29 May – 2 September 2012

Opening: Tuesday, 29 May at 7 pm

Jakopič Gallery / MGML, Ljubljana

Robert Capa / Marc Riboud / Werner Bischof / Henri Cartier-Bresson / Ernst Haas / Erich Lessing / Jean Marquis / Inge Morath

This year’s festival will be officially opened with the Magnum’s First: The Face of Time exhibition, comprehensive group presentation of early works made by members of iconic photo agency Magnum. Magnum’s First is rediscovery and reconstruction of first group exhibition from 1955 which was for years considered as lost. Central theme of the exhibition is connected to the question of »photographic humanism« according which documented people without any sensationalism in their own environments.
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AFTERMATH. Ljubljana

31 May & 1 June 2012

Cankarjev dom Ljubljana

Through lectures, presentations and panel discussions two-day forum is confronting opinions and experiences of number of experts with interdisciplinary background from the area of former Yugoslavia. This years’ forum is dedicated to the Aftermath project and therefore tendencies of engaged post-Yugoslavian contemporary photography.
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8 June – 27 June 2012

Opening & discussion: Friday, 8 June at 7 pm

Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Ljubljana

Peter Aerschmann / Christoph Brech / Elina Brotherus / Ori Gersht / Tuomo Rainio / Jutta Strohmaier

Mutations II aims to question the principles of video by exploring the productive relationships that have developed between fixed and moving images and providing a sense of where contemporary art stands in Europe today.

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Selection of Photographs from International Art Collection Junij

5 June – 8 July 2012

Opening: Tuesday, 5 June at 7 pm

Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana

Overview exhibition of Grupa Junij (1970 – 1985) is first comprehensive presentation of this heterogeneous and loose international artistic movement after receiving award at Paris’ Mois de la photo in 1988. Archival project will focus only on photographic and related practices within its rich legacy.
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20 June – 31 July 2012

Vžigalica Gallery / MGML

After a few years, the French photographer of Slovenian origin will be presented again in Ljubljana in a two-part survey exhibition displaying his extensive cycle East to East. The works were produced on his journeys on the Trans-Siberian railway and on the Baltic Sea coasts. Always analogue, Sluban’s photographs are the results of his long travels to the distant corners of the world. In difficult light conditions characteristic of his works, the analogue technique allows him specific results, such as pronounced haptics and explicit melancholy.

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6 June – 29 June 2012

Opening: Wednesday, 6 June at 8 pm

KUD atelje Mikado Ljubljana

As seen in retrospect, Ferenz Schmidt‘s photographs are valuable documents of the atmosphere in postwar Munich and Germany. His photographs reveal him as a sophisticated observer of daily life, who had an exceptional gift to catch the right moment with a great sense for composition of a painter. Staged or “manufactured” photography did not concern him. Schmidt’s photographs may be compared to Zen or poetry, where the moment of expression can be only precise after long and good preparation. Ferenz Schmidt understood and used the technology of photography for his expression.

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7 June – 27 July 2012

Opening: Thursday, 7 June at 8 pm

Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Women of Power presents portraits of Polish witches, healers, enchanters, visionaries and spiritual leaders who are a counter to the seeming homogeneity and Catholic mainstream. Only a few traditional healers (‘whisperers’ who mix religion and primeval superstitions to heal and remove spells using prayers) survived on the Belarusian border. Others try to revive a dead tradition – from grandmothers who could ‘see’ or were herb healers. Some others say the knowledge survived in the subconscious but there is a need to learn from outer traditions (North America, Peru, or New Zealand). They mix the knowledge with local old Slavs ceremonials or demonology.
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11 June – 23 June 2012

Opening & performance: Monday, 11 June at 6 pm

Nova galerija, Delavski dom Trbovlje

Peter Rauch’s photography contains “something” that – as an unpleasant gift of sorts – creeps into the viewer who complies with the wish of the image. This “something” can be revealed precisely because the images, searched for and selected by the photographer, represent the familiar, the unattractive or the banal, while at the same time they are not undemanding. They state nothing but what they are. This clarity makes it possible for latency to gradually disappear and give way to an unpleasant sense of foreboding during observation. While looking at these images, we are gradually inhabited by unease.
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5 June – 25 June 2012

KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana

Arrows by Gregor Radonjič is an exhibition in which arrows are presented as a motif in different situations and contexts. An arrow in modern urban or natural landscapes is an archaic symbol. Placing the arrow motif in such a context brings new connotations, with multi-layered meanings that go way beyond a purely documentary vision. With a few exceptions, the locations of the arrows are not clear. They challenge the spectator with their hidden meanings.

