In its twenty-seven years of existence, the World of Art School has established numerous collaborations with individuals and a range of public institutions and NGOs working in the field of contemporary visual arts. Since 1996, the World of Art exhibitions have been organised in collaboration with Škuc Gallery. Over the years, we have established a regular team of associates, and many lecturers frequently return with their contributions. Since 2021, the school has been working in partnership with Cukrarna/MGML.
19th generation, 2022/24
With the 19th generation, the World of Art School continued its partnership with Cukrarna/MGML.
We organised the annual World of Art exhibition in collaboration with Škuc Gallery again in 2023 and 2024.
The 2023 annual exhibition was prepared in partnership with the Inter-Municipal Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired Nova Gorica, the Riso Paradiso Association, and the Druga violina restaurant.
The 2024 annual exhibition was prepared in partnership with the RISA Institute, the Centre for General, Functional and Cultural Literacy, and the Druga violina restaurant.
In 2022 and 2023, World of Art was once again a partner of the international project The World Around Us (Svet oko nas), which focuses on the state of critique in contemporary art. The project was led by the Zagreb-based NGO Kurziv, the platform for issues of culture, media and society, in cooperation with Kulturtreger (Zagreb), SEECult.org (Belgrade), Kontrapunkt (Skopje) and SCCA-Ljubljana.
18th generation, 2021/2022
The World of Art School celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2021. We entered the jubilee year in partnership with Cukrarna (Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana), where the school started operating as a dislocated unit of the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre in the autumn. Andreja Hribernik’s lecture was organised in partnership with The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška.
We prepared the annual World of Art exhibition in cooperation with Škuc Gallery in 2021. In autumn, we prepared the exhibition project (Re)generation of the artistic duo PLATEAURESIDUE in collaboration with Kino Šiška, KUD Mreža and Miklova hiša Gallery. The first part of the project was shown in the Komuna Hall in Kino Šiška, and the second part a few weeks later in the Miklova hiša Gallery in Ribnica.
We concluded a series of public lectures and workshops on the history of intermedia art with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory. We established collaboration with the Mala galerija of the Bank of Slovenia with a series of lectures on curatorial practices.
In 2021 and 2022, World of Art was once again a partner of the international project The World Around Us (Svet oko nas), which focused on the state of critique in contemporary art. The project was led by the Zagreb-based NGO Kurziv, the platform for issues of culture, media and society, in cooperation with Kulturtreger (Zagreb), SEECult.org (Belgrade), Kontrapunkt (Skopje) and SCCA-Ljubljana.
17th generation, 2018/2020
EXHIBITIONS | With the 17th generation of the school, we have established a cooperation with Kino Šiška. As part of the Studio 6 programme, we organised the exhibition Love & Work [floating] by German visual artist Max Grau (2018), accompanied by the Performing Knowledge workshop in the Project Room. Both events were conceived in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Ljubljana. In June 2019, we organised Staš Vrenko‘s exhibition Record at Kino Šiška. The annual World of Art exhibitions are organised in cooperation with Škuc Gallery. In May 2019, the World of Art team prepared the exhibition and research project control < cultivate > evolve: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana (1993–1999). Its Organisation and Impact with the help of the school participants. In autumn 2020, the school participants prepared their final exhibition at the Škuc Gallery.
LECTURES | In collaboration with the ŠUM collective and Škuc Gallery, we organised a series of public lectures by the ŠUM collective in December 2018. With the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, we organised a series of public lectures and a Parallel Systems. Establishing and Forming Media Art workshop. The school’s internal programme is prepared with many external lecturers, and we prepared the Financing Exhibitions and Contemporary Art Projects module in cooperation with Motovila, Centre for Promotion of Cooperation in Cultural and Creative Sectors.
