Culture of Slovenia
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Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025
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In this postcard celebrating Nova Gorica in the 1950s, we find many symbols of the city's identity that continue to mark it today.
Exhibitions to see
Biennial of Design (BIO)
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One of the Biennial of Design exhibitions, held at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019
Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2024
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25 May 2025
National Gallery of Slovenia will be collaborating with Viennese museum Belvedere in order to exhibit the best of Slovenian painting between 1848-1918 in the biggest exhibition of Slovenian art in Vienna to date: "The World in Colours. Slovenian Painting 1848-1918 - Svet v barvah. Slovensko slikarstvo 1848-1918".
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30 Jan 2025
9 Feb 2025
This year's festival will be including multiple films from Slovenian artists. "Common Pear - Navadna hruška" by director Gregor Božič and "Fiume o morte!" by Croatian director Igor Bezinović are produced by Nosorogi, and "Wind, Talk to Me" by Serbian director Stefan Đorđević, is co-produced by SPOK Films and Staragara. All three films were supported by Slovenian Film Centre. Two short films will also be shown at the festival, "Rumene zore" and "Upon sunrise", both co-produced by Slovenian studios.
at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
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15 Jun 2025
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp marked by the display of the one of the most powerful and beautiful paintings in the "We Are Not the Last" series by Zoran Mušič. Promoted by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Paris.
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1 Feb 2025
Saxophone Masters Gala Concert presented by foreign teachers of international master classes, featuring also Slovenian saxophone player Lev Pupis. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Bratislava.
at the Saxophobia Bratislava
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2 Feb 2025
A concert of over 100 saxophone orchestra and chamber ensembles from eleven countries, including Slovenia, with a soloist Lev Pupis (soprano saxophone). The programme presents the works by Ravel, Beethoven, Bumcke, Sibelius, Bokes, etc. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Bratislava.
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5 Feb 2025
The second part of the concert is performed by Sonus Ventis, featuring Hana Žvagen, Andrej Petreski, Manca Rozmarič, Kristina Klančar, Luna Vavourakis and Sofiia Chornei, students from the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana and coordinated by Professor Miha Rogina. Financed, organised and promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Sofia.
Festivals
The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.
Images
Museum of Modern Art is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Female nude, by Zdenko Kalin and Echo, by Karl Putrih.
The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014
Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015
The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016
Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011
Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775
The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.
A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011
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