The exhibition consists of eighteen video works and one film, bound to the theme of urban and public space in their everyday dimension but also in its utopian and dystopic aspects. Through the period of twenty years, Slovenian artists have tackled the topic with most diverse formal, technological and aesthetic approach. The entry is marked by a documentary presentation of the Urbanaria exhibition project, curated and organised by the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana (1994-1997), whose main concept was ‘art in the urban context’. Several video projects will follow that have played an important role in establishing a city as a historical event or aesthetic phenomenon and those that highlight the experience of a (technologically equipped) urban walker (flaneur).
A special place is given to video works dealing with the livelihood of everyday life, taking place at the intersection of public and private. In this context, the works disclose civilizational circumstances of today’s overpopulated and noisy towns, which usually remain hidden from the eyes of visitors, ranging from the political and social situations to public monuments, consumerism and the position of women’s voice. The selection concludes with the works of futuristic anti-utopian fiction and dystopia of the unstable world of conflicts and discomfort.

Video works at the exhibition:
Amir Muratović, Urbanaria (1998)
Inštitut Egon March, Bellum contra solem (1991)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns, Going Where (2010), Noise Factor (2012)
Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Portable Home (1996)
Sašo Sedlaček, Just Do It! (2003), Žicar 0.1 / Beggar 0.1 (2006), Žicar 0.2 / Beggar 0.2 (2006), Veliki izklop / The Big Switch Off (2011)
Luka Dekleva in Luka Prinčič, Singing Bridges Bizovik (2008)
Marko A. Kovačič, Naprej v preteklost / Forth into the Past (1995)
Neven Korda, Jesensko tihožitje / An Autumnal Still Life (2001–2005)
Miha Vipotnik, Lumino Auro (2011)
Zmago Lenardič, Big Blue Subway (2000)
Anja Medved & Nadja Velušček, Mesto na travniku / Town in a Meadow (2004)
Mateja Bučar, Neumestljivi, Nedoumljivi / The Unnoticed (2013–2014)
Andrej Lupinc, V 8. minutah okoli sveta / In Eight Minutes Around the World (1990–2000)
Ana Čigon, Ljubljana Mesto žensk / Ljubljana City of Women (2013)
Ana Čigon, Mačo / Macho (2015)