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“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

“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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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.