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The light-sound installation Portal by the authorial group Beam Team (Stella Ivšek, Anja Romih, Aleš Zupanc, Črt Trkman) at the 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival at Match Gallery, Ljubljana 2023. Author: DK

First held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival Lighting Detectives (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by Strip Core, otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of Forum Ljubljana.

The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.

Galerija za eno noč / One Night Gallery by Strip Core TV on YouTube

Venues, locations and collaborations

Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the "matter" of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the Match Gallery, Mala Galerija BS, the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kino Šiška, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, RogLab, Španski borci Culture Centre, Cirkulacija 2, the Slovene Academy of Science and Arts, etc., but most of the program takes place outdoor.

It is also sometimes venturing outside of Ljubljana, having its pre- and post-festival stops at the Simulaker Gallery in Novo Mesto, the Centralna postaja in Maribor, the Hrastnik Cultural Centre, Layer House in Kranj and some other places.

The festival has closely collaborated with festivals like the Spring Festival, the Strictly Analog Festival, the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Festival IZIS, CestaArt festival Gornja Radgona, R.o.R festival, SKLAD (Macedonia), Lumina (Portugal), Interference (Tunis), Visual festival (Finland), Visualia (Croatia), Art & Light festival (BiH), LAACT XXIII (Poland) … and institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Architecture, the Museum of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, etc. It has been a part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.

The project by students of the Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana - a spatial installation In a Vortex with light charting and adapted optical illusions. 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana. Author: DK

Light installation City – Sketch by artists Andrej Štular and Janez Grošelj at Lighting Guerrilla Festival in 2022, Ljubljana. Author: DK

The invited artists

Both local and international artists and producers are invited, in fact, many of them. Some of the attendees included Aleksandra Stratimirović (SE/RS), Alessandro Lupi (IT), Andrej Štular (SI), Artificiel (CA), Atsara (FR), Beam Team (SI), Bernard Murigneux (FR), Danilo Milovanović (SI), Dimitri Xenakis (FR), Erik Matrai (HU), Francois Donato (FR), Jakub Nepraš (CZ), Janez Grošelj (SI), Katja Paternoster (SI), Laurenz Theinert (DE), Leonid Tishkov (RU), Luka Savić (SI), Marko A. Kovačič (SI), Marko Batista (SI), Maro Avrabou (FR), Matej Bizovičar (SI), Matthieu Tercieux (FR), Max Sudhues (DE), Michael Candy (AU), Moritz Wehrmann (DE), NatanEsku (SI), Nika Erjavec (SI), Nicholas Bernier (CA), Tadej Droljc (SI), Tilen Sepič (SI), Sophie Guyot (CH), Robert Sochacki (PL), Stran22 (SI), and Tim Etchells (UK) …

Svetlobna gverila 22 / Lighting Guerrilla 22 by Strip Core TV on YouTube

External links

Gallery

Permanent installation Tree Particle by Boštjan Drinovec at the Lighting Park, a unique park-art ambiance formed by light artistic interventions outdoors. Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2016. Author: DK

Anchovies over Ljubljanica river by French collective Aerosculpture, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Laboratory of Water Glass and Light by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Secret Garden by Marjeta Zupančič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Greenhouse Effect by French atrists Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

The Dark Room by Swiss design studio Büro Destruct, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Trapollo HH 34 by Marko Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Lighting Guerrilla Festival instalation at Match Gallery. Recycling was the main theme of the Festival in 2009

Kind Spirits by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Nocturnal readings on the asphalt by Andrej Štular, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux located between the Dragon Bridge and Ljubljana Central Market at Vodnik Square, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

(Room)mates by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Closeup of (Room)mates project by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Personal readings by Spanish group Luzinterruptus, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Trap for readers by Marko Crnobrnja, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Human tiles by Ocubo projected on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Garland of 9 cars by French space designer Benedetto Bufalino, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Cellwise by Daan Brinkmann & Nenad Popov, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Visual piano by photographer and light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert from Germany, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Sparks of Prometheus by Marko A. Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Into the Blu, a light garden by the Swiss artist Sophie Guyot, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Šajn’n’flaj by Kaja Avberšek and Darja Osojnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Metascope by Boštjan Čadež, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Gravitational painting on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre by Portugese/Belgian duet Ocubo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Od oblike do oblike [Form from Form] in Match Gallery by Dan Adlešič, Tilen Sepič and Matic Potočnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival in co-production with Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, 2013

Fragments of the World, video installations showing animals captured in the urban world created by men, Vžigalica Gallery by Bertrand Gadenne, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Strašila [Scarecrows] by Marko A. Kovačič and Brane Ždralo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Soulshine guerrilla - lighting graffiti by Borut Bučinel at Glej Theatre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Svetlobni dom - light instalation by Sophie Guyot at Novi trg in front of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2014

The light-sound installation Portal by the authorial group Beam Team (Stella Ivšek, Anja Romih, Aleš Zupanc, Črt Trkman) at the 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival at Match Gallery, Ljubljana 2023. Author: DK

