April 15 – June 14

The Perspectives of the City exhibition presents a selection of Slovenian artists who address certain phenomena of contemporary urban milieus through photography and video – their preferred mediums for their creative processes in the field of contemporary visual art. The curatorial team’s theme was to take different viewpoints on the roles and meanings of urban spaces in a broader anthropological sense, yet without avoiding specific iconographic contexts that consider both a temporal and ideologicalembeddedness. The photographic images in the exhibition transport us through the various architectonic and urban strata of a particular city (Ljubljana), whilst the video works confront us with issues posed (in particular) by the residents of Central European cities, with their specific histories, cultures and traditions. Last, but not least, the project draws attention to certain authorial positions from which the selected artists – mainly of the middle generation – work. The video artists were selected by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupančič, whilst the photo section was curated by Dejan Sluga.

Participating artists: Bojan Salaj, Branko Cvetkovič, Tomaž Gregorič, Tanja Lažetić and Dejan Habicht, Zmago Lenardič and Jasna Hribernik, KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Polonca Lovšin, Anja Medved.

Photo by: Tomaž Gregorič

After ten years of activity in Slovenia Photon Gallery was also registered in Vienna in 2012. We have collaborated with various Austrian partners in the past, not only as a Gallery, but also at the level of festival network (Association of European Month of Photography) – most closely with the Viennese Festival Eyes On. Since May 2013 we have established a regular gallery in Vienna, and with the exhibition City Perspectives we are moving to a new location in the growing cultural center AnkerBrotFabrik, where several renowned galleries already opened in last year. Due to the larger space we will introduce a richer additional program, and with Viennese partners we are preparing two international projects.

Kindly invited to the opening of the group exhibition CITY PERSPECTIVES on Tuesday, 15 April, at 7 pm in Photon Gallery. The exhibition will be inaugurated by His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovenia dr. Andrej Rahten. 

After party: ERNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Supported by:
Photon Gallery, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Wien

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