Jean Cocteau & Veno Pilon

Opening: 1 June at 8pm

Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana

The Bohemians from Montparnasse exhibition showcases photographic works of two significant artists from the early 20th century; the French writer, filmmaker and artist Jean Cocteau and Slovenian newcomer to Paris, painter and photographer Veno Pilon. Their photographic portraits offer an insight into the Paris scene at a period of time when Paris was still considered the indisputable centre of the art world.
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Opening: 31 May at 8pm

Jakopič Gallery and City Museum, MGML, Ljubljana

The momentous exhibition Genesis, a project by world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado, is a result of a multi-year photography survey. It draws together 245 spectacular black-and-white photographs of wildlife, landscapes, seascapes and indigenous peoples—raising public awareness about the pressing issues of environmental and climate change.
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Stane Jagodič, Gábor Kerekes, Branko Lenart

Opening: 2 June at 6pm

Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana

This exhibition pays homage to Gábor Kerekes, legendary Hungarian photo artists who passed away in 2014, and whose body of work still needs to be discovered by a broader European public. At the PhotoMagic exhibition his work will be complemented by a selection of works by two other internationally renowned photo artists, Stane Jagodič and Branko Lenart, whose approaches to photography have been similarly exploratory and experimental.
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Photonic Moments announces submissions to Portfolio Review 2016 that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 3 and 4 June 2016. The deadline for submissions has been extended!!!
Submit your work until 23 May 2016!

The Photonic Moments – Month of Photography festival invites photographers from around the globe to submit their works to the Photonic Moments’ Portfolio Review that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 3 and 4 June at the Jakopič Gallery. During two intense days, your work will be evaluated by international team of curators, festival directors, photo editors, gallery owners and publishers through individual 20+5-minutes face-to-face appointments.
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International photo contest for Evening Projections in frames of Photonic Moments festival in Ljubljana – CLOSED!!!

We are proudly announcing international call for submissions, open to all artists and photographers working in the field of contemporary photography. Selected works and series will be shown in frames of Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2016 festival in Ljubljana as part of Evening Projections during the opening days of the festival (2-5 June 2016). The projections will take place in the magnificent venue of ZRC atrium in Ljubljana which will host the majority of accompanying programme of the festival.

The eight edition of Ljubljana’s Photonic Moments – Month of Photography festival is dedicated to promote, popularise and present local and international developments in the field of contemporary photography. The festival is organised by Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography.
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Month of Photography 2016 is completed. We will see you again in 2018!

On 30 June the official part of the Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2016 has ended. The festival showcased 25 exhibitions and number of accompanying events that took place from 31 May to 30 June, and even more concentrated the events were taking place during the opening week between 31 May and 4 June.
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On the final day of the opening week of Photonic Moments – Month of Photography 2016 the awards for PORTFOLIO REVIEW and EVENING PROJECTIONS were announced
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Attila Floszmann, Noro Knap, Tatiana Lecomte, Marko Lipuš, Darije Petković

Opening: 7 June at 8pm

Kult3000 Gallery, Ljubljana

Memory Lab is a collective project of the European Month of Photography network focused on questioning memory and reflecting history through art. The project, which includes series of exhibitions and a publication, is displayed independently and differently in each member city. In Ljubljana the exhibition showcases works of five artists whose main focus is to explore the perception of recent and historical conflicts that still resonate in current public discourse.
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Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi & Noemi Veberič Levovnik

Opening: 4 June at 7pm

DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana

As part of the Inside Out feature, the joint exhibition entitled Doubles will display photography by Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi. Duality, the leitmotif of the exhibition, shapes the works of both artists on several different levels. Both artists deliberately choose to disregard the postulates of photography, each in her own signature style. They search for the extraordinariness of everyday moments using the language of vernacular photography as their artistic statement.
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Marina Paulenka

Opening: 2 June at 7pm

International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

The solo exhibition of Marina Paulenka, last-year’s award-winner of Photonic Moments’ portfolio review, showcases her recent documentary-based project entitled The Other Home reflecting the crude reality of a female penitentiary in Požega, Croatia. This is the only female prison in Croatia where more than 130 inmates serve their sentences of six months or more. Adhering to strict prison legislation that stipulates prisoners cannot even be filmed or photographed anonymously, so as to protect their identity, the photographer focuses on the details revealing human presence and on traces of intimacy in the depersonalised institution.
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Matic Zorman

Opening: 3 June at 7pm

UAUU Gallery, Ljubljana

“And if I don’t succeed I will try again. And then again. I will try to reach freedom until I die.”

Matic Zorman‘s photographic exhibition of the Faces of War, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death and The Balkan Nights series takes us into a world of war, the journeys of refugees, of human dignity and hope. It is photography as the activity of an individual’s participation, confronting us directly with social action. Zorman’s photography expands the awareness of our reality with images we would rather avoid.
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Jaka Gasar

3 – 17 June 2016

ZRC Atrium, Ljubljana

Individual exhibition of Slovenian documentary photographer Jaka Gasar taking place at ZRC Atrium will showcase his recent works from 2015 when the photographer was covering and documenting so called refugee crisis in Slovenia.
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Video in Progress 6: We Are All People After All
14 – 15 June 2016
Alkatraz Gallery, AKC Metelkova City, Ljubljana
Opening: Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 8 pm.
Screening hours: Wednesday, June 15 from 11 am til 8 pm.
Participating: Adel Abidin (IQ/FI), Selda Asal (TR), Zanny Begg (AU) ...