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The idea for the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic the number of participating nations was held in 2003 and curated by Christophe Ka Arts came into being in the first half of expanded to include countries such as India, Cherix, specialising in art prints of the 1960s the 1950s, when the spheres of arts and Indonesia, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, the and 1970s. The mass-produced image was oVER YOU/YOU COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS culture in socialist Yugoslavia were gradually former United Arab Republic and many more. put in a broader social and even political The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana starting to reopen to modernity. The links Whereas the Biennial was a brand mark of context, featuring artists’ books, posters, with the pre-war Modernism that had been Yugoslavia’s open foreign policy, acting as an photocopies, fliers and art newspapers. In a abruptly severed were slowly becoming undeniably powerful ideological machine, it different vein, The Event, the 29th Biennial 01 mGLC/International Centre of Graphic 09 Galerija Cankarjevega doma, 12 nLB Gallery Avla, Trg republike 2 re-established, and it is for this reason that was – last but not least – an art exhibition in of Graphic Arts renounced its printmaking Arts, Tivoli Mansion, Pod turnom 3 Prešernova cesta 10 The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic the Biennial initially drew heavily on the the service of specific goals: an art meeting background, concentrating instead on the main exhibition maría Elena González, Grand Prize Winner of the Arts Through the Poster universalist ideals of the School of Paris (École point; an open window into the world; a art event itself. However, it was already 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts (until 1. 11. 2015) de Paris). Like several other international real opportunity for the artists outside the during the preparations for the 30th edition 02 Jakopič Promenade 13 tipoRenesansa, Breg 22 exhibitions, the format of the Biennial Western Europe and the USA, and their of the Biennial that the strategic decision Will Benedict, Asad Raza 10 The Tivoli Forum Blind Material followed the structure of the Venice Biennial dreams. It was also a source of pride and to return to the specific qualities of the Biennial Public Education Programme in Tivoli in its concept of a world exhibition. Along inspiration for Ljubljana’s sizeable audience medium of printmaking took shape. A revived 03 moderna galerija, Windischerjeva 2 Park. Schedule of events at www.mglc-lj.si 14a Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo with its founder and long-time director Zoran who visited the Biennial and took pleasure interest in this medium was driven by the main exhibition mladih, Vilharjeva cesta 11 Kržišnik, the other key figures were: Božidar in the work of a wide variety of the artists recognition of its creative possibilities and the 11 nAMA department store Take a New Look! Jakac, Zoran Mušič and Veno Pilon. The latter from all over the world. The charismatic relevance of printmaking and fine art prints 04 Galerija Kresija, Stritarjeva ulica 6 The Biennial in a Window Display two, naturalised Parisians, helped Kržišnik, personality of the director Zoran Kržišnik in a time of cultural capitalism. Moreover, it Bureau of Loose Associations present LUXUS 14b Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo the secretary and the main organiser of the managed to consolidate and expand the was right before our eyes that the youngest (until 5. 10. 2015) mladih, Art center, Komenskega 9 1st International Graphic Exhibition, select existing format, keeping the Biennial alive generation of artists (having grown up with Take a New Look! the prints created by exponents of the School even after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. the Internet) was rediscovering the artistic 05 mahrova house, Krekov trg 10 of Paris whose 144 works were to be at the In mid-1980s, Kržišnik even succeeded in potential of traditional printing and the Braco Dimitrijević very core of the first Biennial. The choice establishing a new institution dedicated book. Therefore, Interruption, the 30th of the medium of printmaking was based on solely to graphic arts (International Centre Biennial of Graphic Arts re-addressed the 06 Galerija Škuc, Stari trg 21 its widespread presence as an art form in of Graphic Arts), which remains the main very nature of the printmaking processes and Becky Beasley (until 27. 9. 2015) both and Yugoslavia, as well as the producer and organiser of the Biennial until their relevance to contemporary artworks. position of graphic arts in war-time partisan today. At the turn of the millennium, Kržišnik Moving firmly along the lines of its 07 national and University Library, Turjaška 1 image-making. Furthermore, on a practical left his position, and handed over to Lilijana predecessors, Over you / you, the 31st Becky Beasley level, prints were easy to disseminate. Stepančič. It was Stepančič who launched the Biennial of Graphic Arts, spans the history (28. 8.-15. 9. / 23.10.-30. 11.) Moreover, it was the very first exhibition that concept of a curated show and adopted an of specific features relating to printmaking, demonstrated Yugoslavia’s many historical and expanded definition of the graphic medium, drawing upon philosophy, film and literature. 08 Galerija Jakopič, Slovenska cesta 9 political advantages: thanks to Yugoslavia’s thereby transforming the biennial format It communicates to us that the art of our time Giles Round specific position, the exhibition could act – after almost 45 years – in line with the is vibrant with the impressions left behind as a crossroads between the East and the changed geopolitical context and the current by both the artists and the art of the past. West, featuring 'all the continents cultivating state in the evolution of the medium of graphic arts' (J. Vidmar). After 1961, the major international art exhibitions. A radical Biennial was also in line with Yugoslavia’s change in the Biennial’s future orientation Nevenka Šivavec official policy of Non-Alignment. As a result, was brought about with its 25th edition Director of International Centre of Graphic Arts 4 5 31st Biennial The Main Exhibition of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana The Biennial

1. Braco Dimitrijević 1 The Casual Passer-by 2 I met at 1.43 PM, Venice (1976) © Braco Dimitrijević Opening Archive of Graphic courtesy of the artist, motinternational and Tate Collection, London

2. Will Benedict: from the Days series Bad Weather (2015) commissioned by the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Arts courtesy of the artist and Overduin & co., Los Angeles

Saturday, 29 August 20.00 3. Goshka Macuga 3 SONICA CLASSICS II: Hildur Untitled (Snake) (2009) © Goshka Macuga 10.00–11.00 Guðnadóttir, concert on a raft, courtesy of Goshka Bureau of Loose Associations presents MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, macuga and Monsoon LUXUS Even More Aggressive Innocence, Ljubljanica River and embankments Art Collection presentation and breakfast Galerija Kresija Sunday, 30 August 11.00–12.00 Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you 14.00–18.00 grow, presentation and breakfast, AVA, mentor David Gothard: White on White conversation and exhibition tour Coffee Shop of Moderna galerija Galerija Škuc OVER YOU 19.00 12.00–16.00 María Elena González: AVA, mentor David Gothard: White on White The Tree Talk Series, concert Coffee Shop of Moderna galerija Cankarjev dom, Duša Počkaj Hall

