shelves for electricity cables (and plugs) and , a hanging system for additional ceiling grid. A detailed plan of the gallery can be found on their website.

The gallery can function as a white cube or can be used in a different ways, such as for film screening (Michael Madsen's Into Eternity in January 2012). in December 2011 Frederik De Wilde used it as a sort of laboratory for his Hostage, an artwork consisting of a nano-engineered material that absorbs all visible light. Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev presented Newstweek, a device for manipulating news on major news portals in the country. For the occasion the gallery was turned into a press center where visitors could edit news (April 2012).

Recent exhibitions

Among others there were Zeigerpointer by monochrom in July 2011 and Time Slip by Antoine Schmitt in October 2011. Many of the exhibitions also include presentations by the artist, for example Rod Dickinson had a lecture in September 2011, Dmytri Kleiner presented Miscommunication Technologies, an ongoing project of the Telekommunisten Network at the opening in March 2012, Heath Bunting presented Identity Bureau (February 2012).

Aksioma also presents Slovene new media artists: 's solo exhibition Make Love, Not Art was shown in February 2012 focusing on his project Expunction in which the author was permanently deleting his net art projects from the period between 1996 and 2007. Visitors could also see Vuk Ćosić and Janez Janša: Be Shareful in December 2011 and Neven Korda's performance and video ambient WHOxx / Confessions of a Videast in November 2011.

See also

• Aksioma Institute

External links

• Aksioma Institute website
  • Aksioma Project Space Plan
  • Online brochures by Aksioma Institute