Center in Galerija P74
Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 40 370 199
Managed byP.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
P74 Centre and Gallery
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Past events
22 Jan 2025
20 Feb 2025
AustriaViennaSKC Korotan
A joint exhibition by visual artists Small but dangers (the artistic duo of Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin Salči), and Špela Škulj, curated by Nina Skumavc. The opening accompanies a musical performance by Sabina Vostner. The exhibition is produced by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute's P74 Centre and Gallery. Promoted by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Vienna.
10 Jan 2020
29 Feb 2020
AustriaViennaGalerie Stock
The exhibition CODE:RED by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), co-produced by the P74 Centre and Gallery and City Art Gallery Ljubljana, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA),
26 Sep 2019
29 Sep 2019
AustriaViennaMarx HalleViennacontemporary International Art Fair
The exhibition NSK State in Time (Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK)), curated and presented by Tevž Logar, in the Focus section, supported by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory; P74 Centre and Gallery presenting Polonca Lovšin and Uroš Potočnik; Photon Gallery presenting Peter Koštrun and Vanja Bučan; Ravnikar Gallery Space presenting Nina Čelhar, Simon Kocjančič and Maja Babič Košir; and Galerija Fotografija presenting Andrej Lamut, Boris Gaberščik and Tilyen Mucik, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA),
Mission and programme
The centre fosters knowledge, encourages the exchange of new ideas, and promotes innovative and challenging models in contemporary art and culture. This mission is achieved by P74's programme of solo and group exhibitions as well by other national and international visual arts, new media arts, and experimental music projects (for example, Sound Explicit).
Artists' books
In 2003 the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute started a public artist's book competition for artists of all nationalities living and working in Slovenia. Two years later, the organisation began producing and publishing artists' books. Since then, the venue has become the home of its growing Artist's Book Collection. In early summer 2009 the P74 Center and Gallery was also the venue of the practical oriented workshop for artists' books.
In 2010, in collaboration with the UNESCO project World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute organised the first Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book, a book fair with exhibitions, retrospectives, symposia. The Blind Date series of events has been dedicated to artists' books: in 2011 P74 organised the exhibition of books published by Lubok Verlag, Leipzig, there has been also some presentations of the Blind Date Convention abroad.
Exhibitions
Since the beginning the P74 Center and Gallery has featured projects by emerging Slovene artists featuring solo or group shows. Some of the artists that have started here are Sašo Vrabič and Žiga Kariž as well as Tanja Lažetić, Dejan Habicht, Miha Knific, Nika Zupančič, Tobias Putrih, Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar, Vesna Bukovec, Jure Engelsberger, and Tomaž Tomažin. Each year one of the solo exhibitions is dedicated to the winner of the OHO Group Award.
The P74 Center and Gallery often cooperates with guest curators to include work of Slovene artists within an international context. The international research and curatorial project The Renaming Machine curated by Suzana Milevska featured a symposium, exhibition in the Jakopič Gallery in 2008 and a book (published in 2010). The project dealt with the "construction and destabilisation of the memory of national, cultural and personal identities in the former Yugoslavia and South-Eastern Europe over the past two decades".
In 2009 Miško Šuvaković prepared the exhibition Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group focused on the notion of neo-avant-garde excess in the context of the socialistic society. In the same year P74 celebrated the 15th anniversary of P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art with the exhibition This is not America.
See also
- P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
- Kapsula Gallery
- OHO Group Award
- Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book
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