Center for Contemporary Arts
SCCA-Ljubljana is a non-governmental and non-profit organization based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Our objective is to produce, stimulate and mediate innovative artistic and interpretative practices and to encourage international links between them. We provide the participants and users of contemporary art with knowledge, tools and skills necessary for emancipated and reflected operation within the art system. By establishing a support system and cooperating with numerous NGOs we situate artistic practices into the social framework.
Our activities trigger discursive and social practices, which are quite rare in our public space, showing that intellectual and social effects of artistic practices are a strategically essential element in the present situation. They provide vital impulses for public discussion, sociability, and, by implication, importantly contribute to the construction of the public space. Consequently, our collaborators and participants of our actions and panels come from as different sectors and professions as humanity and social studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, art history, sociology of culture, philosophy, visual & media arts.
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Zavod Celeia Celje
Together with the Centre for Tourist Promotion and the Event Centre, the Celeia Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts forms part of a new municipal institution established in 2005
The Centre for Contemporary Arts manages the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art and the adjacent Hodnik Gallery, Likovni salon Celje, Račka Gallery, and the Pelikan tower at the Celje Castle, which specialises in photography. The Centre for Contemporary Arts was also the first art institution in Slovenia that systematically introduced artist-in-residence activities in its programme.
The Centre for Contemporary Arts initiates, develops, and promotes contemporary visual arts in the local, regional, and international context, as well as re-articulates and re-contextualises the heritage of local conceptual and post-conceptual practices that make the foundations of the centre’s activity.
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Established in 1993, the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art is situated on the outskirts of the old town centre and is part of the architectural complex of buildings that once formed the foothill castle of the Counts of Celje. Since 2005 it is managed by the Celeia Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts as its principal exhibition space. Annually the venue hosts up to 10 exhibitions addressing specific themes or offering a thorough monographic presentation of individual artistic positions. The adjacent small Hodnik (Corridor) Gallery features a lively programme of short-termed (even less than a week) presentations by emerging artists from the region. The exhibitions are usually prepared by the house curators although the Centre for Contemporary Arts also collaborates with foreign experts and offers a working platform for guest curators through its artist-in-residence programme AiR Celeia Celje.
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The Likovni salon Celje (Likovni salon Gallery) is a referential contemporary arts space where exhibitions of Slovene and international artists are featured. Many exhibitions extend to other venues managed by the institute. The gallery opened in 1963 as a modernist white cube space in the ground floor of the Narodni dom cultural house and was initially managed by the local Association of Fine Artists, since 2005 it is managed by the Celeia Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts.
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Established in 1986, the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) is housed in the Tivoli Mansion. It runs the Biennial of Graphic Arts, maintains an international collection of graphic arts and artists’ books, and organises personal and thematic contemporary arts exhibitions, often reflecting political or social atmospheres of the chosen periods.
The idea of establishing MGLC dates back to the mid-1970s as a direct consequence of the development of the Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art|International Graphic Art Biennial and the enormous growth of contemporary graphic art production in Slovenia during that period, especially represented by the “Ljubljana Graphic Art School”.
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The birth of the gallery Alkatraz took place in year 1996. The gallery emerged in the context of the multicultural center Metelkova City, in a former barracks of the army of ex-Yugoslavia. The gallery is located in a building that suffered extensive damage in the period of withdrawal of old and advent of new authorities. For a long time, it stood derelict and hence the leaders-in-spirit of Metelkova were not interested in its use. The main politics of Metelkova was primarily to encourage joint projects of rebuilding and re-adaptation and to develop cultural and artistic activities, the common principle being ‘all for one and one for all’. Inspired by this slogan, large numbers of young participants contributed significantly to shaping of its new look.
Situated in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone and run by KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association, Alkatraz Gallery started out as a project initiated in 1996 by young students of the Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts and Design with Boštjan Drinovec and Nataša Tajnik at the head. Encouraging experimental art and site specific projects in different approaches and media, the main goal of the gallery is to feature the projects of young (inter)national artists. Since 2008 the Alkatraz Gallery visits international art fairs with the aim to present the more radical positions of the artists whose works deal critically and even ironically with actual global problems.
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Aksioma Institute
A non-profit cultural organisation based in Ljubljana, was co-founded in 2002 by Davide Grassi, today known as Janez Janša.
Aksioma produces, co-produces, presents and develops projects that take advantage of new technologies and protocols in order to investigate and discuss the structures of modern society. It concentrates on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns. Aksioma collaborates nationally and internationally with several artists, museums, institutions, foundations, galleries and festivals. Recent projects of Aksioma have particularly focused on BCI (Brain-Computer-Interface) and HCI (Human-Computer-Interface) as well as the topic of re-enactment in contemporary arts.