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Festival Break, mednarodni festival mladih neuveljavljenih ustvarjalcev

Zavod K6/4, Kersnikova 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia,

http://www.break-festival.org

info@break-festival.org

Phone386 (0) 1 438 0300

ProprietorK6/4 Institute

Mateja Jurič, Festival Director

mateja.juric@break-festival.org

The Break Festival began in 1997 with the aim of bringing together young (up to 35 years old) emerging artists from all disciplines to present their work to Ljubljana audiences. During its early years, the festival brought in numerous young artists from the west, as well as from the former Yugoslavia and even Novosibirsk and Mongolia. Since 2000 the age limit has been abandoned and the festival is now orientated towards urban, technologically-supported arts and intermedia artistic practices that are perceived as current avant garde. The Festival now also presents special guests (world-acclaimed artists) with the aim of establishing an innovative dialogue with young emerging artists. One very important component is a symposium on the chosen festival theme with lectures by artists and scientists invited from different fields. This theme was ‘Invisible Threat’ in 2003 and the 'New Species' in 2005.

The purpose of the festival is to explore new artistic expressions and contemporary topics and to emphasise emerging poetics whose artistic discourse has not yet been deep-rooted within firmly established standards, criteria and cultural values. Categories of the festival include visual arts (comics, graphic prints, digital prints, photographs, interactive works and visual communication: ‘subvertising’ and computer-assisted art from web art to robotics); performing arts; intermedia arts; moving pictures (films of all categories: documentaries, fiction, video art, animated films, experimental films and short films); music and sound (concerts, sound installations and intermedia performances in which sound is given priority); architecture; and applied arts. Forms of presentation include 2-D exhibitions, installations and ambient performances, actions, concerts and sound installations, fashion shows, lectures, round tables and projections.

In 2005 the organisers received 329 project applications, out of which 38 were selected. The festival took place in four locations in the city of Ljubljana. The central location of the festival was the halls of a factory on Poljanska street 95 where 14 installations were exhibited, 12 different performances were performed and a symposium with 19 lectures, 4 of which include a workshop, were held during the first week of the festival. At Castle Kodeljevo the festival presented an exhibition of 16 installations. Due to its specific character, one of the art works was realised at the Botanical Gardens in Ljubljana, and another at the Kapelica Gallery, which was also its producer. In all a total of 63 projects was realised by 68 artists and some collaborators from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States of America.

The 9th Break Festival took place in different locations in the city centre in November 2007. A wide range of artists from all over the globe dealt with the issue of reality perception through exhibitions, performances, indoor and outdoor installations, symposia, lectures, video and film projections and workshops addressing the theme of the Potemkin village and its worldwide multi-form phenomena (fake, utopia, dystopia, facade, dissimulation, simulacra, imitation, fiction, propaganda, virtuality, diversion, fraud, mask, cosmetics, hoax...).

Co-operating organisations include SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, the City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL), KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Radio Študent (RŠ), Maska Magazine, Urban Festival Zagreb, Vojvodjanka Novi Sad, Bitef Festival Beograd, Radio FRO Linz, Radio La Benevolencia Amsterdam, Imaginary Museum Projects Amsterdam, La General Collective Paris, Vector Foundation Bucharest, Cricoteca Krakov, Guelman Gallery Moscow and Empire Sydney.

Festivals in Slovenia

The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape! Since 2012, the annual festivalscapes are provided as an infographic, conceived by the Culture.si team at the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory. The interactive calendars include the festivals from the Culture.si database arranged by weeks and by field. You can see specific types of festivals, e.g., music festivals only, by clicking on the corresponding artistic field. Take a look at the Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

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This Month's Festivals

V-F-X Ljubljana

The international festival of experimental audiovisual practices V-F-X Ljubljana (Video-Film-Experiment) was launched in 2021 by SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Slovenian Cinematheque.

The creation of a new festival dedicated to experimental and avant-garde audio-visual practices was spurred by the need to acknowledge and celebrate groundbreaking AV creations within experimental environments. Rather than starting from scratch, this festival builds upon the foundations laid by numerous exceptional directors, videographers, and artists who have a rich history of experimentation in this field. The festival's aim is to showcase experiences and practices from around the globe, including international platforms, festivals, and programs dedicated to experimental work. It emphasizes both the past and the future, with the goal of uncovering curators, programs, films, videos, installations, and performances that transcend established and classical boundaries, exploring new avenues of expression and utilization of the medium.

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Vladislav Knežević's Retrospective, shown in stereoscopic 3D projection, at the 2nd international festival of experimental audiovisual practices V-F-X Ljubljana in 2022. Author: Asiana Jurca Avci

International Triennial Ecology and Art

The International Triennial Ecology and Art (ECO Triennial) was established in 1980 by Maribor Art Gallery. Addressing environmental issues first as a topic and later on contextualising them in terms of ecology and social change, this triennial has been organised regularly till 2006. The gallery reconceptualised the event and the next triennial took place in spring 2021 in the complex of the former MTT textile factory in Maribor. Under the title A Letter to the Future its main exhibition was curated by Alessandro Vincentelli (UK, Greece). EKO 8 was accompanied by a vast discursive programme, focused on the city and the urban community and realised in co-operation with the Centre for Creativity and Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory as partners, and building on the institutional network in the city itself.

The 9th International Triennial Ecology and Art Eyes in the Stone will take place between 17th May and 27th July 2024 in The Old Sanatorium in Maribor.

Opening of the exhibition A Letter to the Future at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 8th EKO 2021.

Opening of the exhibition A Letter to the Future at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 8th EKO 2021.

Closing days of the 8th International Triennial Ecology and Art EKO at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 2021.

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Closing days of the 8th International Triennial Ecology and Art EKO at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 2021.

Druga godba Festival

The Congolose band Staff Benda Bilili performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Druga Godba Festival, 2011

Druga godba Festival is nowadays a major Slovene international world music festival. It was established in 1984 as an alternative and supplement to other music festivals in Ljubljana of that time which did not present the more radical and "different" music practices. Since its inception Druga godba Festival has developed into one of the most significant European festivals of its type, establishing collaborations with many other important festivals and becoming a member of the international European Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals (EFWMF).

Since 2013, Druga godba Institute has expanded the festival programme throughout the whole year with the concert cycle Sogodbe. This cycle, which takes place at various locations, continues the broad scope of the main festival and is bridled by neither genre nor continent. Besides staging concerts, Sogodbe also feature workshops, discussions and exhibitions.

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Upcoming Festivals

Lighting Guerrilla Festival

First held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival Lighting Detectives (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by Strip Core, otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of Forum Ljubljana.

The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.

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The light-sound installation Portal by the authorial group Beam Team (Stella Ivšek, Anja Romih, Aleš Zupanc, Črt Trkman) at the 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival at Match Gallery, Ljubljana 2023. Author: DK

See also

• Literary Festivals Worldwide
• Puppetry Festivals Worldwide
• Film festivals worldwide