The exhibition title Sabes nadar/Can You Swim reveals, in the artist’s words, “the state of being caught in a power struggle.” For Petrič, swimming is not merely moving through water, but a symbol of drifting through life, through the energy of the food chain … a constant without which th...

The exhibition „Urban-rural-artificial-natural-fast–slow“ consists of 16 photographic diptychs; one image shows nature and its different visual manifestations, and the other urban objects made by the human hand. Images have similar compositions and conditions of shooting, which emphasizes th...

Metka Vergnion was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studied photography in ENSLL in Paris. She lives and works in Geneva , Switzerland. Solo exhibitions: 1980 Galerie Espace photographique, Paris; 1982 Centre William Rappard –GATT, Geneva, Switzerland; 1983 Klub kulturnih in znanstvenih delavcev...

PIRAN IN METAPHORICAL EARLY AUTUMN
Branko Lenart is a migrant. He was born in Ptuj, but his family moved to Graz when he was six, and in 2001 he also became a citizen of Piran. Journeys are his passion, but perhaps it was the moving around as a child that contributed to him being so attentive to t...

The series of photos “On the blade of horizon” is the result of the author’s coincidental experience from roaming, travelling and flaneur strolls and his contact and confrontations with more or less familiar locations and places. A fascination over open spaces, vacuum, strong contrasts, refl...

»Observe and consider before you open the shutter. The heart and mind are the actual objective of the camera.« (Yousuf Karsh). These words, expressed by the renowned portrait photographer of the 1980’s, sound somewhat indecent if looked upon with our modern »consumer« attitudes. However,...

Photonic Moments is a salon review of contemporary photographic creation in Eastern and South-eastern Europe and presents the main project of the Month of Photography festival. This exhibition project in the form of a collective exhibition again hosts several acknowledged experts: curators, galler...

The series Tsuriai was created during a one month journey in Japan. The author wanted to concentrate on two different sides of this country, the classical side and the modern side and represent them as diptychs. The collection deals with the two opposite poles of Japan and the experience of a visi...

Jeršič’s aestheticised simulacrums take full advantage of the allegorical potential of the photographic medium, which is characterised by an implicit awareness of the ephemerality of all things and the strive to preserve these under the guise of archetypically conveying eternity. The gazes of ...

In the series of female images Kusterle is inspired by the contemporary meaning of beauty and external perfection, burdened by the un-acceptance of what is natural and inevitable. In lack of inner harmony and the respect for the dignity of ageing, contemporary aesthetics vainly approaches interven...

The term noosphere refers to the “spere of human thought”. An “intelligent cover” around the globe which embraces all intellectual processes. Gyula Fodor doesn’t follow the theological reference of the term neither the one to Virtual Reality. He rather tries to create a new artistic refe...

Non Public Spaces deals with spaces which are not ordinarily open to ordinary citizens. These chosen places have special political, economic or social significance. At first, this places seem irrelevant to our lives, but on closer inspection we become more conscious of their connection to our ever...

Six photographic series made during the summer of 2003 in Seattle represent architectural motifs in smaller series of 3–4 photographs. Night scenes always exclude people, although it is people who created them. Reduced light conditions require long-term exposure and special circumstances. While ...

In September 2008, Triestèfotografia festival witnessed its fourth edition. This annual event organised by the colleagues from Trieste working within the Juliet Institute (they also publish the art magazine with the same name) is mainly aimed at presentation of photography made in Italy and the n...

Since mid-1970s, Hup first participated with the street theatre company Predrazpadom, Hidrogizma sound and space project, as well as the Ana Monroe Theatre. Further to this, he participated with a number of groups and individuals who between 1975-1985 worked within Škuc and Forum associations, an...

The initiative for the biennial exhibition titled “Miniatures” came from the Janez Puhar Photography Club in Kranj and they presented it at the first exhibition of miniature photographs in 2002. The exhibition received positive reviews and subsequently an international exhibition of ph...

The theme of this year’s meeting was the revealing of nooks and cranies of Ajdovščina, which in their self-absorbed daily routine have become invisible to the natives. Since Castrumphoto is a photographic record of the life and pulse of this town, the photographers were invited to disclose...

The selection of photographs from the oeuvre of Vilijem Cigoj, self titled as Narrations, comprises works from three artistic series: Traveling through the Time and Space, Burja and Bread. These photographic cycles represent independent and complete entireties not related whatsoever in terms of co...

The Slovene photographer Tomaž Lunder (b. 1955) is an author whose opera shows a great variety in genre. He’s dedicated to portraiture, sometimes quite experimental, especially when portraying friends and acquaintances, while photos of strangers in their natural surroundings reveal somethin...

It was not until the third meeting that somebody, to the approval of all three, proposed the title of our project. At that time it was not yet clear if the technological solution to our mutual problem of tripartite visualization is within the scope of our technical knowledge. I insisted on scaling...

Soon two decades will have passed since the Berlin Wall fell, the line of demarcation between East and West, symbolically concentrated in the former front-line city. Since the reunification, Berlin has changed radically. Almost the whole social structure was called into question; the result is a p...

The exhibition »Passages to Modern Concerns« of the author, who signs his work with his initials DK, has a retrospective character, but at the same time gives insight into the author’s newer photographic production. »His photography – while it is completely irrelevant which chosen work ...

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Exhibition of art photographs with the scope on “multicultural dialog and absence of this dialog” /portraits, autoportraits, masks, posters, shadows, puppets, graffitti …/
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Photomultivision as reflection of multilayered problems of this dialog and its absence
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Music of the author...

The 1990s post-communist situation – the analogue, pre-digital world, without mobile phones, email, digital cameras. When the Berlin wall falls, Velvet Revolution ensues and old systems stop functioning. A short time of euphoria is followed by grave insecurity in society and loss of vision f...

As an artist, Tomo Brejc always strived for a determined deviation from accepted patterns of the authorial photography context – he managed to create a unique recognizable style, which turns mainly to directed documentarism, based on a firm, conceptually oriented background. He was one of the fi...