World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts

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Svet umetnosti

Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.worldofart.org

svetumetnosti@scca-ljubljana.si

Phone386 (0) 1 431 8385

ProprietorSCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts

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Past Events

• 8 Jun 2015

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  10 Jun 2015

  China Ningbo Ningbo Museum of Art

  
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  A presentation of DIVA Station and World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts by Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and an exhibition featuring the works of artist Petra Varl at the 2nd CEE Countries Contemporary Art Works Exhibition and CEE Countries Art Museums Curator Forum

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 10 May 2012

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  11 May 2012

  Austria Vienna University of Applied Arts Vienna

  
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  Saša Nabergoj from World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts at Applied Exhibiting international conference

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 25 Aug 2011

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  4 Sep 2011

  Armenia Yerevan

  
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  Saša Nabergoj, head of the World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts lectures on laziness and participates at the Summer Seminars for Art Curators

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Run by the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, the annual World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts is the sole programme in Slovenia and a pioneering one in the broader region of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe which offers practical and theoretical education in the field of contemporary art. Introduced in 1997 it is based on a premise that future experts (critics and curators) need and should be taught the necessary skills and methods to gain knowledge of the critical and theoretical apparatus to self-confidently approach the complex matter of the world of art.

Programme

The annual programme comprises two semesters, the first one is more theory oriented, the second one is practical and is dedicated to the conceptualisation and realisation of a student-curated exhibition of contemporary art under the guidance of the programme tutors. The exhibition is also accompanied by a catalogue including texts written by the students.

The thirteenth version (2010/2011) will feature an exhibition at the Alkatraz Gallery, one of partners of the school. The current programme began in April 2010 and contains 11 students working with tutors Nevenka Šivavec and Jože Barši, along with Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik, Branislav Dimitrijević, Neven Korda, Petja Grafenauer, and Suzana Milevska as workshop tutors and Jana Intihar Ferjan, Alenka Pirman, Branka Stipančić, Miško Šuvaković, and Rebeka Vidrih as lecturers.

Within lectures of the spring semester (April–June) the latest edition in 2010 offers also an overview of 20th-century artistic practices, trends, socio-political contexts and key shifts in the understanding, thematisation, analysis and historical positioning of fine arts. Beside paying attention to the lectures on the structure of the art system in Slovenia and its correspondence with the international context, the World of the Art also opens topics of video as a tool and strategy of artistic expression. Beside visits of exhibitions and artists studios the school offers also the workshop to improve and familiarise the students with the history and theory of art criticism and curatorial concepts.

Partners

In addition to Alkatraz Gallery which features the final exhibition of the school in 2011, gallery partners of past editions were ŠKUC Gallery and Kapelica Gallery) in Ljubljana. Additional lectures were also held in Nova Gorica Arts Centre and Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art. In the latest edition World of Art also collaborates with the Department of Art History at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. Internationally the school collaborates with Croatian curator Sabina Salamon and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka (Croatia), and with the ECM, educating, curating and managing studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria).

See also

• SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts
• SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts Library
• SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts Project Room

External links

• World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts website