Culture of Slovenia

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In Focus

The Rebirth of Industrial Spaces through the Prism of Culture and Creativity

Tea Pristolič

From London and Paris to Berlin and Amsterdam, if we mention only Europe, some of the best contemporary museums and galleries are set in former industrial buildings, taking advantage of vast spaces, preserving cultural heritage and giving back to people what they had been creating before in a different manner.

Slovenia stepped on this path in the early 2000s and is committed to renovating, rebuilding and breathing new life into such buildings. Through revitalisation, cities, townships and private organisations are transforming these sites and structures into places that offer platforms for creative industries. However, the means towards this goal and the results vary distinctively.

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Stara mestna elektrarna Elektro Ljubljana (SMEEL), known in English as the Old Power Station, 2006.

Slovene art abroad 2010 –

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Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows around 170 festivals in 2021 and some that are already scheduled for 2022.

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.

Images

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  Still from the film Vertigo Bird by En-Knap Productions, with Iztok Kovač atop the chimney and Aleš Hadalin in the foreground.

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  The guided cycling tour along the Podzemlje Pece, Tourist Mine and Museum in Mežica.

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  Dance performance A Quick Story by Sanja Nešković Peršin and Branko Potočan, Bunker Institute production performed at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2004.

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  Josip Pelikan Photographic Studio, preserved studio the famous Slovene photographer Josip Pelikan (1885 - 1977), established as a museum in 1989, Celje. The museum display presents a special collection containing historic photographic equipment

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  Completed in September 1938, inaugurated by Benito Mussolini, the Italian ossuary contains the mortal remains of 7014 identified and unknown Italian soldiers who fell on the Soča Front. Part of the Kobarid Museum's outdoor museum tour.

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  Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

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  Mulc – Kiddo, a stop-motion animation by Kolja Saksida, produced by A-Atalanta and co-produced by ZVVIKS, presented at the Festival of Slovenian Film, 2009

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  Serkan Özkaya's Proletarier aller Länder installation at Moderna galerija (MG), 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, 2011.

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  Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, 2011

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Overview

A Short Historical Overview of Slovene Film

In the context of a divided 20th-century Europe, Slovene film aesthetics clearly reflected the country's borderline characteristics. Whilst the influence of social realism was present in Slovene film from an early stage, film aesthetics in Slovenia have oscillated over the years between entertainment and politics, art and industry, aesthetics and ideology.

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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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Slovenia on the Global Music Map

Peter Baroš

Slovenian musicians and bands have a colourful history of international success in the music industry. But before such success becomes a topic of nostalgia, SIGIC's Peter Baroš tells of new initiatives helping today's music acts reach for the stars hanging over the global music map.

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VOLKSWAGNER 3, Laibach in collaboration with RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and composer Izidor Leitinger, 2009. A sonic suite in three acts making connections between Wagner, modernism and jazz, crossbred with pop art.