16.00–18.00 Asad Raza, D. Graham Burnett, Jeff Dolven: Schema for a School (2015) Please see the rest YOU Tivoli Park of the accompanying programme of the 31st 18.00 The 31st edition of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Moderna galerija and MGLC Jakopič Promenade Giles Round: Ljubljana, 1955 (2015), Biennial of Graphic Arts titled Over you / you, explores the sociopolitical Group exhibition including works by: Reza Abdoh, Along Plečnik’s promenade in Tivoli Park, Will including works by Cally Spooner, works on page 10. characteristics associated with the graphic arts, particularly Giorgio Andreotta Calò, AVA (Vanja Erjavec, Benedict installs a series of 120 posters exploring from the collection and photo archive of in relation to reproduction, publicity and community. This Evelina Hägglund, Ana Jagodic, Zala Kobe, Nina ways in which viewers psychologically internalise Moderna galerija and the MGLC collection, year’s edition – as befits a biennial which was the first to Oblak, Gregor Rozman, Luka Savic and Sanja images of the environment and read them exhibition opening with presentation encompass all printmaking techniques – includes stone Vatic), Chris Beauregard, Will Benedict, Wolfgang emotionally, politically and otherwise. For There Galerija Jakopič lithography, large-scale woodcuts, etchings, screen-prints, Breuer, Andrea Büttner, Ellen Cantor, castillo/ is no east or west, Asad Raza alters the Plečnik posters and artist’s books. It also opens up a conception corrales, Declan Clarke, Mike Cooter, Qëndresë street-lights in the centre of the promenade to Free admission to all events. of the graphic arts beyond traditional definitions, to Deda, Braco Dimitrijevic, Shannon Ebner, Luca flash in a sequence through the night, evoking encompass a sculpture floating through the city by river, Frei, Enej Gala, Peter Gidal, , David the blinking lights on a distant shoreline, horizon streetlights in a park, historic drawings transformed to Gothard, Meta Grgurevic, Andrew Hazewinkel, or cityscape for the duration of the Biennial. At kinetic machines, and experimental school programmes. Stewart Home, Tom Humphreys, Ištvan Išt the top of the promenade, Raza, together with The title Over you / you makes reference to an unresolved Huzjan, Sanya Kantarovsky, Aidan Koch, Gabriel D. Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven, is holding tension between contrasting states of identity, while also Kuri, Adriana Lara, Hilary Lloyd, Goshka Macuga, an experimental project, Schema for a school. implying the possibility of coexistence. Itself a graphic image David Maljkovic, Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, and an unstable proposition, the title reflects a tendency on Oscar Murillo, New Collectivism, Pilar Quinteros, Galerija Jakopič the part of the exhibition as a whole to create a discourse Asad Raza, Josefine Reisch, Lili Reynaud- Ljubljana 1955, Giles Round reconfigures works around attributes of graphic art such as diffusion, repetition Dewar, Giles Round, Luka Savic, Thirteen from the Biennial’s archive, including The Overall and distribution. Unique objects and singular narratives are Black Cats (Vic Brooks, Evan Calder Williams Oooh, an audio work by Cally Spooner which thus less in evidence in the show than facsimiles, procedures of and Lucy Raven), Akram Zaatari, Phillip Zach ushers the audience through the exhibition. mirroring, prototypes, imperfect copies and immaterial forms. The main exhibition brings together over 40 artists Galerija Kresija Galerija Škuc and Jože Plečnik’s who work in a multiplicity of ways, and includes new Bureau of Loose Associations, directed by National and University Library commissions, older works, exhibition design, redeployments Michał Woliński, exhibits a collection of Vladimir Vidmar curates Becky Beasley Sleep and re-contextualization of publicity materials and literary paintings by Polish collective LUXUS, who is when you grow, a series of printed posters Radio Bienale is broadcasting artefacts, as well as presentations that bring motion in 1993 made multiple stenciled paintings depicting a sculpture made by the artist that during the course of the 31st into the galleries and across the city of Ljubljana. of a mass-produced plastic toy cat as an was inspired by the work of Carlo Mollino, Radio Biennial of Graphic Arts The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana consists of emblem of post-Soviet capitalism. whilst simultaneously tracing a love story. Radio Bienale – a radio station with a the main exhibition Over you / you curated by Nicola Lees Bienale graphic influence – is a musical backdrop with associate curators Stella Bottai and Laura McLean- Mahrova house of songs that inspired or had a particular Ferris, on display at the Moderna galerija, the International Two large-scale photographic portraits affect on the artists participating in Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Tivoli Park, Galerija Kresija, by Braco Dimitrijević can be seen around the Biennial, or that they simply like. Jože Plečnik’s National and University Library and Galerija Ljubljana for the duration of the Biennial, You can listen to Radio Bienale Jakopič. Vladimir Vidmar curates a solo exhibition by Becky each featuring a headshot of an anonymous between 28 August and 3 December Beasley at the Galerija Škuc and María Elena González (award individual from the city. One portrait is in the Caffe Bienale in Tivoli winner of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts) will be on display positioned on the exterior of MGLC, and Mansion and on www.mglc-lj.si. in the Gallery of Cankarjev Dom curated by Božidar Zrinski. the other is on Mahrova House, close to the In cooperation with Radio Terminal. Dragon bridge. These form new additions to Dimitrijević’s historically important series Casual Nicola Lees Passer-By, which the artist has been making Curator, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana in cities across the world since 1969. 6 7 The Main Exhibition WHERE AND WHEN TO THE BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ARTS

