The DIVA News page refers to public presentations, exhibitions, screenings, publications in Slovenia and on the international scene, connected to participations of DIVA Station Video Archive and the video artists who had contributed their video artworks to the archive. We also introduce events organised by DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana) in order to promote its content and usage.
Video artist, director and performer Ana Čigon explores social-critical themes and analyses contemporary neoliberal society, the inhumane treatment of refugees and the struggle for dignity and recognition of LGBTIQ+ individuals, workers and women. Her practice is characterised by irony and humour. She often collaborates with other artists and theorists. At the Video Evening, she will present her feminist artistic practice of the last ten years. On Wednesday, 27 November 2024 at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. More
On the 27th October we celebrated the World Audiovisual Heritage Day. In Slovenian Cinematheque we hosted the Argos Centre for Arts and Media from Brussels once again. Katia Rossini, Head of the Archive Collection, prepared and presented two curated programmes. A programme of short films and videos by Belgian artists Culture is Our Business and Johan Grimonprez's experimental documentary Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y from 1997. More
At the Video Evening with DIVA Station, we are hosting Danilo Milovanović (aka DNLM). The artist notices, exposes, and subverts the conflicting relationships between nature and the urban in a critical-humorous way. By intervening in public space, he creates new symbolic and actual relationships between various street and architectural objects, as well as their context and usability. At the event, he will present video documentation of the many artistic interventions he has carried out in recent years. On Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. More
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. In cooperation with the International Centre of Graphic Arts and the MGLC Švicarija residency centre, we have invited visual artist Lea Culetto. Participating: Andrea Aviles Torres, Sara Maffi (Luksuz Produkcija), Nataša Skušek, Ana Čigon, Tatiana Kocmur, Neža Knez, Ana Nuša Dragan, Jatun Risba. Talk and screening, 26 September 2024, MGLC Švicarija More
The international programme These Roots, Interlacing the Worlds was curated by visual artist Lara Reichmann. She selected video works set in environments that are at least partly derived from physical and virtual reality. They create and transition between possible versions of a world where nature and technology are inseparably connected. Participating: Mohamed Abdelkarim (EG/NL), Neo Nor (SI), Agnieszka Polska (PL), He Zike (CN). Screening and talk at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery on Friday, 6 September 2024, at 8 pm. More
Lealudvik is an art tandem formed in 2013 by Lea Jelenko and Matjaž Komel, active in the fields of visual art, graphic design and zine production. In their practice, Lealudvik mainly explore social concepts and phenomena. In addition to the occult, organised religions, black and white magic, they are interested in horror genres, the concept of the ego, taboos, sexuality, nudity, intimacy, freedom and apparent dichotomies (e.g. gender, nature vs. society). Exhibition is part of the FeKK – Ljubljana short film festival. 20 – 24 August 2024, Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana. More
The Landscapes, Spaces programme was curated by DIVA Station asociate Robert Kuret. He chose films that with landscapes, both internal and external, in one way or another. Participating: Ana Brumat, Ester Ivakič, Blaž Kutin, Blaž Murn, David Paige, Maja Prelog, Juš Premrov. Screening and talk at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery on Thursday, 4 July 2024, at 9 pm. More
14th VideoGarden is part of the Ljubljana Art Weekend. The DIVA Station team (Vesna Bukovec, Peter Cerovšek, Robert Kuret) has prepared a curated program Modus operandi, which presents various ways of working in order to survive in today's neoliberal world. Participating: Nika Autor, Sara Bezovšek, Lada Cerar, Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, Tomaž Furlan, Neža Knez, Danilo Milovanović, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak. Screening and talk at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery on Saturday, 25 May 2024, at 9 pm. More
The fourth edition of the international festival of experimental AV practices V-F-X Ljubljana (15 – 18 May 2024) in the Slovenian Cinematheque opens with the award-winning feature film Don’t Think It Will Ever Pass: 25. 4.–26. 1. by Tomaž Grom with live music. This year, we are putting African and Romanian productions and films by Slovenian students in the foreground, hosting the Viennese collective Total Refusal and paying homage to the films of Vasko Pregelj with a live electronic music. The Vistas programme brings an eclectic range of high-profile titles from the international scene. We close the festival in Kino Šiška with an immersive live performance by Amélie Nilles. The accompanying programme consists of an analogue film workshop, a panel discussion on independent film labs and the VR Point with a short film in virtual reality. More
The last of the four programmes of Neven Korda's film/video oeuvre screenings presents works from the period after 2000, when the author leaves both the studio system and collective creation and turns to the experimental form of video, which he processes on a personal computer.
Curator Robert Kuret will talk to Neven Korda.
Watch also the accompanying programme from the ’80–’00 period and Miško Šuvaković's video lecture at the Slovenian Film Database (BSF) website (24 April–1 May). More
