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Galerija A+A
San Marco 3073, Venice 30124, Italy,
Phone39 041 277 0466
Aurora Fonda, Artistic Director
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The A+A Gallery in Venice is a non-profit exhibition space established in 1997, as a centre for the promotion of contemporary Slovene and international art. Run by Obalne galerije - Coastal Galleries and financed by the Slovene Ministry of Culture is also the site of the Slovene pavilion for each Venice Biennale.


History

The gallery first opened its doors in 1992 in Madrid, inside a space (divided by a corridor, hence the name A+A) restored by architect Boris Podrecca. After five years of activities co-ordinated by Lidija Šircelj, the gallery moved to Venice, close to Palazzo Grassi.

Exhibitions

In addition to hosting temporary exhibitions of mostly Slovene artists, the A+A Gallery function as the Slovene Pavilion within each Venice Art Biennale. As part of its exhibition programme the Gallery establishing a network of contacts between civic and foreign institutions with the aim of organising round tables, performances and video projections, thus offering a panoramic view of today's artistic expression and becoming a point of meeting and exchange, fundamental for knowledge of the present.

  • Venice Art Biennial participation

The recent Venice Art Biennale project in 2009 was by Miha Štrukelj featuring the interference in process x=0 / y=0. He examined the issue of perception in five equal segments: notes on a board, drawings, works on tracing paper, Lego-pictures and paintings as the final segment. This work was further based on researching the mechanism of perception, which Ütrukelj analyses with the aid of traditional representational media – painting and drawing – but so as to include critical examination of the act of perception and the act of painting as committed existential acts of the contemporary subject.

At the 52. Venice Art Biennial in 2007 Tobias Putrih featured in two-part the project Venetian, Atmospheric. The first part ot the intalation including several maquettes, drawings, photographs and sculptures which explore and question the relationship between architectural space and the scale models which precede it was exhibited in Galleria A+A. The second, main part of the project was erected in the garden on the Island of San Servolo and consisted of a full-scale pavilion, a movie theatre.

2005, ten years after Vadim Fiškin, a Russian-born artist, represented Russia in 1995 at the Venice Biennale, was his project Another Speedy Day presented in Slovene Pavilion. After he has forged professional and personal bonds in Slovenia he become considered as a Slovenian artist whose presence in Ljubljana contributes significantly to expanding the field of contemporary art in Slovenia.

  • Venice Architecture Biennale presentetions

In 2008 the project Ljubljana - Venice: Urgent Need for New Urban Policy presented an architectural and urban comparison of the two cities, Ljubljana and Venice, focuses on the limit between the old and new, endeavouring to show, in what ways the infrastructure that should be invisible can affect the visible, and how the technotecture can smother real architecture. On the 10th Venice Arhitecture Bieannale in 2006, was Slovene participation designed as a cabinet of ambiences and icons entitled Formula New Ljubljana created by the Sadar Vuga Arhitekti in A+A Gallery and other locations in Venice. More about all projects on the A+A Gallery website.


  • Other exhibitions

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