Hosting MG!

April 2009
Center for Contemporary Arts Celje

Exhibition project

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Zemira Alajbegović and Neven Korda, Podoba, Kanal A - TV Station, 1992/93

February 19 - March 13, 2009
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana

Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda, Image, Kanal A, 1992/93
Dunja Blažević, TV Gallery, RTS/TV Beograd, 1984/90
Bogdan Lešnik & Marijan Osole Max, Project ATV, ŠKUC-Forum, Brut film, 1987
Majda Širca, Blowup, TV Slovenija/RTV Ljubljana, 1990
Miha Vipotnik, Autovision, Brut film, 1985

The exhibition is part of the action "Hosting Moderna galerija!". Curators: Igor Španjol, Alenka Gregorič

The exhibition will reflect on television programmes whose messages contain, besides ordinary, narrative and informative elements (the so-called reproductive elements of reality), also "creative" elements. We will try to focus on those projects which involve television as an autonomous means of expression seeking the specifics of its own language within its inherent technical properties. In this context we should point to the difference between the televised reproduction of the existing creative contents of the art forms (film, painting, theatre), and the ability of television to stimulate autonomous expressive potentials.

Raša Todosijević, Special thanks to Raša Todosijević - the grateful citizens of Ljubljana, 2000
Photo: Lado Mlekuz & Matija Pavlovec

19 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
Umetnostna galerija Maribor / Maribor Art Gallery / Strossmayerjeva 6 / Maribor

Artists:
Marina Abramović, Joseph Beuys, Braco Dimitrijević, Jenny Holzer, Cristina Iglesias, Irwin, Sanja Iveković, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Katarzyna Kozyra, Laibach, Kazimir Malevich, Walter de Maria, OHO, Alenka Pirman, Mladen Stilinović, Nebojša Šerić - Šoba, Raša Todosijević
Curators: Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur

The project is part of the ongoing action "Hosting Moderna galerija!"

Moderna galerija was the first institution in Europe to start systematically collecting works by Eastern European artists and rewriting the history of postwar art.

Interview with NSK passport holders, London 2007, photo: Haris Hararis

7 January - 8 February 2009
T5 Project Space (Tobačna 5), Ljubljana

The exhibition is part of the action
"Hosting Moderna galerija!"

NSK Passport Holders

The NSK State in Time was founded in the early 1990s. We started issuing passports straight away; their manufacture and quality meet the required standards for this type of product. To date, a great number of people have applied for and received our passports, becoming citizens of the NSK State in Time. Needless to say, they have kept their principal citizenship as well. Most applicants are people from the art scene, that is, either artists or people who regularly follow art events. This group of NSK passport holders come for the most part from the developed countries of Western Europe and North America and are members of the relatively prosperous strata of society. Thus we can say that a majority of the citizens of the NSK State in Time come from the so-called First World. Their reasons for taking NSK citizenship have mainly to do with their understanding of and involvement in contemporary art.

Thursday, 29 January 2009, at 8 p.m.
The Jasno in glasno program, channel TVS 2

The final part of the three-part project organized by Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, in association with high-school students of Gimnazija Šentvid, the Center and Gallery P74, and the RTV Slovenia

You and the City. Diaries of a Future Avant-garde is the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk?s three-part project in Slovenia, started in September 2008 (Ljubljana, Tobačna tovarna, September 2008; Novo mesto, Simulaker Gallery, November 2008; Ljubljana, Center and Gallery P74 and RTV Slovenija, January 2009). It consists of a series of workshops in which teenagers discuss such issues as social change and revolutionary visions of adolescents, and learn to formulate and exchange views and opinions.

23 December - 24 February 2008
Noema Digital Art Gallery, Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Buzios/231/198/22

Moderna galerija Ljubljana - Media Art Collection
Curator: Igor Španjol
Programming and design: Vera Bighetti, Brazil
SL hosting: Agencía Clik, Meta Midia Digital
Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana www.aksioma.org
Coproduction: Meta Midia Digital, Noema Digital Arts
in the frame of the action Hosting Moderna Galerija!

Featured Artists:
Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda, Borghesia, Vuk Ćosić, Nuša & Srečo Dragan, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Ema Kugler, Franc Purg, Igor Štromajer, Apolonija Šušteršič, Miha Vipotnik.

"Hosting Moderna galerija!"
Years of (non)policies have proved an existential threat to the basic infrastructure and intellectual and creative work in the field of visual art. The city and the country are downgrading the visual arts relative to other fields of artistic production.

December 2008
T5 Project Space, Ljubljana

Selection of an artwork, curator Zdenka
Badovinac

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28 November - 12 December 2008
Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana

Participants: Contra Filé, Dostje!, H.I.J.O.S., La Lleca, The Pinky Show, Radical Education, Section for Latin America, Social Center Rog, Universidad Nómada, Zampa di Leone, Albert Heta, Agon Hamza, Hajrudin Hromadžić, Helena Popović.

The event is part of the action entitled "Hosting Moderna galerija!"

The encounter of art and activist collectives from three continents is a small piece in the mosaic of numerous experiments of symbolic and material social recomposition in times of capitalism's profound systemic crisis. It represents an opportunity to rekindle discussions about the tradition of radical pedagogy and the methods of co-research, to learn about the media representations of overlooked realities excluded from the mainstream visual and sensual realms, about various tools for the production and distribution of effective counter-narrations emerging at the margins of the system: autonomous, self-organized communities.

