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PROGRAM COLLABORATORS
TUTORS
Alen Ožbolt (1966)
Attended high Art&Design school in Ljubljana. began art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, and continued at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, specializing in sculpture and in art theory, and received a B.A. in 1997. Between 1984 and 1995, collaborates with Janez Jordan on a series of art projects under the name "VSSD" (Slovene for "Painter, Do You Know Your Duty"). At first, they worked as street/outdoor action artists, in 1986, they began exhibiting in numerous galleries and other spaces in the former Yugoslavia and abroad (Ljubljana, Thessaloniki, Zagreb, Bologna, Sarajevo, Salzburg, Milan, Poprad, Venice, Vienna, Graz, Münich, Linz, Bochum, Weimar, Cardiff, Frankfurt among others). In 1995 VSSD represented Slovenia at the Venice Biennale. Since 1996. Alen Ožbolt created a number of art projects and exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally (Ljubljana, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Budapest, Warsaw, Klagenfurt, New York, Trieste, Sarajevo, San Francisco, Wichita).
In 1993 he participated in the Frontiers Conference (Canterbury University, U.K.), and in 1994, won a StudioProgram scholarship (Weimar, Germany). In 1997 he was awarded an ArtsLink scholarship, which enabled him to work and exhibit in New York (NewHouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center) and prepared two lectures and studio instructions at the School of Visual Arts (N.Y.). In 2000, he won a Fulbright grant and as a visiting artist at the San Francisco Art Institute put together lectures, solo exhibition and the mailing project Letter II. In 2001, completed a "dictionary for young artists" entitled Artventures & Artertainment, an image-text project (M'Ars).
Edited and wrote for numerous catalogues on behalf of the exhibitions. In 1996, he compiled a book of articles, essays and artist statements, The Word of a Painting 1984-1995. And in 2005 for the occasion of the exhibition Love is a Battlefield together with Kariž and Čučnik made an artists book of drawings, statements, texts and poems. Lives and works in Ljubljana.
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
Tevž Logar (1979)
Born in Kranj. Studied art history in on the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, momentarily he's finishing correspondent study of art history and cultural studies in Open University in London. Since 1999 he's a member of CLOBB atelje, as a part of which he cooperated with realisation of different art projects in Slovenia. Since 2004 he is coordinator of educational programme World of art in SCCA - Ljubljana, in year 2006 he became curator of Artservis's art collection. As a curator he occasionally cooperates with galleries at home and internationally (P74 Center and Gallery, ŠKUC gallery, GHETTO gallery in Split, PM gallery in Zagreb). He is the collaborator of Famul Stuart school - as the art manager of EU - Stuart.si (European art students digital works). He occasionally lectures and publishes texts from the field of contemporary visual art (Likovne besede, Praesens in Zarez). He lives and works in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka.
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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