Background
The venue is located at the premises of the Maribor textile factory MTT, which had been closed in the 90s and since then remained unused. Its vast grounds were opened during the time when Maribor was the European Capital of Culture 2012 and it was first initiated in November 2012 with the Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious, an international art exhibition with a conference, workshops and lectures.
Programme
Some of the projects done as primarily a KIBLA Portal initiatives were the aforementioned Soft Control exhibition and conference, which – by way of exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops and screenings – dealt with the discourses and contexts of technology, science, arts and contemporary techno-culture; the Materiality in the Portal display that dealt with the concept of materiality through a diverse set of works of art - both the established canon of Slovenian and international art as well as the works of young, ambitious and promising authors - and some almost forgotten and overlooked artists. There was also an international exhibition that dealt with the First World War called Memory of Violence – Dreams of the Future 1914 -18, and one that dissected the cultural-political conglomeration of contemporaneity and the past. It focuses on the incessant exploration of identity, on the perpetuum mobile of political and cultural changes in Europe, especially Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
A curious project was also the Don't Be Afraid, You Are The Best, which drew on a medium closest to the author, which is drawing. The main actors were the students of the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Education, Maribor, joined by some established invited artists.
Invited artists and curators
Onw owuld be hard pressed to lsit a representative set of artists, as the venues capacities themselves narekujejo for the feature of numerous artists. Yet, some of them were Marina Abramović (RS/US) with Suzanne Dikker and Matthias Oostrik (NL) / James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau (UK) / Tuur Van Balen (BE) / Brandon Ballengee (US) / Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson (AU) / Boredomresearch: Vicky Isley and Paul Smith (UK) / David Bowen (US) / Ursula Damm (DE) / Joe Davis (US) / Louis-Philippe Demers (SG) / Stefan Doepner and Lars Vaupel (SI/DE) / Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha (NL) / Andrew Gracie (UK/ES) / Floris Kaayk (NL) / Kuda begut sobaki (RU) / Seiko Mikami (JP) / Neurotica (AU-US) / Leo Peschta (AT) / Maja Smrekar (SI) / Stelarc (AU) / Polona Tratnik (SI) / Bill Vorn (CA). Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Vlasta Delimar, Oliver Pietsch, Goran Tomčić, Martina Zelenika-Moon and Jule Ja Kantor ...Tina Gverović (HR), Siniša Ilić (RS), Bojan Đorđev (RS), Eszter Szabó (HU), Tehnica Schweiz (HU), Katarina Šević (RS/HU), Maja Hodošček (SI), Adela Jušić (BiH), Andreja Dugandžić (BiH), Lana Čmajčanin (BiH), Boris Pramatarov (BG), Marcel Mališ (SK), Ana Pečar (SI), Bogdan Girbovan (RO), Anca Benera (RO), Arnold Estefan (RO), Visualizing Palestine (LB), Jure Cvitan (SI), Rena Rädle (RS/DE), Vladan Jeremić (RS/DE), Tanja Lažetić (SI), Stojan Knežević (SI), Mariusz Waras (PL), Mykola Ridnyi (UKR), Nika Autor (SI), Marko Jakše (SI), Mitja Ficko (SI), Tadej Vindiš (SI), Matija Bobičić (SI), Gábor Fülöp (HU), Libuše Jarcovjáková (CZ), Max Sudhues (DE), Martina Grlić (HR), Magda Tothova (SK), Chto Delat (RU), María Elínardóttir (IS), Dino Zrnec (HR), drMáriás (HU)... Igor Antić (RS-FR), Boris Beja (SI), Nataša Berk (ausländer), Igor Bošnjak (BA), diStruktura (RS) + Barbara Barbi Marković (RS-AT), DK (SI), Robert Jankuloski (MK), Jelena Jureša (RS-BE), Thomas Köner (DE-FR), Nebojša Lazić (RS-US), Marianne Marić (FR), Anuk Miladinović (CH-DE), Radenko Milak (BA), Vessna Perunovich (RS-CA), Magali Sanheira (FR), Selman Trtovac (RS) + BEAUTIFUL DAYS 1914/2014 – Luise Kloos (AT, BA, RS, HR, IT).
Concept for the Soft Control exhibition was developed by Dmitry Bulatov, the Dont be afradi was a project Petra Varl — author, selector and mentor, the Memory was a project bvy curator: Sanja Kojić Mladenov production: MSUV, Novi Sad, Srbija. The director Aleksandra Kostič and Žiga Dobnikar also curated some projects.
Zdenka Žido, Kamila Volčanšek, Petra Varl, Iva Tratnik, Damijan Švarc, Jože Šubic, Jane Štravs, Jože Slak Đoka, Duba Sambolec, Branimir Ritonja, Vlado Repnik, Peter Rauch, Mark Požlep, Ervin Potočnik, Borut Peterlin, Mojca Oblak, Živko Marušič, Ira N. Marušič, Polona Maher, Laibach, Benjamin Kreže, Damijan Kracina, Jasna Klara Kozar, Rudolf Kotnik, DK, Aleksij Kobal, Jaša, Matej Jarc, Marko Jakše, Zdenko Huzjan, Meta Grgurevič, Metod Frlic, Vadim Fiškin, Dušan Fišer, Mitja Ficko, Elena Fajt, Sandi Červek, Andrej Brumen-Čop, Rajko Bizjak, Saša Bezjak, Goran Bertok, Emerik Bernard, Nataša Berk, Boris Beja...