November 2008
KD Galerija GT, Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana

Workshops for childrens, concept and realization by Adela Železnik

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You and the City. Diaries of a Future Avant-garde, Novo mesto, 2008
Photo: Borut Peterlin

7 - 10 November 2008
Simulaker Gallery, Vrhovčeva 1a, Novo mesto
Atrium of the bookshop Goga, Glavni trg 6, Novo mesto

The event is part of the Hosting Moderna galerija! action.
Curator: Adela Železnik

You and the City. Diaries of a Future Avant-garde is part of a broader research project by the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, focusing on how teenagers in different cities come to grips with the changing society. It chiefly focuses on young girls and their outlook on life and the future, but refers also to the specific local context in each edition.

Now the world is again undergoing substantial social and economical changes, and the question that poses itself is how secondary school students perceive them, living in a time of popular television series such as Sex and the City, or the Mexican soap opera especially popular among Slovenian teenagers, Rebelde. What would these young people's "revolution" be like, if there were one at all? Teenage girls still write down their realizations in diaries, and in the project You and the City they share their diaries with others.

Organized by the Simulaker Gallery, the project consists of a two-day workshop, where teenage participants will learn how to write blogs, which they will post on the website of the local magazine Park:
http://www.park.si/kategorija/ti-v-mestu/
The participants will publicly read their blogs on Monday, 10 November, at 5 p.m. in the atrium of the Goga bookshop. Hopefully they will continue writing their blogs and in this way contribute to the formation of a "virtual community of the future avant-garde".

Novo mesto has a special place in the history of Slovenian culture, more specifically, the early historical avant-garde. The years immediately after the First World War were strongly influenced by the so-called "Novo Mesto Spring." It was an era of radical changes, and in Novo mesto, their champions were the young artists who lived there.

Yona Friedman

9 October - 31 October 2008
P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana

Carla Accardi, Geta Bratescu, Yona Friedman, Tomislav Gotovac, Stojan Kerbler, Ivan Kožarić
Curator: Zdenka Badovinac

You are kindly invited to attend the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 9 October at 8 p.m. at the P74 Center and Gallery, Prušnikova 74, Ljubljana. The event is part of the action entitled "Hosting Moderna galerija!".

Old Masters is not a theme exhibition. The only thing the seven artists presented have in common is the framework of generation: they are all over seventy years old. The show points out just how problematic interpreting the identity of an artist on the basis of the generation he or she belongs to is. It presents seven fascinating, individual aesthetic concepts, and on the meta-level, indicates that the generational conformity suggested by the title may not be there at all.

Oktober 2008
Nova Gorica City Gallery

Arteast Collection 2000+, a talk by Zdenka Badovinac

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Vasko Pregelj: Deatil of Scenery for Films Fantazija, Marginalije and Utrinki, 1968-70

3 - 19 October 2008
Gallery Vžigalica - the gallery of the City Museum Ljubljana

Organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and kindly hosted by the City Museum of Ljubljana in its Gallery Vžigalica, this memorial exhibition puts on view fragments of the almost forgotten heritage of Vasko Pregelj (29 May 1948 - 8 July 1985), the prematurely deceased, highly talented filmmaker, photographer, painter, printmaker, and film writer.
The exhibition is part of the project "Hosting Moderna galerija!"

18 September - 5 October 2008
Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana

Non-central domains: video art in Slovenia in the
1990s, curator Igor Španjol with Jadranka Ljubičič

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July 2008
Museum of too Modern Art, Spodnji Hotič

A meeting of the participants in the Hosting Moderna galerija! project and a presentation of the photographic documentation of the project, coordinator Tomaž Kučer

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February - June 2008
SCCA - Ljubljana

A selection of talks delivered in the Moderna
galerija Info Center, A Study Nook, curator Tomaž Kučer

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January - June 2008
SCCA - Ljubljana

A reading and study workshop, Radical
Education, Museum of Modern Art and World of Art:
Laboratory for Curatorial Practices

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June 2008
KD Galerija GT, Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana

Selection of video works, curator Igor Španjol

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25 February - 27 June 2008
KD Galerija GT, Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts

Moderna galerija publications, curator Sabina Povšič

You are invited to use the Moderna galerija provisional reading room at the Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, open between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Fridays.

There you'll find catalogues, books, and journals published by the Moderna galerija since 1990, including the catalogues Vidiki minimalnega, curated by Igor Zabel in 1990, Braco Dimitrijević's The Man of Lascaux from 1996, Epicenter Ljubljana, curated by Harald Szeemann, House in Time (1995), 2000+ and Form-Specific (2003), all three curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Marjetica Potrč?s The Next Stop, Kiosk and the latest publications about the artists' group OHO and the 60 years of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. Also available there are issues of the unfortunately already defunct journal M'ARS. All these and many other publications will be there for your perusal until the end of June.

The Moderna galerija Reading Room is a sequel to the first event in the series constituting the action Hosting Moderna galerija!, i.e., the display of Moderna galerija's publications in Ex-garaža in Maribor in December 2007.

KD Gallery GT and
Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts
Bežigrajski dvor, Dunajska 56, 1000 Ljubljana
Tel: 01 436 47 06, GSM: 051 33 67 70

http://www.galerijagt-famul.si/FS-lokacija.htm

May 2008
P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana

Srečo Dragan, Early works, curator Igor
Španjol

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