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Galerija Photon
Križevniška 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana


Phone386 (0) 1 230 2071, 386 (0) 59 977 907
Dejan Sluga, Director



Phone386 (0) 40 168 023
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    "Unfinished Landscapes - Nedokončane krajine", a photography exhibit by Tomo Brejc showcasing the author's exploration of human artistic elements in the landscape. In collaboration with Photon Gallery. The exhibition opens on the 26th of April, at 7 o'clock in the evening.




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Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit organization oriented to researching and presenting contemporary fine art photography. Since 2003 Photon Gallery is focused on recognizing and promoting various Slovene and international artists working in the field of contemporary photography and video, emphasizing on the production from Central and South-eastern Europe.

In 2005 Photon Gallery initiated a long term project Photonic Moments which started as a group exhibition and later developed into the festival Month of Photography in Ljubljana. From 2010 festival was renamed back to Photonic Moments and became a biannual event. Photon Gallery runs a regular exhibition and other related programme in the home gallery space in Ljubljana, collaborating on number of international projects and attending international art fairs.


Exhibitions

Focused on contemporary photography from Central and Eastern European regions, Photon Gallery prepares both solo and group exhibitions. Beside this the gallery team presents a rich accompanying programme based on talks, screenings and lectures. In the recent years Photon Gallery has been working with numerous artist of different backgrounds and generations: Goran Bertok, Tomo Brejc, Bojan Salaj, Jože Suhadolnik, Peter Koštrun, Špela Volčič, Vanja Bučan, Matej Sitar, Andrej Osterman, Antonio Živkovič, Janez Bogataj, Branko Lenart, Stane Jagodič, Janez Korošin (Slovenia), Anikó Robitz, Gabor Kerekes (Hungary), diSTRUKTURA, Paula Muhr (Serbia), Sandra Vitaljić (Croatia), Alexander Valchev (Bulgaria), Marko Citron, Luca Donini (Italy), Marko Lipuš, Ernst Logar, Gyula Fodor (Austria), Enna Chaton (France);

Beside solo exhibitions, Photon Gallery is also producing various thematic and overview group exhibitions: series of international overview exhibitions Photonic Moments (2005–2008), overview group exhibition Photonic Luminatic – New Slovenian Photography and Video (2008), historical documentary exhibitions Early 80s Music Scene (2005), Laibach-Focus (2004), Early 80s Music Scene (2008) and Pankrti (2007), dedicated to the crucial music movements in Slovenia and Yugoslavia, and thematic group exhibitions such as Foto-graph (2005), Transitions (2006), Red: Gendered Colour in Frames (2010) and series of curated video exhibitions under a common title Video in Progress (2008–2009).

Institutional and international cooperation

Photon Gallery is regularly collaborating with numerous international organizations, institutions and festivals. Photon Gallery took part within the programme of 2009 Red Dawn International Women's Festival and was in partnership with institutions and organizations such as National Museum of Contemporary History, Cankarjev dom, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Fotografija, Magazine on Photography and Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

On the other hand Photon Gallery has been collaborating internationally in terms of exhibition exchange and collaborative projects with Monat der Fotografie from Vienna, Photoport Gallery from Bratislava, Nessim Gallery and Mai Mano House of Photography from Budapest, Helmut Newton Foundation from Berlin, K2 – Contemporary Art Centre from Izmir, Kulturvermitlung Steiermarkt – CCN Graz, Proartorg Beograd, Triestefotografia Festival, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art and others.

Photon Gallery is also regularly attending art fairs in Vienna (Viennafair), Berlin (Berliner Liste) and in 2010 Photon is for the first time participating on Paris Photo.

Ljubljana Month of Photography and Photonic Moments

Inspired by events that took place in 2004 in a number of European cities under the name European Month of Photography, Photon Gallery initiated the Ljubljana Month of Photography. Each year the event focuses on a presentation of contemporary trends in photography from Slovenia and other countries of the region. The 2006 programme involved a total of almost 20 exhibitions and accompanying events in the Slovenia capital. In the last three editions, the Month of Photography encompassed a yearly average of 30 exhibitions as well as related events, such as a symposium entitled Discussions on Contemporary Photography, etc. Within the event the Photo Exhibition of the Year Award is granted.

The most significant annual production project of Photon Gallery is the exhibition entitled Photonic Moments, which shows works of young and emerging artists from athe Central and South-eastern European region selected by international curators. In 2006, Photonic Moments became the official exhibition of the "Month of Photography" festival. The first edition of Photonic Moments featured 40 artists from 8 countries, the second edition showed works of Damjan Kocjančič, Tomo Brejc, Andrej Osterman, Damjan Švarc and international artists such as Joszef Bartha, Alexander Valchev, Boriana Rossa, Anna Orlikowska, Sitara Ibrahimowa and many others. The fourth edition in 2008 gathered artists from 6 countries (Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey) including Primož Bizjak, Maša Bajc, Ektor Dimissianos, Marko Ercegović, Valentino Bilić Prcić, Špela Volčič and others. The Photonic Moments exhibition often tours throughout Europe.

Video in progress and Photonic Luminatic

In 2006 the gallery introduced the programme entitled Video in progress which presents contemporary video art. The focus of the first year was on video artists from the region, for the second year more conceptual criteria were used.

Since 2008 the exhibition entitled Photonic Luminatic is an overview introducing a selection of Slovene artists who use photography and video for research and creative endeavour in the broader context of the visual arts. The selection for the show is traditionally done by Dejan Sluga, the director of the Photon Gallery, with video artists selected by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič. The first edition focused in the phenomenon of the "new documentary photography" within contemporary artistic practice with an aim to show how photography continues to become increasingly relevant as a completely independent artistic medium, and it is additionally evermore used as a tool for the presentation of various multi- and intermedia projects. The selection of 15 artists included Bojan Salaj, Borut Peterlin, and Tomo Brejc. In 2009 beside 14 photographers the show also featured videos of Zmago Lenardič & Jasna Hribernik, the group Kolektiva, Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved, Tanja Lažetić, and Dejan Habicht.

Sales service and international art fairs

Photon Gallery represents almost 40 national and international artists whose available works are documented on the gallery's website. The gallery promotes its artists at international art fairs using the strategy of a curated presentation based on a thematic frame. At Viennafair and Berliner Liste, the Gallery booth opened topics of death, death-wishes and dark sexual desires with its presentation entitled Thanatos featuring 4 photo-artists (Bojan Salaj, Tomo Brejc, Goran Bertok, and Gyula Fodor), and the video group Kolektiva showing a kind of bizarre video, demonstrating an art institution being swallowed by a giant vagina.

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Since 2003 the non-profit organisation Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography researches and presents contemporary fine art photography. +
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