Center za sodobno umetnost Celje
Trg celjskih knezov 8, SI-3000 Celje
Phone386 (0) 3 426 5156
Founded byMunicipality of Celje
Managed byCelje Regional Museum
Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts
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Background
In 2005, the management of the existing municipal art galleries in Celje was merged with the Centre for Tourist Promotion and the Event Centre public institute to form the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts. Since 2025, the Centre has operated within the Celje Regional Museum under the name Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje.
Mission
The Centre for Contemporary Arts initiates, develops, and promotes contemporary visual arts in local, regional, and international contexts, while re-articulating and re-contextualising the heritage of local conceptual and post-conceptual practices that underpin the centre's activity.
Located just an hour from Ljubljana and one of the most representative institutions for the production and display of contemporary visual arts in the Štajerska region, the Centre is a creative hub devoted to arts, culture, and theory. Under the auspices of the Municipality of Celje, it has been actively engaged in project-based cultural programming in cooperation with partners across the region and beyond.
One of the Centre's strengths is its continuous collaborative approach, connecting cultural institutions and venues across the city to bring contemporary arts to wider audiences. It frequently works with site-specific spaces such as the Roman Lapidary of the Celje Regional Museum, the Celje Ducal Court, or St Elisabeth's Chapel. The Centre also cooperates regularly with the Celje Visual Artists Association and facilitates their annual site-specific arts festival Free Entrance [Vstop prost].
Programme
Although each of its venues has a focused curated programme, the Centre for Contemporary Arts occasionally orchestrates a larger contemporary arts event in Celje. One of the first international curated exhibitions on a larger scale was The Male [Moški], curated by Irena Čerčnik and Nevenka Šivavec in 2001, prior to the reorganisation of the public institute. Its provocative concept grew out of the gap between internationally acclaimed post-feminist theories and the relative absence of gender-related or feminist art in the local context. This curatorial strand continued with two further international exhibitions by Irena Čerčnik – Forbidden Death (2009) and Continuity (2011).
Since 2008, special attention has also been directed towards emerging visual artists through a thematic triennial based on an open call. The Premiere Triennial of Young Artists (or Premiere Triennial for short) typically presents around 20 Slovenian artists.
See also
- Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art
- Likovni salon Celje
- Račka Gallery of Erotic Art
- AiR Celeia Celje
- Celje Regional Museum
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