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Audiovisual Training and Networking

Sabina Briški Karlić

The cultural and creative sectors (CCS), including film and audiovisual, have been amongst the hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis, which has also accelerated the existing trends in AV training and capacity building. The Motovila team explored how three Creative Europe co-funded AV training programmes for project development (with important connections to Slovenia) have been dealing with the sudden changes and effects imposed by the turbulent events of 2020.

Architecture

Residencies at Center Rog

Center Rog offers three separate residence opportunities. "The Designer in Residency" and "Makers in Residency" schemes invite international artists from the field of design, architecture, craft, and related disciplines for 3–6-month-long residencies that address with specific issues, e.g., overheating of urban environments or relationships with non-human agents.

For more information about participating, see the Artist-in-Residence Programmes Infographics.

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Dance

Kamnik Cultural AiR Programme

Kamnik Cultural AiR Programme was established in 2020 in Mekinje Monastery in the city of Kamnik. In 2016, the Ursuline sisters donated the Mekinje Monastery to the Municipality of Kamnik. Over the course of five years, 19 rooms were established within the monastery, enabling the development of art residency programmes.

For more information about participating, see the Artist-in-Residence Programmes Infographics.

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Design

Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design

The first Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design was organised by the Brumen Foundation in November 2003 at the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana.

Since then the biennial has become a notable and respected event to evaluate and award Slovenian design in about seven categories. The biennial has come to provide a specialised and expert-based overview of the field of visual communication for Slovenian designers and design firms.

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Film

Paving the Way for Green Animation and a Co-Development Mechanism

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Literature

Branislava Sušnik Humanities Residency

Branislava Sušnik Humanities Residency was established in 2022 by Malinc Publishing House. It is intended for Spanish-speaking female researchers and/or artists who wish to carry out a research project related to the Slovenian-Paraguayan anthropologist Branislava Sušnik and/or her place of birth. The residency lasts two weeks and takes place in a renovated farmstead that is relatively remote and not accessible by public transport. For this reason, the resident is provided with an electric car, supplied by the partner organisation Sotočje Public Institution. Other costs that are covered in the framework of the residency include travel costs, local transport, accommodation and food. The candidates can apply through a regular open call that is published once a year.

For more information about participating, see the Artist-in-Residence Programmes Infographics.

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Music

Ljubljana Festival

Taking place from the end of June to the end of September, Ljubljana Festival is the main summer festival in Ljubljana and certainly amongst the bigger ones in the wider region. A renowned and highly ambitious international festival offers a variety of music, theatre and dance performances by leading international as well as domestic artists, ranging from concerts of classical, ethno, rock and jazz music, to performances of opera, theatre and ballet.

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New media art

RadioCona

radioCona is a temporary radio project for contemporary arts established in 2008 by Cona Institute, an institute for contemporary arts processing. The radio has become an important agent in claiming public radio-frequency space for artistic and broader social contexts. It runs an occasional innovative programme of its own production and serves as a common platform for various contemporary visual or performing arts events in Ljubljana.

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Theatre

GVR babaLAN Institute

GVR babaLAN Institute for Contemporary Arts is a producer of polymedia art, established in 1992 by Vlado G. Repnik. A vehicle for the work of the theatre director, painter and multimedia artist Vlado Repnik, the institute has focused on the production of authorial theatre projects, later on also internet and new media projects as well as interventions in the public space.

Since 2015 the GVR babaLan projects have been coproduced by Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (Kam pa kam?, Luftballett), or KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor (Caravaggio, Situation Map, The Witness).

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Visual arts

AIR Celeia

Since 2005, the AIR Celeia Artist-in-Residence programme for international artists and curators has been run by the Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, which since 2025 is a part of the Celje Regional Museum. It is based on inter-disciplinarity and participation, with the aim of building a dialogue and cooperation between foreign and local artists and curators as well as between art and the broader community.

For more information about participating, see the Artist-in-Residence Programmes Infographics.

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Intangible heritage

Audiovisual Laboratory, Institute of Slovene Ethnology

Established in 1983, the Audiovisual Laboratory (AVL) of the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts has since 1999 made up a part of the Institute of Slovene Ethnology. The laboratory engages in visual documentation of culture and studies in visual communication and manifestations of culture. Its holdings comprise around 650 items of video documentation, 28 video films, and 102 items of edited material covering primarily regional ethnology.

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Monuments and sites

Miner's House - Ethnological Collection

The Miner's House and its ethnological collection in Idrija shows the household and living conditions of miners and their families in the past. Men in Idrija worked almost exclusively as miners in the Idrija Mercury Mine; women were housewives, taking care of the children and trying to earn additional money with various domestic jobs, typically from knitting and making Idrija bobbin-lace. Most families could not afford to have their own house but were usually tenants in private homes and, after 1870, resided in apartment blocks called prhauzi.

The Miner's House was built at the end of the 18th century and has preserved the main features of typical Idrija architecture. After undergoing extensive renovation in the 1990s, the house is today protected as a cultural monument and administered by the Idrija Municipal Museum. The furniture and tools of the household date back to the first half of the 20th century.

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Museums

Museum of Slovene Police

The history of the Museum of Slovene Police dates back to the year 1920. In 1971 its first professional curator, art historian Biserka Debeljak developed an intriguing display based on the methodologies of dealing with different aspects of crime in the society. Thus the museum is often considered as the Museum of Criminalistics. The Museum of Slovene Police is a member of the Association of Slovene Museums.

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Producers

SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts

Established in 2000, SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts (a successor to the Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana, 1993–1999) is a generator of innovative programmes and services that facilitate artistic and interpretative practices. Its diverse activities address artists, curators, theorists, and critics in the fields of visual and new media arts. They trigger discursive and social practices and are rooted in the interdisciplinary approach and intense international cooperation. SCCA-Ljubljana divides its programme into four complementary areas: projects, video/archive, school and services.