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8 June – 11 July 2012

Opening: Friday, 8 June at 8 pm

Galerija Dimenzija napredka Solkan

Šymon Kliman’s Fashion in Action series represents the overlap between reality and fiction and links the principles of both fashion and documentary photography. The real world with real people, real streets and places but with unreal characters of fashion models within these spaces. This work is closely connected to his Women in the Household series, inspired by ordinary women working in their homes.
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2 June – 1 July 2012

Dom Kulture Gallery, Kamnik

The myth of the “holylandscape” has been shaped over time by historical truth and ever-changing interpretations. Jerusalem is composed of multiple layers: layers of history, faiths and beliefs, of rulers and subjects and of social complexity. All have left their imprint on the landscape. It is a landscape that has been scarred by centuries of power struggles, and inscribed by the testimony of its inhabitants who discovered in it the roots and wellsprings of their faith.
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6 June – 1 July 2012

Opening: Wednesday, 6 June at 7 pm

MGLC Ljubljana

The exhibition puts on display the selection of the most representative works made by prominent Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli. In 1995, C.R.A.F. acquired the Luigi Crocenzi’s archives consisting of very important letters, books, and photographs that Crocenzi collected during all his life. Among the photographs there are more than 250 vintages realized by Mario Giacomelli from the 1950s till the end of the 1970s. Giacomelli’s discourse became symbolic when his photographs exasperate the emotive aspect of the reality.
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6 June – 31 July 2012

Cankarjev dom Ljubljana

Central to the Porto Vecchio photographic installation are large photographic images of one of the now demolished port facilities in Trieste.
Annibel Cunoldi Attems took the picture in 2002 and in 2011, the photograph was printed in both positive and negative forms on plexiglass. The negative image bears words by the Trieste writer Claudio Magris, testifying to the artist’s sensitivity to places, to her allowing for the coexistence of both the past and the future as well as a cross mixing of cultures. Because these photographs are hung away from the walls, the transparent images create a play of light, with reflections and traces of shadows upon the wall’s surface.

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The World Outside

16 May – 21 July 2012

Photogallery Stolp Maribor

Tanja Verlak / Matjaž Wenzel / Peter Koštrun

Nova F presents a concise overview on contemporary photography in Slovenia. Through a selection of artists and artist groups with different approaches to the medium, three thematic set-ups will be carried out. The second exhibition The World Outside accentuates on documenting the outer world and intimate perception of reality.
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6 June – 30 June 2012

Galerija Maribor

Ada Hamza / Andraž Jenkole / Borut Sluga / Ciril Jazbec / Darko Šemen / Darko Sintič / Goljat Katja / Andraž Gregorič / Ivica Čendak / Kaja Božič / Katarina Kokalj / Katra Petriček / Klemen Ilovar / Luka Dakskobler / Matevž Kosterov / Matija Medved / Matjaž Rušt / Nika Furlan / Nina Rojc / Peter Mrhar / Špela Škulj / Taja Polovšak / Vladimir Mićković

The exhibition 23 displays the work of 23 Slovenian photographers each demonstrating different styles and approaches to personal image making. The images were selected for their diversity and idiosyncratic nature. The exhibition is a joint venture between Galerija (Slovenia) and VASA (world).

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30 May – 24 June 2012

Cankarjev dom Ljubljana

Solo exhibition of Rijeka based photographer Ervin Debeuc is focusing on his most fruitful artistic period between 1955 and 1962 when he was completely devoted to documenting ordinary life on the streets of his hometown. In 2010 Debeuc donated seventy photographs from that period to the City Museum in Rijeka. At that time he was a young photographer devoted to marginal motifs marked by formal and technical elaboration to depict spirit of certain time and place.
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1 June – 17 June 2012

ZRC SAZU Atrium Ljubljana

The photographic exhibition, The First Slovene Popular Song Festivals by Edi Šelhaus, is a selection of the exhibition, The World of Music of the 60’s – on the 90th Anniversary of the Photojournalist Edi Šelhaus, opened on 13 August 2009 at Ljubljana Castle (in 2009/2010 on view also at Bled Festival Hall and at the Slovenian Radio and Television hall, the Oton Župančič Library and the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia in Ljubljana) and was prepared by the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia (author Jožica Šparovec) to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Edi Šelhaus, one of the legends of Slovene war and post-war photo journalism.
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From October 20 until November 14, 2010

Galerija Vžigalica (MGML) Ljubljana

The Projection of the City exhibition is conceived as research into the life of a metropolis, as  a large ‘organism’ whose image is defined both by structure as well as the anomalies which disrupt its structure, and at the same time establish the grounds for an even more solid construction, thus allowing such a monumental formation to function. Photography, as a static image of a city is enlivened and animated by the soundscape of the city, which encourages the motion of a photographic motif. A stable symmetrical frozen image surrenders to the vivacious intrusions of random intervention, and follows the city’s arbitrary auditory composition that forms its signature.