BECKY BEASLEY: SLEEP IS WHEN YOU GROW GILES ROUND: LJUBLJANA, 1955 International Centre GALERIJA Jakopič, Slovenska cesta 9 ADMISSION PRICES: of Graphic Arts, 3 Pod turnom Giles Round: Ljubljana, 1955, Curator: Vladimir Vidmar Venue: Galerija Jakopič Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial part of the main exhibition of the single ticket Venue: Galerija Škuc 28 August–3 December of Graphic Arts Over you/you 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts (all exhibition venues 28 August–27 September 28 August–3 December 28 August–3 December included in admission): Opening hours: from Tuesday to Opening hours: from Tuesday to 10€ Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm Entrance fee: Biennial ticket Entrance fee: Biennial ticket Concessions ICOM, AICA, SMD, pupils, students, MODERNA GALERIJA, Windischerjeva 2 GALERIJA CankarjevEGA pensioners (all exhibition venues Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial domA, Prešernova cesta 10 included in admission): of Graphic Arts Over you/you María Elena González: The Tree Talk 6€ 28 August–3 December Series, exhibition of the winner of Opening hours: from Tuesday to the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts family ticket Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm 28 August–1 November (all exhibition venues included Entrance fee: Biennial ticket Opening hours: from Tuesday to in admission): Saturday, from 10 am to 6 pm, on 15€ Jakopič Promenade Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial Entrance fee: Biennial ticket school groups with of Graphic Arts Over you/you guided tour 28 August–3 December (all exhibition venues included NLB Gallery Avla, Trg republike 2 in admission): GALERIJA Kresija, Stritarjeva ulica 6 The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts 6€ Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial through the Poster, collateral exhibition of Graphic Arts Over you/you of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts groups (of at least 15) 28 August–15 October 6 August−3 December with guided tour (all exhibition Opening hours: from Monday to Friday, Opening hours: from Monday to venues included in admission): from 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday from 10 Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm 8€ Giles Round: 1957 (2015) am to 2 pm, Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm Entrance fee: admission free Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana Entrance fee: admission free free of charge Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo pre-school children, visitors with National and University mladih, Vilharjeva cesta 11 and disabilities, Friends of the Biennial, Library, Turjaška 1 Art Center, Komenskega 9 KUL abonma subscribers, URBANA Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial Take a New Look!: Children’s graphic Tourist Card holders, journalists, of Graphic Arts Over you/you prints from the archive of Pionirski CIMAM, Biennial Foundation 28 August–15 September and dom, collateral exhibition of the Artist Giles Round responded to the corner of which the artist’s 23 October–30 November 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts clients of NLB d. d. the invitation to participate in the hand (wearing a white cotton glove) Opening hours: from Monday to Friday, 4 November−3 December (all exhibition venues included in 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts in can be seen, together with a faint from 8 am to 8 pm, Saturday from 8 am Opening hours: Pionirski dom: from Monday admission): enjoy a 30% discount on tickets Ljubljana by conceiving an artistic reflection. The original image from to 5 pm (except 29 August, to 6 pm) to Thursday, from 3 pm to 7 pm; Art Centre, purchased at the MGLC Ticket Office Becky Beasley: Walnut Hand (2014), Gelatin silverprint, 53.5 x 48 cm interpretation of the history of this art 1965 accidentally also shows the Entrance fee: admission free from Monday to Friday, from 3 pm to 7 pm Nama Loyalty Card Holders Courtesy of the artist and Francesca Minini, Milan event. Round’s title for his exhibition reflection of the photographer Entrance fee: admission free stems from the first Biennial. documenting the exhibition in the GALERIJA Škuc, Stari trg 2 (all exhibition venues included in The artist tackles the glass of the framed print. The image Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you Studio tipoRenesansa, Breg 22 admission): enjoy a 20% discount on tickets interpretations of the past through appears as both a photograph and grow, part of the main exhibition of Blind Material, collateral exhibition purchased at the MGLC Ticket Office the awareness that this Biennial is not then again as a paler screen print, the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts only one of the oldest graphic arts which is overlaid with a distorted 28 August–27 September 28 August–28 September events in the world, but also the first facsimile of the Rauschenberg Opening hours: from Tuesday to Opening hours: Monday from 9 am to 12 to exhibit works of all printmaking lithograph, Accident (1963). Sunday, from 12 noon to 8 pm noon, from Tuesday to Friday, from 9 am techniques. He selected the archived Another appropriated work Entrance fee: admission free to 12 noon and between 4 pm and 8 pm, works from the collections of the appears in You know the old story… Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and between International Centre of Graphic Arts I can’t tell you again!!! (2015), Mahrova HOUSE, Krekov trg 10 4 pm and 8 pm, Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm and the Moderna galerija exhibited or displayed in the Galerija Jakopič Main exhibition of the 31st Biennial of Entrance fee: admission free Similarly to other projects by English Becky Beasley condenses produced between 1955 and 1999. and in the Moderna galerija. The Graphic Arts Over you/you (façade) artist Becky Beasley, the exhibition pregnancy and motherhood within By using unique interventions, fly-posted posters are linked to 28 August–3 December at Galerija Škuc (which is part of the the boundaries and possibilities of he plays with the conventions a work from 1975 that has been main exhibition of the 31st Biennial language and cut-up photographic encompassed in the interpretation reproduced by the artist in the wrong of Graphic Arts), Sleep is when you images. She translates the dimensions panels, title graphics and with the format. The sentence: ‘You know grow also builds on the tensions of her parents’ bodies into minimalist overall design of the exhibition. the old story…’ is supplemented between image, objects and language. wood works similar to shelves entitled He breaks up the gallery space by the artist with the frustrated In the present exhibition she Shelves for My Parents. Beside her by using a soft architecture printed exclamation: ‘I can’t tell you again!!!’. addresses life, with an emphasis works from wood, however, there with a series of photographs of a Conventional wayfinding on motherhood, sexuality and is another contemplation she deals technical team preparing the 1969 signage throughout Ljubljana, 1955 death, by using the metaphor of with: the (im)possible intersections exhibition. The selection of prints is reconfigured as an audio work. the changing seasons. She reflects of art and life. Yet, these are not the are suspended with wires in front of The audience is ushered through on creation, re-creation and only sculptures in the gallery. The these enlarged halftone images. the exhibition by the siren-like procreation, which she tackles subtle movements of two revolving He also photographed an archival singing of Cally Spooner’s The through a combination of different sculptures, Bearings and Given (Cock shot from the 1965 exhibition, in Overall Oooh (2013−2014). The 31st Biennial Grand prize OVER YOU media, and by placing older works & Clam), circling congenially at a alongside more recent ones. Among meditative pace, bring the cyclical The Biennial of Graphic Arts has been a juried exhibition from NAD TABO SHORT GUIDE these, there is also the premiere of and creative into reflection. its outset. The Biennial Grand Prize has become an institution Selected works by artists from the Biennial Collection Beasley’s first video piece entitled A Flora, A Life is also a part of in itself and has been preserved until today, which is why this This bilingual (Slovene and of the International Centre of Graphic Arts: man restores a damaged artwork. the show in Ljubljana. The piece year’s Biennial will also be evaluated by an expert jury, which Arts of Graphic Biennial / 31st bienale čni English) fully illustrated Ay-O, Getulio Alviani, Max Bill, Elaine Breiger, Danilo Jejčič, TI Two large scale photographs includes hundreds of postcards will, at its discretion, select a work. The winner is traditionally catalogue presents a Andrej Jemec, Kimura Kosuke, Zdeněk Kučera, , Peter grafi 31. also hang in the gallery. The first with photographic images of lush presented at the next Biennial with a large-scale solo exhibition. comprehensive overview Matthews, Ivan Picelj, Arthur Luiz Piza, France Rotar, Lojze Spacal, image shows the luxuriant leaves of vegetation which are equipped with YOU of the exhibited artists and , Emilio Vedova, Edvard Zajec, Karel Zelenko the fig in life size, and the other a precise botanical data on the back. The jury of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts is composed projects. 156 pages. man’s hands with a pair of walnuts. The leaves, those in the exhibited of: Adam Budak, AlessandroKRATKI Rabottini,VODIč Emily King, Rafal 2015 Price: 20€ Selected works by artists from the Biennial = ShORT GUIDE These are two of the artist’s early books as well as those in the 20€ Niemojewski and Breda KolarISBN 978-961-6229-58-6 Sluga. The jury will meet Collection of Moderna galerija: works from an extensive series photographs, suggest an abstracted during the course of the Biennial, whereas the winner To order: +386 1 2413 808, Karel Appel, Jean-Michel Atlan, Roger Bissière, Victor Brauner, 9 789616 229586 of photographs entitled Fig Tree, nature as a way of thinking about time will be announced at the end of the Biennial. [email protected] translated into a book work, Days of and space, through the dimensions of Beverloo Guillaume Corneille, Marcel Fiorini, Léon Gischia, 1955 Life, whose fragments she intertwines the repetitive, sexuality and family. Jean-Jacques de Grave, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Roberto here into a prose poem about her Matta, Jean Le Moal, Giorgio Morandi, Gino Severini, Gustave pregnancy and the birth of her son. Singier, Zora Staack, Victor Vasarely, Emilio Vedova 8 9 COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITION OF THE WINNER OF THE 3OTH BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ARTS

THE LJUBLJANA BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC María Elena González ARTS THROUGH THE POSTER The Tree Talk Series Venue: NLB Gallery Avla 6 August–3 December

1 2 The exhibition Blind Material at the tipoRenesansa studio (in the photo) presents a selection of posters of experimental typography, hand-printed in the relief printing technique. Photo: Marko Drpić

Blind Material

Venue: tipoRenesansa, 1 studio for relief printing 28 August–28 September

The exhibition Blind Material presents a selection of posters of experimental typography, hand-printed in the relief printing technique. The original typeface and graphic materials from the tipoRenesansa studio have been used for printing, as well as lead, wood 1 france Mihelič, 1st International and plastic letters with different found Exhibition of Graphic Arts, 1955, objects (from various metal bits to keys) poster. Photo: MGLC Archive and mechanical elements, which have in this case become graphic material. 2 Vjenčeslav Richter, Jože Brumen, 13th The mesh composition of the exhibited International Biennial of Graphic Arts, posters is also marked by the lead material, 1979, poster. Photo: MGLC Archive which is used in relief printing to determine the spacing between the letters, lines and The poster has been an important companion the committee decided that a reproduction of chapters. This material is normally not of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts Picasso’s print would be placed on the cover, printed since it is lower than the letters, from its outset. Its role gradually changed initially intended for a print by Miha Maleš. and is known in Slovene by typesetters with the development of digital media as ‘blind material’. It is therefore an – its value in the past was attributed to From the reproduction of the artwork on the invisible element of relief printing, which communication and is today primarily seen poster to the corporate image of the Biennial has in this context gained its visual role. as cultural and historical, even collectible. The selection of posters from the 1st to the 8th An important collection of posters has International Exhibition of Graphic Arts was

