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| name                = Aleksandra Kostič
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| name                = Peter Tomaž Dobrila
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| role                = ACE KIBLA President, Curator and International Cooperation Coordinator
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| name               = Živa Kleindienst
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{{Teaser|
 
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[[KIBLA Portal]] is a multifunctional exhibition and event venue for contemporary artistic practices, stationed in the city of Maribor. It is handling a variety of media, from computer and inter-media arts to paintings and sculptures, and is sometimes also used for electronic music performances, conferences and the like. It operates as a dislocated premise of the [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]] (MMC KIBLA), which focuses on connecting the fields of education, research, culture, technology, arts and sciences.  
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[[KIBLA Portal]] is a multifunctional exhibition and event venue for contemporary artistic practices, stationed in the city of Maribor. It presents a variety of media, from computer and intermedia arts to paintings and sculptures, and is sometimes also used for electronic music performances, conferences and the like. It operates as a dislocated premise of the [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]] (MMC KIBLA), an institution that works at the confluences of research, culture, technology, arts, and sciences.  
  
Though there is another similar gallery space called [[KiBela Art Space]] operating under MMC KIBLA, the KIBLA Portal is very special in its basic – spatial – feature - it is huge. It covers a space of about 2000 square meters and as such both enables and demands specific types of projects.  
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Though MMC KIBLA also operates the similar gallery venue [[KiBela Art Space]], the KIBLA Portal is very special in its basic – spatial – feature. It is very big. It covers a space of about 2000 square meters and as such both enables and demands specific types of projects.  
 
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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
The venue is located at the premises of the Maribor textile factory MTT, which had been closed in the 90s and remained unused since then. Its vast grounds were opened during the time when Maribor was the [[Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012|European Capital of Culture 2012]] and it was first initiated in November [[Established::2012]] with the ''Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious'', an international art exhibition with a conference, workshops and lectures.
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The venue is located at the premises of the Maribor textile factory MTT, which was closed in the 1990s and remained unused until its current transformation. Its vast grounds were revitalised as KIBLA Portal when Maribor was the [[Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012|European Capital of Culture 2012]], the venue opened in November [[Established::2012]] with ''Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious'' – an international art exhibition with a conference, workshops, and lectures.
  
 
==Programme==
 
==Programme==
  
The KIBLA Portal has put on display a very diverse set of works, ideas and performances which were gathered from all around the world. Some of the exhibition projects, all of them of a international character, organised by KIBLA Portal were:
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The KIBLA Portal has displayed a very diverse set of works, ideas, and performances. Most of its exhibition projects have a distinctively international character and an interdisciplinary approach.
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For example, the aforementioned ''Soft Control'' was a wide-ranging event that dealt with the discourses and contexts of technology, arts, and contemporary techno-culture. The display titled ''Materiality in the Portal'' presented its topic – the concept of materiality – through a diverse set of works that featured side by side the established canon of Slovenian and international art as well as the works of young and promising authors – and also some almost forgotten and overlooked artists. Another international exhibition dealt with World War I and was called ''Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914 –18''.
  
The aforementioned ''Soft Control'' exhibition and conference, which – by way of exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops and screenings – dealt with the discourses and contexts of technology, science, arts and contemporary techno-culture; the ''Materiality in the Portal'' display that dealt with the concept of materiality through a diverse set of works of art - both the established canon of Slovenian and international art as well as the works of young, ambitious and promising authors - and some almost forgotten and overlooked artists; the international exhibition that dealt with the First World War called ''Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914 -18''; and XXY which dissected the cultural-political conglomeration of identity and the political landscape of Europe, especially Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
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A curious project was done in collaboration with the [[Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor]], which invited its students and alongside them some established artists, to create especially for this exhibition and venue developed drawings.
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In collaboration with the [[Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor]], a group of students were invited – together with some already established artists – to use the medium of drawing and present new works made especially for the exhibition and developed for this specific venue.  
  
