P74 Centre and Gallery

Established in 1997, the P74 Centre and Gallery is an open platform for presentation, promotion and education of contemporary visual, intermedia and time-based arts founded by international recognized Slovene artist Tadej Pogačar. Since 1999 operates under the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, i.e. P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA).

Venue

The P74 Center and Gallery is since the beginning housed in the branch of the Gymnasium Šentvid on the perifery of Ljubljana. Since 2008 is the activity of P74 combined with another branch of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute: the Kapsula Gallery, located in the very centre of Ljubljana (Podhod Ajdovščina).

Mission and Programme

Beside supporting also nonprofit programmes and collaboration between artists, art centres, and galleries both locally and international, the mission of the P74 Center and Gallery is to foster knowlege, encourage the exchange of new ideas, and promote innovative and challenging models in current art and culture, what is achieved with the P74 programme of solo and group exhibitions as well with other visual, intermedia and experimental music projects of national and international character.

Since the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute began in 2003 with the public competition for artist books for artists of all nationalities living and working in Slovenia and since it in 2005 started with the production of artist books, consecutive came to the building of the Collection of the artist book of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute. The P74 Centre and Gallery is giving the presentation and acquisition podium also to this format of art creation by which the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute with its both spaces become internationally recognizable. In early summer 2009 the P74 was also the venue of the practical oriented workshop for artist books. More about the competition, the collection and international presentation of this focus find on the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute.

The P74 Centre and Gallery is each year also the stage not just for the bestowal event of the OHO Group Award, but as well it featured the competitive part of usually its four nominees and the solo exhibition of the winner.

Exhibitions

The Centre prepared last two years approximately 5 projects, what is the half less than years before, but the huge part of its activities were brought to its satelite Kapsula.

Within its international work the programme on the venue of P74 Centre was in the beginning of the 1990s intensively deducted also to the projects of (young) Slovene artists featuring solo or group shows. Just in 2005 there were exibited 14 artists having solo or being included in the group projects: Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Emil Hrvatin and Peter Šenk, Maja Ratajc, Miha Knific, Nika Zupančič, Tobias Putrih, Metka Zupančič, Lada Cerar, Vesna Bukovec, Jana Fak, Jure Engelsberger, Blaž Križnik, and Tomaž Tomažin.

In last years the P74 increased the practise of cooperations with national and international guest curators to include work of Slovene artists within international context. The Centre start to work last years intensively with the space of the Jakopič Gallery, where in 2008 the projects The Renaming Machine curated by Suzana Milevska was featured. Works of IRWIN, Tanja Lažetić/Dejan Habicht, and Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art amalgamated with art of i.e. Sanja Iveković, MONUMENT, Oliver Musoviќ, Dan Perjovschi, and Žaneta Vangeli to re-define the residues after the renaming overwrites the old references on the historic »mystic pad«. On the end of 2009 Milevska organized in P74 also the first solo show of filmmaker and author Hyto Steyerl in Slovenia. Further, three Slovene artists were in the same year integrated into the project Obviously, it's not obvious / GIFT, curated by Lotte Juul Petersen, currently the curator at Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge, UK). In the artist book she pointed out mostly Danish and Slovene artist as Soren Assenholt, Jacob Borges, Polonca Lovšin, Olof Olsson, Tomaž Tomažin and Pernille Kapper Williams.

By the guest curator Miško Šuvaković prepared exhibition Hidden Histories of the OHO Group gave in 2009 the new light to the problem of the character of neo-avant-garde excess and the experimental work of the famous Slovene OHO Group. In the same year P74 celebrated the 15th anniversary of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art with the show This is not America supplemented by the discussion entitled About the Museum with the renowend guest curator Charles Esche, the director of the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) since 2004.

Space

Dimensions: Gallery 1 - 50m² (10m x 5m x 2.6m H) incorporating 24 linear metres of wall space; Gallery 2 - oval space 50m² incorporating 14 linear metres of wall space; installation system: hammer-and-nail installation, no hanging system; lighting: halogen lighting system and natural light from windows; other facilities: VCS, DVD, TV monitors; climate control: none; sales policy: sales not permitted; security: no security system

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P74 Centre and Gallery

Contents

Venue

Mission and Programme

Exhibitions

Space

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