Slovenia

Igor Zabel, Slovenian curator, writer and cultural theorist after whom the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory was named.

• Erste Foundation Factory

  aces - Academy of Central European Schools

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  ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration

  For many countries in Central and South Eastern Europe, the fall of Communism was the most dramatic change in several [...]

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  PATTERNS Lectures

  PATTERNS Lectures supports the development of new university courses in Central and South Eastern Europe in the fields of art [...]

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• European Schools for a Living Planet

  Until recently, natural resources have been more than sufficient to support human needs. However, WWF’s 2006 biennial Living Planet Report [...]

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  Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe

  Climate change, political conflicts, the poverty trap and the economic crisis – these are the key issues today. The issue [...]

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• The Balkan Case Challenge

   If you are an excellent student of law, economics, political or technical sciences, if you are going to finish your [...]

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• 12. Rehabilitationshundehalter- fortbildungsseminar Freunde der Rehabilitationshunde Europas Slovenia, Montenegro, Austria
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  12. Rehabilitationshundehalter- fortbildungsseminar

  Organisation: Freunde der Rehabilitationshunde Europas Countries: Slovenia, Montenegro, Austria

  „Friends of Reha-dogs Europe“ is a self-help organisation of disabled dog handlers, which arranges advanced trainings for the handlers and their four-legged helpers. The dogs help their owners to deal with problematic situations in daily life, which are caused by their disability. The 12th seminar of „Reha-dog friends Europe“ took place in August in Altötting, Gemany, allowing participants from Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Montenegro to exchange their experiences and to improve their cooperation with the animals. www.reha-dogs.org
  

   
• CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’ International Council of Museums (ICOM) Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France
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  CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’

  Organisation: International Council of Museums (ICOM) Countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France

  CIMAM’s 2011 Annual Conference ‘Museums and the City’ takes place in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo from 14 to 16 November with a post-conference tour to Sarajevo. Invited are around 170 directors and curators of modern and contemporary institutions from museums all over the world. The aim of the conference is to show that art institutions are instruments of social and cultural preservation and to promote the knowledge and understanding of their nature, functions and roles. icom.museum
  

   
• HOSPIC Slovenian Association Hospice Slovenia
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  HOSPIC

  Organisation: Slovenian Association Hospice Countries: Slovenia

  It is necessary to have an institution or community that offers a place to the dying individuals where they can live in the process of dying. Slovenia is the only EU country which didn’t have such institutions as well as it was the only country not to have palliative care area where hospice care enters systematically/legally regulated. The first hospice house implemenst the hospice palliative care for patients of all ages, regardless of gender, religion or other beliefs, personal circumstances with advanced chronic incurable disease that will in certain time lead to death (up to 6 months of life) and support for their loved ones, both during the process of dying as in the process of mourning. Attitude towards death in Slovenian society is still attached to the closed systems of hospitals and nursing homes. There everything is aimed that person is healthy and they are trying to "overcome" death with high-technology.
  

   
• 12. Rehabilitationshundehalterfortbildungsseminar Freunde der Rehabilitationshunde Europas Austria, Montenegro, Slovenia, Germany
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  12. Rehabilitationshundehalterfortbildungsseminar

  Organisation: Freunde der Rehabilitationshunde Europas Countries: Austria, Montenegro, Slovenia, Germany

  „Friends of Reha-dogs Europe“ is a self-help organisation of disabled dog handlers, which arranges advanced trainings for the handlers and their four-legged helpers. The dogs help their owners to deal with problematic situations in daily life, which are caused by their disability. The 12th seminar of „Reha-dog friends Europe“ took place in August in Altötting, Gemany, allowing participants from Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Montenegro to exchange their experiences and to improve their cooperation with the animals.  www.reha-dogs.org
  

   
• Analytical art and practice of the Group 143 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Novi Sad Austria, Serbia, Slovenia
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  Analytical art and practice of the Group 143

  Organisation: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Novi Sad Countries: Austria, Serbia, Slovenia

  This project aims at the description and contextualisation of the most important concept art group in former Yugoslavia, the Group 143 (1975-1980). A thorough trilingual publication and an exhibition in Ljubljana will underline the vast importance of this network, which otherwise is risking to fade into obscurity.