 
===Invited artists and curators===
 
===Invited artists and curators===
  
Some of the curators involved in the KIBLA Portal were Dmitry Bulatov, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Petra Varl, Žiga Dobnikar and Aleksandra Kostič (among other things the director of MMC KIBLA and Portal).  
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Some of the curators involved in the KIBLA Portal have been Dmitry Bulatov, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, [[Petra Varl]], [[Žiga Dobnikar]], and [[Aleksandra Kostič]]. The latter is among other things also the director of [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]].  
  
One would be hard pressed to come up with a representative list of artists, as both the venue concept and the venues capacities themselves dictate for the place to feature numerous artists. Yet, some of the artists from abroad were Marina Abramović (RS/US), Stelarc (AU), Suzanne Dikker (NL), Matthias Oostrik (NL), Jimmy Loizeau (UK), Brandon Ballengee (US), Paul Smith (UK), David Bowen (US), Andrew Gracie (UK/ES), Kuda begut sobaki (RU),  Bill Vorn (CA), Lana Čmajčanin (BiH), Boris Pramatarov (BG), Marcel Mališ (SK), Ana Pečar (SI), Bogdan Girbovan (RO), Anca Benera (RO), Arnold Estefan (RO), Visualizing Palestine (LB), Vessna Perunovich (RS-CA), Magali Sanheira (FR), ábor Fülöp (HU), Libuše Jarcovjáková (CZ), Max Sudhues (DE), Martina Grlić (HR), Magda Tothova (SK), Chto Delat (RU), María Elínardóttir (IS), Oliver Pietsch (DE) and Goran Tomčić (HR/USA).
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As the Portal's concept and its capacities dictate for it to feature numerous works, one would be hard pressed to come up with a representative list of artists. Yet, some of the authors from abroad whose works have been featured here are Marina Abramović (RS/US), Stelarc (AU), Suzanne Dikker (NL), Matthias Oostrik (NL), Jimmy Loizeau (UK), Brandon Ballengee (US), Paul Smith (UK), David Bowen (US), Andrew Gracie (UK/ES), Kuda begut sobaki (RU),  Bill Vorn (CA), Lana Čmajčanin (BiH), Boris Pramatarov (BG), Marcel Mališ (SK), Bogdan Girbovan (RO), Anca Benera (RO), Arnold Estefan (RO), Visualizing Palestine (LB), Vessna Perunovich (RS-CA), Magali Sanheira (FR), Gábor Fülöp (HU), Libuše Jarcovjáková (CZ), Max Sudhues (DE), Magda Tothova (SK), Chto Delat (RU), María Elínardóttir (IS), Oliver Pietsch (DE), and Goran Tomčić (HR/US).
  
Of the artists from Slovenia, a ery incomplete list would include [[Nataša Berk]], [[Maja Hodošček]], [[Nika Autor]], [[Mark Požlep]], [[Ervin Potočnik]], [[Borut Peterlin]], [[Mojca Oblak]], [[Mina Fina]], [[Laibach]], [[Marko Jakše]], [[Mitja Ficko]], [[Tadej Vindiš]], [[Damijan Kracina]], [[Vlado Repnik]] and [[Matija Bobičić]].
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Of the artists from Slovenia, a very incomplete list would include [[Nataša Berk]], [[Maja Hodošček]], [[Nika Autor]], [[Mark Požlep]], [[Ervin Potočnik]], [[Borut Peterlin]], [[Mojca Oblak]], [[Mina Fina]], [[Laibach]], [[Marko Jakše]], [[Mitja Ficko]], [[Tadej Vindiš]], [[Damijan Kracina]], [[Vlado Repnik]], and [[Matija Bobičić]].
 
 
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===Festivals and other events at KIBLA Portal===
 
===Festivals and other events at KIBLA Portal===
  
Since 2013, the [[Maribor Electronic Destination International Festival]] takes place at Portal, as does the [[KIBLIX Festival]]. In 2013 and 2015, respectively, the [[KIBLIX Festival]] and the [[International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)]] merged their efforts and staged a joint festival exhibition at the vast halls of the Portal . KIBLIX has, among many others, brought here works and performances by Angelo Vermeulen, Elisabeth Schimana,  William Myers, Ghislaine Boddington, Servando Barreiro, Electric Indigo and [[Random Logic]].
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Since 2013, the [[Maribor Electronic Destination International Festival]] (MED) takes place at Portal, as does the [[KIBLIX Festival]]. In 2013 and 2015, respectively, the [[KIBLIX Festival]] merged its efforts with the [[International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)]] and staged a joint festival venture.  
  
