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Biennial of Textile Art BIEN

BIEN is an art exhibition focusing on textile art and other related fields. It promotes interdisciplinary collaborations, organises residencies, and presents works by international and domestic artists, putting special emphasis on outstanding works by Slovenian and international students. BIEN is an initiative of Carnica Institute from Kranj. The first editions were organised in Kranj, but in 2023 the biennial already included four Slovenian cities (Kranj, Škofja Loka, Jesenice and Nova Gorica).

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Details of the artwork Reflections (2023) by the students of the Faculty of Design in Ljubljana, which was exhibited in the castle garden at the Škofja Loka Museum as part of BIEN 2023.

Glasbe sveta

Glasbe sveta/Musiche dal mondo is an international cross-border music festival, which connects the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica and the Italian city of Gorizia. The festival focuses on various global musical expressions from the spheres of "world music", jazz, soul, funk, rock and more.

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The highly energetic performance of the Tuareg songwriter and musician Mdou Moctar at Kromberk Castle during Glasbe sveta 2022.

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Festivals

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows more than 100 festivals in 2023.

Explore all the upcoming festivals at the interactive Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

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The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.

Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2023

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  Serbia Novi Sad Serbian National Theatre

  
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  A live performance of "Amadeus", a pseudobiographic drama about Mozart by Peter Shaffer, directed by Aleksandar Popovski. Produced by Slovene National Theatre Maribor.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Poland Gdansk

  
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  A performance of "100 Toasts - Sto zdravic", a collective celebration of what we love, what we think is great and what we do not accept. Written and choreographed by Anita Wach and Bojan Jablanovec, produced by Via Negativa and coproduced by Festival Maat Lublin and Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne Warszawa.

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  Italy San Floriano del Collio/Števerjan S. K. P. D. "F. B. Sedej"

  
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  A performance of "A Drop of Salt - Kaplja soli", a spoken tale about the sea, the salt and the myths surrounding both. Based on the poetry of Edelman Jurinčič, with original music by Andrejka Možina and conceptualised by Patrizia Jurinčič Finžgar. Produced by Slovene Permanent Theatre in Trieste.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Museum of Modern Art is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

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  Female nude, by Zdenko Kalin and Echo, by Karl Putrih.

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  The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014

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  Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015

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  The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016

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  Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

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  Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775

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  The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.

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  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

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In Focus

Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

In October 2023, Slovenia is the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books, under the slogan "Honeycomb of Words". Slovenia's exposure at the Frankfurt Book Fair is an opportunity to strengthen the export potential of national book creativity in the field of literature and illustration, meanwhile the effects can be seen in both the cultural and tourism sector.

Slovenian Book Agency is in charge of the project organisation. It has already intensified the translation of Slovenian books, mostly to German. The program has been curated by Miha Kovač and Matthias Göritz.

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Slovenian pavilion, designed by Studio Sadar, Studio Kruh, AA, Eva Petrič (ceiling instalation)

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Fields of Experimental Music in Slovenia

Luka T. Zagoričnik

Let's take a ride on the term experimental music, which currently mainly defines certain more fringe musical practices, across the expanses of various musical plains, styles and genres. We can apply this (overly) broad term to designate the varied creative simmering in certain segments of the present-day Slovenian music scene. A scene that spans the realms of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music in the context of modern classical music, free improvisation, experimental electronic music and sound art as well as their associated present-day trends. This scene is diverse and exceptionally agile. It has developed a strong infrastructure for itself (festivals, concert series, labels, international networks) and exists in the space between self-organising and DIY models and institutional environments.

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Žarkolom, Tadej Droljc at Lunchmeat Festival, 2020

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