17 September, 2019
Maribor

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is a part of the Festival of Photography Maribor, which will this year be presented in 26 different venus, where you’ll be able to see 30 exhibitions.

All of the events will additionally be accompanied by the workshops, guided tours of exhibitions and movie projections and that’s a novelty this year. Festival of Photography in Maribor is extremely diverse as we will walk through different landscapes which will evoke in us different feelings and wishes to give back to nature its richness.

Exhibition by Mišo Hochstätter is raising awareness on industrial pollution through collage series. Our unhealthy attitude to Earth has led to dramatic and aesthetically pleasing photographies by Bojan Golčar, who leaves a physical imprint in his pictures much like humans leave an imprint on the natural space. Photographic answers of where our reckless interventions may lead us are presented to us by Sissa Micheli; Aoelian Islands remind her of post-apocalyptic state in which we will be forced to survive in extreme conditions.

Question of reality is contemplated by DK (Damjan Kocjančič) who persuades us that through photographies we have traveled the entire world, even though we have only moved in the radius 100 meters around his studio. While Ana Kučan is taking pictures in the park of the castle Versailles and contrasts baroque gardening to the current attitude towards the old parks. Contrast between “now” and “then” is also pursued by the photographer Imre Szabo who took pictures of battlefields in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Author begs the question if we have learnt any lessons in the past and if ready to retake the exam in the future. Similar question is also addressed by a photographer Sebastiao Salgado who will be presented in the movie Salt of the Earth. Even though he has witnessed numerous tragedies, he’s managed to restore his hope in the world.

A longer period of time has been captured in the retrospective exhibition by Stojan Kebler, also including the broadest overview of his work. As a member of the avantgard photography group the Maribor Circle he will be presented alongside other members in a documentary on the phenomenon of the Maribor Circle photography.

In continuation you can hear the thoughts of the curator of the festival Vasja Nagy.

Svet – svetloba / World in light / Die Welt im Licht

This year’s edition of the Photography Festival in Maribor is dedicated to landscape and environment. The exhibitions, which represent mainly the contemporary artistic treatment of this theme, will shed light on it from different angles. Photographic techniques, formal and conceptual challenges, ecology, politics, science, imagination, as well as the very definition of motif within the art historical discipline are all very topical subjects, which are dealt with by artists and experts as well as the general public.

One of the most common motifs in photography is the landscape, whether it is a view from nature or of man-made places, i.e. architecture. Architecture in this case represents a cultural landscape, that is, a landscape that is a web of imagination and the possibility of material realisation. Culture and Nature were two clearly identifiable and distinct categories in the perception of the world not so long ago, perhaps even 200 years ago. Culture has steadily encroached on nature to the point where some scientists have labelled the current geological period the Anthropocene, as it has become clear that human activity is influencing global processes.

But nature is also intruding into culture all the time. It was once thought that nature should be tamed and that man’s intellect could tame it, but it has been shown time and again, even if only by a dandelion blade in the middle of a tarmac car park, just how thin a layer human consciousness and the activity that arises from it is. Moreover, nature has swollen so much that it is already beyond the limits of the visible universe. Nature, the wild, the unconscious, whatever we call it, invades again and again through the smallest cracks and also forcefully and destructively all over the place.

EXHIBITIONS

1/ Tower Photo Gallery, 6 Židovska Street, Maribor
Damjan Kocjančič – Scotom (Tomorrow’s Memory)
Open Tuesday to Friday, 15.00 – 18.00,
Saturday, 10.00 – 12.00.

2/ Media Nox Gallery, Židovska ulica 11, Maribor
Simona Reisch – Urban Utopia
Open Tuesday to Friday, 10.00 – 14.00 and 15.00 – 18.00,
Saturday, 10.00 – 13.00.

3/ DLUM Gallery, Židovska ulica 10, Maribor
Robert Bodnar – Cronophotography and other paintings
Open Tuesday to Friday, 15.00 – 18.00
Saturday 10.00 – 12.00

4/ Synagogue Maribor, Židosvka ulica 6, Maribor
Bojan Radovič – Hibakujumoko
Faruk Ibrahimović – Galaxies
Open: Monday – Friday: 8.00 – 16.00

5/ GT22 + lobbyGT22 / Glavni trg 22, Maribor
Marko Golnar – Extreme Slovakia
Production:GT22 / DRFK

BlackBoxGT22
I Swan – Part 2
Production: GT22 / Fundacija Sonda Foundation

CorridorGT22
Made in GT22 – 2.del
Production: GT22 / Fundacija Sonda Foundation

GT22, Glavni trg 22
Modrinjak Photographic Museum, new season of GT22
Curator.
Production:GT22 / Sonda Foundation

6/ Street Gallery Židovska
Roland Icking: UGmb, new season
Production: GT22 / Sonda Foundation / TamTam

7/ Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Stojan Kerbler – retrospective
Production: Moderna galerija / Maribor Art Gallery
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00 – 18.00. Closed Mondays.

