Lighting Guerrilla Festival

Contact

Svetlobna gverila

Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.svetlobnagverila.net/

core@mail.ljudmila.org

Phone386 (0) 1 231 9662

Organised byStrip Core

Frequencyannual

Festival dates27.5.2015 - 16.6.2015

Events abroad

Past Events

• 1 Dec 2020

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  21 Feb 2021

  Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife

  
  programme

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  Katja Paternoster presenting her light sculptures (Lighting Guerrilla Festival)

  at the Naturaleza encendida

  
  

  
  

• 7 Nov 2020

  Croatia Lovran Open air

  
  programme

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  Opening of the open air installations resulting from the workshops Clouds, led by Tilen Sepič, and Fantastic Vegetation by Katja Paternoster, coorganised by Lighting Guerrilla Festival from Ljubljana

  at the Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020

  
  

  
  

• 11 Oct 2019

  to

  13 Oct 2019

  Finland Joensuu Botania Event Garden

  
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  Katja Paternoster presenting her light sculptures (Lighting Guerrilla Festival)

  at the Joensuu Visualfestival

  
  

  
  

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Trap for readers by Marko Crnobrnja, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

The Lighting Guerrilla Festival was initially started as a workshop at the festival "The Detectives of the Light" (Detektivi svetlobe); a mere one year later in 2008 it evolved into an exciting three-week spring event. The festival was founded by Strip Core, the comic art production section of the organisation Forum Ljubljana, and since its inception it explores the relations between light, the public and the gallery space. The events of this more and more popular festival include lectures, exhibitions and public interventions, installations and performances. In 2013 the Re:action exhibition presented past festival's works by Slovene artists in the Simulaker Gallery in Novo Mesto.

Venues and locations

Since its beginnings it has grown quickly in size and scope, the events take place not only in Ljubljana art venues such as the Vžigalica Gallery, the Tovarna Rog, the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kino Šiška, and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, but also in Kranj and Novo mesto.

The festival is known for its luminous exhibition objects presented with public interventions (including artists like Aleksandra Stratimirović, Bernard Murigneux, NatanEsku, Benedetto Bufalino, Sophie Guyot, and many others) that take place at several site-specific locations: the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, Tivoli Park, streets and gardens around Ljubljana, etc.

Anchovies over Ljubljanica river by French collective Aerosculpture, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

Collaborations and international cooperation

The festival regularly invites local, regional, and international artists and producers. Since its inception, the festival is co-financed with the help of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Ljubljana. Since 2009 the festival has also received some funds from the French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier and in 2008 the programme of the festival was presented at the Ljubljana Spring Festival.

In 2011, the relation between light and sound is explored together with 16 artists, institutions and producers, adding new dimensions and locations. In the Light and Sound edition new collaborations have been established with: the Koper Grammar School - Ginnasio Capodistria, Cirkulacija 2, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana.

The 2012 edition was dedicated to Movement and produced under the motto: "Art must be defended from the egos of those that govern, from their ignorance, bitterness and fear of the individuals!" In 2013 the international artists explored the notion of shimmering and transformed the festival's traditional outdoor venues in Ljubljana.

See also

• Strip Core
• Forum Ljubljana

External links

• Lighting Guerrilla Festival website
• Interview with Aleksandra Stratimirović Enlighter Magazine, June 2008
• Presentation of Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2008 with Katerina Mirović of Vest.si on YouTube.com (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Permanent installation Tree Particle by Boštjan Drinovec at the Lighting Park, a unique park-art ambiance formed by light artistic interventions outdoors. Lighting Guerrilla Festival 2016. Author: DK

Anchovies over Ljubljanica river by French collective Aerosculpture, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Laboratory of Water Glass and Light by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Secret Garden by Marjeta Zupančič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2008

The Greenhouse Effect by French atrists Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

The Dark Room by Swiss design studio Büro Destruct, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Trapollo HH 34 by Marko Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2009

Lighting Guerrilla Festival instalation at Match Gallery. Recycling was the main theme of the Festival in 2009

Kind Spirits by Aleksandra Stratimirović Daggfeldt, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Nocturnal readings on the asphalt by Andrej Štular, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Symbionts by French visual artist Bernard Murigneux located between the Dragon Bridge and Ljubljana Central Market at Vodnik Square, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

(Room)mates by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Closeup of (Room)mates project by Kaja Avbersek at the ParkiRaj garage on Trdinova street, Ljubljana, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Personal readings by Spanish group Luzinterruptus, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Trap for readers by Marko Crnobrnja, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Human tiles by Ocubo projected on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2010

Garland of 9 cars by French space designer Benedetto Bufalino, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Cellwise by Daan Brinkmann & Nenad Popov, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

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

Visual piano by photographer and light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert from Germany, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Sparks of Prometheus by Marko A. Kovačič, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Into the Blu, a light garden by the Swiss artist Sophie Guyot, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

Šajn’n’flaj by Kaja Avberšek and Darja Osojnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Metascope by Boštjan Čadež, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Gravitational painting on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre by Portugese/Belgian duet Ocubo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Gravitational painting on the facade of Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre by Portugese/Belgian duet Ocubo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2012

Od oblike do oblike [Form from Form] in Match Gallery by Dan Adlešič, Tilen Sepič and Matic Potočnik, Lighting Guerrilla Festival in co-production with Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, 2013

Fragments of the World, video installations showing animals captured in the urban world created by men, Vžigalica Gallery by Bertrand Gadenne, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Strašila [Scarecrows] by Marko A. Kovačič and Brane Ždralo, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Soulshine guerrilla - lighting graffiti by Borut Bučinel at Glej Theatre, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2013

Svetlobni dom - light instalation by Sophie Guyot at Novi trg in front of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2014

The light-sound installation Portal by the authorial group Beam Team (Stella Ivšek, Anja Romih, Aleš Zupanc, Črt Trkman) at the 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival at Match Gallery, Ljubljana 2023. Author: DK

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