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-The [[Lighting Guerrilla Festival]] was initially started as a workshop at the festival "The Detectives of the Light" (Detektivi svetlobe); a mere one year later in [[established::2008]] it evolved into an exciting three-week spring event. The concept of light represents the main topic of events at the festival: from lectures, exhibitions and public interventions to installations and performances.
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+First held in [[established::2008]], the [[Lighting Guerrilla Festival|Lighting Guerrilla]] (''Svetlobna gverila'') is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival ''Lighting Detectives'' (''Detektivi svetlobe''), it is founded and run by [[Strip Core]], otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of [[Forum Ljubljana]].
+The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.
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-== Background, venues and locations ==
+{{YouTube|3Z7jRpWhTFw&t}}
+==Venues, locations and collaborations==
+Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the "matter" of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the [[Match Gallery]], [[Mala Galerija BS]], the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture|Kino Šiška]], the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], [[RogLab]], [[Španski borci Culture Centre]], [[Cirkulacija 2]], the [[Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts|Slovene Academy of Science and Arts]], etc., but most of the program takes place outdoor.
-The festival was founded by [[Strip Core]], the comic art production section of the organisation [[Forum Ljubljana]], and since its inception it explores the relations between light, the public and the gallery space.
+It is also sometimes venturing outside of Ljubljana, having its pre- and post-festival stops at the [[Simulaker Gallery]] in Novo Mesto, the [[Centralna postaja]] in Maribor, the [[Hrastnik Cultural Centre]], [[Layer House]] in Kranj and some other places.
-Since its beginnings it has grown quickly in size and scope, the events take place not only in Ljubljana art venues such as the [[Vžigalica Gallery]], the [[Tovarna Rog]], the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]], [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture|Kino Šiška]], and the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], but also in [[SI-4000 Kranj|Kranj]] and [[Municipality of Novo mesto|Novo mesto]].
+The festival has closely collaborated with festivals like the [[Spring Festival]], the [[Strictly Analog Festival]], the [[Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts]], [[Festival IZIS]], [[CestaArt]] festival Gornja Radgona, [[R.o.R]] festival, SKLAD (Macedonia), Lumina (Portugal), Interference (Tunis), Visual festival (Finland), Visualia (Croatia), Art & Light festival (BiH), LAACT XXIII (Poland) … and institutions such as the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]], the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Architecture]], the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]], [[Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana]], [[Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana]], etc. It has been a part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.
-The festival is known for its luminous exhibition objects presented with public interventions (including artists like [[Aleksandra Stratimirović]], [[Bernard Murigneux]], [[NatanEsku]], [[Benedetto Bufalino]], [[Sophie Guyot]], and many others) that take place at several site-specific locations: the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, Tivoli Park, streets and gardens around Ljubljana, etc.
+{{Image|Svetlobnagverila photoDK V Vrtincu 02.jpg}}
-== Collaborations and international cooperation ==
+{{Image|Svetlobnagverila photoDK MestoSkica 11.jpg}}
-The festival regularly invites local, regional, and international artists and producers. Since its inception, the festival is co-financed with the help of the [[Ministry of Culture]] and the [[Municipality of Ljubljana]]. Since 2009 the festival has also received some funds from the [[French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana|French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier]] and in 2008 the programme of the festival was presented at the Ljubljana [[Spring Festival]].
+== The invited artists ==
-In 2011, the relation between light and sound is explored together with 16 artists, institutions and producers, adding new dimensions and locations. In the Light and Sound edition new collaborations have been established with: the [[Koper Grammar School - Ginnasio Capodistria]], [[Cirkulacija 2]], the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]] and the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana|Faculty of Architecture]] at the [[University of Ljubljana]].
+Both local and international artists and producers are invited, in fact, many of them. Some of the attendees included Aleksandra Stratimirović (SE/RS), Alessandro Lupi (IT), Andrej Štular (SI), Artificiel (CA), Atsara (FR), Beam Team (SI), Bernard Murigneux (FR), Danilo Milovanović (SI), Dimitri Xenakis (FR), Erik Matrai (HU), Francois Donato (FR), Jakub Nepraš (CZ), Janez Grošelj (SI), Katja Paternoster (SI), Laurenz Theinert (DE), Leonid Tishkov (RU), Luka Savić (SI), Marko A. Kovačič (SI), Marko Batista (SI), Maro Avrabou (FR), Matej Bizovičar (SI), Matthieu Tercieux (FR), Max Sudhues (DE), Michael Candy (AU), Moritz Wehrmann (DE), NatanEsku (SI), Nika Erjavec (SI), Nicholas Bernier (CA), Tadej Droljc (SI), Tilen Sepič (SI), Sophie Guyot (CH), Robert Sochacki (PL), Stran22 (SI), and Tim Etchells (UK) …
+{{YouTube|rp_WOu-BoG0&t}}
 == See also ==
 * [[Strip Core]]
 * [[Forum Ljubljana]]
+* [[Strictly Analog Festival]]
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/ Lighting Guerrilla Festival website]
+*[http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/en Lighting Guerrilla Festival website]
-*[http://www.enlightermagazine.com/interviews/interview-stratimirovic Interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović ''Enlighter Magazine'', June 2008]
+*[https://www.slavorum.org/ljubljana-light-art-festival-will-turn-slovenian-capital-into-spectacular-bucket-list-destination About Lighting Guerrilla Festival in Slavorum, 2017]
-*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr4dt1P070 Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović] of [[vest.si]] on YouTube.com (in Slovenian)
+*[http://thelightdesign.ro/en/the-freedom-of-using-light-an-interview-with-the-light-artist-aleksandra-stratimirovic/ An interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović, cofounder of the LGF, Thelightdesign.ro, September 2016)]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr4dt1P070 Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović] (in Slovenian)
+*[https://arsphotonica.net/svetlobna-gverila-ljubljana-2023 ARS PHOTONICA – Texts on Light in Fine Art]
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Venues, locations and collaborations

The invited artists

See also

External links

Gallery

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