he project is intended as a collective moment of socializing and meeting an international group of 13 artists, art professionals and professors, and 33 students. Between October 20 and October 22, 2022, they will be working in the Monfort Gallery in Portorose.
With this initiative, the Piran Coastal Galleries want to open their doors to internationally acclaimed educational institutions in the field of visual art. The project reflects the strategic guidelines of the Piran Coastal Galleries, a public institute, which strives to establish professional-educational exchanges with existing higher education programs in the wider European area, in this case those from Venice, Ljubljana, Vienna and Koper. At the same time, this avenue provides an opportunity for experts, the public and young creators to get to know a museum-gallery and participate in its environment through practical and experimental work.
Works of painting, video works, interactive games, sculptures, installations, photographs, performance events and spatial installations will be presented at the exhibition. A total of 31 Slovenian and international art students will be exhibiting:
Karmen Bradovent, Maja Brus, Katarina Cencič, Aliya Daveltova, Lorenzo Ercoli, Yirui Fang, Alberto Favaro, Giacomo Furlan, Alexandrina Godrogea, Iva Gregorin Suhadolnik, Moreno Hebling, Ana Južnič, Marija Klun, Jaka Komac, Sebastian Konzett, Hannah Koselj, Uroš Kumer, Marlene Mautner, Alice Mestriner, Ahad Moslemi, Nika Oblak, Filippo Perfetti, Noemi Restani, Elena Roccaro, Klara Rus, Špela Šedivy, Nina Tovornik, Ana Šeruga, Petja Škrubej, GORGON URBAN, Sanja Vatić, Andrijana Vesovska, Daniela Weiss / Litto / The System Collective.
The authors were selected on the basis of the so-called professor’s choice, which means that the artists are chosen by international selectors, the professors who made their selection as part of university and academic programs for contemporary art. The selectors, who presented their selection to the Piran Coastal Galleries, chose these authors according to the criteria of media multifacetedness, interdisciplinarity and thematic diversity.
The selection was made by: director Riccardo Caldura and prof. Nemanja Cvijanović (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia); prof. Antoni Muntadas, assoc. prof. Alessandra Messali (Iuav di Venezia, Laurea Magistrale and Arti Visive e Moda); prof. dr. Marina Gržinić (Accademy of Fine arts Vienna); prof. dr. Margarete Jahrmann (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien); doc. and dean Pepi Sekulich and doc. and vice-dean Miran Mohar (AVA – Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana); assoc. prof. dr. Tilen Žbona (University of Primorska, Faculty of Education, Visual Arts and Design, Koper); prof. Alen Ožbolt, doc. mag. Tomaž Furlan, doc. mag. Jože Barši, doc. mag. Metod Frlic (University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design).
The organization of the symposium is the result of strategic cooperation between the Piran Coastal Galleries and the Association for Culture and Education PiNA. The event is part of the accompanying program of this year’s 10th edition of the IZIS festival (September 23 – October 16, 2022, in the Libertas Warehouse) and the NEXT GENERATION group exhibition (October 21 – December 31, 2022, in the Monfort Gallery).