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Galerija Photon
Križevniška 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana


Phone386 (0) 1 230 2071, 386 (0) 59 977 907
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Since 2003 the non-profit organisation Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography researches and presents contemporary fine art photography. In particular, the gallery focuses on recognising and promoting various Slovene and international artists working in the field of contemporary photography and video, with an emphasis on the production from Central and South-eastern Europe.

In 2005 Photon Gallery initiated the long-term project Photonic Moments which started as a group exhibition and later developed into the festival Month of Photography in Ljubljana. In 2010 the festival took back its original name Photonic Moments and became a biennial event. Photon Gallery runs a regular exhibition programme with other related activities in its home gallery space in Ljubljana, collaborating on a number of international projects and attending international art fairs.


Exhibitions

Alongside solo and group exhibitions, the Photon Gallery team presents a rich accompanying programme based on talks, screenings, and lectures. In recent years the gallery has been working with numerous artist of different backgrounds and generations: Goran Bertok, Tomo Brejc, Bojan Salaj, Jože Suhadolnik, Peter Koštrun, Špela Volčič, Vanja Bučan, Matej Sitar, Andrej Osterman, Antonio Živkovič, Janez Bogataj, Branko Lenart, Stane Jagodič, Janez Korošin (Slovenia), Anikó Robitz, Gabor Kerekes (Hungary), diSTRUKTURA, Paula Muhr (Serbia), Sandra Vitaljić (Croatia), Alexander Valchev (Bulgaria), Marko Citron, Luca Donini (Italy), Marko Lipuš, Ernst Logar, Gyula Fodor (Austria), Enna Chaton (France);

Beside solo exhibitions, Photon Gallery also produces various thematic and overview group exhibitions: the series of international overview exhibitions Photonic Moments (2005–2008), overview group exhibition Photonic Luminatic – New Slovenian Photography and Video (2008), historical documentary exhibitions Early 80s Music Scene (2005), Laibach-Focus (2004), Early 80s Music Scene (2008) and Pankrti (2007), dedicated to the crucial music movements in Slovenia and Yugoslavia, and thematic group exhibitions such as Foto-graph (2005), Transitions (2006), Red: Gendered Colour in Frames (2010) and a series of curated video exhibitions under the common title Video in Progress (2008–2009).

Institutional and international cooperation

Photon Gallery regularly collaborates with numerous Slovene organisations, institutions and festivals. Photon Gallery took part within the programme of the 2009 Red Dawn International Women's Festival and was in partnership with institutions and organisations such as National Museum of Contemporary History, Cankarjev dom, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Fotografija, Magazine on Photography and Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Photon Gallery has collaborated internationally in terms of exhibition exchange and collaborative projects with Monat der Fotografie from Vienna, Photoport Gallery from Bratislava, Nessim Gallery and Mai Mano House of Photography from Budapest, Helmut Newton Foundation from Berlin, K2 – Contemporary Art Centre from Izmir, Kulturvermitlung Steiermarkt – CCN Graz, Proartorg Beograd, Triestefotografia Festival, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Baku Biennial of Contemporary Art and others.

Photonic Moments and Month of Photography

Inspired by events that took place in 2004 in a number of European cities under the name European Month of Photography and with the purpose of expanding its project Photonic Moments, Photon Gallery initiated the Ljubljana Month of Photography. From 2006 until 2008 the annual festival, involving a great number of exhibitions and accompanying events in the Slovenia capital, focused on presenting contemporary trends in photography from different countries of South-eastern Europe and the broader international scene. After the 2008 edition, the festival's board decided to switch to a biennial format, and renamed it to Photonic Moments.

The Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2010 Festival presented a number of relevant internationally-based exhibitions and a strong accompanying programme. As the main venue Cankarjev dom hosted the central group exhibition Tension Field exploring different tendencies in the development of art photography in the region accompanied by a two-day discussion forum Talks on Contemporary Photography.

Video in Progress and Photonic Luminatic

In 2007 the Photon Gallery introduced the programme Video in Progress which presents contemporary video art. The focus of the first two years was on video artists from the region has shifted to more conceptual criteria of selection.

Since 2008 the exhibition entitled Photonic Luminatic is an overview introducing a selection of Slovene artists who use photography and video for research and creative endeavour in the broader context of the visual arts. The curator of the whole exhibition is Dejan Sluga, director of the Photon Gallery, while selection of video art was done by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič. The first edition focused on the phenomenon of the "new documentary photography" within contemporary artistic practice with an aim to show how photography continues to become increasingly relevant as a completely independent artistic medium, and it is additionally evermore used as a tool for the presentation of various multi- and intermedia projects.

Sales service and international art fairs

Photon Gallery represents almost 40 national and international artists whose available works are documented on the gallery's website. The gallery promotes its artists at international art fairs using the strategy of a curated presentation based on a thematic frame.

Photon Gallery also regularly attends art fairs in Vienna (Viennafair), Berlin (Berliner Liste) and in 2010, Photon participated for the first time on Paris Photo.

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