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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A talk by Mark Bischof and Andrea Holzherr
30 May at 6 pm
Jakopič Gallery / MGML

MARIO GIACOMELLI & NEO-REALISM IN PHOTOGRAPHY
A talk by Walter Liva (C.R.A.F. Spilimbergo)
6 June 2012 at 7 pm
MGLC (International Graphic Centre) Ljubljana
www.mglc-lj.si

Presentation of a project and panel discussion: Michaela Bosáková, Želimir Koščević, Primož Lampič and Lara Štrumej
7 June 2012 at 6 pm
Konzorcij bookshop, Ljubljana
The History of European Photography (1900 – 2000) is an international research project spanning the whole of Europe. The...

MUTATIONS II: MOVING STILLS – DISCUSSION
Panel discussion with Barbara Borčić, Ida Hiršenfelder and Metka Zupanič

8 June at 7pm
Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography
www.photon.si

A chat with renown Slovenian photographers
14 June at 7 pm
Jakopič Gallery / MGML

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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A presentation by Fernanda Prado
20 June 2012 at 7 pm

Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography
The Brazilian, Slovene based, independent curator and photo editor Fernanda Prado will make a presentation about Brazilian Contemporary Photography. The talk will present a selection of artists w...

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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