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Venues

Nova Gorica Arts Centre

The Nova Gorica Arts Centre (Kulturni dom Nova Gorica) was opened as a regional cultural and community centre back in 1980. Besides being a prominent concert and film theatre venue, it is nowadays also the most important concert producer for classical and early music in Western Slovenia. Besides using its own two event halls, the Arts Centre often sets up concerts at other venues, most regularly at the Kromberk Castle and the Franciscan Monastery at Kostanjevica, a hill just above Nova Gorica.

Its visual arts branch, the Nova Gorica City Gallery, is located within the Nova Gorica theatre building complex. The Arts Centre organises a range of other programmes, including the Pixxelpoint International Festival of Computer Art, the October Jazz festival, the International Saxophone Meeting and the Flores Musicae Festival of mediaeval and renaissance music. All in all, the Nova Gorica Arts Centre organises more than 500 events with almost 65,000 visitors per year.

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Festivals

Club Marathon

Radio Študent (RŠ) started its project Klubski maraton, or Club Marathon in 2001. Since then, the Club Marathon has worked to support and promote the domestic musical scene, opening itself to a wide range of genres and creating opportunities for the entire range of independent, alternative musical production.

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Castles

Zaprice Castle

The Zaprice Castle, first indirectly mentioned in 1306, was originally constructed in the 14th century by the Dienger von Apecz family. It was rebuilt in the early 16th century by Jurij pl. Lamberg who embellished it with corner oriel windows, surrounded it with a wall with two towers, and gave it a German name: Steinbüchel. The castle is subsequently remembered as a meeting place for Kamnik's Lutherans. During the 17th and 18th century the castle was rebuilt in Baroque style and enlarged into a more comfortable residential building. The Kamnik Intermunicipal Museum was opened within the castle in 1961. The castle's salon was renovated in 1997 and serves as a venue for openings, lectures, concerts, and symposia.

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Funding

Italian Cultural Institute, Ljubljana

Established in 2001, the Italian Cultural Institute in Slovenia – Istituto Italiano di Cultura – is a cultural arm of the Italian Foreign Ministry and has a mission to promote the Italian language and culture in Slovenia.

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Education

University of Nova Gorica

The University of Nova Gorica, the fourth university to be founded in Slovenia, was established in 2006 on the foundations of the former Nova Gorica Polytechnic. The latter grew out of the School of Environmental Sciences, the first international graduate school in Slovenia, which was founded in 1995 by the Municipality of Nova Gorica and the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

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Residencies in Slovenia

La fabrique des résidences

The art residency programme La fabrique des résidences was established in 2025 by Ljubljana, UNESCO City of literature in collaboration with the French Institute in Slovenia and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée in Angoulême. The aim of the programme is to offer residency opportunities to the comic book creators who are often excluded from literature-related open calls and to strengthen cooperation between Ljubljana and Angoulême as the two Cities of Literature.

For more information about participating, see the Artist-in-Residence Programmes Infographics.

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Media

Slovenia Times

Launched in March 2003, The Slovenia Times is a monthly English-language magazine which covers all aspects of Slovene society, from business and social topics to culture and sports, however its main focus is economy with a special emphasis on foreign direct investment. Its print-run is 10,000 copies, distributed at Ljubljana Airport, hotels, conferences, on Adria Airways flights, as well as to individual and corporate subscribers around the world.

The website provides daily news in English. Around 75 per cent of the readership are foreigners: business people and diplomats living in Slovenia, while the remaining 25 per cent comprises Slovene business people.

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Libraries

Jože Goričar Central Social Sciences Library, University of Ljubljana

Established in 1985, the Jože Goričar Central Social Sciences Library facilitates and supports teaching, study, and research in the social sciences. Named after prominent Slovenian sociologist Jože Goričar, it is located on the first floor of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. In addition to lending library material, members are welcome to use the reading room which spans on 1000 m2 and houses over 44,000 units in free access, 178 seats and thirty-two PC workstations and eight carrels. In 2009 they opened another 137 m2 large international reading room, where students have space for group work, meetings, videoconferencing and relaxation.

The library compiles its own databases which encompass faculty theses and Slovene social sciences articles. In 1993 it was the first library of University of Ljubljana to include its holdings in COBISS - Slovene Virtual Library catalogue and since 1995 library's lending system is supported by a computer system. Since JGCSS is a hybrid library, members may also access a wide array of e-journal and e-book databases, for example, Sage Journals Online, Ingenta Connect, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, OCLC ECO, PSycArticles, and NetLibrary. Library staff also provide information retrieval services, bibliography searches and creation, and various forms of education.

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Aškerc Award

The Aškerc Award for outstanding achievements in archival science and in the popularisation of archival activities was launched in 2002 by the Archival Association of Slovenia (AAS).

The Aškerc Award is given to individuals for lifetime achievement or to institutions in archival science for outstanding contributions to the promotion and development of archival science in Slovenia and abroad. Individuals of merit can also receive the award for multi-annual activity in the Archival Association of Slovenia (AAS). In addition, the society recognises important contribution to archival science in the past year to a non-member or sponsor.

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Web resources

Slovenia.si

Slovenia.si of the Government Communication Office is an official gateway to information on Slovenia. It offers links to the main English language Web information resources about Slovenia from the fields of culture, media, economy, education, science, tourism, and sport.

Slovenia.si has a multimedia archive which offers an exclusive stock of landscapes and town vedute of Slovenia by Barbara Jakše Jeršič and Stane Jeršič as well as photographs showing Slovene natural and cultural heritage by other photographers. The archive is available free of charge for promotional purposes.

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