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PROGRAM COLLABORATORS
TUTORS
Tadej Pogačar
Tadej Pogačar is artist, curator, writer and lecturer working in the field of contemporary visual and intermedia art. He is director of Center and Gallery P74 and director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art.
He curated several exhibitions: 1999 - The Taste of City (with G. Podnar and I. Zabel, Gallery P74 and Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana; 2001 - Revisions. Painting 70+90, Gallery P74, Ljubljana; 2002 - Intermedia, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje.
From 1990 he participated as artist at important international and local exhibitions of contemporary art. Recently: 49. Venice Biennial; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City; Central House of Artists. Moscow, B2, Lepzig; Jyvaeskylae Art Museum, Finland; Humboldt University, Berlin; and Museum Boijmans van Bojningen, Rotterdam (Manifesta 2). In Slovenia, he lately exhibited several times in Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Celje ... He got several prizes among them a prize for performance by Franklin Furnace Archive in New York in 2001.
Nevenka Šivavec
Nevenka Šivavec graduated from comparative literature and history of art at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Since 1989 she has been employed at the Institute for Cultural Events in Celje and since 1995 she has become also a curator at the Gallery of Contemporary Art & Likovni salon gallery in Celje. In 1998 she received a scholarship from the American organisation ArtsLink, which she used to continue her studies at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago - course curatorial practices, in New York (April, May and June 2002) and Belfast (December 2002). She mainly deals with research and presentation of marginal, outsider artistic practices, which arise from the local environment and projects that actively include the local community.
Selected exhibitions: 2002 - Borut Hlupič Holland, The Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje; 2001 - The Town Of Celje 2, Phantasms of the Eighties, Likovni salon Gallery Celje; Male, (with Irena Čerčnik), The Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Likovni salon Gallery Celje; Unusual Pairs (Nebojša Šerič - Šoba & Narcis Kantardžič, Jože Barši & Radio Celje, Andreja Džakušič & Radivoj Mulić...). 1999 - Art from the Rucksack, City Arts Gallery Limerick, Catalyst Arts Gallery Belfast; The Town of Celje, Alternative of the Seventies, Likovni salon Gallery Celje, Škuc Gallery Ljubljana.
HEAD OF THE PROGRAME
Saša (Glavan) Nabergoj (1971)
Art historian., curator and critic. Assistant director at SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana. A member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). A member of editorial board of Maska, Performing Arts Journal.
Member of the pedagogical team at Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (1995 - 1997). Collaboration on exhibition projects in National Gallery in Ljubljana (1996 - 1997). Assistant of art director in Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana (1997). Collaborator of Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana (1997 - 1999). From 2000 employed by SCCA, Center of Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana. From 1995 publishes texts, critics, essays on the contemporary art and culture in various Slovene and international art magazines and newspapers (catalogues of Gallery Škuc, publications of multicultural center Metelkova, art magazines FlashArt/Italy, USA, Umelec/Czekia, Zarez/Croatia, M'ars/Slovenia, daily newspapers Večer, Delo,...). In 1999 and 2000 worked as collaborative researcher in the research project Problematic of space within alternative culture, ordered and financed by Cultural Department of the City of Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 2001 to 2004 acted as vice president of ICAN (Internationals Contemporary Arts Network). Since 2003 contributing editor of Praesens, magazine of contemporary art in central Europe.
COORDINATOR OF THE PROGRAME
Jani Pirnat
Being student of the final year of Art History at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, he specialized as tehnical assistant installing exibitions and scenographies: Modern Gallery Ljubljana; U3 (2000), Ulf Rollof (Fir Tree Project, 1995), Gustav Gnamuš (2000), Fran Kraševec (1995). Scenes: Summer Festival Križanke Ljubljana (Tango d,Amor, 2001). Occasionaly he works as a guide in galleries and museums (Leonardo da Vinci, 2000, Andy Warhol, 2001)
During the course for curators, organized by SCCA Ljubljana and on request of Tadej Pogačar he carried out the photography exibition Tansparent Miths of Viktor Rebernak in Galery P74, Ljubljana 2001. Registrated as unemployed.
ADVISER
Barbara Borčić (1954)
Graduated with B.A. in art history from the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. Since 2000 director of SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts.
Active in the field of contemporary arts as a free-lance curator, publicist and editor.
Member of AICA, International Association of Art Critics and IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
In frame of SCCA Borčić conceived and edited the documentation, archival and research project on video art in Slovenia under the title Videodokument. Video Art in Slovenia 1969-1998 (available also on www.videodokument.org). She is also curating video programs under the title Videospotting and writing about video (in English: 'From Alternative Scene to Art Video', in Reader V2_East Meeting, No. 1, Rotterdam, 1996; 'Video Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism', in Impossible Histories: Historical Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991,MIT Press, Massachussetts, 2003). She was a project leader of curated web project Internet Portfolio, research projects What Is to Be Done with the Balkan Art and What Is to Be Done with the Audiovisual Archives, and editor of PlatformaSCCA magazine.
From 1980 on she worked in Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana and was the artistic director of the gallery 1982-1985. Between 1982 and 1992 she was involved in video practice in frame of 'Ljubljana alternative scene' and collaborated on several art and documentary video projects. 1991-1992 she was editor-in-chief of the fine arts magazine Likovne besede (Art Words).
From 1993 she was an assistant to the director, from 1997 the director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana.
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