Aksioma, Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Jakopičeva ulica 11, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 41 250 830
Aksioma Institute
From Culture.si
Contact
.svg)
Past events
-
to
13 Feb 2020
26 Apr 2020
Aksioma Institute presents Elisa Giardina Papa's work The Cleaning of Emotional Data in the frame of the group exhibition Algotaylorism,
-
to
1 Nov 2019
3 Nov 2019
All About You by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute, in the frame of the Gallery MLZ ART DEP presentation,
at the Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art
-
to
4 Oct 2019
11 Nov 2019
The group exhibition We're Not Like Them, featuring I ♡ Germany series by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute, and Newsreel 62 - Family and Worker by Nika Autor,
-
21 Sep 2019
The lecture by Sanela Jahić (Aksioma Institute), titled 1s and 0s, haves and have-nots, in the frame of the exhibition Through Other Eyes,
-
to
9 Sep 2019
30 Sep 2019
The exhibition And Now for Something Completely Different 10, featuring a kinetic installation Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? by Nika Oblak and Primož Novak, produced by Aksioma Institute and KIBLA Multimedia Centre, in the frame of the Crushing Hammers Exhibitions,
at the Cairo Video Festival
-
to
6 Sep 2019
7 Sep 2019
Boštjan Čadež (Aksioma Institute), Marko Batista, and Borut Savski (Cirkulacija 2)
at the 3N Fair: Abandon Normal Devices
-
to
5 Sep 2019
9 Sep 2019
Maja Smrekar's exhibition Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer, produced by Aksioma Institute, in the frame of the exhibition Postnature. The Future is Present; Star Valley by Marko Peljhan (Projekt Atol Institute, attending several panels) and Matthew Biederman; and the project Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator 2.0 by Robertina Šebjanič, also attending the panel Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Alive Biomedia Art,
at the Ars Electronica Festival Linz
-
to
4 Jul 2019
7 Jul 2019
Screenings of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute, in the framework of Simposio,
-
to
7 Mar 2019
22 Mar 2019
The exhibition Critical Engineering, co-produced by Aksioma Institute the framework of State Machines project,
-
to
18 Dec 2018
3 Feb 2019
The responsive kinetic installation Sonoseismic Earth by Saša Spačal and Ida Hišenfelder, produced by Aksioma Institute,
at the Device Art Festival
-
17 Nov 2018
The screening of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute,
-
to
24 Oct 2018
28 Oct 2018
The performative installation Red Web by Olja Grubić and Živa Petrič, co-produced by Aksioma Institute and City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture; the exhibition Rule 34 by Iza Pavlina, produced by Aksioma Institute; and the theatre performance 6, directed by Žiga Divjak and co-produced by Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Institute,
at the ZOOM Festival
-
6 Oct 2018
The lecture Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute) at the International Conference Concerning Matters and Truths,
-
to
15 Sep 2018
21 Oct 2018
Transnationalisms, a group exhibition in the framework of the EU project State Machines, co-produced by Aksioma Institute,
-
7 Sep 2018
Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) as speakers at the round table Across & Within Right-wing Extremism: Investigations and Interference at the conference Infiltration: Challenging Supremacism
-
to
4 Sep 2018
29 Sep 2018
AAVV All That Happens Must Be Known, an exhibition by Sara Bezovšek, Nika Ham, and Dorotea Škrabo, produced by Aksioma Institute,
-
to
13 Jul 2018
19 Aug 2018
The group exhibition Playbour: Work, Pleasure, Survival, featuring Sanela Jahić (Aksioma Institute),
-
10 Jul 2018
The talk with the artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) in the frame of their exhibition Un, uno, una
-
to
31 May 2018
31 Jul 2018
-
to
7 Apr 2018
24 May 2018
-
to
2 Mar 2018
3 Jun 2018
The 350 Janez Janša Bottles project detail by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) at the group exhibition Fake
-
to
15 Feb 2018
9 Mar 2018
New World Order, a group exhibition in the framework of the EU project State Machines, co-produced by Aksioma Institute,
-
to
27 Jan 2018
24 Mar 2018
Screenings of the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute, in the framework of the exhibition Ambiguous Bodies - Timeless Interpretations,
-
to
18 Jan 2018
2 Feb 2018
Maja Smrekar's exhibition Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer produced by Aksioma Institute and organised by Drugo more
-
23 Nov 2017
The screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), with director Janez Janša attending,
-
25 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša attended by the artists, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
-
to
20 Oct 2017
21 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša with Greek subtitles, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
-
1 Oct 2017
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
-
to
7 Sep 2017
22 Sep 2017
-
to
11 May 2017
25 May 2017
-
to
4 May 2017
9 May 2017
Neža Knez, Lucija Jankovec, Maja Hodošček, Olja Grubić, Kristina Aleksova and Živa Petrič, organised by the ŠKUC Association, coproduced by (Aksioma Institute), supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Tirana
at the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale
-
13 Mar 2017
Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute) at SUSMA! Art as Activism in Times of Political Silencing
-
to
11 Mar 2017
8 Apr 2017
Passports by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) at the group exhibition Make Truth Great Again
-
to
10 Mar 2017
11 Mar 2017
Name Readymade by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Maska Institute and Aksioma Institute), Psycho Geographic by Irwin, Protestival by Vuk Ćosić, and a screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at the meeting Strange Correspendences
-
2 Mar 2017
A screening of My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
-
to
10 Feb 2017
30 Apr 2017
Passports by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) at the group exhibition Go Canny!