accumulated through the course of the history based on an open call to artists who send their Aleš Hafner (18 of this international art event in Ljubljana. proposals. The break with this method was likely years), Selfportrait, The first were produced during the 1950s and triggered by the poster of Ivan Picelj for the 5th 1975, linocut, photo: 1960s, during a period that is known as the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, which Pionirski dom Archive blossoming of graphic design in Slovenia. deviated from the previous ones in that it no The exhibition The Ljubljana Biennial of longer used a reproduction of an artwork to Graphic Arts Through the Poster presents which a selected typography of letters had been a selection of posters from the Biennial added, but made use of contemporary graphic archive that gives us an overview of Slovenian design as visual communication for an art event. graphic design, the visual landscape of the A year later, the committee invited Jože various periods, and the starting points in the Brumen to collaborate. He conceived the visual interpretation of cultural and historical events. image of the event in a holistic way and designed the poster and the cover of the Biennial catalogue Posters and catalogues were a part (with a reproduction by Riko Debenjak), as well Take a New Look! of the Biennial from the start as a logo based on Picelj’s previous posters. Curator: Božidar Zrinski This year marks sixty years since the 1st Since 1969, the poster and the catalogue Children’s graphic prints from Venue: Gallery of Cankarjev dom International Exhibition of Graphic Arts in cover have represented a part of the corporate the archive of Pionirski dom 28 August–1 November Ljubljana, produced in the organization of a image of the Biennial, which was almost always Venue: Pionirski dom – center za nine-member organizing committee, chaired based around an actual fine art print, and after kulturo mladih and Art Center by Dr. France Stele, whose secretary was Zoran 1975, also on a print of one of the winning artists 4 November–3 December María Elena González is the recipient of the She flattened the bark of the birch, 1 maría Elena González: Untitled (2012) Kržišnik, who later became the longstanding head of the preceding Biennial. In such a way the Biennial’s main prize, the Grand Prix, for The and produced a series of etchings and Birch bark, Sharpie marker of the Biennial of Graphic Arts and the founder Biennial posters after 1971 incorporated the Pioniski dom – center za kulturo Tree Talk Series exhibited at the 30th Biennial drawings. She then scanned the furrowed ink, cardboard, adhesive tape of the International Centre of Graphic Arts. graphic works of , Adriana Maraž, mladih from Ljubljana - has been of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana in 2013. For her patterns and had them laser cut into rolls 86.4 x 100.3 cm The minutes of the organizing committee Tetsuya Noda, Andrej Jemec, Lojze Logar, Dan encouraging the artistic creativity of solo exhibition in the Gallery of Cankarjev for a mechanical piano (pianola). courtesy of the artist bear witness to the fact that in addition Alison, Günther Ueckerj as well as others. children and young people for years, dom, she will supplement the award-winning The exhibition in Ljubljana will feature to the structure and framework of the This practice stopped in the new millennium and runs classes for learning new art series with her latest production, made the latest drawings, etchings, prints, a video exhibition, the scope of the accompanying with the 24th International Biennial of Graphic techniques. Workshops are organized in especially for the installation in Ljubljana. projection and rolls for the mechanical visual communications was also set at Arts. This brought a breath of fresh air to the its painting, sculpture and print studios. María Elena González, a Cuban artist who piano, which disclose the artistic process the very beginning of its planning. It was event, but also a new promotional approach, The Centre also keeps an extensive lives and works between New York and Basel, and fascination with the forms that the artist decided at the second committee meeting part of which also addressed its corporate print archive with several thousand is essentially a sculptor, who uses innovative encountered in nature. In cooperation with a Accompanying programme to the that the event would be accompanied by image. A new corporate image for the Biennial graphic matrices and impressions, ways to expand her projects into the field local musician, two musical events are also part of exhibition – concert events: a bilingual catalogue and a poster. became a permanent fixture then, undersigned which have been produced under the of the graphic arts, music composition and the exhibition, where visitors will be able to listen 29 August at 19.00, Duša Počkaj Hall Work on the poster was originally taken by a different designer or design team every supervision of prominent Slovenian performance. The exhibition entitled The Tree to and hear the music of the birch trees. The 27 October at 18.00, Duša Počkaj Hall on by Riko Debenjak. The Kurenti woodcut time, with complete freedom in the use of artists, including Drago Hrvacki, Talk Series stems from the artist’s inspiration scores, full of phrasing, polyphony and rhythm, by France Mihelič was chosen as the main visuals. Graphic elements began to shape the Bogdan Borčić, Tinca Stegovec, Alenka when she encountered a fallen birch tree in a are surprisingly contemporary for today’s times. Two compositions by artist María Elena González image for the first Biennial and was printed in corporate image of each Biennial separately. Gerlovič, Lado Pengov, among others. forest near a summer art colony organized by Thus artist María Elena González does not will be performed on the pianola, which will be an edition of 500. Through a turn of events, The exhibition, which accompanies this the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. only address the synesthesia of the sensory played by the multitalented Slovenian musician however, a print by Pablo Picasso found its year’s Biennial of Graphic Arts, includes The look at the furrowed patterns on the world in her project, but also emphasizes the Boštjan Gombač. The compositions are a part of way to the cover of the catalogue. The works The text is translated and abbreviated from the works that were created between the bark of the birch reminded the artist of the established relationships between culture and the Tree Talk Series project and were produced of the Spanish artist arrived for exhibition at accompanying text to the exhibition of Biennial 1960s and 1990s. The presented graphic sound of piano compositions. She wondered nature, and its technological extensions, joints when the artist scanned and digitally translated the last moment, when the catalogue was posters by museum counsellor mag. Breda Škrjanec prints and proposals reflect children’s how a tree sounds. It took seven years for her and realisations, to which she introduces an samples of the bark of a fallen birch tree, before already set and at the printers’, which is why from the International Centre of Graphic Arts technical knowledge and diversity, both to turn the concrete visual record into sound. altogether original aspect and approach. cutting them into rolls for the mechanical piano. in terms of creativity and genre. 10 11 accompanying programme accompanying programme

