THE SATIRICALLY COLOURED BIENNIAL IN SEPTEMBER
The satirically coloured 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts is slowly coming to a close, but we have many interesting events in store for you before the end, 29 September therefore, which we invite you to attend.
Vladimir Vidmar, curator, researcher, writer and artistic director of Ljubljana’s Mala galerija, will conduct a guided tour of the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts on 17 September (starting at 5 pm), focusing on the current issues of satire, its representation, identity, politics, religion, social norms … He also reflected on this year’s Biennial edition for the distinguished International Biennial Foundation.
The last two marathon guided tours will be held on the Biennial Doors Open Days, on Saturday, 21 September, and on Sunday, 29 September, between 11 am and 2 pm.
Also important will be the concluding days of the Biennial, which offer a round table discussion On Unserious Science in Serious Art, organised by KULA, the Slovenian Ethnological and Anthropological Association, on 26 September at 6 pm. Alenka Pirman, Blaž Bajič, Rajko Muršič and Miha Horvat will take part in the discussion.
The guided tour with Slavs and Tatars, the curators of the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, will take place on Friday, 27 September, between 3 pm and 6 pm. The tour starts at Equrna Gallery and ends with a social gathering at MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts in Tivoli. This will also be the day that the voting results will be made public. Namely, Hamja Ahsan called upon visitors to vote on joining the Aspergistan Federation in his project, the Aspergistan Referendum. But not only that, we will also find out to whom the Biennial visitors have dedicated their vote, so who is their favourite artist of the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts.
A day later, on 28 September, a zine workshop will be run at DobraVaga with artist, activist and curator Hamja Ahsan, winner of the Grand Prize of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.
The Children’s Studio will also be lively during those concluding days. The Children’s Studio at Švicarija: Hedgehog draws, prints and rolls about! is open every Friday during the course of the Biennial, from 10 am to 12 noon. This is where the youngest hedgehogs (4–12 years of age) engage in relief printing workshops along with joke-telling and big exhibition talk.
The September programme is presented in more detail on the MGLC website in the Events section.
You are therefore kindly invited to join us for the “September Biennial”, which will be particularly abundant with events, so we look forward to seeing you there.
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Installation photo: Jaka Babnik. Archive: MGLC.