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| name               = Cultural Garden Katzenberg
| local name         = Kulturni vrt Katzenberg
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| town               = SI-1241 Kamnik
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| managed by         = Priden Možic Cultural Association
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  | name        = Goran Završnik
  | role        = Co-founder and co-manager
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  | telephone   = 386 (0) 41 580 818
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{{Teaser|
Set in a 19th-century mansion, the [[Cultural Garden Katzenberg]] is located on the grounds of a former gun powder facility in the town of Kamnik. A multifunctional and flexible centre for artistic endeavours, Katzenberg spreads across 1800 m² with an additional enclosed garden. 

The garden is used for events, from theatre performances to music concerts. Indoors (with its 70 odd rooms) there is a gallery space, several offices, a library, a common room for board and video games, and several spaces rented out to various cultural producers and individual artists as studios and storage. There are also a couple of rooms meant for resident artists, all in all, the mansion is able to host about 20 people. The facility is also used as a provisional museum, temporarily storing artefacts that relate to the former gun powder factory.  
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{{TeaserSlo|V Kulturnem vrtu Katzenberg je na voljo več ateljejev, studiev, delavnic in tudi prireditvenih ter galerijskih prostorov. Deluje tudi kot rezidenčni center.}} 

==Background==

Set up in [[established::2017]] as a joint endeavour of several artistic collectives, the Katzenberg mansion used to be the headquarters of a gun powder factory since the mid-19th century. After the gradual disintegration of the powder and chemical business, the factory closed down in 2012. 

The mansion itself was bought by a private company, Iskra Mehanizmi. As the mansion is near the [[Kamnik Culture House]] it was occasionally used for the organisation's various endeavours. However, in 2016, several cultural activists and organisations rented the entire place and kick-started its renovation. Now, it is a self-financed and self-managed project, open for various types of collaboration.

==Programme==

Until now, the mansion has been used as one of the main venues for the festival [[Kamfest]] and partly also for the [[Klovnbuf Festival]]. 

==See also==

* [[Kamfest]]
* [[Klovnbuf Festival]]
* [[Priden Možic Cultural Association]]
* [[Kamnik Culture House]]

==External links==

* [http://www.slosi.info/01gradovi/02podrobnejse/gorenjska/k-2/kacenberg.php Katzenberg Castle history webpage] (in Slovene)

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