Series of survey and thematic programs of video art in Slovenia and presentations (exhibitions, screenings, lectures) in Slovenia and worldwide
Screening and talk on Friday, 19 September 2025, 7 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The selection of new works in the DIVA Station archive is linked by the theme of nature as a space of various forms of endangerment, but also of regeneration and survival.
Participating: Jaka Vatovec, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jatun Risba, Lea Culetto, DNLM, Polonca Lovšin, Nejc Trampuž
Curator: Vesna Bukovec
Screening and talk on Friday, 29 August 2025, 8 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The selected film programme reflects on borders as social constructs. Not only geographical and political, but also historical, perceptual, normative and existential. Borders that determine who enters and who exits, who is visible and who is erased, who has a voice and who among us is an alien. At a time when borders are closing and control is tightening, the question of how to think about borders, how to understand and cross them, becomes ever more urgent.
Participating: Pablo Ballarín (ES/PL), Maja Bojanić (SI), Julie Černá (CZ), Ana Čigon (SI), Léo Mourey (FR/EE), Emilija Škarnulytė (LT)
Curator: Lene Lekše (SI)
Screening and talk on Friday, 4 July 2025, 9 pm at the inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana.
The programme begins with microorganisms that can only be seen under a microscope, and through this – in film terms – close-up, it slowly approaches human characters. However, they seem to be expressions of some impersonal forces: something is within their bodies, and it works through them. The functioning of human bodies and the possibility of knowing it is necessarily linked to the development of technology and spiritual practices. The body becomes open: a phenomenon that lies between an organism and a multitude of sub-organisms, exhibiting the capacity to self-organise and an abstraction into code or information that can be manipulated.
Participating: Uršula Berlot, Tina Ščavničar, Ester Ivakič, Teja Miholič, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Luka Dekleva, Luka Prinčič
Curator: Robert Kuret
13 – 17 May 2025
The 5thedition of the festival of experimental AV practices opens this year in three venues: the main part with screenings of Australian contemporary film and video, the three-part international programme section Vistas and the student programme at the Slovenian Cinematheque, the exhibition at Aksioma Project space and the opening AV performance at Kino Šiška. The VR Point is also a permanent feature of the festival. The festival is joined by the third edition of Nataša Prosenc Stearns‘ video and film oeuvre, Between Body and Space III: Vertical Horizon.
22 March 2025, W1 – Theatersaal, Regensburg
SCCA-Ljubljana is joining the 31st International Short Film Week in Regensburg, one of the most prominent short film festivals in Germany, which will take place from 20 to 30 March. The festival, which has been presenting innovative and daring short film expressions from all over the world for more than three decades, will this time pay special attention to Slovenian film.
The DIVA Station archive will present Interlaced DIVA, a programme curated by Peter Cerovšek, presenting the voices and perspectives of mainly female authors. The title of the programme plays on the double meaning of the term “interlaced”. On a technical level, it refers to the structure of the video signal, while on a symbolic level it expresses the interplay of diverse artistic voices and highlights the contribution of women artists in exploring themes such as gender roles, normative representations of femininity and the representation of the female body. The selected works critically examine entrenched social structures that influence our understanding of identity, sexuality and social relations. Through an interplay of images and ideas, the programme invites the viewer to reflect on how these motifs resonate in a contemporary context.
The programme features works by artists Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, Ana Nuša Dragan, Ema Kugler, Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafić, Duba Sambolec and Sara Bezovšek.