Check-in: after 15:00
Check out: up to 11:00

If your room is ready, you can check in before 15:00. As this is subject to availability, please consult reception staff upon arrival.
Luggage storage is available at the reception desk.

Flight check-in

Please remember to check-in for your flight using your booking code, which you can find on the ticket or booking confirmation sent to your email. You can check-in on the airline’s website or at the airport. For accurate check-in times, please consult your ticket or the airline’s website.
Also, please pay attention to the baggage allowance specified on your ticket, as it may vary depending on your fare type.

Airport transfer

Shuttle provider: Nomago/Goopti
The pickup location and transfer time will be provided individually via text message or email one day before arrival or departure.
Contact: Elena Chirila, production and online communication assistant, +386 40 377 726, +40 771 791 725 (WhatsApp)

Arrivals

You will be notified via text message about the location of the shuttle or the driver will await you at the arrival hall (with either your name on the sign or the Igor Zabel Award sign). The shuttle will take you to your hotel, but if you’d prefer to go to the venue directly, please inform your driver.

Departures

The shuttle will pick you up at your hotel 2.5 to 4 hours before your flight’s departure (depending on the airport you will be departing from) unless otherwise agreed upon. We will inform you about the timing and mode of your airport transfer along with relevant contact information.

Exit station: Ljubljana

The hotel is within walking distance (less than 10 minutes) of the main train and bus stations, which are adjacent to one another. If you purchased your ticket yourself, please keep it for reimbursement.

Elena Chirila

production and online communication assistant  ⁄  +386 40 377 726, +40 771 791 725 (WhatsApp)

10:00–11:30  ⁄  Seminar – Day 2  ⁄  Locally Situated Knowledge Production

Museum of Modern Art (MG+), Cankarjeva 15  ⁄  Auditorium (Google Maps ↗)

12:30–13:30  ⁄  Guided tour  ⁄  Exhibition Constellation of Multiple Wishes: Along the Eastern Horizon

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), Maistrova 3 (Google Maps ↗)

14:00  ⁄  Lunch

Saraj, Bohoričeva ulica 1 (Google Maps ↗)

20:30  ⁄  Igor Zabel Award 2024 Ceremony

Sokol House, Tabor 13 (Google Maps ↗)

20:00  ⁄  Welcome drink
20:30  ⁄  Introduction and presentation of the Igor Zabel Award
20:40  ⁄  Jury statements and presentations of the 2024 Grant recipients
21:00  ⁄  Performance by Bowrain
21:10  ⁄  Jury statement and presentation of the 2024 Laureate
21:40  ⁄  Closing words

10:00–11:30  ⁄  Architectural guided tour with Nonument group

Kavarna Cukrarna (meeting point) (Google Maps ↗)

TGH-48 Car Park, one of the masterpieces of the architect Savin Sever, is characterised by a distinct duality: it is a revered example of quality 1960s architecture and at the same time a neglected and "useless" building. With a sonic ride through the garage, Nonument Group draws attention to the specific structure of the building, which is not only architecturally fascinating, but also, even in its supposedly problematic present, full of vital content and individual improvisations.

Vošnjakova 4 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Wednesday–Saturday: 12:00–19:00

Ravnikar Gallery is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to the presentation and promotion of visual culture by both Slovenian and international artists.

Meta Drčar & Bart Lunenburg: Annotations

Although both artists primarily work in different formats, mediums and materials, they share a common characteristic of extracting from architecture rather than only adding to it. The multidisciplinary exhibition works as a large, interconnected spatial installation; firstly, it is to be understood as a conversation between the two artists, their separate practices and polarity of warm and cold, hard and soft, light or heavy materials.

Lara Reichmann: Disposable Bodies

The starting point of the exhibition is the phenomenon of the Women Astronomical Computers, a group of often anonymous women who combed the night sky and mapped and classified the stars via astronomical photographic glass plates at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19th century. The artist guides visitors through the deconstructed remains of satellites, while gradually dissolving the physical body of the stargazer and fusing it with computer software to speak about the passage of the multiplicity of human bodies into the mechanical system of the virtual.

