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Past events
28 Jun 2014
31 Oct 2014
RussiaSaint PetersburgThe State Hermitage MuseumEuropean Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta
12 Sep 2014
13 Sep 2014
United KingdomLondonThe Laurie Grove Studio Theatre (Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance)
Room & Road, a dance performance choreographed by Mateja Bučar, produced by the DUM Association of Artists and co-produced by Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in London,
25 Mar 2014
27 Mar 2014
United KingdomLondonTrinity Laban Conservatory of Dance and Music
Reserch project Aesthetic Negativity and Choreograohic Practice by Mateja Bučar, DUM Association of Artists
Contemporary dance production
DUM Association of Artists was co-founded by choreographer and dancer Mateja Bučar. After graduating from Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory and the Rosella Hightower Dance Centre in Cannes, France, she joined the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana and subsequently Dance Theatre Ljubljana. Since 1996, she has choreographed numerous performances and received the Ksenija Hribar Award for life time achievement in 2017.
In developing her work, Mateja Bučar regularly collaborates with philosophers and theorists Renata Salecl and Robert Phaller, visual artist Vadim Fiskin, and a number of established contemporary dancers, including Magdalena Reiter, Katja Legin, Maja Kalafatić, Kaja Lorenci, etc. Since 2010, she has been developing urban choreographies (Green Light, The Unnoticed, Green Table, Dual - Dancers Without Answers) in co-production with Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture. Her earlier works were co-produced by Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, and Škuc Gallery.
In 2025, Mateja Bučar received the Prešeren Award for the lifetime achievement, Slovenia's highest honor for artistic excellence.
Visual arts and new media art production
In the period 2004–2007, DUM ran a gallery space that now features as the Gregor Podnar Gallery located in Vienna.
The DUM Project Space hosts sporadic yet high quality exhibitions dedicated to experimental and neo-conceptual visual arts practices. In the past the programme was curated by Gregor Podnar, Tevž Logar and Vladimir Vidmar. DUM features also as a coproduction space for independent non-commercial art projects.
Since 2012 DUM organises a well-attended discursive programme dedicated to the interpretation of individual contemporary artworks How Art Matters. And How it Means.