Presentation of the Reader marking the 70th anniversary of the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, conversation; Ajda Ana Kocutar, Gregor Dražil, Jennifer Noonan, Annosh Urbanke, 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, 2025, accompanying event at MGLC Švicarija.
Photo: Urška Boljkovac. MGLC Archive.
The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2025. To mark the occasion, a comprehensive reader was published featuring a collection of texts by local and international writers. The contributors position the Biennale within a broader theoretical framework, highlight seminal events and key figures, and observe the development of the exhibition from its beginnings in 1955 to its most recent editions. Alongside essays, the Reader also comprises interviews, extensive visual material and a chapter entitled The Biennale in Infographics. The Reader is a bilingual Slovenian-English publication, edited by Nevenka Šivavec and Gregor Dražil. Its contributors include Anthony Gardner, Ana Sladojević, Stefana Djokic, Jennifer Noonan, André Pitol, Annosh Urbanke, Breda Škrjanec, Božidar Zrinski, Kaja Kraner, Nevenka Šivavec and Maja Vardjan. The Reader was launched with a full day of lectures and discussions marking the conclusion of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts on 10 October 2025 at MGLC Švicarija.
The presentation began with a series of three lectures: Anthony Gardner, Zoran Kržišnik and Curating Worlds from Yugoslavia; Ana Sladojević, Thinking with/through art as a process, in times of global repositionings and the emergence of new political subjects; and Nora Sternfeld, Biennials as Contested Spaces. The lectures were followed by a discussion about the Reader, with the participation of Gregor Dražil, Jennifer Noonan and Annosh Urbanke. The entire event was moderated by Ajda Ana Kocutar.