Museum on the Street

PT artist Jasmina Cibic participated the exhibition "The Museum in the Street"

The Museum in the Street project presents the specific features of Ljubljana from a different angle by redefining the concept of art in public spaces. The phenomenon of art interventions in public spaces, first introduced in Slovenia by the artists' collective OHO in the 1960s, still remains to be researched using contemporary methodology, and critically reflected on. The Museum in the Street project attempts to do this by focusing on the representations of the city, urban identity, explorations / the mapping of the city, interventions in the city, and urban visions.

With the new global order and the subsequent different conceptualization of space, public space has literally disappeared. Jürgen Habermas' idea of the public sphere as that segment of social life where public opinion is formulated is thus rendered obsolete. Today, public spaces are controlled and programmed, they are shrinking and disappearing. We are faced with a new spatiality, which cannot be categorized in such an orderly way as before. There is no longer a single public space; now it is divided into spaces of various identities that are not based only on positivism, but include also a negative component.

In the context of the Museum in the Street project, artists, theoreticians, and activists will explore and intervene in the so-called urban antagonisms, that is, those aspects of the city that are both present and at the same time invisible, marginalized, and repressed, making them in this way visible in a new, artistic context. The project has three main topics: urban extremes (urban fears and anxieties, xenophobia, pollution, civil disobedience and crime, rumors and gossip), urban margins (parallel strategies of survival, self-organizing practices, migrants, workers' hostels, the "erased", marginalized schools on the city's outskirts), and urban antagonisms (partisan monuments, modernist architecture, vestiges of rural life).

Participants:
Alterazioni Video, Velibor Barišić, Jože Barši, Ajdin Bašić & Žiga Testen, Viktor Bernik, Sezgin Boynik, Jasmina Cibic, Vadim Fiškin, Dejan Habicht, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Minna Henriksson, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Irwin, Jaša, Gal Kirn, Miklavž Komelj, Gašper Kralj, Andreja Kulunčić & Ibrahim Ćurić & Said Mujić & Osman Pezić, Tanja Lažetić, Polonca Lovšin, Nebojša Milikić, Novi kolektivizem, Cesare Pietroiusti, Anja Planišček, Tadej Pogačar, Marko Pogačnik, Marjetica Potrč, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Franc Purg, radioCona, Renata Salecl, Sašo Sedlaček, son:DA, Zora Stančič, Mladen Stropnik, Kateřina Šeda, Nika Špan, Igor Štromajer, Tomaž Tomažin, Endre Tót, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič & Vuk Ćosić
Curators: Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur