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We are inviting you to the opening exhibition of Marina Milev Tail Contest on 26 May, Friday 9 pm by the tower opposite of Night Display Gallery Pešak, AKC Metelkova mesto in Ljubljana.

This time, visitors will be cordially invited to participate by casting a vote for the selection of the most beautiful exhibits tails which will be announced on the last day of the exhibition. As a continuation of the project will be followed by street art intervention performed by the artist in honor of winning the tail carried out in Belgrade.

“Election rallies thus resemble animalistic mating rituals and the inducing of fear, aimed at finding a partner or defeating natural foes. For that purpose, animals use different parts of their body, but most often their tails. Some mammals use their tails for balancing, maneuvering in battle, climbing with greater ease and showing their emotions. Birds usually use their tail for courting, while some insects carry lethal poison in their tails. All these tail – derived functions correspond to many skills and behaviors displayed in political rallies. In the Serbian language, a tail also represents some sort of burden or unsolved problem from the past.

This project “Tail Contest” portrays in an illustrative manner the banality of rhetoric in pre-election campaigns. By-passers and local citizens will have to use their electoral right, based on their visual impression, to circle the number in front of the most beautiful tail shown in this exhibition. They will be encouraged to put the voting paper in the voting box. On the last day of the exhibition, the winning tail will be announced. As a follow -up project, the Author will make a long lasting tribute to the winning tail in some form of street art in Belgrade.” – pesakpesak.wordpress.com

Concert with duo Kavčič / Lonquich is temporarily postponed due to unfortunate injury of Irena Kavčič. We hope to invite you very soon to the additional concert and we thank you for understanding.

Borderless Dissonance – a cross-national creative platform and international concert series – is presenting its final international trio in Ljubljana on 18 May, Thursday at 8 pm at Vodnikova Domačija Šiška with the participation of Hungarian saxophonist Gergő Kováts, German-Austrian double bass player Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka and Slovenian drummer Vid Drašler.

KUD Mreža’s Borderless Dissonance events are taking place in Budapest, Vienna and Ljubljana between 10 April and 18 May with the collaboration of three Slovenian, three Austrian and three Hungarian improvisers who have never worked together before.

The event is kindly supported by: Alps-Adriatic-Alliance and Austrian Kulturforum Ljubljana

18 May 2017, Thursday 20.00 – Vodnikova Domačija Šiška, Ljubljana

Alkatraz Gallery’s The Country Gentlemen exhibition toys with diverse perception of nature while trying to warn of the dichotomy: on the one hand we have a rational view on nature, always in search of how to master it, on the other hand, however, there are traditional societies who do not know of gentlemen and are building their life in co-existence with nature.

Both artists, Goran Medjugorac and Art Larson use several approaches in order to grasp the idea of how to capture nature in a medium. In their research they worship nature and their inspiration draws on romantic ideas of discovery and contemplation on the petiteness of a human before nature. It always stands above a human.

Painter Goran Medjugorac within the monumental drawing – as an autonomous medium – by mathematical patterns attempts to synthesize a direct reflection of nature. Preciseness, vitality and discipline are detected in his strokes. The medium of drawing enables him liveliness, inconclusiveness, openness and construction of an art form that in the process of creation stumbles upon limitation and the awareness of the imperfection of the human in relation to nature.

Art Larson makes a video recording of tree life, which in comparison to a human life, appears slow and infinite. During the observation, he keeps facing his own physical weakness and limitation, so immanent to our existence.

You are kindly invited you to the exhibition opening of The Country Gentlemen by Goran Medjugorac and Art Larson on 9 May, Tuesday at 8 pm at Alkatraz Gallery.

On display: 9 May 2017 – 3 June 2017

Borderless Dissonance – a cross-national creative platform and international concert series – is presenting its second international trio in Ljubljana on 5 May, Friday at 8 pm at Vodnikova Domačija Šiška with the participation of Austrian saxophonist Markus Krispel, Slovenian-Austrian double bass player Matija Schellander and Hungarian drummer Szilveszter Miklós.

The Borderless Dissonance events are taking place in Budapest, Vienna and Ljubljana between 10 April and 18 May with the collaboration of three Slovenian, three Austrian and three Hungarian musicians who have never worked together before.

In addition to the second “Boderless” trio we are thrilled to host the duo called Not The Music with clarinet player Philippe Lauzier and bassist Éric Normand – both from Québec, Canada – who are presenting their re-released debut album entitled Do.

The event is kindly supported by: Alps-Adriatic-Alliance and Austrian Kulturforum Ljubljana

5 May 2017, Friday 20.00 – Vodnikova Domačija Šiška, Ljubljana