  
  

   
• Unfinished Modernisations-Between Utopia and Pragmatism UDRUŽENJE HRVATSKIH ARHITEKATA Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia
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  Unfinished Modernisations-Between Utopia and Pragmatism

  Organisation: UDRUŽENJE HRVATSKIH ARHITEKATA Countries: Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia

  Unfinished Modernisations is a collaborative, long-term research platform on architecture and urban planning.  It brings together partners from both institutional and non-institutional sectors from South-Eastern Europe. The project is the first comprehensive attempt to interpret the architectural culture and urban environments of the region within their social, economic, and political contexts, bringing together collaborative efforts and diverse research methods aimed at the education and civic empowerment of the public. The activities will include twelve research topics, five conferences and workshops, including public lectures by prominent European experts, five exhibitions and three publications, including a final book and a web-site with extensive work-in-progress database accessible to the public. http://www.unfinishedmodernisations.net/pages/about-project-2
  

   
• Not by note Kulturno drustvo Codeep Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Slovenia
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  Not by note

  Organisation: Kulturno drustvo Codeep Countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Slovenia

  This project united musicians from South Eastern Europe and the Middle East to look for new ways of approaching the concepts of identity, religious or ethnic conflicts in art. The workshops were held in the historically significant town of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2010 and the outcome in form of a music piece was presented in the same year during the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Austria.

  http://musikprotokoll.orf.at/de/werk/not-by-note-installation

  
  

   
• Women and Performance Art in Eastern Europe from 60-ties to present – Live Art East Association for Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women Slovenia
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  Women and Performance Art in Eastern Europe from 60-ties to present – Live Art East

  Organisation: Association for Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women Countries: Slovenia

  The Live Art East conference (2010) and video archive (2009) offer a platform for re-evaluating, re-contextualizing and re-articulating performance art by woman in Eastern Europe. Although Eastern European artists nowadays participate in numerous international projects, a significant appraisal of feminist and performance art is lacking. The platform is not interested in simply presenting another compromised historical overview of the history of feminist art practice in Eastern Europe, instead it seeks primarily to present a conceptual framework for the understanding of various formats, contexts and conditions of production by women in contemporary art. http://www.cityofwomen.org/
  

   
• Reartikulacija/Rearticulation: Artistic – Political – Theoretical – Discursive Platform DRUŠTVO ZA SODOBNO KREATIVNOST HCHO Slovenia
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  Reartikulacija/Rearticulation: Artistic – Political – Theoretical – Discursive Platform

  Organisation: DRUŠTVO ZA SODOBNO KREATIVNOST HCHO Countries: Slovenia

  
  

   
• Balkan Film Bazaar Verein SOHO IN OTTAKRING Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia
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  Balkan Film Bazaar

  Organisation: Verein SOHO IN OTTAKRING Countries: Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia

  Accompanied by the photo exhibition Balkan Crossroads, this event presented short film productions from authors based in different Balkan countries to a broad Viennese audience. It was part of the well-known art festival Soho in Ottakring in 2010.

  http://www.sohoinottakring.at/blog/

  
  

   
• Summa cum Laude International Youth Music Festival Via Musica Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Poland, Kosovo, Hungary, Ukraine
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  Summa cum Laude International Youth Music Festival

  Organisation: Via Musica Countries: Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Poland, Kosovo, Hungary, Ukraine

  This important youth music festival, which takes place every summer in Wiener Musikverein under the patronage of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, unites for the fifth time a great number of enthusiastic and talented young people from different countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

  http://www.sclfestival.org/

  
  

   
• Renaming Machine P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Slovenia
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  Renaming Machine

  Organisation: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Countries: Slovenia

