Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Berlin 2009, Revolver Publishing by VVV, 100 pages, ill., 26 x 22 cm, softcover, Slovenian/English
ISBN 978-3-86895-037-3
Alterazioni Video, Velibor Bari?iæ, Jo?e Bar?i, Ajdin Ba?iæ & ?iga Testen, Viktor Bernik, Jasmina Cibic, Vadim Fi?kin, Dejan Habicht, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Minna Henriksson, I?tvan I?t Huzjan, IRWIN, Ja?a, Miklav? Komelj, Ga?per Kralj, Andreja Kulunèiæ & Ibrahim Æuriæ & Said Mujiæ & Osman Peziæ, Tanja La?etiè, Polonca Lov?in, Neboj?a Milikiæ, Cesare Pietroiusti, Anja Plani?èek, Tadej Pogaèar, Marko Pogaènik, Marjetica Potrè, Marija Mojca Pungerèar, Franc Purg, radioCona, Renata Salecl, Sa?o Sedlaèek, son:DA, Zora Stanèiè, Mladen Stropnik, Nika ?pan, Igor ?tromajer, Toma? Toma?in, Endre Tót, Matej Andra? Vogrinèiè & Vuk Æosiæ.
37 projects by Slovenian and foreign artists in various public spaces in Ljubljana. The main building of Moderna galerija / the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana has been undergoing renovation works since early spring 2008, which has forced the Museum to restrict its exhibition activities. The Museum in the Streets project was a reaction to this state of affairs: the title refers to the temporary ?homelessness? of the Museum and to the whole exhibition being staged in public places. The projects comprised performances, actions, talks, film screenings, guided tours, a symposium, as well as more traditional artworks.
The Museum in the Streets project presented 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 Streets project attempted to do this by focusing on the representations of the city, urban identity, explorations / mappings 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.