PROJECTS | From 2018 to 2020, World of Art was once again a partner of the international project The World Around Us – Critical Perspectives in the Region, which focuses on the state of critique in (contemporary) art. The project was led by the Zagreb-based NGO Kurziv, the platform for issues of culture, media and society, in cooperation with Kulturtreger (Zagreb), SEECult.org (Belgrade), Kontrapunkt (Skopje) and SCCA-Ljubljana. The partner organisations, which are active in the field of education for the cultural professions and as support organisations for improving production conditions and promoting culture, have already collaborated on several occasions, in particular on the role of critique and critical writing in society, critical evaluation of artistic production, and education of young authors in the field of critique. In December 2018, the World of Art team took part in the third edition of the KRIK Festival in Skopje, and we published two bilingual collections of texts.
16th generation, 2017/2018
EXHIBITIONS | The World of Art exhibitions are organised in cooperation with Škuc Gallery. In 2017, we commemorated our 20th anniversary with the exhibition re-; in May 2018, the 16th generation of the school’s participants concluded their education with the final exhibition A Few Minutes Later. at Škuc Gallery. We organised the exhibition Somethin’s Written in the Vodnik Homestead Gallery, in cooperation with the Divja misel Institute, as part of the Studio 6 programme, where the participants of the 16th generation of the World of Art School were also able to learn about the practical aspects of curatorial work.
PROJECTS | In 2017 and 2018, World of Art was once again a partner of the international project The World Around Us – Critical Perspectives in the Region, which focuses on the state of critique in (contemporary) art. The project was led by the Zagreb-based NGO Kurziv, the platform for issues of culture, media and society, in cooperation with Kulturtreger (Zagreb), SEECult.org (Belgrade), Kontrapunkt (Skopje) and SCCA-Ljubljana. Part of the project was a three-day seminar on critique and a round table held in Skopje as part of the KRIK 2017 Festival for Critical Culture.
15th generation, 2014/2016
EXHIBITIONS | Between 2014 and 2016, we organised three exhibitions in collaboration with Škuc Gallery. Exhibition Day by Day in December 2014, Exhibition by Turkish artist Borga Kantürk: Memory Research Office: Collect.Cut.Create.Re-Create in May 2015, and the final exhibition of the school’s 15th Generation titled Personal in May 2016.
LECTURES | We designed a series of public lectures and workshops titled Reflections and Premises in Contemporary Art, Art Theory and History, and How Critical is the Condition of Critical Writing? with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory.
PROJECTS | In 2015, we worked with the Planting Rice organisation from the Philippines and Kurziv from Croatia on the Curating–In–Depth project, one of the three international projects supported by Asia–Europe Foundation. In June of that year, we prepared an overview of the Ljubljana art scene for graduate students at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, led by Paul O’Neill.
14th generation, 2011/2013
The main feature of World of Art between 2011 and 2013 is its more intense involvement in the international space. Since 2010, we have deepened sporadic and short-term collaborations and linked up with related and complementary programmes in Europe. Thus, we have established several cross-sectional platforms with the Vienna, Krakow and Zurich Graduate Programmes for Curators and the Zagreb School for Critics, which allow us to exchange in-depth knowledge on theories and practices of education in the field of contemporary art. We have exchanged useful experiences, (co)influenced the development of programmes and, above all, brought together different protagonists from the art world.
EXHIBITIONS | In 2012, as part of the research and exhibition project The Final Stop, which aimed to explore the history of the Metelkova visual scene and its current production, we organised the exhibition A Mid-Stop with Alkatraz Gallery. The final exhibition of the 14th generation of the World of Art school was organised in cooperation with Škuc Gallery, and in cooperation with The International Centre of Graphic Arts, we prepared the exhibition Print!
LECTURES | We collaborated with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory to devise and carry out a series of public lectures entitled Reflections and Shifts in Curatorial, Critical and Artistic Practices. We published the recordings of the public lectures on the Videolectures portal. Lectures Art of the XXth Century. Chapters prepared by Saša Nabergoj and Rebeka Vidrih were produced in collaboration between the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts and SCCA-Ljubljana.
PROJECTS | On the Path to Collaboration was the cooperation between the World of Art and the Master of Fine Arts, Academy of Art and Design St. Joost (AKV/St. Joost). The master students of Art History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, also collaborated in the survey of the Ljubljana art scene (April 2013).
