Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
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20 Feb 2025
A joint exhibition by visual artists Small but dangers (the artistic duo of Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin Salči), and Špela Škulj. The exhibition is curated by Nina Skumavc. The opening will be enriched by a musical performance by Sabina Vostner. The exhibition is produced by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute's P74 Centre and Gallery.
Past Events
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10 Jan 2020
29 Feb 2020
The exhibition CODE:RED by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), co-produced by the P74 Centre and Gallery and City Art Gallery Ljubljana, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA),
23 Aug 2019
13 Sep 2019
The exhibition CODE:RED by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), co-produced by the P74 Centre and Gallery and City Art Gallery Ljubljana, as part of the European Capital of Culture Rijeka 2020,
28 Mar 2018
20 Apr 2018
Tadej Pogačar showcases his works in an exhibition Double (Spy) Game, co-organised by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute and P74 Centre and Gallery,
7 Mar 2018
11 Mar 2018
The P74 Centre and Gallery (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute) presents Tadej Pogačar at VOLTA New York Art Fair
22 Sep 2017
24 Sep 2017
13 Jun 2017
A presentation of the The Second Explosion - Slovene Art of the 1990s research project and book launch by artist and curator Tadej Pogačar and photographer Dejan Habicht, coorganised by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts and the educational program for young curators INCUBATOR,
12 Jun 2017
17 Jun 2017
25 Apr 2017
26 May 2017
9 Dec 2016
11 Dec 2016
The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute presents new editions of Slovene artist books
at the Friends with Books Art Book Fair
8 Oct 2016
18 Oct 2016
28 Jul 2016
9 Sep 2016
Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., an exhibition also featuring artist books by Dejan Habicht, Tanja Lažetić, and Tadej Pogačar, published by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
24 Feb 2016
28 Feb 2016
P74 Centre and Gallery at ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair with Polonca Lovšin, Uroš Potočnik and Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute)
12 Dec 2015
13 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015
31 Jan 2016
17 Sep 2015
20 Sep 2015
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute editions presentation, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington,
at the NY Art Book Fair
15 Apr 2015
19 Jun 2015
The exhibition György Kepes, The New Landscape also featuring a printed art intervention by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), the first issue of "The SP Files",
12 Mar 2015
7 May 2015
Artist’s books by Dejan Habicht, Tanja Lažetić, and Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute) at the exhibition Books & Co.
13 Dec 2014
14 Dec 2014
30 Sep 2014
A presentation of the artist's book 26 stages of erection by Dejan Habicht (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute) at Blind Date AFTER
26 Sep 2014
28 Sep 2014
30 May 2014
5 Sep 2014
18 Dec 2013
7 Jan 2014
Black on White, an exhibition of artists’ magazines and newspapers in Slovenia, organised by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, and Maribor Art Gallery,
6 May 2013
19 May 2013
The Big Archive, an exhibition by Tadej Pogačar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA)
23 Mar 2013
24 Mar 2013
5 Mar 2013
27 Apr 2013
Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., an exhibition also featuring artist books by Dejan Habicht, Tanja Lažetić, and Tadej Pogačar, published by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
1 Feb 2013
3 Feb 2013
10 Dec 2012
Kepes - Parazit, a lecture by Tadej Pogačar on the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA)
28 Sep 2012
30 Sep 2012
14 Sep 2012
16 Sep 2012
9 Aug 2012
12 Aug 2012
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute presenting an exhibition at the festival as part of the project Listening to the Audience (Tadej Pogačar and Uroš Legen)
at the AKTO Festival for Contemporary Arts
12 Jan 2012
CODE:RED publication by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute presented by Suzana Milevska, Tadej Pogačar, Pia Covre, Daniela Mannu and Carla Corso (Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute, Pordenone), supported by the Obalne galerije - Coastal Galleries,
25 Nov 2011
27 Nov 2011
13 Oct 2011
28 Oct 2011
4 Oct 2011
26 Feb 2012
ironapplause.net, international exhibition of Young Visual Artists Awards network with the participation of Luiza Margan, Miha Presker and Sašo Sedlaček from Slovenia and coorganised P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute that bestows the OHO Group Award,
29 Sep 2011
2 Oct 2011
17 Sep 2011
5 Feb 2012
15 Jun 2011
10 Jul 2011
21 Jan 2011
23 Jan 2011
5 Nov 2010
7 Nov 2010
23 Oct 2010
19 Aug 2010
19 Sep 2010
Background
The historical base for the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute was Tadej Pogačar's series of art projects that took place at the beginning of the 1990s, entitled the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1993, this was renamed as the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA). Since then, a number of further branches of the institute have been formed. The first among them was the P74 Centre and Gallery, opened in 1991 in Šentvid, a somewhat peripheral neighbourhood of Ljubljana. Later, in 2008, the Kapsula Gallery bookshop/project space was set up in an underground shopping arcade in the Ljubljana centre. Both galleries moved to the Šiška Cultural Quarter in 2012.
Tadej Pogačar
Tadej Pogačar (born in 1960) has exhibited his work at numerous renowned galleries and museums around the world – the MUMOK in Vienna, the San Francisco Art Institute, the NGBK in Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Central House of Artists in Moscow, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City, the Espaivisor – Visor Gallery in Valencia, and the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, to name just a few. He was also present at the biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, and Tirana, and at Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam. In 2014, a major retrospective exhibition about him and his P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art was set up by Moderna galerija (MG) in Ljubljana, and was later also shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Tadej has received a number of residencies and awards, among them, the György Kepes Research Scholarship and an award by M.I.T. Boston.
