Lighting Guerrilla Festival

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Svetlobna gverila
Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 31 401 556
Organised byStrip Core
Katerina Mirović, Head, Programme Selector



Phone386 (0) 31 401 556
Frequencyannual
Festival dates24.5.2024 – 25.6.2024
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Svetlobnagverila Beam-team Otvoritev 2023 16.jpgThe 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


First held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival Lighting Detectives (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by Strip Core, otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of Forum Ljubljana.

The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.


Venues, locations and collaborations

Being a festival that explicitly uses and transforms the "matter" of public space, it is spatially very dispersed and as such collaborates with a number of venues like the Match Gallery, Mala Galerija BS, the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kino Šiška, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, RogLab, Španski borci Culture Centre, Cirkulacija 2, the Slovene Academy of Science and Arts, etc., but most of the program takes place outdoor.

It is also sometimes venturing outside of Ljubljana, having its pre- and post-festival stops at the Simulaker Gallery in Novo Mesto, the Centralna postaja in Maribor, the Hrastnik Cultural Centre, Layer House in Kranj and some other places.

The festival has closely collaborated with festivals like the Spring Festival, the Strictly Analog Festival, the Exodos International Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Festival IZIS, CestaArt festival Gornja Radgona, R.o.R festival, SKLAD (Macedonia), Lumina (Portugal), Interference (Tunis), Visual festival (Finland), Visualia (Croatia), Art & Light festival (BiH), LAACT XXIII (Poland) … and institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the Faculty of Architecture, the Museum of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, etc. It has been a part of the international project Spectrum 14|15.

Svetlobnagverila photoDK V Vrtincu 02.jpgThe project by students of the Secondary School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana - a spatial installation In a Vortex with light charting and adapted optical illusions. 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana. Author: DK

Svetlobnagverila photoDK MestoSkica 11.jpgLight installation City – Sketch by artists Andrej Štular and Janez Grošelj at Lighting Guerrilla Festival in 2022, Ljubljana. Author: DK

The invited artists

Both local and international artists and producers are invited, in fact, many of them. Some of the attendees included Aleksandra Stratimirović (SE/RS), Alessandro Lupi (IT), Andrej Štular (SI), Artificiel (CA), Atsara (FR), Beam Team (SI), Bernard Murigneux (FR), Danilo Milovanović (SI), Dimitri Xenakis (FR), Erik Matrai (HU), Francois Donato (FR), Jakub Nepraš (CZ), Janez Grošelj (SI), Katja Paternoster (SI), Laurenz Theinert (DE), Leonid Tishkov (RU), Luka Savić (SI), Marko A. Kovačič (SI), Marko Batista (SI), Maro Avrabou (FR), Matej Bizovičar (SI), Matthieu Tercieux (FR), Max Sudhues (DE), Michael Candy (AU), Moritz Wehrmann (DE), NatanEsku (SI), Nika Erjavec (SI), Nicholas Bernier (CA), Tadej Droljc (SI), Tilen Sepič (SI), Sophie Guyot (CH), Robert Sochacki (PL), Stran22 (SI), and Tim Etchells (UK) …

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First held in 2008, the Lighting GuerrillaFirst held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls., and the "confines" of the gallery walls. +
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 +
First held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. +
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