Centralna postaja

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Centralna postaja
Koroška cesta 5, SI-2000 Maribor




Centralna postaja is a small Maribor based venue and creative studio that deals with various facets of contemporary artistic production. Its primary focus lies in new media art, especially audiovisual performances and computer art, and also in the more traditional visual arts like painting and illustration. These fields are explored and presented during live performances by an international cast of artists, via various workshops and educative activities and through research done in situ.

Led by the Uho; oko: Institute, it opened its doors in 2012, when the institute acquired the place on behalf of taking part in the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 programme.


Programme

Some of the artists and collectives hosted by Centralna postaja are Paul Prudence (UK), Francisco Lopez (ES), Frank Bretschneider (DE), Atsuhiro Ito (JP, Open Reel Ensemble (JP), Superskin (AT), Jung An Ten (AT), Octex, Blaž Peruš, the Kolektiva Institute, Cirkulacija 2, Ontervjabbit, Neven Korda, etc. Many of these performances have been live-streamed in the internet and are also carefully archived. The venue also offers some artworks by its hosted artists in the form of books, albums, DVDs, prints and so on.

Centralna postaja collaborates with a number of festivals, among them the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA), the Lighting Guerrilla Festival, the Little Elephant Film Festival and the Deconstruct Festival. It is also part of the [Core Network / Centralna mreža 2014] international project.

=The Vitrine exhibitions

Vitrine, meaningDisplay windows, are the venue's very curios exhibition space. Turned and illuminated from the inside out, the look out onto the street and present the featured artists – among them Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Borut Popenko, Nina Bric and Jean Rohe (US) – to all the random passers-bys.


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