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The city of Maribor won the prestigious European Capital of Culture title in 2008 with an ambitious regional proposal that mobilised 5 partner cities in Slovenia (Murska Sobota, Ptuj, Slovenj Gradec, Novo mesto and Velenje). Some of the programme will be co-organised with the Portuguese town of Guimarães, another European Capital of Culture in 2012.

Animated Maribor European Capital of Culture 2012 opening banner, 250 x 100 px

Infrastructural investments

The seat of the Maribor 2012 Public Institute is situated in the recently renovated Vetrinje Mansion (Naskov dvorec) in the very heart of the city. The architects Maruša Zorec and Matjaž Bolčina won the 2010 Piranesi Award for its renovation.

At first the City of Maribor gave the leading position to the new Maribor Cultural Centre (MAKS), which is to be erected on the grounds of the former knitting factory in the Studenci area. The plans for this edifice with its 2-multi-purpose halls for 650 visitors each were made by SADAR + VUGA Architects. According to the current plans the cultural centre will comprise also the new premises fo the Maribor Art Gallery.

Programme

The programme of the Cultural Capital of Europe 2012 will be opened with Marij Kogoj's opera Black Masks (written in 1924–1927), directed by Janez Burger and performed by the joint ensembles of the Maribor and Ljubljana National Theatres.

The Cultural Capital's programme highlights also the performances by the so-called Maribor Directing School (Tomaž Pandur, Jernej Lorenci, Matjaž Latin, and Sebastijan Horvat). It will, however, also include inventive urban projects such as "social ecology" or "militant research" in the suburbs and a new installation of the Maribor Regional Museum's permanent collection.

The programme has been divided into four strands: Terminal 12 (led by Aleš Šteger), Town Keys (led by Boris Cizej), Urban Furrows (led by Marta Gregorič), and LifeTouch (led by Aleš Čar).

Featured international artists

Within the Terminal 12 programme strand each month in 2012 Maribor will host one of the prominent international guests, among them Charles Simic, Boris Groys, Jan Fabre, Rebecca Horn, Vikas Swarup, Tzvetan Todorov, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Partner cities

The partner cities have already announced some of the highlights in their programmes. In February 2012 the city of Ptuj will organise a world mardi-gras EtnoFest and the Ptuj Regional Museum is preparing for the 4th World Congress of Archaeologists. Ptuj will host also the traditional Days of Poetry and Wine Festival.

Slovenj Gradec plans the opening of the museum and documentation centre of the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf and an ambitious performance based on his lieder, accompanied by the first international workshop on classical solo singing.

Murska Sobota will feature dance through the enhanced international Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival, the mining town of Velenje, however, will produce an underground spectacle featuring Laibach music group.

Partners

The international programming in 2012 is going to be supported also by cultural centres located in Slovenia, for instance the Goethe-Institut Ljubljana.

External links

ECoC Maribor online content

Critical reviews

Zofijini in EPK (in Slovenian)
Raw Energy Manifesto (2009, in Slovenian)

ECoC references

ECoC MB 2012 in media

Gallery

The Village, exhibition by Markku Haanpää, artist in residence at Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

The Way of the Rider, a grand equestrian theatre spectacle by Bartabas, founder of Académie du Spectacle Équestre de Versailles at the Hippodrome Kamnica, Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

Opening of the French Embassy of Culture at the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

DJ acid Washed concert in Maribor, 2012

Art residency by sound artist Fouad Bouchoucha, in the frame of the French Cultural Embassy, Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012. © Otto-Prod

A lecture by the Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Jean-Marie Lehn at the Out of the Box seminar at the University of Maribor, Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

A talk with the screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carrière at the Slovene National Theatre Maribor, led by Stojan Pelko, Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

Animated Maribor European Capital of Culture 2012 opening banner, 250 x 100 px

Animated Maribor European Capital of Culture 2012 opening banner, 728 x 92 px

Sirkus Sudenkuoppa, Finnish circus group, performing at Finnish-Estonian month opening ceremony of the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012

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 The partner cities have already announced some of the highlights in their programmes. In February 2012 the city of Ptuj will organise a world mardi-gras EtnoFest and the [[Ptuj Regional Museum]] is preparing for the 4th World Congress of Archaeologists. Ptuj will host also the traditional [[Days of Poetry and Wine Festival]].
-Slovenj Gradec plans the opening of the [[Birthplace of Hugo Wolf, Slovenj Gradec|museum and documentation centre of the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf]] and an ambitious performance based on his ''lieder'', accompanied by the first international workshop on classical solo singing. The city will also produce the Peace Festival "From People to the People" and collaborate with the [[Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Centre Vitanje|Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Centre]] in Vitanje on contemporary visual arts production.
+Slovenj Gradec plans the opening of the [[Birthplace of Hugo Wolf, Slovenj Gradec|museum and documentation centre of the Austrian composer Hugo Wolf]] and an ambitious performance based on his ''lieder'', accompanied by the first international workshop on classical solo singing.
 Murska Sobota will feature dance through the enhanced international [[Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival]], the mining town of Velenje, however, will produce an underground spectacle featuring [[Laibach]] music group.

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