-
to
16 Jan 2017
3 Mar 2018
-
to
10 Dec 2016
17 Dec 2016
A group exhibition featuring works by Irwin, the OHO Group, Matej Stupica and Lenka Đorojević presented by Galleria A plus A, and a screening of Ron’s Story, produced by the Aksioma Institute and Video Production Kregar Studio (VPK Studio), at the Venice International Art Performance Week
-
to
19 Nov 2016
18 Dec 2016
nEUROsis, a seminar and exhibition featuring Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute),
-
to
27 Oct 2016
3 Mar 2017
-
8 Jul 2016
A screening My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), at A Long Night of Eastern European Theatre
-
to
24 May 2016
26 May 2016
Survival Kit fort he Anthropocene, a solo exhibition by Maja Smrekar (Aksioma Institute), within the festival MusraraMix
-
to
29 Apr 2016
11 Jun 2016
-
to
7 Apr 2016
30 Apr 2016
The Black Chamber, a group exhibition produced in partnership with Aksioma Institute, at the Mine, Yours, Ours Festival
-
to
19 Feb 2016
1 May 2016
Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times, a group exhibition featuring Marriage Certificate by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute),
-
to
21 Jan 2016
6 Feb 2016
-
17 Dec 2015
A screening My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia),
-
9 Dec 2015
A screening of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, produced by Aksioma Institute and co-produced by Maska Institute and Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), and a Skype talk with Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute)
-
to
24 Sep 2015
17 Oct 2015
Credits by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša (Aksioma Institute) within the exhibition Self-managed Interest Community in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade
-
to
18 Sep 2015
20 Sep 2015
Projects Origami Space Race by Sašo Sedlaček (Aksioma Institute) and Spreadkom by BridA at the Abandon Normal Devices Festival,
Creed
Aksioma tends to engage in projects which utilise new technologies and reflect on the structures of the (post)modern society, as organised by technology itself. Focusing on artistic production that explores social and political concerns, it endorses practices which – for example – aim at rethinking, subverting or hacking the roles and narratives of mass media, using a variety of mediums to do so.
Though working primarily in the field of new media, or intermedia, art, the institute also produces and presents performing and visual arts works dealing with or commenting on contemporary and emerging technologies and their impact on society.
Projects
In light of more than the dozen (sometimes double that) productions, performances and exhibitions per year, one is hard-pressed to thoroughly sum up the directions explored by Aksioma.
Nevertheless, a very partial listing of its relatively recent projects can give a feel for the topics and means explored: Sonoseismic Earth (a responsive kinetic installation that presents Earth in the age of the Anthropocene); The World Without Us (a group exhibition at Match Gallery exploring "narratives on the age of non-human actors" and curated by Inke Arns); Random Darknet Shopper (a robot/software entity that randomly bought and ordered items on the Darknet); Joey Skaggs in Ljubljana (a visit by the notorious social activist, educator and prankster Joey Skaggs); All Work, No Play (an interactive exhibition of video games that make people critically engage with current socio-political issues); Eternal September (a group exhibition at Škuc Gallery on the relationships between professional art making and the rising tide of amateur cultural movements throughout the Web); and History of the Future (a cinematic archive/multi-media presentation of international science-fiction production and representations of possible realities of the future and the present).
Artists
Aksioma Institute tends to work with artists whose approach to new media is not just about technology but also about the issues that resonate with Aksioma's overarching concern. Of the Slovene artists, we can name the multimedia artist Sašo Sedlaček; the self-styled "pseudo-artist and intimate mobile communicator" Igor Štromajer (of the Intima Virtual Base); Neven Korda and his experimental video "theatre"; Marko Batista, a tech-mixed-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer; the interdisciplinary artist Maja Smrekar, the recipient of the Golden Nica 2017; Boštjan Čadež, creator of the interactive toy Line Rider, whose works merge virtual reality, artificial intelligence and robotics; and Sanela Jahić, whose works investigate the role of automation in work and creating art.
Just a few of the many international artists and collectives with whom Aksioma has collaborated are Jennifer Lyn Morone (US), Pinar Yoldas (TU), Jacob Appelbaum (US), !Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH/UK), Nicolas Maigret (FR), Molleindustria (IT), Golan Levin (US), Josef (Seppo) Gründler (AT), the Critical Engineering Working Group, and Michael Madsen (DN).
Janez Janša name change project
Aksioma has produced several projects by its director Janez Janša, formerly known as Davide Grassi. One very visible enterprise, initiated in 2007, was his official and permanent name change. Alongside two other artists, formerly known as Emil Hrvatin and Žiga Kariž, he took the name of the then prime minister.
Various projects have taken place in the framework of this project and the trio also presented the performance Signature Event Context on the Transmediale 2008 in Berlin. In the same year, the exhibition NAME – Readymade was featured at the steirischer herbst Festival of New Art in Graz. Since then, the Janez Janša name change project has also been presented in ArtLaboratoryBerlin, HONF laboratory Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. In 2012, Aksioma Institute ran the first successful crowdfunding project in Slovenia, which enabled the postproduction of the My Name Is Janez Janša documentary film. In 2017, the extremely well-attended retrospective exhibition Janez Janša®, curated by Domenico Quaranta, took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.
In December 2020, he changed his name again, this time to Janez Fakin Janša.
Publications
Aksioma frequently publishes texts on contemporary art in various formats, books, brochures and catalogues. As a rule, the publications are available to read both as free downloads or as paid print-on-demand. Usually, they are available either in English or as bilingual publications.
The titles include Mladen Dolar's What's in a Name and Domenico Quaranta's Beyond New Media Art; texts on the work of artists like Marko Batista and Sašo Sedlaček; The Pirate Book based on Nicolas Maigret's work (offering a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy); and many others.
Aksioma has also released some albums, among them, an album by the Bast collective Bast – Retinal Cirkus (2007) containing improvisations recorded at Klub Gromka.
Collaborations and partners
The Aksioma Institute collaborates as a producer and co-producer with numerous and diverse institutions. In Slovenia, among its frequent partners include Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, the KiBela Art Space, the Museum of Modern Art, Maska Institute, the Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Kapelica Gallery, Match Gallery, Bunker Institute, and the City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts.
International cooperation
In 2017, Aksioma received its second Creative Europe grant for the international cooperation project State Machines: Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation (2017–2019), featuring partners Drugo more udruge (HR), Furtherfield.org (UK), NeMe (CY), and Institute for Network Cultures (of the Stichting Hogeschool van Amsterdam, NL).
Aksioma also led the Creative Europe international cooperation project Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-digital Age (2014–2016), with partners Drugo more udruge (HR), Abandon Normal Devices (UK), d-i-n-a/The Influencers (ES) and Link Art Center (IT).
Aksioma was also a partner project ARSCOPE: Art-Science Co-Operation Environment (2011–2013) funded by the European programme Culture 2007–2013.
The institute has also worked with festivals and institutions abroad, among them the MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, MMSU – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rijeka (RE:akt!), the Institute FH JOANNEUM Graz (Brainloop), V:NM Festival in Graz, Kunsthaus Graz etc.
See also
External links
Projects
Gallery
![Janez Janša at his multimedia performance Vročica satelitne noči [Satellite Night Fever] in the Simulaker Gallery, 2007](/en/File:Aksioma_Institute_2007_Janez_Jansa_at_Satellite_Night_Fever_Photo_Borut_Peterlin.jpg)
... more about "Aksioma Institute"
2,002 +
The Aksioma Institute is a production and organisation unit for various endeavours in the field of contemporary art. +
The Aksioma Institute is a production and organisation unit for various endeavours in the field of contemporary art. +
Aksioma je neprofitna kulturna organizacija, aktivna na področju novomedijske umetnosti in raziskovalnih umetniških praks. +
EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki.
Categories:
- New media art
- Producers
- New media art producers
- Visual arts
- Visual arts producers
- Exhibition organisers
- EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)
- EU Culture funding recipient
- EU Creative Europe, Culture funding recipient
- Film producers
- KONS Platform
- New media art course and workshop organisers
- New media art education and research
.svg){kind=link}
.svg){kind=link}