WOLD OF ART 2010/11
School for curators and critics of contemporary art
Year 13
Deadline: March 23, 2010

The World of Art enables paricipants to learn the knowledge, skills and methods needed to tackle the complex issues in the world of art.
The school is intended for all who are interested in working in the field of contemporary art, regardless […]

News: Lecture

12th year 2008/09
Lectures Curatorial Practices 3

Performative reflection upon a queer art event

Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 7pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Angela Harutyunyan’s talk is a performative reflection upon a queer art event. Entitled Coming to You Not to Be With You, it was organized in August 2008 in Yerevan, Armenia in the framework […]

World of Art 1997-2009
Exhibition & documentation project

October 30 - November 20, 2009
Opening on Friday, October 30, at 8 pm
Alkatraz Gallery, AKC Metelkova City

The exhibition and documentation project strived to present the complex overview of a twelve years history of World of Art – School of Contemporary Art. It assembled selected art works and documentary […]

News: Laboratorium

Saturday, November 14, 2009 (workshop)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 (discussion)
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Application deadline: Monday, November 9, 2009

A work or a project of contemporary art is not bounded by a certain form, content or materials. As today, a work of art has not identifiable intrinsic properties and contemporary art is located in […]

News: Collaboration

September 16 and 17, 2009
Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway

SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts is hosted by Bergen National Academy of the Arts to present its programs as a support system for contemporary arts, culture and civic society in Slovenia and internationally.
Barbara Borčić, director and consultant […]

News: Collaboration

Towards Collaborative Curating
27 July-2 August, 2009
Yerevan, Armenia

The 4th edition of the Summer Seminars’ Program for Contemporary Art Curators is organised by NAAC - National Association of Art Critics, (Yerevan, Armenia), continual partner of Word of Art, School of Contemporary Arts organised by SCCA-Ljubljana.
The 4th edition entitled Towards Collaborative […]

News: Lecture

12th year 2008/09
Lectures Curatorial Practices 3

Thursday, May 14, 2009, 8 p.m.
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Serbian pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia wishes to become a space of dialogue between two so far unrelated art projects. Although they are artists of different generations, attitudes and philosophies, Zoran Todorović (Belgrade, 1965) […]

News: Seminar

12th year 2008/09
Seminar – Workshop No.3

May 15-16, 2009
SCCA Project room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Application date prolonged: May 13, 2009

"Art is what makes life more interesting than art." One of those catchy sayings that we feel will bring us closer to the ‘essence’ of what we want to say or what […]

News: Laboratorium

Laboratorium of curatorial practices 2008/2009

Workshop in four parts

April 10-13, 2009
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Application deadline: April 1, 2009

The four day long workshop will try to show how important is the relation between contemporary curating and theoretical discourses and how important it is that the position of contemporary curator […]

News: Lecture

12th year 2008/09
Lectures Curatorial Practices 3

Thursday, April 9, 2009, 7 p.m.
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana

Negotiation is originally a specialised and formal procedure of conflict resolution, most frequently employed when important political issues must be agreed between disputed parties. The aim of negotiating in politics is to build a shared environment leading to long-term […]