Some of the artists presented at MED were Andy Stott, Cut Hands, Cut Hands, Wolf Müller, [[Dodecahedragraph]] and [[Mono Scarves]].
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KIBLIX has, among many others, brought here works and performances by Angelo Vermeulen, Elisabeth Schimana,  William Myers, Ghislaine Boddington, Servando Barreiro, Electric Indigo, and [[Random Logic]]. Some of the musicians presented at [[Maribor Electronic Destination International Festival|MED]] have included Andy Stott, Cut Hands, Wolf Müller, and [[Ontervjabbit|Dodecahedragraph]].
  
 
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==International cooperation==
 
==International cooperation==
  
The Materiality exhibition featured three foreign European partners – WYSPA Institute of Art (Gdansk, Poland), VESSEL (Bari, Italy) and Instituto Polytechnico de Tomar, (Portugal). The French Institute in Serbia and the Goethe-Institute in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (MSUV), initiated the project Memory of Violence and Dreams of the Future.  
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''Soft Control'' has probably been the most internationally elaborate project to date. Some of the participating institutions were Ars Electronica, Impakt (NL), MediaArtLab (RU), National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Kaliningrad Branch (RU), Prometheus (RU), Experiments in Art and Technology – E.A.T., Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (PT), Centre for new media culture RIXC (LV), International Centre for Art and New Technologies CIANT (CZ), Hangar, Centre for research and production for the visual arts (ES), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (HR), Dom omladine Beograd (RS), O3ONE (RS), and others. Among others, Slovenian partnerships included the [[University of Maribor|Faculty of Medicine]] at the University of Maribor and the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]].
  
The Soft Control project was the most internationally ambitious thing, and was done in cooperation with Ars Electronica, Impakt – Utrecht, Netherlands, MediaArtLab – Moscow, Russia, National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Kaliningrad Branch, Russia, Prometheus – Kazan, Russia, Experiments in Art and Technology – E.A.T., Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Centre for new media culture RIXC Riga, Latvia (LV), International Centre for Art and New Technologies CIANT, Hangar, Centre for research and production for the visual arts, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Dom omladine Beograd, O3ONE and even more Slovenian partners, from [[University of Maribor|Faculty of Medicine]] and [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]] to Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (KGLU)
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Some other partners in Portal's exhibitions have included the WYSPA Institute of Art (PL), VESSEL (IT), Instituto Polytechnico de Tomar (PT), The French Institute in Serbia and the Goethe-Institute in Belgrade and the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (RS).
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
* [http://www.kibla.org/en/sections/portal KIBLA Portal website]
 
* [http://www.kibla.org/en/sections/portal KIBLA Portal website]
* [http://kiblix.org/kiblix2012/softcontrol/ ''Soft Control'' project, 2012]
 
 
* [http://mvr.kibla.org/?lang=en_us Mundus Vadit Retro]
 
* [http://mvr.kibla.org/?lang=en_us Mundus Vadit Retro]
* [http://mfru-kiblix.si/ MFRU-KIBLIX Festival 2015]
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Contact
KIBLA PORTAL
Valvasorjeva 40, SI-2000 Maribor
Peter Tomaž Dobrila, ACE KIBLA President, Curator and International Cooperation Coordinator





KIBLA Portal is a multifunctional exhibition and event venue for contemporary artistic practices, stationed in the city of Maribor. It presents a variety of media, from computer and intermedia arts to paintings and sculptures, and is sometimes also used for electronic music performances, conferences and the like. It operates as a dislocated premise of the KIBLA Multimedia Centre (MMC KIBLA), an institution that works at the confluences of research, culture, technology, arts, and sciences.

Though MMC KIBLA also operates the similar gallery venue KiBela Art Space, the KIBLA Portal is very special in its basic – spatial – feature. It is very big. It covers a space of about 2000 square meters and as such both enables and demands specific types of projects.


