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Lighting Guerrilla: Transformations
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Match Gallery

Trg francoske revolucije 7
1000 Ljubljana

T +386 1 24 12 590
T +386 1 24 12 500
E galerija.vzigalica@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Free entry.


You are welcome to visit the main festival exhibition at the Match Gallery until 1 September!

Lighting Guerrilla: Transformations

24. 5. 2024–1. 9. 2024

This year, the Lighting Guerrilla officially entered the age of adulthood - with the 18th edition of the festival, dedicated to the artistic exploration of the medium of light and considered to be a unique manifestation of this type in the local area. This year’s Lighting Guerrilla topic is Transformations; works selected thematise and reflect on different aspects of change and transformation that we are witnessing in our environment or in our lives.

Of course, every artwork presupposes a transformation of one kind or another, which takes place both in the production process itself and at the level of perception. The transformative potential of (visual) art can be understood as the quality of an artwork that enables it to influence the sensory perception and consciousness of the spectator and, consequently, wider society or culture. This potential can be very diverse in both intensity and content, ranging from simple sensory pleasure to deeper cognitive change that affects our understanding of surroundings, society and our relationships with each other.

Most of the artworks, especially the site-specific installations in public space at the festival, that was on around Ljubljana till the 22 June, also influence the transformation of the environment itself, turning it into spaces of boundless imagination and aesthetic contemplation. In shaping the programme of this year's edition, the curators were interested in projects that use an authentic artistic language to address different aspects of transformation, both at the level of the form itself and in the context of space, or at the level of the spectator’s perception.

The exhibition at the Match Gallery, which is on display after the festival until the 1 September, brings together artworks by an international group of artists. The works by Cinzia Campolese, Lovro Ivančić and Sarah Rechberger each address the topic of transformation in their own way: all three of them derive from the potential of space, making sense of both its physical and purely fictional aspects.

Cinzia Campolese’s interactive project Equilibrium raises questions about the character of space, or its moulting into a kind of living organism, by means of calibrated laser beam waves. Lovro Ivančić’s installation Parallel Worlds: Area 18.31 aims to create an atmosphere of alienation; with his ambient installation we experience the pulse of the unknown, otherworldly environment, where different laws and relationships prevail. Sarah Rechberge’s new media installation Planetary Sentience also introduces us to the realm of futuristic speculation. It guides us into the world as shaped by the sensory consciousness of the planet Earth, which, with the help of so-called planetary intelligence, brings about a profound transformation of nature and thus of life on its surface.

Matjaž Brulc


The main festival exhibition of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival (24 May to 22 June 2024) at the Match Gallery is on display until 1 September 2024 during the gallery's regular opening hours, Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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ProductionStrip Core/Forum Ljubljana
Co-production: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lubiana
Artists: Cinzia Campolese, Lovro Ivančić, Sarah Rechberger
Curators: Katerina Mirović, Janez Grošelj, Nika Erjavec

Match Gallery

Trg francoske revolucije 7
1000 Ljubljana

T +386 1 24 12 590
T +386 1 24 12 500
E galerija.vzigalica@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Free entry.


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