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Jure Zadnikar's exhibition Towards the sun in the KiBela Art Space, 2008 KiBela incorporates a spectrum of different ideas, methods and visions that coexist in art. The creativity of traditional media is important to enrich electronic ones, but all in the context of historical continuity of visual art, in the sense of a bigger aesthetization and integration of electronic media and principles in art.

In KiBela, space for art, hundreds of exhibitions, performances, presentations and other artistic events have taken place since 1999, in both traditional, as well as advanced technological set-ups.

Background

KiBela hall is on the ground floor of Narodni dom and was rennovated in January 1999 with the purpose of installing visual and other forms of art. Otherwise the KiBela programme has been running since the year 1996 when Multimedia Center Kibla has been established. In the second half of the 90's plans for KiBela have begun to take form with the help of experience and common knowledge-in a time when emergence of new technologies and art approaches has already become self-evident and necessary when planning a contemporary gallery.

Concept

"Contemporary, multimedia and intermedia related", the fundamental concept of KiBela Art Space is that of "liberating and connecting traditional and electronic art media, presenting artistic (non)messages and artist+ (ir)responsibility, integrating art with science and technology and establishing new aesthetics and an ecology of the mind."

KiBela has worked towards establishing links between alternative and established art and culture, between young and older generations, between the domestic and foreign art scene, between classical and electronic media. In addition links are sought across the fields of art, technology and science and among different aesthetics and perspectives.

Programme

In over 15 years of operation KiBela has held more then 200 social art openings, performances, presentations and other art events and developed an exclusive approach to installing art in the space: whether by content or by the use of (new) media in technically or architecturally challenging ways, KiBela's space has accommodated a wide variety of art aesthetics. Since 2004 all of KiBela's events – more than 100 – are documented on KiBela's online archive.

The gallery collaborates and presents the recent works of multimedia and visual artists following the curated programme of house and external, freelance curators. The list of artists who have been presented at KiBela reads like a who's who in contemporary art and especially, new media art. Pioneer and innovative artists who are at the forefront of new media art, whether from abroad or from Slovenia, have been exhibited alongside young and emerging artists.

KiBela is also a multi-purpose space for organising seminars, presentations, round tables, press conferences and rich cultural programmes, including theatre performances, video projections, concerts, literary readings, debate clubs, etc.

International cooperation

As Kibla is extensively involved in international cooperation projects, KiBela Art Space also participates internationally by providing an exhibition space for presentations – such as the improvisational audio-video performance between Tengal (Manila), Marko Batista (Ljubljana), and Ana Pečar (Maribor) which took place in November 2009 as part of the project X-OP.

International art fairs

Since 2009 KiBela has been attending international art fairs when it participated at the Art Vilnius 09 fair, the very first international art fair in the Baltic region, which happened as part of the European Capital of Culture 2009 in Lithuania. KiBela was the only participating Slovene gallery and presented two Slovene artists of the younger generation: the sculptor Boštjan Novak and the painter Jure Zadnikar. In the same year KiBela participated in the fifth edition of the curated Preview Berlin – the emerging art fair presenting computer controlled installation Robot Partner 0.2 – Automated Table Modification by Stefan Doepner, a German artist who lives and works in Ljubljana.

Publications

Since 1998, starting with two collections of essays by Eduardo Kac entitled Teleporting An Unknown State (1998) and Telepresence, Biotelematics and Transgenetic Arts (1999), Kibla has published more than 25 publications (usually as TOX editions). Recent ones include: the catalogue Performing Pictures (2008) from Geska Helena Andersson & Robert Brečević, the catalogue AES+F: Action Half Life (2006), catalogue Sonic from Ksenija Čerče (2008), the DVD Digital commune in Maribor, the DVD The Most Beautiful Poems (2006) from Alenka Pirman, and others.

Location and exhibition space

KiBela is on the ground floor of Narodni dom Maribor and was renovated in January 1999 with the purpose of installing visual and other forms of art. KiBela cooperates often with other spaces and institutions and sometimes prepares site-specific projects.

dimensions: 132m² (8.7m x 15.2m x 3.5m H) vaulted space with 6 columns, incorporating 20 linear metres of wall space
installation system: hammer-and-nail installation, sculpture pedestals
lighting: halogen lighting system
climate control: none
sales policy: sales not permitted

External links

Gallery

David Carson's Paganini of Typography, a creative workshop/exhibition in the KiBela Art Space, KIBLA Multimedia Centre, Maribor 2002

All about Lesotho new media project by Vlado G. Repnik, Robert Klančnik, Lana K. Gotvan and Stefan Doepner in the KiBela Art Space, Maribor 2006

Junction protocols exhibition by Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič, KiBela Art Space, Maribor 2007

Jure Zadnikar's exhibition Towards the sun in the KiBela Art Space, 2008

KiBela Art Space interior; Jure Zadnikar's exhibition Towards the sun, 2008

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+KiBela incorporates a spectrum of different ideas, methods and visions that coexist in art. The creativity of traditional media is important to enrich electronic ones, but all in the context of historical continuity of visual art, in the sense of a bigger aesthetization and integration of electronic media and principles in art.
-KIBLA is a national and international non-governmental institution in the segmented field of creative industries, interdisciplinary, intermedia and multimedia art, visual arts, AV, music, culture and informal education. It is an institution that presents, organizes, produces, co-produces, documents and archives cultural-artistic projects, as well as electronic and printed publications
+In KiBela, space for art, hundreds of exhibitions, performances, presentations and other artistic events have taken place since 1999, in both traditional, as well as advanced technological set-ups.
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 ==Background==
-KiBela Art Space was developed within [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]] together with KiBar (an Internet café), the Kibela.Tif graphic studio which produces Kibla's flyers and publications, and [[Za:misel Bookshop]]. In the second half of the 1990s plans for KiBela began to take shape with the help of experience and common knowledge &ndash; in a time when the emergence of new technologies and artistic approaches had already become self-evident and necessary when planning a contemporary gallery.
+KiBela hall is on the ground floor of Narodni dom and was rennovated in January 1999 with the purpose of installing visual and other forms of art. Otherwise the KiBela programme has been running since the year 1996 when Multimedia Center Kibla has been established. In the second half of the 90's plans for KiBela have begun to take form with the help of experience and common knowledge-in a time when emergence of new technologies and art approaches has already become self-evident and necessary when planning a contemporary gallery.
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