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 and established as the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts. Since 2025 the Centre operates within the Celje Regional Museum and was renamed as Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje.
Mission
The Centre for Contemporary Arts initiates, develops, and promotes contemporary visual arts in the local, regional, and international context, as well as re-articulates and re-contextualises the heritage of local conceptual and post-conceptual practices that make the foundations of the centre's activity.
Situated only one hour from the capital city of Ljubljana, and one of the most representative institutions for the production and display of contemporary visual arts in the Štajerska region, the Centre for Contemporary Arts represents a creative hub devoted to arts, culture and theory. Under the auspices of the Municipality of Celje the Centre for Contemporary Arts has been actively engaged in project-based cultural programming in cooperation with partners across the region and beyond.
One of the strengths of the Centre for Contemporary Arts is a continuous collaborative approach that strives to connect other cultural institutions and venues in the city thus introducing contemporary arts to larger audiences. It often 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 regularly cooperates with the Celje Visual Artists Association and facilitates their annual Free Entrance [Vstop prost] site-specific arts festival.
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 (still prior to the reorganisation of the public institute). The provocative concept derived from the gap between the internationally acclaimed post-feminist theories and the lack of gender-related or feminist art in the local context. This type of exhibition continued with 2 international exhibitions, curated by Irena Čerčnik – Forbidden Death (2009) and Continuity (2011).
Since 2008 a special attention is directed also towards emerging visual artists in the format of a thematic triennial based on public call. The Premiere Triennial of Young Artists (short Premiere Triennial) usually gives floor to some 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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