8/ ART KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 4,
Miran Mišo Hochstätter – Nature morte 1975
Open Tuesday-Friday: 10.00 -13.00 and 17.00 – 19.00,
Saturday: 10.00 – 13.00

9/ E2RD, Gosposka ulica 34
Branimir Ritonja – HORIZONT
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 19.00, Saturday 10.00 – 13.00

10/ Street Gallery STARI MOST
Mouhamad Moustapha: HUMAN – CONNECT
Siddharth Behl: Men Machines and Dust

11/ Maribor Regional Museum, Grajska Ulica 2, 2000 Maribor
Miha Kacafura – Everyone has a day of death
Open: Tuesday-Saturday: 10.00 -18.00, Sunday: 10.00 -14.00

12/ Central Station – Street Gallery, Koroška Cesta 5, Maribor.
Lin Gerkman – North of South

13/ Photographic Museum Maribor, Koroška cesta 19
Imre Szabó – Nineties
Open Tuesday to Friday 9.00 – 17.00. Saturday 13.00 – 17.00

14/ Epeka Slovenia, Koroška cesta 8, Maribor
Sissa Micheli – On the verge of time
Open Tuesday to Friday 15.00 – 18.00. Saturday 10.00 – 12.00

15/ Maribor Secondary Construction School and Gymnasium, Smetanova 35,
“Heritage # art # entertainment”
EXHIBITORS: Gero Angleitner, Mihael Brunčko, Aleksander Brunčko, Janja Cizelj, Dušan Gajšek, Bojan Hajdu, Anita Kirbiš, Zdravko Kokanović-Koki, Matjaž Malenšek, Jože Marinič, Breda Prešern, Suzana Pušauer, Gregor Radonjič,
Branimir Ritonja, Gregor Salobir, Bojan Šenet, Teodor Veingerl, Rasta Vrečko and Aleš Žiberna.

16/ Gallery K18, Koroška c. 18, Maribor
Ana Kučan – L’espace infini
Open Tuesday to Friday 15.00 – 18.00. Saturday 10.00 – 12.00

17/ Kavarnica Rokaj, Usnjarska ulica 3, 2000 Maribor
Danijel Kodrič – moments of music

19/ Urban Garden, Kneza Koclja 6, Maribor
Mihael Brunčko – Urban Landscapes

20/ University Library Maribor, Gospejna ulica 10, Maribor
Art Exhibition Centre
Bojan Golčar – Consequences – The Day After Tomorrow

Lobby
Photoclub Maribor – group exhibition. Participants: Aleksander Brunčko, Almira Catović, Anita Kirbiš, A nja Cigala, Bojan Hajdu, Bojan Sobočan, Bojan Šenet, Branimir Ritonja, BrankoZorović, Breda Prešeren, Dušan Gajšek, Iztok Kobal, Jože Marinič, Leon Gobec, Marjan Laznik, Matjaž Malenšek, Mihael Brunčko, Rasta Vrečko, Simon Petrovič, Suzana Pušauer, Tadej Turk, Taras Poljanec and Zvonko Strmšek,

21/ III. gimnazija Maribor, Gosposvetska cesta 4, Maribor,
Daniel Kodrič, Sara Gradišnik and Špela Štrucl – photos

22/ FERI, Koroška cesta 46, 2000 Maribor
GROUP EXHIBITION – LANDSCAPES
Participants.

23/ KAMNICA Library, Vrbanska cesta 97, KAMNICA
Bojan Šenet – Landscape

24/ IZUM Gallery, Prešernova 17, Maribor
Jure Kravanja – earth’s vision

25/ RRRUDOLF Gallery, Vojašniški trg 12, Maribor
Marjan Laznik – not everything is black and white
Open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

26/ Salon JULIUS, Planet Shower, Na Poljanah 18, Maribor
A VIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE
Anita Kirbiš, Branimir Ritonja, Branko Zorović, Dušan Gajšek, Iztok Kobal, Jože Marinič, Leon Golob, Matjaž Vigele, Oliver Tkalec, Rasta Vrečko and Suzana Pušauer.

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME:
6-8 September, 2019
Mišnica GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor
3 days workshop on black and white analogue photography
Info and registration: misnica.gt22.si

14-15 September, 2019
Mišnica GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor
Cyanotopicity of Blue-2 day cyanotype workshop
Info and registration: misnica.gt22.si

Monday 16.9.2019 at 18.00
MariBox, Loška ulica 13, Maribor
Screening of the film SALT OF THE EARTH

Friday 20.9.2019 from 15.00 to 18.00
Maribor Photographic Museum, Koroška 17, Maribor
Workshop of studio photography with large format camera
Info and registration at: info@fotoklub-maribor.com

Saturday 21 and 28.9. from 10.00 to 12.00
GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor
Open Doors at the Modrinjak Museum of Photography.
The Modrinjak Photographic Museum is the largest private collection of photographic technology in Slovenia.

Saturday 21 and 28 September from 10.00 to 12.00
GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor
POLAROID MARIBOR
led by Matej Sajko Modrinjak
Production.

24.9.2019 at 6 pm
Media Nox, Židovska ulica 11
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gregor Radonjic
THE ANTHROPOCENE: FROM VISUAL OBSERVATION TO THE ORIGINS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

27.9.2019 from 10 am – 4 pm
Pin-up photography workshop
Registration: info@fotoklub-maribor.com

28.9.2019 at 09:00 – 16:00
Photophonic walk – street photography workshop with photophones
Mentors: Gregor Salobir and Boštjan Lah
Registration until 24.09.2019 at misnica@gt22.si

28 – 29.9.2019, Maribor
Concert photography workshop with Saša Huzjak
Applications at https://wishcam.com/blog/foto-delavnice/delavnica-koncertne-fotografije-s-saso-huzjakom-prijave-v-teku/

28.9.2019 at 09.00 – 14.00
Master workshop of black and white photography – Part I.
Led by master photographer Branimir Ritonja
Information and registration at: info@fotoklub-maribor.com

30.9.2019 at 18.00
Intimate Stage, GT22, Glavni trg 22, Maribor
Dragiša Modrinjak film screening
Premiere of the documentary film Maribor’s ROUND

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