KIBLIX 2014 PARALLELS (8. 10.–10. 10. 2014) MFRU-KIBLIX 2013 (6. 11. - 25. 11. 2013)
(19. 4. 2013)
In 2013 and 2015, respectively, the KIBLIX Festival and the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA) merged their efforts and stage a joint festival exhibition at the vast halls of the KIBLA Portal.
International cooperations
The Materiality exhibition is part of a two-year project, linking four European partners – WYSPA Institute of Art / Gdansk, Poland, VESSEL / Bari, Italy, Instituto Polytechnico de Tomar, Portugal, ACE KIBLA / Maribor, Slovenia
The French Institute in Serbia and the Goethe-Institute in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (MSUV), initiated the project Memory of Violence and Dreams of the Future, dedicated to the commemorationof the centennial of the First World War,
Ars Electronica – Linz, Austria www.aec.at
Impakt – Utrecht, Netherlands www.impakt.nl
MediaArtLab – Moscow, Russia www.mediaartlab.ru
National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Kaliningrad Branch, Russia www.videodoc.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/
Prometheus – Kazan, Russia http://prometheus.kai.ru
Experiments in Art and Technology – E.A.T., USA http://www.9evenings.org/
Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto Porto, Portugal (PT) http://sigarra.up.pt/fbaup/web_page.inicial
Centre for new media culture RIXC Riga, Latvia (LV) http://www.rixc.lv/
International Centre for Art and New Technologies CIANT Prague, Czech Republic (CZ) http://www.ciant.cz/
Hangar, Centre for research and production for the visual arts Barcelona, Spain (ES) http://hangar.org/en
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka Rijeka, Croatia (HR) http://www.mmsu.hr/
Dom omladine Beograd Beograd, Serbia (RS) http://www.domomladine.org/
O3ONE Beograd, Serbia (RS) http://www.o3one.rs/
University of Maribor Faculty of Medicine Maribor, Slovenia http://www.mf.uni-mb.si/
University of Nova Gorica Nova Gorica, Slovenia http://www.ung.si/en/
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.kis.si
Multidisciplinary research Institute Maribor Maribor, Slovenia http://www.institute.si/en
Techno Center at University of Maribor Maribor, Slovenia http://www.tehnocenter.si
Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ljubljana, Slovenija http://www.zrc-sazu.si
Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (KGLU) Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia http://www.glu-sg.si/
Association for Culture and Education KIBLA Maribor, Slovenia http://www.kibla.org
Hosted events and festivals
KIBLA POrtal was the place where MED took place, bringing Andy Stott, Cut Hands, Cut Hands, Wolf Müller, Dodecahedragraph, Mono Scarves, Kaganovich,
mena, kot so Elisabeth Schimana, graška elektronska eksperimentatorska, Angelo Vermeulen, belgijski intermedijski umetnik in avtor serije DIY vesoljskih ladij Seeker, C-Drik Fermont, metropolitanski nojzer, Kathy High, newyorška bioumentica, ter William Myers, inovator na področju biodizajna, ter ne nazadnje Electric Indigo, so zgolj najbolj impresivna peščica izmed več kot 50 ustvarjalcev letošnje edicije združene mariborske festivalske platforme. 2013
Kiblix2014 SREDA // 8.10. 2014 19.00 Otvoritev razstave 20.30 Maja Smrekar & Robertina Šebjanič: Predstavitev instalacije Zvočne invazije 21.30 Servando Barreiro, AV performans 22.15 Marko Lük
ČETRTEK // 9.10. 2014 15.00–16.00 Otvoritev Orgel Tanie Candiani (Frančiškanska cerkev)
Delavnice in izobraževalni program Od 10.00 Žiga Pavlovič: Gaming Lounge 10.00–15.00 Kaja Antlej: Delavnica 3D-tehnologij v kulturi in dediščini 10.00–15.00 Monika Pocrnjić: Audio-holik 10.00–16.00 Intermedijska raziskovalna komuna 15.00–18.00 Matej Modrinjak: CoGe – VJ delavnice 11.00–11.45 Ghislaine Boddington (UK) – predavanje 12.00–12.30 Tania Candiani (MX) – predstavitev 13.00–14.00 Okrogla miza: HORIZONTALE
AV performansi (19.00–01.00 ) Vlado G. Repnik et al. (SI): Za ptice LIGHTUNE.G : LIGHTERATURE READING, CHAPTER 16 JUNEsHELEN Luka Prinčič
PETEK // 10.10. 2014 Delavnice, izobraževalni program in predstavitve Od 10.00 Žiga Pavlovič: Gaming Lounge 10.00–15.00 Bojan Gagić in Miodrag Gladović: Luminoakustika 10.00–14.00 Matej Modrinjak: CoGe – VJ delavnice 10.00–15.00 Intermedijska raziskovalna komuna 11.00–11.40 Olaf Val – predavanje 11.45–12.30 Nataša Teofilovič – predstavitev 13.00–14.00 Okrogla miza: VERTIKALE Od 15.00 PLES MOŽGANOV 18.00–18.45 Intermedijska raziskovalna komuna: Predstavitev
AV performansi (19.00–01.00 )
POSTGRAVITYART BIOGRAFIJE::CONE IN SLINA
Miha Ciglar: Virtual Sources
Yann Leguay: Unstatic
Random Logic
Mind Machines
Ko0
See also
- KIBLA Multimedia Centre
- KiBela Art Space
- KIBLIX Festival
- International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)