Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Tel Aviv

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Veleposlaništvo Republike Slovenije Tel Aviv
Top Tower, 50 Dizengoff Street, 19th Floor, Tel Aviv 61231, Israel
Phone972 3 629 3563
Alenka Suhadolnik, Ambassador
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The Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Tel Aviv functions as an official representative of the Republic of Slovenia in Israel since 1994. It provides consular services in Israel (and Palestinian territories) and promotes bilateral political, economic and cultural ties between the two states.

Other representatives of the Republic of Slovenia in Israel include the consulates in Tel Aviv and in Betlehem.


Cultural cooperation

Cultural cooperation is based on a Program of Educational, Scientific, Cultural, Youth and Sports Cooperation between the Government of Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the State of Israel for the years 2012-2014, which was based on the Agreement on Cooperation in the fields of Culture, Science and Education between the Government of the State of Israel and the Government of the Republic of Slovenia signed in 1993. This legal basis enables a platform for regular cooperation and cultural exchange between cultural and educational institutions. The cultural ties between the two countries seem to be thriving, especially regarding promotion of the contemporary art production from Slovenia.

Performing and musical arts

The Embassy promoted many Slovenian artists and art groups from the field of performing arts, including (En-Knap Productions) (a retrospective of the Iztok Kovač opus at the VDance festival in 2007 in Tel Aviv. Edvard Clug's Radio & Juliet ballet produced by Slovene National Theatre Maribor was presented in Herzliya and at the Karmiel Dance festival, the largest Mediterranean dance festival in 2007. The the Bat Yam International Street Theatre Festival hosted the performance by KUD Ljud in 2009.

In 2013 the Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL) participated at the Cameri's Hanoch Levin International Festival with the production Requiem. The show directed by Matjaž Zupančič, choreographer Iztok Kovač and the cast received excellent reviews from Israeli theatre critics in Yediot Achronot and Haaretz daily newspapers.

Links with the Theatre International Exposure Israel in Tel Aviv and with the International Festival of Puppet Theater Jerusalem were established.

An official event to mark the end of the six-month Slovenian Presidency of the European Union in June 2008 was a concert performance by the folk music ensemble Katalena at Einav Cultural center in Tel Aviv. Violinist Anja Bukovec performed at the World of Classics Festival at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center in 2008, the violinist Žiga Brank at the Ra'anana Music Center in 2011 and jazz player Gašper Bertoncelj at the HaSimta Theater in Tel Aviv in 2013.

Visual arts, design and architecture

Contemporary visual art production was presented by the Irwin collective: in 2010 at the The Eye of the State exhibition at the Israeli Centre for Digital Art in Holon and in 2013 with the Corpse of Art, a mixed-media installation at the Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes exhibition at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Zdenka Badovinac (Museum of Modern Art) participated at the Art TLV 08 international panel of curators from Istanbul, Moscow, Ljubljana and Herzilya (north of Tel Aviv), and video artist Nataša Prosenc was invited to the exhibition "Sounds & Visions, Artists' Films and Videos from Europe within the Yafo Centennial at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2009. Some photo exhibitions took place in Tel Aviv and Givatayim (Photos by Arne Hodalič).

In 2012 eight Slovene designers – (OLoOP Design, Bevk Perović Arhitekti, AKSL Arhitekti, AlmiraSadar, BelaBela, Pleksimanija, Studio Drevo and Janez Suhadolc – were presented at Common Roots - Design map of Central Europe exhibition co-curated by Špela Šubic at the Design Museum in Holon.

Five Years of Slovene Architecture - ARCHITECTURE= exhibition and screenings of Small and Smart: Expressions of Contemporary Slovenian Architecture in Films by the Museum of Architecture and Design was presented at the Architect’s Gallery at Tel Aviv in 2013.

Film

Students and professors from the Slovenian Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) regularly participate at the one of the largest student film festivals in Tel Aviv, the TAU Film Festival. Some of young authors got awarded, e.g. Matevž Luzar.

Education and science

The Embassy promotes exchanges in the spheres education and science according to the bilateral agreement. The scholarships are offered annually for postgraduate and undergraduate students from Slovenia to study in Israel (Hebrew or other Israeli-related subject), and three nine month scholarships are offered each academic year for Israeli postgraduate students to study in Slovenia.

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