House! Society for People and Spaces

House! Society for people and spaces was set up in 2010, its first and still prominent initiative being the Living courtyards programme with its peak during the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, and later in the scope of the summer Lent Festival. Today House! fosters culturally and socially invigorating programmes, its professional team working intensively on the cooperation of the private, public and creative sector. Being an incubator of new ideas and young activists, it has developed also the Polygon of Knowledge for the Maribor 2013 – European Youth Capital.

House! is part of the Actors of Urban Change the Robert Bosch Foundation. It is recognized as an innovative local community initiative (Award InLoCom 2013), and received two Challenge Future Summit 2013 awards in the category of social enterprises and the main prize of Maribor.

Living courtyards and Living town

Living courtyards, a year-round program, has brought to life several abandoned semi-public spaces, the Maribor backyards in the city centre, giving an opportunity to artists to revive courtyards in collaboration with the local community. The project has won the best international collaboration prize at the BIO 50 (Biennial of Design (BIO)).

Living town programme aims at revitalization of deserted streets of the city in co-operation with the local clubs, street theatre, craftmen and residents. Widely popular Koroška Live brings dozens of activities to the temporary closed Koroška Street during the Lent Festival).

House! produces also street performances and interventions in public spaces (Vilin Klopčič), it collaborates with Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, organising in Maribor a line of street performances of Ana Desetnica, Ana Frost and Ana Blaze together with Vetrinjski dvor (Narodni dom Maribor).

Printmaking art centre

One of notable activities of the House! society is the Printmaking art centre, an on-going international workshop for printmaking art. In 2014 the the first Graphic Spring, an international student art prints exhibition took place at Vetrinjski dvor, and featured also the best student works of the Fine Arts Academies in Zagreb, Belgrade and Sarajevo. At the second edition in 2015 participated also the art academies of Vienna and Wroclaw, works selected by international jury were exhibited in December 2015 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.

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House! Society for People and Spaces

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Living courtyards and Living town

Printmaking art centre

Rajzefiber biro

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