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From October 22 until November 13, 2010

Fotogalerija Stolp Maribor

Natasa Košmerl’s September series works of art are like visual diary entries. They are denoted by intimacy, introspection and the questioning of the artist’s own identity. Poetic landscapes, melancholy interiors, scenes from family life and exposed fragments of love life all carry a profoundly personal intonation. The artist’s emotional involvement which is evident throughout her work enriches the captured moments with a certain special intensity.

Her photography paints a subtle portrait of the author herself, of her awareness of own individuality and questions her distance towards others.

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From November 2 until November 20, 2010
Delavski dom Trbovlje
V.A.T Group: Špela Pavli, Maša Jazbec, Lili Bedekovič, Andrej Uduč, Andrej Grilj, Primož Zakrajšek, Katja Sovre, Marjan Korenjak, Robert Ahlin, Matic Kolar, Tanja Hanžič, David Čavar.

Artists, entangled within the social structure of degraded worker’s town, use articulated and at the same time poetic form of photography to speak up about themselves, their intimacy, relationship to the world, about the fears and hopes and expectations, about life. Zone Trbovlje deals with artifacts and the sediments of time which is irrevocably coming to an end. At the same time it shows the possible outlooks of the future. Different affinities of the artists together form a complex image of particular architectural and social structure of closed and sometimes self-sustaining community.

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from October 26 until November 16, 2010
Galerija Kud ateljeMIKADO


Marko Modic is known for his photography that strives to penetrate reality and matter to show the viewing audience a new world, a world that is, yet isn’t, pure artistic abstraction.
Modic started exhibiting his work in the ...

from October 12 until December 5, 2010

Moderna galerija Ljubljana

Espaces of solitude is Milan Pajk’s photographic project, comprised of a book and an exhibition. The book includes 11 series with 69 photographs. As the photographs are substantively and contextually linked to the spaces of North-west Africa, the translations are self-evidently in French. The Modern Gallery exhibition accompanying the book shows a selection of 39 photographs, mostly achieved through the analogue technique. Series and exhibition Espaces de solitude records and deals with the lonely vast areas of the Sahara where individual can not only grasp this fleeting life, but also doubt our perception of this world.

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from November 5, 2010 until January 5, 2011

Galerija Dom KULTure Ptuj

Back in the 19th century, the photographic eye became dedicated to the naked – predominantly female – form. With a refined focus on body language, Branko Lenart additionally extends the classical and popular motif of the nude. Rather than ousting or even losing nudity, his approach points out poises, gestures and touches, whilst the pre-eminence of a human body vindicates its place in the immensity of the natural milieu. Past and present, artificial and natural, form the horizon of projection to meet a motif which, in this particular case, is not confined to the lustful eye.

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from November 23 until December 7, 2010

Galerija Kud ateljeMIKADO Ljubljana

Ever since the 90’s, Antonio Živkovič has been becoming one of those photographers who form their own unique artistic style which sets them apart from other artists. His interest mostly lies in industrial stories formed in the past and presenting the basis for technical progress. This involves mostly architecture from the areas of heavy industry, which means the construction of such buildings was mostly practical. We can see an interesting visual meaning within many of these buildings, a meaning that becomes more apparent with the age of the architecture.

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From November 10 until December 1, 2010

Modra hiša, Ljubljana

Aljaž Velički, a young Slovenian photographer, who is in his fourth year of studies under professor Lubo Stach at the renowned Vysoki školi vytvarnych umenia (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) in Bratislava, is presenting his work with two series of photographs with a joint name What have we forgotten? Both series appear very different at first glance, as the artist uses different photographic techniques to achieve a certain goal; however they are also very alike, as they represent his thoughts about the world. With this project, Aljaž Velički uncompromisingly, yet sensibly, takes on the bigger issues in life.

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