TIVOLI FORUM — EVENTS (JSP), Tanja Zorn Grželj, Ana Jelinič, Nika TIVOLI FORUM — Programme AT THE BIENNIAL VENUES Pilar Quinteros: Cathedral of Freedom (2015) The Tivoli Forum is an open educational and Ravnik (niOka), Maja Štamol and Elena Fajt. for children and families Commissioned by the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana public programme, which takes place in MGLC Courtesy of the artist Tivoli Park in the MOTO Biennial container, Women with Thread in their Hands Biennial mornings for small children next to the International Centre of Graphic Workshop and exhibition, and mothers, as well as groups of Literary evening: Listi z roba, 2015 Arts (Tivoli Mansion). MOTO is open during carried out by Oloop children from kindergartens Thursday, 10 September, at 5pm the time of events and in good weather Workshop: Tuesday, 10 November, Every Friday during the Biennial, A new book published by Mladinska every weekend from 10am to 6pm. from 6-9pm, the exhibition is on from 10am to 12pm (for groups knjiga centres on the correspondence display until Sunday 15 November also upon prior arrangement) between Izidor Cankar and Veno Pilon, MOTO Talk Hand embroidery workshop in which the supplemented with essays by Alenka Puhar Tuesday, 15 September, at 5pm motifs of the nude female body from the fine Saturday Workshops and Irena Mislej. Alenka Puhar and Irena MOTO was conceived as a project and a art prints of Petra Varl will serve as the base. Workshops for children and families Mislej are taking part in the literary evening, building-container as part of Affordable Participants will upgrade them into their own invite you to the park for creative moderated by editor, Nela Malečkar. Living at BIO 50. It is the original work artworks by adding their personal memories. pursuits and visual games: of a group of artists: Mika Cimolini, Uroš Saturday, 5 September, 11am-1pm Over you/you, seminar: Babnik, Aleš Ogorevc, Adrian Friend, Lee Graphic Biennial, Independent Saturday, 26 September, 11am-3pm Friday, 27 November, 10am-4pm Ivett, Staša Dabič Perica. A talk with the Biennial and Endless Editions Saturday, 10 October, 11am-3pm The seminar explores the themes of artists and their guests will explore the Face-To-Face: Blind Date Drawing and painting laboratory or Flying the main exhibition of the 31st Biennial possibilities for the creative uses of public Workshop and presentation of Paintings, Contours, Creations, Relief of Graphic Arts Over you/you. spaces (concept by Mika Cimolini). results: from Thursday to Sunday, Drawings Captured Drawing and Tear 12–15 November, Kino Šiška Drawings. Carried out by the Recyclers MGLC Lecture Room: Library under the Treetops visits Presentation of art book from the group (Primož Seliškar and Urša Steiner). During the course of the 31st Biennial of the Biennial of Graphic Arts project and works of Endless Editions: Graphic Arts, from Tuesday to Sunday Saturday, 12 September, 10am-6pm Tuesday, 24 November, MGLC/MOTO Tivoli Cultural Neighbourhood Asad Raza: Schema for a School (2015) Saturday, 19 September, 10am-6pm A creative exchange between artists and Thursday, 17 September, from 10am to 11am A temporary experimental school was held Saturday, 3 October, 10am-6pm designers from New York City and Ljubljana Biennial workshop for children. for a fortnight prior to the opening of the The Library under the Treetops and the MGLC in the form of a three-day workshop 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts at MGLC and Library invite you to MOTO for a good old in Kino Šiška in Ljubljana and Endless Through Play to Heritage in Tivoli Park. A group of the school’s young read. The producer of the Library under the Editions in New York; with guests from Workshops for groups: from Tuesday to participants presents a series of interventions Treetops is Divja misel in collaboration with the Finnish collective Sanakuva Lahti. Friday, 6–9 October, 10am-12pm and events during the course of the Biennial. Vodnikova domačija Šiška. For bookings keep up to date on FB. Family workshop: Saturday, 10 October, 11am-3pm Moderna galerija Tivoli Cultural Neighbourhood TIVOLI FORUM — Workshops Advance booking to [email protected] Tuesday, 29 September, at 5pm On Thursday, 17 September, at 6pm an Workshop programme for organized groups Thursday, 12 November, at 5pm opening ceremony of the neighbourhood will Tivoli: Pixilation Workshop of children during Children’s Week. Forward to the Past: About the Emergence be held in front of MGLC, followed by a tour of Saturday, 23 September, between 4-6pm and Development of the International Nama Department Store Display Window to the other venues of the main exhibition galerija, Jakopič Promenade, Galerija Monday, 12 October, at 5pm, Ksaver Meško the institutions and culmination with concert Creating animations in the pixilation BIENNIAL TOUR Biennial of Graphic Arts, led by dr. Thursday, 8 October, 10-11am, 5-6pm (Galerija Kresija, Galerija Škuc, NUK) and Jakopič, Galerija Kresija, Galerija Škuc, NUK) Library, Slovenj Gradec: at the Slovenian Writers’ Association at 8pm. technique; the backdrop for the animation Marko Jenko; animation workshops for Workshop of stencil printing, conducted viewing of the accompanying exhibitions. and view the accompanying exhibitions. The Biennial in a Suitcase, lecture The newly established neighbourhood will be Tivoli Park and the exhibition Public guided tour children are held at the same time. by printing master Slavko Pavlin. Duration by arrangement, from 90 Duration by arrangement, from 90 to 180 includes: Slovenian Writers’ Association, on the Jakopič Promenade. Carried Every Sunday, 3-5.30pm to 180 minutes. 6 euros/person minutes. Guided tours are conducted in From Tuesday to Thursday, 20–22 October, National Museum of Slovenia, National Gallery out by the Slon Animateka education An interpreter for deaf people is present on Coffee Shop of Moderna galerija NLB Gallery Avla Slovene and in English. 8 euros/person between 12-7pm, Ljubljana Exhibition and of Slovenia, Slovenian Museum of Natural programme for animated film. every last Sunday of the month: from Tuesday to Sunday: Tuesday, 1 December, at 5pm The Golden Biennial Years Convention Centre: Student Arena History, Slovenian National Theatre Opera 27 September, 25 October, 29 November 20–25 October and 17–22 November The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic A 45-minute presentation of the Guided tour for young people The Biennial through comic strips, screen and Ballet Ljubljana, International Centre of Promenade: DIY – Do It Yourself! Guided tours of the main exhibition of the AVA (Zala Kobe, Vanja Erjavec, Ana Jagodic, Arts Through the Poster exhibition attractive points of the 60-year history printing performance for students. Graphic Arts (MGLC) and Moderna galerija. Wednesday, 7 October, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Over you/you Nina Oblak, Sanja Vatič, Evelina Hägglund, will be presented by Museum of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic KUL abonma 10am-12pm, 4-6pm are being conducted. Meeting place in front Gregor Rozman, Luka Savić): White on White Counsellor mag. Breda Škrjanec. Arts. Suitable for secondary school Subscription holders of the KUL abonma November: There can be dog days Lead by the BridA art group / Sendi of MGLC, viewing of the exhibition at MGLC, A series of events by a young pupils and students. 1 euro/person for young people aged between 15 and Saturday, 3 October, at 4pm Mango, Jurij Pavlica, Tom Kerševan followed by a walk through the Jakopič collective from the AVA Academy. PROGRAMME Over You/You 25 years can enjoy free entrance to Sunday, 29 November, 3-5pm, Viewing of the Biennial part of the Provocative, proactive, recreational Promenade, visit to the exhibition at The Contemporary Graphic Arts the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts. Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana: exhibition at the Jakopič Promenade for one-day execution of the Moderna galerija (at 4pm) and Galerija Kresija Kinodvor – City Cinema A 45-minute discussion and presentation on Special guided tour: Cicifest – 31st Slovenian Book Fair the four-legged friends and their owners, promenade on the Promenade! Galerija Jakopič (at 5pm). Thursday, 24 September, at 5pm Tuesday, 20 October, at 8.30pm the dissemination of the graphic arts in the Wednesday, 30 September, at 3pm The Biennial artist’s book for small in cooperation with dog trainers. Wednesday, 30 September, at 5pm REZA ABDOH – Theater Visionary contemporary media. Suitable for secondary Additional free of charge guided tours will children, family workshop. The Meeting of Gazes Tuesday, 20 September, 4-5.30pm: Tuesday, 6 October, at 5pm a documentary film by Adam Soch, school pupils and students. 1 euro/person be organized if enough interest is shown. Tivoli, an Unknown History Wednesday, 28 October, 11am-4pm Miran Mohar, visual artist and vice-dean Tuesday, 13 October, at 5pm 2015, 152 min Sunday, 11 October, 2.30-3pm Thursday, 29 October, 11am-2pm of the AVA Academy of Visual Arts Applications to [email protected], Reza Abdoh (1963-1995) was an Iranian-born Workshop in Experimental Computer Printing Book a guided tour at +386 (0)1 2413 Tivoli Park presents mag. Darja Pergovnik Advance booking to [email protected] [email protected], www.so-delujem.com American director and playwright known A 6-hour workshop connecting 818/800 or [email protected] Can we be your guest? from the Institute for the Protection What, how and in what way do we actually Tuesday, 17 November, 4.30-6pm: Bureau of Loose Associations: Even for his large-scale, experimental theatrical contemporary technology with classic artistic The Biennial in a Suitcase – A Travelling of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. see? A workshop on exploring the gaze is Mitja Velikonja, PhD (Sociology), lecturer at More Aggressive Innocence productions. A prolific artist even in his expression. Suitable for pupils attending Presentation of the Biennial of Graphic Arts lead by Neža Knez, a postgraduate student the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Performative re-creative tour of the short, creative life, Abdoh died of AIDS the last three years of primary school The Biennial of Graphic The 90-minute visit includes a presentation ASU Seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, and Sandi Abram, cultural anthropologist exhibition, conducted by the COoperate in 1995 at the age of 32, having created and secondary school. 8 euros/person Arts on guest visits on the history of the Biennial of Graphic Tuesday, 13 October, at 5pm whose intensive research focuses on our Creative Bureau Group. Suitable for the an impressive body of stage spectacles Arts, this year’s exhibition, classical and Tuesday, 10 November, at 5pm perception through the various senses. Celebrating 60 years of the Ljubljana blind and partially sighted. Sighted people known for their sensory overload, ferocious Biennial workshops at Galerija Škuc September: contemporary printmaking techniques Critical reflection on the diversity of Biennial of Graphic Arts are also welcome to participate. energy and hallucinatory dreamscapes. Further information and booking at and implementation of a mini workshop. practices and strategies of contemporary Theatrical-Movement Interaction Thursday, 1 October, 4-6pm This documentary is offering an intimate [email protected] From Friday to Sunday, 18–20 September, In collaboration with Moderna galerija. art in the local arena as part of The Spaces Wednesday, 18 November, 4.30-5.30pm Free of charge guided tour as part of the Galerija Škuc portrait of the world and work of Reza Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention and Practices of Contemporary Art project A guest workshop by Pionirski European Heritage Days 2015 and for the Wednesday, 9 September, at 5pm Abdoh and his company, Dar a Luz. Animation workshops at Moderna galerija Centre: Children’s Bazaar by the Galerija Boks society. The seminars dom – Children’s Cultural Centre participants of the Festival of the Third Age. Wednesday, 16 September, at 5pm Further information and booking Stencil printing workshops for families. are organized by ŠUM – magazine for the alongside the Biennial accompanying Becky Beasley: Sleep is when you grow Roman Uranjek Studio, Tavčarjeva ulica 2 at [email protected] criticism and theory of contemporary art. exhibition Take a New Look! Concluding guided tour of the Vladimir Vidmar, the exhibition curator will be (meeting point: Miklošič park) Tuesday, 22 September, Eipprova ulica, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts conducting the guided tour of the exhibition. Monday, 31 August, at 5pm Frequencies Ljubljana: European Mobility Week 2015 shirting 06 Biennial comic strip into print! Thursday, 3 December (This Happy Day of Viewing of works that were created Frequencies is an ongoing project by Oscar Street festival The right mix does the fix: The Project presentation On Saturdays: 21 November, Culture), 5-8pm National and University Library (NUK) in collaboration between Radenko Murillo. The project moves from school to Biennial of Graphic Arts, travels through Opening: Thursday, 15 October, 28 November, 5 December, 10am-4pm The tour of the exhibition is conducted by Friday, 23 October, at 2pm Milak and Roman Uranjek school, where a canvas is set up for the entire all the arty parts!, public print workshop on view until Sunday, 25 October Advance booking to [email protected] Nevenka Šivavec, Director of MGLC. Thursday, 26 November, at 5pm Participation is limited to 15 persons, semester on the bench of pupils aged ten to shirting is a new model of clothing that A workshop of drawing and printing the Followed by the closing of the 31st Biennial A guided tour of the Biennial exhibition advance booking to [email protected] sixteen years. The results are the product of Thursday, 24 September, at 6pm, Oton represents an alternative to the dominant Biennial comic strip with mentors: David of Graphic Arts and announcement of (Becky Beasley) and the National and deliberate and unconscious writing by the Župančič Library, Ljubljana: The accompanying fashion system and highlights the Krančan and Andrej Štular (comic strip), the recipients of the Audience Award. University Library at the same time. FOR GROUPS AND SUBSCRIBERS children and of the specific environment of The Biennial in a Suitcase, lecture programme is organised responsibility, connection and creativity of all Slavko Pavlin (print). In cooperation each individual school. In September, Murillo's by Lili Šturm. the protagonists involved. The sixth in a row – with Stripburger/Forum Ljubljana. Cankarjev dom: Gallery and Duša Počkaj Hall Programmes for organized school groups project visits two schools in Ljubljana. October: shirting 06 – connects design and art. Each of Tuesday, 27 October: Events timings may vary, please the participating fashion designers has in such At 5pm: Guided tour of the exhibition Guided tour for school groups Guided tour for groups Thursday, 1 October, 10-10.40am, Cankarjev visit www.mglc-lj.si for the a way designed a unique shirt with a motif María Elena González: The Tree Talk Series, Guided tour of the venues of the main Guided tour for groups is organized according dom, Ljubljana: Festival of the Third Age, of a selected artwork, which they will wear conducted by curator Božidar Zrinski exhibition Over you/you (MGLC, Moderna to the needs and wishes of the group. 60 years of the Ljubljana Biennial of most up-to-date schedule. as their first user at the opening ceremony. At 6pm: The concert as part of the exhibition galerija, Jakopič Promenade, Galerija It is possible to visit the main exhibition Graphic Arts and the Biennial of Graphic Participating: Jelena and Svetlana Proković is performed by Boštjan Gombač. Jakopič). By request, we also organise visits Over you/you (venues: MGLC, Moderna Arts Today, lecture and guided tour. 12 13 COLOPHON EXHIBITIONS AND CULTURAL EVENTS IN LJUBLJANA

