Kapelica Gallery

A project of K6/4 Institute housed in a former chapel building, Kapelica Gallery is a space of virtual interactions between artist, audience and idea, and one of the central platforms of contemporary art research in Slovenia. It enables people from different artistic environments to experiment with new paradigms and borders in contemporary art. The gallery programme is based on presentation of art production that is scarce or completely absent in other Slovene galleries. Its points of interest are space installations, performances, artistic actions, sound events and artistic presentations with educational potential. The artists presented at the gallery are: Stelarc, Marcel Li, Chico Mc Murphy; the 2006 programme featured William Linn, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Paul De Marinis, Bill Vorn, Sašo Sedlaček, Martin Bricelj, f18 Institute, Seemen, Polona Tratnik, Philip Ross, Yann Marussich, Vlado G. Repnik, Eclipse, Mat Fraser, David Toole. Common to all of the various genres presented in the gallery are the characteristics of Contemporary Investigative Arts. The stress is on research, exploration and experimentation of the frontiers of artistic discourses and urban poetics. The gallery's programme is divided into four main thematic groups: installations and ad hoc projects, technology through art, science through art and corporeality through art. The Bitshift performances and workshops focus on sound.

Kapelica Gallery has established links with numerous galleries and initiatives abroad (including the UK's Live Art Development Agency), working with many guest curators, artists and theoreticians of contemporary artistic practice. The gallery programme has been presented at various symposia and conferences round the world, in the framework of numerous international festivals - including the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA), Sarajevo Winter and the Salon of Young Artists in Zagreb - and biennials - Venice Biennale 2003, International Association for the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean - and the gallery team also acts as a consulting body for international selectors. Kapelica Gallery has been closely connected with the last U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (Jurij Krpan as curator) and since 2006 runs the programme of a conceptual LJU COSINUS BRX Gallery in Brussels featuring works of art based on topical issues in science and technology.

Dimensions: 128m² (19.8m x 6.5m x 3.75m H), incorporating c 35 linear metres of wall space; installation system: hammer-and-nail installation, free-standing exhibition screens – space usually adapted to the needs of specific projects; lighting: halogen spots, movable stage lights controlled by light mixing desk; technical equipment: remote controlled folding screen and 3 self-standing screens of various dimensions, 1 VCR, 2 video projectors (800, 2100 lumens), 1 slide projector, hi-fi stereo with 8 loudspeakers equally displaced around space, audio mixing desk, MAC and PC with Internet access, DVD recorder, DV camera, 3 video wall TV cubes, technician available; climate control: none; sales policy: renting the space is possible (by appointment); security: CCTV and guard

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