PMCA
The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA) functions as a virtual institution which exists without its own space – it rather settles into territories and networks of other institutions, operating according to the principles of new parasitism. Its operations (events, public interventions, performances, exhibitions, projections, etc.) are geared towards analysing and deconstructing the symbolic centres of power.
Very notable acts in this vein have been the reworking of the logotype of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the theft of the introductory speech of the director of the Guggenheim from its homepage. In its more recent collaborative projects, PMCA has also delved into artistic research and analysis of topics such as alternative urban strategies, parallel economies and human trafficking.
Projects and exhibitions
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. has realised numerous interventions into collections of other museums, including the collection of Ljubljana's Museum of Modern Art; Tretjak's African Collection at Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts; the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Naturmeuseum, Rotterdam; Műcsarnok, Budapest; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin; the Limerick City Gallery, Limerick; and the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
One of the more widely echoed projects of the PMCA was Kings of the Street (1995), a pioneering artistic collaboration with the homeless community in Ljubljana. Even more resounding was the collaborative transdisciplinary project CODE:RED (1999–2010), for which Pogačar was awarded the Rihard Jakopič Award in 2009 and about which a book was published in 2010. It comprehensively dealt with the phenomena of sex workers, and PMCA received international media attention with its 1st World Congress of Sex Workers at the 49th Venice Biennale and New Parasitism at the Padiglione dei Sex Worker in Giardini. It was also shown at a number of international events like the Manifesta 1 in Rotterdam (1996) and at the biennials in São Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, Prague and Tirana.
Publications
Among the numerous PMCA publications, one can mention 6 thematic editions of the Journal for Anthropology and New Parasitism, 2 editions of the thematic newspaper Sex Worker, and the 2007 overview about the work of PMCA, titled The Best is Yet to Come. It includes essays by Zdenka Badovinac, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Miško Šuvaković and Igor Zabel discussing the beginning of the PMCA, its strategies of parasitism and its historical and cultural significance, and situating the practice within the local and international contexts.
Artists' books
As of 2004, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute started to systematically support and popularise the production of artists' books and artist editions of both national and international authors. It has published the artists' books of many Slovenian authors, among them Matej Stupica, Jure Engelsberger, Zora Stančić, Dejan Habicht, Tadej Pogačar, Jaka Železnikar, Andreja Džakušič, Mina Fina, Mladen Stropnik, Petra Varl, as well as by internationally acclaimed artists such as Mladen Stilinović, Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Iveković, Vlado Martek, Balint Szombathy and Dan Perjovschi.
These books constitute the core of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute collection. Yet, since 2005, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute has also acquired (by exchange or purchase) more than 170 other artists' books from all over the world. The books are occasionally featured at events prepared by P74 and Kapsula.
Since 2009, the institute presents and sells artists' books at international art fairs such as the Miss Read in the Kunstwerke Berlin and the NY Art Book Fair in P.S.1, Centre of Contemporary Arts as well as fairs in Los Angeles, Paris and Brussels. Some of the books have been included in the artists' books collections of eminent institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, the South End University in London and the CNEAI Paris. They can also be purchased in specialised bookshops such as Boekie.Woekie (Amsterdam), Pro-qm and Motto (Berlin), Printed Matter (New York), Castilo-Coralles and Florence Loewy (Paris).
The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute organised several seminars about artists' books, during which many authors offered their theoretical or practical views on the topic. Among these authors were the Croatian artist Vlado Martek, the British artist and publisher Anthony Auerbach, and the Slovenian artist Marko Pogačnik, a member of the avant-garde group OHO, in which he established the artists' book concept under the name OHO editions (1965–1968).
Artists representation
The P74 Gallery is very active at international art fairs, mostly representing artist dealing with either new media or visual arts. Among them are Tomaž Furlan, Dejan Habicht, Polonca Lovšin, Uroš Potocnik, Jože Barši, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinovic and Balint Szombathy.
In recent years, P74 was present at fairs such as ViennaContemporary, VOLTA (Basel), ARCOmadrid, Art Rotterdam, VOLTA NY, Art Market Budapest, etc.
Sound Explicit
In 2003, the institute introduced a new series of music events, first held at the P74 Centre and Gallery premises. As of 2011, the Sound Explicit Festival has moved to the Jakopič Gallery, where it takes place each September or October. The festival is dedicated to experimental and improvised music by Slovenian artists, though it is occasionally also featuring international guests.
Open calls for artists
Foremost of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.'s open calls is the one for the OHO Group Award, which is annually awarded to a young Slovenian artist under the age of 35. The institute organises it in cooperation with the Foundation for a Civil Society from New York and sends the winners there for a two-month residency.
Additionally, the institute also regularly invites local and international artists to express themselves by artist's books, video pieces or various new media formats. Since 2008 the institute also makes a public call for artists to create short, 5-minute videos and organises the International Biennial of Short Video.
See also
- P74 Centre and Gallery
- Kapsula Gallery
- OHO Group Award
- Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book
- Sound Explicit Festival
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