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A range of exhibitions, performances, concerts James Bridle: In the Shadow of the Drone Capital Ustanoviteljica and other cultural events in Ljubljana Aksioma Project Space, 14 October –20 November Old Power Station Ljubljana, premiere: 10 September at 8pm during the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts. A presentation of a series of projects by English Artistic director of Mini Teater, which is being hosted artist James Bridle, who deals with the obscure at the Old Power Station with this performance, and EXHIBITIONS “security” culture of the Internet. director Ivica Buljan stemming from the book Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, explores the Vadim Fishkin: No Magic/ Čarov-Ni-Ja Red Poppy Fields theses of the deepening financial inequality of today. Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova Photon – Centre for Contemporary Sponsors, partners and supporters: (MSUM), 16 June–13 September Photography, 14 October–27 November Metamorphoses 3º: Rhetoric The exhibition connects the older and newer works of the The group photographic exhibition focuses on the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, artist who follows his own unique postconceptual tradition, turbulent European history and the relationships premiere: 10 September at 8pm closely tied to technology and recent scientific discoveries. between ideology and economy, politics and war, with The performance Rhetoric is the third in the Metamorphoses a focus on the reflection of the First World War. 1º–5º series, a modular project spanning over several years, as Hommage à Malevich – Black Square part of which other artistic and theoretical formats are being