Background

The venue is located at the premises of the Maribor textile factory MTT, which was closed in the 1990s and remained unused until its current transformation. Its vast grounds were revitalised as KIBLA Portal when Maribor was the European Capital of Culture 2012, the venue opened in November 2012 with Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious – an international art exhibition with a conference, workshops, and lectures.

Programme

The KIBLA Portal has displayed a very diverse set of works, ideas, and performances. Most of its exhibition projects have a distinctively international character and an interdisciplinary approach.

For example, the aforementioned Soft Control was a wide-ranging event that dealt with the discourses and contexts of technology, arts, and contemporary techno-culture. The display titled Materiality in the Portal presented its topic – the concept of materiality – through a diverse set of works that featured side by side the established canon of Slovenian and international art as well as the works of young and promising authors – and also some almost forgotten and overlooked artists. Another international exhibition dealt with World War I and was called Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914 –18.

In collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, a group of students were invited – together with some already established artists – to use the medium of drawing and present new works made especially for the exhibition and developed for this specific venue.

Invited artists and curators

Some of the curators involved in the KIBLA Portal have been Dmitry Bulatov, Sanja Kojić Mladenov, Petra Varl, Žiga Dobnikar, and Aleksandra Kostič. The latter is among other things also the director of KIBLA Multimedia Centre.

As the Portal's concept and its capacities dictate for it to feature numerous works, one would be hard pressed to come up with a representative list of artists. Yet, some of the authors from abroad whose works have been featured here are Marina Abramović (RS/US), Stelarc (AU), Suzanne Dikker (NL), Matthias Oostrik (NL), Jimmy Loizeau (UK), Brandon Ballengee (US), Paul Smith (UK), David Bowen (US), Andrew Gracie (UK/ES), Kuda begut sobaki (RU), Bill Vorn (CA), Lana Čmajčanin (BiH), Boris Pramatarov (BG), Marcel Mališ (SK), Bogdan Girbovan (RO), Anca Benera (RO), Arnold Estefan (RO), Visualizing Palestine (LB), Vessna Perunovich (RS-CA), Magali Sanheira (FR), Gábor Fülöp (HU), Libuše Jarcovjáková (CZ), Max Sudhues (DE), Magda Tothova (SK), Chto Delat (RU), María Elínardóttir (IS), Oliver Pietsch (DE), and Goran Tomčić (HR/US).

Of the artists from Slovenia, a very incomplete list would include Nataša Berk, Maja Hodošček, Nika Autor, Mark Požlep, Ervin Potočnik, Borut Peterlin, Mojca Oblak, Mina Fina, Laibach, Marko Jakše, Mitja Ficko, Tadej Vindiš, Damijan Kracina, Vlado Repnik, and Matija Bobičić.

Festivals and other events at KIBLA Portal

Since 2013, the Maribor Electronic Destination International Festival (MED) takes place at Portal, as does the KIBLIX Festival. In 2013 and 2015, respectively, the KIBLIX Festival merged its efforts with the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA) and staged a joint festival venture.

KIBLIX has, among many others, brought here works and performances by Angelo Vermeulen, Elisabeth Schimana, William Myers, Ghislaine Boddington, Servando Barreiro, Electric Indigo, and Random Logic. Some of the musicians presented at MED have included Andy Stott, Cut Hands, Wolf Müller, and Dodecahedragraph.

International cooperation

Soft Control has probably been the most internationally elaborate project to date. Some of the participating institutions were Ars Electronica, Impakt (NL), MediaArtLab (RU), National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Kaliningrad Branch (RU), Prometheus (RU), Experiments in Art and Technology – E.A.T., Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (PT), Centre for new media culture RIXC (LV), International Centre for Art and New Technologies CIANT (CZ), Hangar, Centre for research and production for the visual arts (ES), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (HR), Dom omladine Beograd (RS), O3ONE (RS), and others. Among others, Slovenian partnerships included the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Maribor and the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts.

Some other partners in Portal's exhibitions have included the WYSPA Institute of Art (PL), VESSEL (IT), Instituto Polytechnico de Tomar (PT), The French Institute in Serbia and the Goethe-Institute in Belgrade and the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (RS).

See also

External links

Gallery

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