About the Vžigalica Gallery
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The 2007 renovation of the premises of the former Križanke Cultural and Information Centre gave rise to the Vžigalica Gallery.
The space has not only undergone a transformation in terms of physical renovation, image and name, but mainly as regards its programme and organisation. During the past three years of its operation, the Vžigalica Gallery has risen to prominence as a venue for varied projects pertaining to contemporary visual, audio-visual, performance and other art practices. So far, the co-operation with non-governmental and other organisations active in the field of culture has yielded results and offered new perspectives on both sides, which is why this co-operation will also continue in 2011.
During the time of its existence, the Vžigalica Gallery has hosted diverse exhibitions which were either part of larger projects and festivals or independent presentations of major names of world art and young artists, even artists in residence. Apart from that, the Gallery has also been engaged in both domestic and international projects whose production was specially adjusted to the venue.
The Vžigalica Gallery retains its basic concept of a smaller yet extremely flexible art gallery in the very centre of Ljubljana. Its task will remain to encourage various reactions of both culture and art to the idea of urban culture and, at the same time, to contribute to defining this phenomenon.
By making public invitations for projects we aim to encourage the non-governmental sector, artists and other organisations to respond to the phenomena occurring in the urban cultural space in which we live, and to place them in a wider context of contemporary culture and art. The broader context means both an expanded view in the geographical sense, i.e. familiarity with the macrocosmos of international production and the culture of contemporary society at large; as well as the broad-mindedness of the artist’s or curator’s attitude to a certain visual work of art, installation, audio-visual object or performance practice. Our intention is to continue to study the concept of urbanity, i.e. to identify the artistic attributes of the town, the challenges posed by urban culture, and to find out how to address them when a broad range of starting points is taken into account: artistic, educational, scientific, creative, visual, aural, virtual, historical, social and many more.
The Gallery’s objective is to act as a laboratory for new ideas, creative formulas and different attitudes which invariably arise from high-quality contemporary artistic production.
The projects presented are compiled bearing in mind the fact that the Vžigalica Gallery is the most flexible part of Ljubljana’s central museal and gallery institution whose fundamental values as regards presentations of both the heritage and contemporary art practices reflect accessibility, quality production, instructiveness, professional competence, creativity and co-operation.
The space has not only undergone a transformation in terms of physical renovation, image and name, but mainly as regards its programme and organisation. During the past three years of its operation, the Vžigalica Gallery has risen to prominence as a venue for varied projects pertaining to contemporary visual, audio-visual, performance and other art practices. So far, the co-operation with non-governmental and other organisations active in the field of culture has yielded results and offered new perspectives on both sides, which is why this co-operation will also continue in 2011.
During the time of its existence, the Vžigalica Gallery has hosted diverse exhibitions which were either part of larger projects and festivals or independent presentations of major names of world art and young artists, even artists in residence. Apart from that, the Gallery has also been engaged in both domestic and international projects whose production was specially adjusted to the venue.
The Vžigalica Gallery retains its basic concept of a smaller yet extremely flexible art gallery in the very centre of Ljubljana. Its task will remain to encourage various reactions of both culture and art to the idea of urban culture and, at the same time, to contribute to defining this phenomenon.
By making public invitations for projects we aim to encourage the non-governmental sector, artists and other organisations to respond to the phenomena occurring in the urban cultural space in which we live, and to place them in a wider context of contemporary culture and art. The broader context means both an expanded view in the geographical sense, i.e. familiarity with the macrocosmos of international production and the culture of contemporary society at large; as well as the broad-mindedness of the artist’s or curator’s attitude to a certain visual work of art, installation, audio-visual object or performance practice. Our intention is to continue to study the concept of urbanity, i.e. to identify the artistic attributes of the town, the challenges posed by urban culture, and to find out how to address them when a broad range of starting points is taken into account: artistic, educational, scientific, creative, visual, aural, virtual, historical, social and many more.
The Gallery’s objective is to act as a laboratory for new ideas, creative formulas and different attitudes which invariably arise from high-quality contemporary artistic production.
The projects presented are compiled bearing in mind the fact that the Vžigalica Gallery is the most flexible part of Ljubljana’s central museal and gallery institution whose fundamental values as regards presentations of both the heritage and contemporary art practices reflect accessibility, quality production, instructiveness, professional competence, creativity and co-operation.
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