Continued, group exhibition Exhibition of Slovenian Book Typographies produced in addition to performances. The two authors of the Vadim Fishkin, Dictionary of Imaginary Places, Ljubljana City Art Museum, 2 July–6 September Vodnikova domačija Šiška, 15 October–29 November performance are Bara Kolenc and Atej Tutta with colleagues. (2000-2005), photo: Dejan Habicht On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the making of the An exhibition of the visual elements that make up a good key suprematist object of the historical avant-garde at the book: typography, paper, layout and physical form. Also Wonderful Years beginning of the 20th century, the protagonists of Malevich’s presented will be one of the most successful fonts in the Ljubljana Dance Theatre, premiere: iconographic narration from the former common Yugoslav world produced by a local author, Mitja Miklavčič. 12 September, reprise: 13 September at 9pm space are exhibiting in the Ljubljana City Art Museum. A solo show by dancer and choreographer Dagmar Zimoun: 41 ventilators, 90 m² polyethyleen foil 0.006 mm Dachauer, who deals with the music of both Johann Eurovision Lab MoTA Point, Window Gallery, 15 October–30 November Strausses and the period of the Congress of Vienna National Museum of Contemporary History, An exhibition by Swiss artist Zimoun, a pre-event of the (1814/15) in a contemporary (dance) context. 16 July–10 October Sonica Festival, is on view 24 hours a day in the newly created “The laboratory of European museums”, an experimental Window Gallery at MoTA Point, in the window displays The Ridiculous Darkness exhibition, which explores Europe’s heritage overlooking Gosposvetska cesta and Vošnjakova ulica. Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, premiere: September through the interpretation of museum objects. A radio play by author Wolfram Lotz, which can also be 7th Biennial of Slovenian Visual staged. It was inspired by the cult classic Apocalypse Now The Bookplates of Saša Šantel Communications – Brumen Foundation by Francis Ford Coppola, and is directed by Tin Grabnar. Slavic Library, 3 September–30 September National Gallery of Slovenia, 20 October–22 November On the 70th anniversary of the death of the painter, The most important national overview Faust Martin Bricelj Baraga: Cyanometer, photo: MoTA Archive printmaker and composer Saša Šantel, his entire oeuvre of of visual communications. Križanke, premieres: 21 September at Križanke Donor of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts is BTC d. d. bookplates will be presented for the first time. A part of the at 8 pm, October at SNT Drama exhibition will be dedicated to the leading Slovenian bookplate Ana Čigon: From Noon to Midnight. In the original interpretation of the classic verse collector, the late geologist prof. dr. Rajko Pavlovec. SCCA Project Room, Institute for Contemporary drama created in coproduction by SNT Drama and Schema for a school is realised in partnership with Princeton University Arts – Ljubljana, 28 October at 8pm Festival Ljubljana, director Tomaž Pandur once again New commissions for the main exhibition are supported by Sadie Coles HQ, Hollybush Gardens Žiga Kariž, solo exhibition From noon to midnight is an experimental research confronts one of Europe’s biggest myths. The forthcoming exhibition catalogue is supported by Pilar Corrias Gallery, Sadie KC Tobačna 001, 17 September–16 October project of the DIVA Station video archive. Coles HQ, Kurimanzutto, Sigrid & Stephen Kirk, David Kordansky Gallery, Tanya The project of artist Žiga Kariž, whose work centres Europe Leighton, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Marc Foxx and Casey Kaplan Gallery on the intersection of traditional visual practices, 5th Biennial of Independent Slovenian Illustration SNT Drama, premiere: 26 September at 8pm belongs to the series of solo presentations by Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 9–27 November A dramatic text authored by Vinko Möderndorfer and Slovenian artists at KC Tobacco 001. A periodic event that explores the use of the directed by Renata Vidič that received the Grum Award in fields and contexts of contemporary illustration, 2014, which parodies, with scathing insight, the national Inside Out partakes in co-creating a visual culture in Slovenia and European dream that is turning into its opposite. Ljubljana City Art Museum, 24 July–22 September and promotes the artists within the field. Published by: An interdisciplinary project co-curated by Alenka Ebola The International Centre of Graphic Arts, represented by Nevenka Šivavec Gregorič and Suzana Milevska, which focuses on the Lala Raščić, solo exhibition Glej, the theatre, premiere: 26 September, transformation of the role of museums, galleries and other KC Tobačna 001, 29 October–11 December reprises: 27 and 28 September at 8pm public institutions for the production, presentation and The practice of the artist, who lives and works The first theatre video game (authors: Luka Cimprič and Fobia dance performance, photo: Andrej Lamut Editors: Neža Mrevlje, Karla Železnik collection of contemporary art in the transition period. in Zagreb, Sarajevo and New Orleans, includes Andrej Zupanec). Bring your smartphones and tablets so Texts: Neža Mrevlje, The International Centre of Graphic Arts video, artefacts, installations and drawings. that you can join in the video game with live players. Tomorrow was the Party Slovene language editor: Simona Ana Radež Cyanometer Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, premiere: November Slovene-to-English Translation: Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi MoTA Point – MoTA Lab, September Visual Poetry Prints Mojca Pokrajculja The story of five animals by author Toon Tellegen, directed Slovene-to-English Translation on page 3: Marjana Karer In September, the space of the Museum of Transitory Bežigrad Gallery 1, 18 November–23 December Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, premiere: September by Martina Maurič Lazat and designed by Barbara Stupica. English-to- Slovene Translation: Katja Kosi Art, MoTA Point, will function as a laboratory where it International exhibition: magazines, books, The old Slovenian tale, the most popular folk tale among Photographs: MGLC Archive will be possible to follow the making of the installation leaflets, photographs, objects. children, directed and designed by Eka Vogelnik. CONCERTS Cyanometer by Martin Bricelj Baraga. The poetic Graphic design: Mina Fina — Ee installation, which collects data on atmospheric pollution Jakopič's Drawing: The Metamorphosis of the Drawing's Golgota Erika Stucky: Black Widow like a monitoring station and directs our gaze towards the Function from Realism towards Modernism Cankarjev dom, 29, 30 September at 8pm, Cankarjev dom Club, 6 October at 8pm Edition: 55.000 sky, will be located on Slovenska cesta from October. National Gallery of Slovenia, 18 November–14 February 2016 and 1 October at 7pm In cooperation with the City of Women festival, one Printed by: Delo, d.d., Tiskarsko središče Opening hours during the Biennial Opening Days: 12-4pm, The drawing oeuvre of Rihard Jakopič is extensive as he was The virtuoso horse trainer, the French director and actor of the Tuesday Clubbing concert evenings with a view Ljubljana, August 2015 later by prior arrangement at [email protected]. constantly testing out motifs for his paintings through drawing. Bartabas, and one of the greatest flamenco dancers, across a variety of music and the city in Cankarjev dom Andrés Marín, in the mystical theatrical spectacle. Club, will also see the performance of Erika Stucky. The Printing Laboratory of Olaf Ladousse BridA: Displaced Communication / Spreadkom The organiser reserves the right to make changes to the programme, which will be DLUL Gallery, 7 October–31 October Aksioma Project Space, 25 November–18 December The Ristić Complex Editors promptly posted on the website of the Biennial and on Facebook: mglc ljubljana French comic strip artist, printmaker, illustrator, The project by the Slovenian collective BridA Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, premiere: 1 October at 8pm Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 1 December at 8pm author of animated films and publisher of one of the encourages discussion on the global dependence of A theatrical/archaeological study dedicated to the director One of the best and most popular English indie-rock Organiser of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts oldest graphic comic strip fanzines Que Suerte, Olaf microsystems and critical reflection on how local Ljubiša Ristić, under the director’s baton of Oliver Frljić. bands returns to Slovenia with a new album. The International Centre of Graphic Arts Ladousse presents himself in Ljubljana with a series of information is available and how it is accessed. linocuts and unique musical instruments, Doo Rags. Peer Gynt LECTURE THEATRE AND DANCE Ljubljana City Theatre, premiere: 8 October at 8pm Co-organisers: Cankarjev dom – Culture and Congress Centre, Moderna The Treasures of the Ljubljana School of The verse drama by Henrik Ibsen, which is one of the Ethiopia, a little-known country – galerija Ljubljana, The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana Graphic Arts from the ALUO Collection Phobia most beautiful stories about man, the insolent seeker, a conversation with Girma Fantaye University of Ljubljana Gallery, Rectorate of the Križanke (Ljubljana Festival), 7 September at 9pm and of love, the basic bond of all, will be put on the stage Oton Župančič Library, 8 September at 6pm Participating galleries and exhibitions sites University of Ljubljana, 8 October–30 November The bold and complex performance of Israeli choreographers of the Ljubljana City Theatre by director Eduard Miler. A conversation with the Ethiopian writer and journalist Galerija Jakopič (The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana), Moderna galerija, Galerija Cankarjevega A presentation of the fine art prints of the Ljubljana Guy Weizman and Roni Haver, delivered by EnKnapGroup and Girma Fantaye, who lives in Ljubljana, about his doma, Galerija Kresija, Galerija Škuc, National and University Library, Tivoli Park, Jakopič Promenade, School of Graphic Arts from the collection of the Club Guy & Roni as well as live musicians Slagwerk Den Haag, The Meat of the Heart / Cacti country, contemporary literary names, freedom of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO). talks about one of the key themes of the contemporary world. Slovenian National Theatre Opera and expression and the current situation in Ethiopia. NLB Gallery Avla, tipoRenesansa, Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladih, Art center Ballet, premiere: 29 October An evening of ballet in two parts: a new ballet piece by In collaboration with: the Prešeren Award winners, contemporary dancers AVA, Arhiv Pionirskega doma – Centra za kulturo mladih, MAO, and choreographers, Rosana Hribar and Gregor Luštek, MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Radio Terminal coupled with a dance installation by director and choreographer Alexander Ekman entitled Cacti. 14 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A FRIEND OF THE BIENNIAL? THE BIENNIAL IN A SUITCASE