  The project The Renaming Machine looks at the complex entanglements involved in the political and cultural processes of renaming. Its main concept reflects the crucial need to question the way these processes have influenced the construction and destabilisation of the memory of national, cultural and personal identities in the former Yugoslavia and South-Eastern Europe over the past two decades. The project examines various artistic and cultural phenomena associated with the notions of “renaming” and “branding,” in order to determine the extent to which renaming affects visual culture and shapes the cultural identities and cultural politics of the region.

  http://www.zavod-parasite.si/

  
  

   
• Performing Visuality, Performing Life – archive of interdisciplinary art practices and social context in Slovenia from 60s to 80s MASKA, Institute for publishing, production and education Slovenia
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  Performing Visuality, Performing Life – archive of interdisciplinary art practices and social context in Slovenia from 60s to 80s

  Organisation: MASKA, Institute for publishing, production and education Countries: Slovenia

  This project archives, documents and analyses interdisciplinary art practices (visual and performance art, happenings, theatre, dance, and video art) within Slovenian culture and its socio-cultural context. It takes a systematic approach to identifying the contacts, collisions and intersections between diverse artistic disciplines and how these fit into a wider social, cultural and political frame. It also aims to solidify the activities of non-governmental organizations in Slovenia dealing with contemporary art, given the lack of institutions at the national level for investigating contemporary art history. The project seeks therefore to make visible the history of artistic creativity in Slovenia. http://www.maska.si/
  

   
• REARTIKULACIJA 2009/10/11 DRUŠTVO ZA SODOBNO KREATIVNOST HCHO Slovenia
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  REARTIKULACIJA 2009/10/11

  Organisation: DRUŠTVO ZA SODOBNO KREATIVNOST HCHO Countries: Slovenia

  The main purpose of the project is to open a wider space for radical critical discourses that are present in the region of South Eastern Europe and to link them with other similar projects in the world. The platform allows networking with other political subjects, activists, artists, who are interested in the possibility to create and maintain a dialogue with concrete social and political spaces in Slovenia, Europe and worldwide. It is organized on several levels: a production of journal and an online platform; creation, production and organisation of exhibitions, lectures, presentations; and production of artworks, documentaries, etc. The project is structured in a way that allows constant changing and upgrading of each issue/exhibition/lecture according to a specific context, but also due to the collaborators from Slovenia and abroad, who are given full autonomy based on their historical, political and artistic backgrounds. The project is of great significance since it covers a wide range of contemporary discourses that are normally excluded from every serious publication, but it gives voice to the marginal positions like radical critical art and theoretical practice, the gay theoretical scene, the project of de-coloniality, etc., too. http://www.reartikulacija.org/
  

   
• CODE:RED Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Albania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Serbia, Austria
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  CODE:RED

  Organisation: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Countries: Albania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Serbia, Austria

  The CODE:RED project implemented a new model of engaged artistic praxis. It serves as an open platform that through numerous series of projects explores and searches the potentiality of parallel models of various isolated groups, social minorities and human trade. This particular method of open collaborative work on equal partnership basis between artists and societal groups – is unique. The project has involved various cultural institutions (Sao Paulo Biennial, Tirana Biennial, Prague Biennial, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, APEX NY, Humboldt University, Berlin, October Salon, Belgrad, Gender Check, Vienna) sex worker's rights organisations (PONY, Hetaira, Davida, Maiz etc.) the general public and artists.

  
  

   
• 5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice” Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania
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  5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice”

  Organisation: Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Countries: Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania

  Twice a year Middle-South-East (MSE) meetings gather together leaders of art initiatives and institutions, curators from different countries, etc. with a focus on the Central and South Eastern European region to exchange knowledge, information and experiences and to discuss a specific topic. The 5th MSE meeting takes place in November 2008 in Ústí nad Labem (the Czech Republic) and focus on the idea of networking itself by discussing and comparing different conceptions of existing networks and the role they can play in developing projects among the participants in such networks. Therefore a number of representatives from other comparable networks, leaders of institutions and curators who work with ideas and structures triggered by networking are invited to join the meeting.