Slovenska cesta 9 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 3 EUR  ⁄  reduced: 2 EUR

A gallery staging extensive exhibitions of works by photographers of global renown and comprehensive exhibitions of works by prominent Slovenian photographers.

OUR CLAIM | Slovenian Protest Photography 2020–2022

Photography remains the key tool for documenting important social movements because, despite the challenges of the digital era, it maintains the position of a witness and the ability to tell stories. The exhibition Our Claim: Slovenian Protest Photography 2020-2022 presents the period marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrations across Slovenia and highlights the role and meaning of photography in recording social events and valuing of our common heritage.

Tivoli Park, Pod Turnom 4 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 6 EUR  ⁄  reduced: 3 EUR

MGLC Švicarija is an international residency centre and support for cultural mobility, a centre for production and creativity, a centre for knowledge exchange and a model for the revitalisation of cultural heritage.

Antonio Pichillá: The Offering

The guiding thread of the exhibition The Offering is the art of weaving, demonstrating that spirituality is an inherent part of artistic materiality. Through appropriation, performativity and abstraction, the artist connects Maya rituals and customs that have long remained hidden, disclosing the value of ancestral knowledge as a symbol of resistance and the dignity of one's identity.

Cankarjeva 15 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 5 EUR  ⁄  reduced: 2.5 EUR

20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures | A selection of works from the national collection of Moderna galerija

The 20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures exhibition breaks with traditional linearity by introducing the topics of the 20th century avant-gardes and of the art of the Partisan resistance, bringing them into the national history of art on an equal footing with more familiar trends and, as a consequence, casting new light on the latter.

Fužine Castle, Rusjanov trg 7 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 7 EUR  ⁄  reduced: 3,5 EUR

Founded in 1972 as the Architectural Museum Ljubljana, thus making it one of Europe’s oldest museums of architecture and design, MAO is today an example of the transformation of a museum into a dynamic institution with new functionalities.

28th Biennial of Design | Double Agent Do You Speak Flower?

This year’s biennial represents an important milestone in sixty years of development in the field of design. Political, bold, vibrant, and provocative, Double Agent: Do You Speak Flower? examines the figure of floriography, a code hidden within flowers to transmit secret information. The core of this transdisciplinary and multifaceted exhibition scrutinizes the pivotal role of floriography used by women to portray their identities. In that sense, flowers pave the way for antagonistic and alternative interpretations of both the meanings and the context in which they are decrypted.

Trg prekomorskih brigad 1 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Monday–Friday: 12:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 1 EUR

Photon Gallery was founded in Ljubljana in 2003 to present and promote photo-artists from Central and South-Eastern Europe. It regularly shows work by both established artists and young emerging photographers.

Unadapted observes. Outsiders and outlaws

During socialism, the status, function, and aesthetics of photography were remarkably similar across all former socialist countries. In the Central European countries that were part of the socialist bloc, there was a unique collective organization in photography as well. Most photographers worked within a system of photo clubs, while some, albeit few, worked entirely independently. Some worked independently due to their specific approach to creation, while others did so due to censorship or even bans on their work. The focus is on the specific approaches of artists who, either by their own choice or due to exclusion by the regime, stood out from the mainstream of photographic creativity in former socialist countries. Artists: Andrzej Baturo, Vladimir Birgus, Stane Jagodič, Gábor Kerekes, Rudolf Sikora, Jindrich Streit, Janos Szasz, Balint Szombathy.

Gosposka 15 (Google Maps ↗)  ⁄  Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00  ⁄  Entrance fee: 8 EUR  ⁄  reduced: 7 EUR

The City Museum of Ljubljana records, collects, documents, evaluates, preserves, interprets, researches, and presents the material and immaterial heritage from the area of Ljubljana and the city's wider surrounding area, dating from Prehistory to the present day.

From Corset to Jacket: How the People of Ljubljana Dressed, 1850–1950

The exhibition on significant changes in the world of clothing opens the doors to the world of dressing as a distinct form of communication, revealing societal shifts and individual milestones that influenced the decisions of our ancestors on how to dress.

Spaces of movement: 40 years of Ljubljana’s LGBT Community

On the spaces for gathering, support, and organized advocacy of the LGBT movement, which have been shaping the urban culture and social life of the capital for 40 years.