What could be a Those affiliated to the Friends of the Biennial Club receive better opportunity the following benefits:

to join the Friends • Free admission to the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts (28 August – 3 of the Biennial Club December 2015) and other exhibitions than the jubilee • Art excursion once a year • Viewing of a selected artist’s studio PRITLIČJE edition of the • New Year’s greetings card – a small fine art print Ljubljana Biennial • A yearly programme booklet of Graphic Arts? • Guided tours of the exhibitions • Invitations to the openings and events of the International Pritličje Pritličje is an open public space in the city The Friends of the Biennial Club brings Centre of Graphic Arts Mestni trg 2 centre, which combines a café serving food and together art lovers, enthusiasts of this • 15% discount on all MGLC publications The Biennial in a Suitcase is being hosted by Slovenian libraries drink with the Striparna club and cultural venue. The friends of the Biennial were taken on a guided tour of the exhibition Ljubljana event. Those, that wish to be even • 15% discount on all from April to October 2015. Photo: MGLC Archive Monday–Wednesday: During the day we are a bar, a coffee machine entitled Collected Works, displayed at the International Centre of Graphic more actively involved in keeping up with the workshops and courses 9.00–1.00 and always fresh food, alongside which we think Arts (18 November 2014–8 March 2015), by the author, artist Alenka programme of the Biennial of Graphic Arts critically, work constructively, read digital and • 15% discount on purchases Thursday–Saturday: Pirman. This year’s first hiking excursion after the New Year took place and the International Centre of Graphic Arts. buy analogue. At night-time we are sometimes a of fine art prints on a Saturday morning in January after viewing the exhibition, taking the Virtually anyone can become a friend The archive of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts has 9.00–3.00 group of people, sometimes an event, and always group to Cankarjev vrh, where a lecture followed as part of the Alenka of the Biennial. All you need to do is fill in • A welcome gift when signing up become quite extensive over the years. Certain numbers already Sunday: an electronic roof to the underworld. Pritličje, or Pirman exhibition programme, delivered by dr. Miran Hladnik: Utopia and an application form, which can be found eloquently testify to the history of this transnational artistic 9.00–1.00 the ground floor in English, is the foundation for Dystopia in the Literature and Art of the Slovenes. Photo: MGLC archive on the website of the International Centre meeting point, at which 6,048 artists from 103 worldwide have the storeys above and the roof of the underworld. of Graphic Arts under the Biennial tab, exhibited so far. and pay the annual membership fee upon Therefore, this year’s jubilee anniversary is the perfect presentation of an identity card or student occasion for giving the general public a peek into the Biennial card at the MGLC Ticket Office. This costs 25 suitcase full of memories, winning men and women artists, euros. For those older than 60, younger than viewed and documented exhibitions, anecdotes as well as 14, pupils and students, the fee is 15 euros. backstage stories, which have woven the past and the present of this event. The staff of the International Centre of Graphic Arts have thus combed through the archive in order to make a general presentation of the history of the Biennial. They have placed GIVE YOUR VOTE ON FACEBOOK it into a suitcase and have set off with it from April to October on a journey across the libraries of Slovenia. Eight have already been visited, and some have also cooperated in preparing four exhibitions of prints entitled From the MGLC Print Studios. The Biennial in a Suitcase event includes the exhibition of Biennial posters, catalogues and documentation, and an hour- long lecture on the history of the Biennial of Graphic Arts. Two more such events will take place in the autumn:

24 September at 18.00 at the Oton Župančič Library in Ljubljana, SLAMIČ CAFÉ 12 October at 17. 00 at the Ksaver Meško Library in Slovenj Gradec.

Slamič Café Besides the delicious Illy coffee and more than Kersnikova 1 40 kinds of teas from around the world, including those of biologically controlled origin, Slamič Monday–Thursday: Café also offers delicious savoury snacks and 7.30–22.00 freshly prepared pastries to sweeten your day. Friday: 7.30–21.00 But you can also enjoy a glass of vintage wine The recipient of the Audience Award at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts was printmaker Saturday: 9.00–14.00 from the wide range of selected Slovenian Tomas Vu-Daniel, who persuaded the audience with his work Songs from the Beatles’ “The winemakers. A breakfast buffet is also available White Album”, 1968. The exhibited project intertwined the motifs of his childhood in Vietnam, in the mornings. The café boasts a spacious surfing culture and popular music. Incidentally, one of the winning boards by Tomas Vu-Daniel terrace, which becomes a real oasis in the also appeared as a scenographic element in the series House of Cards: in the role of a state centre of the city when the weather is nice. gift from the US President to the President of Russia. Photo: Urška Boljkovac/MGLC archive

The Audience Award for Best Artist at the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts was introduced two years ago. In addition to the main Radio Soba 102 is physically inviting and open: prize, the Grand Prix, awarded by the expert jury, the choice for Bienale there is no separation in booths, no secret the favourite among the participating authors is also in the hands of corners. This is a place where I do not go the viewers. You can submit your vote on Facebook, and the result to hide, but where I go to be seen. Neither will be announced at the end of the Biennial – on 3 December. does Soba 102 exclude with its catering offer: it can be a coffee shop, it can be a snack/lunch place, it can be an à-la-carte SOBA 102 restaurant, it can be a party bar. And it The Audience Award is given by the Kaval Group from Ljubljana. V Caffe Bienale in na The Biennial in a Window Display can be all of these in any random order, or Main prize: dinner with drinks for two at Gostilnica in pizzerija www.mglc-lj.si all at once. You can not get bored of Soba KAVAL, Kaval Group (Tacenska 95, Ljubljana Vižmarje) Between 28 August and 15 November, the installation dedicated to 102 – it is always different than what it was poslušate Radio Bienale the history and contemporaneity of the Biennial of Graphic Arts before. And you always recognize Soba 102: Second prize: chosen cocktails for two at Caffe Bienale, in the window display of the Nama department store in the city by the friendly greeting, by the set star Kaval Group (Tivoli Mansion, Pod turnom 3, Ljubljana) od 28. 8. do 3. 12. centre beckons to passers-by, inviting them to visit the exhibitions dishes on the menu, by the friendly waiting and follow the events of this international art manifestation staff and by the pleasant atmosphere. Third prize: chosen cakes for two at Slaščičarna Lolita, taking place in Ljubljana. And what should also be highlighted, Kaval Group (Cankarjevo nabrežje 1, Ljubljana) is that the venues of the Biennial are none too far from the Soba 102, Cankarjeva 4 window display, in front of which you may well become enticed www.kaval-group.si by the idea of a cultural morning or afternoon programme. Monday–Wednesday: 8.00–24.00, Thursday 8.00–24.00, Friday, Saturday: 8.00-2.00, Sunday closed