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Come to the 3rd Art Festival Of Recycling And DIY-culture – Reciklart! The event is going to take place in front of Alkatraz Gallery from 11 August, Friday until 13 August, Sunday. Propose us content as the program hasn’t been completed!

This year’s Reciklart – every day between 4 pm and 11 pm – will work the exchange of stuff, which works under the principle: bring, take, replace. Children will be able to attend a workshop for making masks and textile collages. Kids are invited to learn how to transfer photos to wood and textiles and to how to make colorful carpets from discarded t-shirts.

Organizers are also planning a DIY product fair, art auction, concert, projection of a documentary movie, circus show and surely some other interesting events will pop up.

Participation in the festival is free, but voluntary contributions are always very welcome.

Learn more about the program and registration for the workshops at our Facebook event.

“Drawing Jam Session (Risarski jam session) is a project of a group of artists started in 2016. The majority of their meetings since last October took place in the Alkatraz Gallery, during that time not operating as a public exhibition space, but as an intimate-social space intended for socializing and creation. A simple co-operational frame was set up: regular meetings at the agreed location, employment of basic drawing utensils, attempt to combine and merge different artistic approaches within a singular drawing, all in the attempt to emphasize the artefact as the reason for the continuation of a dialogue, and not as the final stop of the process. The project resulted in the What Is Yours, Nothing Is Yours! exhibition.

Group creation stems from the desire and urge of the artists to socialize, exchange skills, open up to new creative approaches, and also to develop one’s own, individual artistic language. Most of the artists involved regard the so modified creative process as the key element for their co-operation. The drawings are, utmost, regarded as experiments that occasionally or for some develop and transcend into completed works; like with every creative process, these two categories alternate.” – galerijalkatraz.org

Participating artists: Nevena Aleksovski, Ivana Bajec, Erik Mavrič, Miha Perne, Adrijan Praznik and Iva Tratnik.

You are kindly invited to the exhibition opening of What Is Yours; Nothing Is Yours! on 5 July, Wednesday at 6 pm at Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana. The exhibition is curated by Anabel Černohorski and Sebastian Krawczyk.

On display: 5 July 2017 – 28 July 2017

After last year’s winning the first prize for animation “Nosy Rabbit” (Sončki, 2016, 02’07”) at the Small Elephant Festival – 6th International Festival of Children’s and Youth Film Maribor we are again proud of our little animators. In addition to the awards in the category of Junior Mini, we received a lot of very positive feedback from children, organizers and the jury.

Animation “Button For Special Achievements” has been created by a group of children of Kindergarten Vodmat with stop-motion technique. Professional mentoring has been offered by film animator Anka Kočevar, photographer Tadej Bernik, musician Tomaž Grom and kindergarten teachers Suzana Teichmeister and Romana Kolbezen.

Production: Animiramo 2016 / KUD Mreža and Kindergarten Vodmat.

“With her installation Brina Ivanetič continues her sculptural research into the issue of absence and what is that visualizes the absence. Embodying this particular absence, her works are caught in an ambivalent and inherently sculptural interplay of the material and immaterial, where the sculptural object is shaped by a trail and an impression of some presence. Amidst the consideration there is often a human body, re-defined into its negative form to evade from a classical understanding of figural depiction. A somewhat peculiar trail of a human body is also what the current installation brings. When we enter the dimmed cube of the spatial installation, we gaze at the alternatingly illuminated bust masks having been used in cancer-patient therapies at the oncological department. Into the artwork, in this manner, a hunch of death creeps, further thematised by the sound of several different breathings and the alternating light. Masks as a cast, a shell of some patient in a grave moment as well as the recording of the breathing of random persons as their trail in some random moment – both find themselves caught within a joined frame, in a tense relation. The segments and the trails – with their presence – evoke the absence of some human presence – the people who have left these traces behind.” – galerijalkatraz.org

You are kindly invited to the exhibition opening of Breath-In / Breath-Out by Brina Ivanetič. The event will take place on 7 June, Wednesday at 8 pm at Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana. The exhibition is curated by Iza Pevec.

On display: 7 June 2017 – 30 June 2017

“We Animate” is an annual project of KUD Mreža and Vodmat Kindergarten. We are looking forward to the premiere of four children’s animations which is taking place on 30 May, Tuesday at 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm at Slovenian Cinematheque in Ljubljana. The animations were created by the children of Vodmat Kindergarten with stop-motion technique.

The following animations will be screened:

· Krtek vrtek in travnik (03’33”, 2017)
· Lačna usta (02’36”, 2017)
· Kameleozaver in žaba (02’45”, 2017)
· Šik bika (02’11”, 2017)

Professional assistance was offered by the Vodmat Kindergarten’s nursery school teachers, illustrator Anka Kočevar, photographer Tadej Bernik and musicians Rada Kikelj, Ana Kravanja, Andrej Fon and Samo Kutin.

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