Exhibitions

Whereas the West encounters the now-fossilized witnesses of planned economies and socialist modernism with skepticism, Roman Bezjak (1962) takes an impartial view of communist architecture. His series render a kind of archaeology of postwar modernism without nostalgically glorifying the former East Bloc, for he also makes visible the exploitation of utopia and its entry into everyday life.

Breda Beban was one of the most prominent personas in the field of contemporary arts in former Yugoslavia who – in the past 20 years - lived and worked internationally, mostly based in London and Sheffield. The Musical for the Senses solo show in Photon (Ljubljana) brings together selected works from her recent creative period, between 1997 and 2012. Beban's works are devoted to several aspects of everyday life: migration, socio-political circumstance, human relationships and love.

The exhibition presented in Photon show selection of three series, connected by semantic - linguistic exploration of images, meanings, and their identification in the language. At the same time all three series are characterized by the recognizable personal, almost intimate iconography. All three series are created with a strong "conceptual", "staged", we could also say, performative approach.

Photon is starting a new season. The first exhibition presents the Survivors series of photographs by Goran Bertok who continues to examine and address the phenomena of the human body within contemporary society; its exposure, fragility and various related symbolic features.

Roberto Kusterle is a Slovenian-Italian artist, who dealt with painting and installations until mid 80's, then it started becoming more and more devoted to photography. Here he preserves a kind of picturesque style, which always contains elements of odd, bizarre, surrealist. His photography does not document, but is a complete invention; objects, people and worlds Kusterle shows come from his imagination and not from reality, which usually serves as the basis for photography.

Albedo is an audio-visual installation, a video space, where the artist connects visual elements and luminosity of video image with various carriers for video projections.