The project Models of Training and Collaboration in Contemporary Arts focused on vocational training in curatorial studies, art critique, museum studies and cultural journalism. Partners ECM, the Curatorial Studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Kurziv, the platform for issues of culture, media and society in Zagreb, the Postgraduate Curatorial Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the World of Art, School of Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing, studied training strategies and methods and curricula. We worked with partners to find alternative arts education models and build a space for long-term cooperation at both institutional (partner organisations and their staff) and individual (students, teachers and mentors) levels. The partnership included exchanges of lecturers, excursions, a two-day international conference and the development of an online vocational training manual. The European Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo da Vinci partnership co-funded the project.
In 2012, we conceived the ATOM2 (A je TO! uMetnost, phAntom TO Mindset) project with the Graduate Programme in Curating of the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts, which focused on training curators, organising their networking, exchanging good practices and experiences, and publicising their work. We researched, recorded and analysed curatorial and critical practices in both spaces with our partners from Switzerland. The project also included an exchange of lecturers, excursions, the publication of a collection At the Crossroads of Curatorial Practices (V precepu kuratorskih praks) and a special issue of the online journal On–Curating, and the preparation of the exhibition Print! at the MGLC in Ljubljana. The project was supported by the Swiss contribution to the extended European Union.
13th generation, 2009/2010
PROJECTS | In the framework of the ATOM2 (A je TO! uMetnost, phAntom TO Mindset) project, we collaborated with the Graduate Programme in Curating of the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (January 2011 – June 2012). In cooperation with ECM, the Master’s programme in Curating at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, we organised an excursion to Vienna in the framework of the Leonardo Mobility project (September 2010 – June 2012).
12th generation, 2008/2009
PROJECTS | In 2008, we participated in the Fourth Summer Curatorial School in Yerevan, Armenia and presented the SCCA-Ljubljana programmes at the symposium on curatorial practices.
11th generation, 2007/2008
PROJECTS | In 2008, SCCA-Ljubljana again collaborated with the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art in Almaty, Kazakhstan and the BM Contemporary Art Centre in Istanbul to prepare the curriculum of the summer school for contemporary art curators and select the participants.
10th generation, 2006/2007
PROJECTS | SCCA-Ljubljana’s long-standing involvement in the field of contemporary art education has led to a cooperation with the Association of Armenian Art Critics, which organised the first summer school for contemporary art curators in Yerevan, Armenia, in 2006. The association aims to establish a systematic and long-term platform for promoting and understanding contemporary curatorial practices and critique. In 2008, SCCA-Ljubljana and the Soros Centre for Contemporary Art in Almaty, Kazakhstan and the BM Contemporary Art Centre in Istanbul prepared the summer school for contemporary art curators curriculum and selected the participants. The Second Summer Curatorial School took place from 23 July to 7 August 2007.
We participated in the Curatorial Translation project in Skopje (24 – 30 September 2007).
8th generation, 2004/2005
In 2004 and 2005, we established a cooperation with Jasna Jakšić (MSU Zagreb) and Eugen Borkovsky (Fontikus Gallery).
7th generation, 2003/2004
We visited the WHW collective in Zagreb as part of the curatorial mapping.
6th generation, 2002/2003
We visited the WHW collective in Zagreb and the Vienna-based organisation Schnittpunkt as part of the curatorial mapping.
5th generation, 2001/2002
We visited the WHW collective in Zagreb and the Vienna-based organisation Schnittpunkt as part of the curatorial mapping.
4th generation, 2000/2001
As part of the curatorial mapping, we visited SCCA-Beograd and the Vienna-based Institut für Kulturwissenschaft.
3rd generation, 1999
In our third year of operation, we established collaborations with SCCA-Sarajevo, the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna and the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland.
2nd generation, 1998
The World of Art became a Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana programme in its second year of operation. We established cooperation with our sister institutions, SCCA–Bratislava and SCCA–Zagreb and visited the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna.
1st generation, 1996/1997
In its first year, the World of Art has operated in the Škuc Gallery.