Culture of Slovenia

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Drops festival

Drops Festival is a global underground electronic music and art celebration that focuses on presenting top-notch psychedelic trance, techno, IDM, electro, experimental and chillout music. It is a unique event that brings together freaky people from all around the world and provides an unforgettable musical experience in unspoilt nature.

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Crowd dancing at Hallucinatorium stage, Drops Festival 2021

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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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  Six performances of "Don Quixote", a romantic ballet by choregrapher Denis Matvienko, set to the music by Ludwig Minkus and inspired by the titular character of the classic novel "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes. Produced by Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  North Macedonia Skopje Youth Cultural Center Skopje

  
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  A performance by MRFY, a prominent Slovenian rock band. Financially supported and promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Skopje.

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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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Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre

Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek) Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek)

Set in a modernist building in the centre of the town of Trbovlje, Delavski dom in Trbovlje (DDT) is a local and a regional cultural centre, being the biggest such institution in the Zasavje region. Besides the venue's own diverse and ambitious cultural programme of music, film, theatre, puppetry and visual arts, the centre also runs a new media culture project called Trbovlje, New Media Setting. While DDT's name points to its historical role as a "home" for workers, that is, a meeting place built to provide a venue for a large number of social related activities, today, Delavski dom Trbovlje is home to a number of cultural and educational institutions, including a music school, thus meeting many of the cultural and social needs of the local and wider community.

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Laibach, Volk, Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre, 2009. This performance is also documented on the DVD Dead in Trbovlje (directed by Sašo Podgoršek)

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Osmo/za

Osmo/za is a collaborative space on the 8th floor of the 1960s' Avtotehna skyscraper at Slovenska 54 in the very centre of Ljubljana. It was set up in 2017 by a consortium of three NGO art/cultural producers with a rich and varied history: Ljudmila, which engages in the development and popularisation of open culture, free licences and software, and in new ways of data distribution; Delak Institute, a production house exploring post-gravity art and outlining a path for space culturalisation; and Projekt Atol Institute, whose activities range from art production to scientific research and technological prototype development and production.

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Soda 4060, workshop led by Staš Vrenko at Osmo/za, 2018.

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