Kapsula Gallery

Contact

Galerija Kapsula

Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.kapsula.si/

tpogacar@yahoo.com

Phone386 (0) 40 370 199, 386 (0) 1 232 2969

Managed byP.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute

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Opened in 2008 and located in the underground shopping arcade Podhod Ajdovščina in the Ljubljana centre till the end of 2011, the Kapsula Gallery, along with the P74 Centre and Gallery, is one of two branches of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute and functions as a project space and shop in the Šiška Cultural Quarter.

Apart from smaller exhibitions Kapsula offers multiples, artists' books, catalogues, and limited editions books of artist represented by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, which lately regularly visits international art fairs such as Viennafair and especially art fairs specialised in the promotion of artists' books such as the NY Art Book Fair (P.S.1, New York) or the International Art Book Fair MISS Read (KunstWerke, Berlin).

In February 2012 the gallery moved together with the P74 Centre and Gallery in the Šiška Cultural Quarter.

Offer

Kapsula Gallery offers art works or artist books by Tadej Pogačar and other Slovene artists, e.g. Mina Fina, Dejan Habicht, Tanja Lažetič, Boštjan Pucelj, Zora Stančić, Mladen Stropnik, Petra Varl) or Leon Zuodar, and features internationally acclaimed conceptual artists such as Mladen Stilinović, Dalibor Martinis, Sanja Iveković, Vlado Martek, Lala Raščić, Balint Szombathy and Dan Perjovschi. The publications include also authors as Miško Šuvaković, Julia Schaeffer, Suzana Milevska, Zdenka Badovinac as well as Temporary Services or Cluster: Dialectionary.

Exhibitions

At the beginning of its operation the Kapsula Gallery annually gave its podium to the project The Golden Thigh [Pri zlatem stegnu] of the Slovene artist group Mladen Stropnik, Nataša Skušek, and Katja Skušek. Beside periodical solo exhibitions like that of Rado Štrukelj in 2009 and those by Vigdis Storsveen, Beli sladoled group, Son:DA, and Jože Barši in 2010, the gallery cooperates with other visual arts events in Ljubljana. In collaboration with the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts it prepared the exhibition Heroes of the Sexual Revolution by Danish artist Jesper Fabricius.

Traditionally it cooperates with the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns: in 2009 it featured art works of Aprilija Lužar, Deej Fabyc, Tadej Pogačar, Duba Sambolec, in 2010 it presented the project ArtFem.TV of Evelin Stermitz.

Kapsula Gallery is one of the venues of the biennial Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book.

See also

• P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
• P74 Centre and Gallery
• Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book

External links

• Kapsula Project Space website

Gallery

Balint Szombathy, a performer, and Zdenka Badovinac, director of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Kapsula Gallery, 2008

Balint Szombathy, a conceptual artist from Vojvodina, performing Strogo zaupno ('Strictly confidential') in front of the Kapsula Gallery, 2008