Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion in Ljubljana

Press release

12.06.2025

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Duration

12.06. - 12.08.2025

Opening

12.06.2025 3pm

Press event

12.06.2025 3pm - 4pm

Place of the press event

SHOWING STYRIA, Museums Quartier Metelkova, Maistrova ulica 1, Ljubljana, Slowenien

Curators

Günther Holler-Schuster

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SHOWING STYRIA is a biennial exhibition initiated by the Provincial Government of Styria, combining socially relevant topics from art and science. The main exhibition, held at Eggenberg Palace in Graz – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – is dedicated to the turbulent history of the princely Eggenberg family on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. It is accompanied by three pavilions featuring the exhibition History Repeating?, which, with a retrospective look at the Baroque era, raises the question of whether historical cycles of crisis are repeating themselves in the present.

One of these pavilions, the Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion, is traveling to Ljubljana, the capital of neighboring Slovenia. From June 12, it will be shown near the Metelkova cultural center at Metelkova Square.

The Alpine Adriatic region is connected by a partially shared history. The artistic contributions in the Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion do not explicitly deal with this topic, but indirectly take up aspects of it. They thus extend the regional context to a more general reception. In addition to art-immanent aspects, the focus here is on migration scenarios, cultural identities as well as questions of territorial and cultural claims and cultural roots.

The Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion features works by Lena Violetta Leitner, Andreas Heller, Michael Pöllinger, Milica Tomić, Franz Kapfer, Total Refusal, Thomas Spies, and Christof Neugebauer.

An official opening ceremony was not held due to the shooting rampage at a school in Graz on 10 June 2025. Instead, the guests present from Austria and Slovenia were invited to express their condolences together in silence.

Further information

as part of SHOWING STYRIA 2025

Sporočilo za javnost

Paviljon Alpen-Adria

Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion in Ljubljana

Curator Günther Holler-Schuster, Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum Marko Mele, State Secretary Matevž Čelik Vidmar, artist Lena Violetta Leitner, Director of the National Museum Slovenia Meteja Kos Zabel, Deputy Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia Kristof Grabmayer-Keri, Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum Josef Schrammel, from left to right, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek, (c) Bildrecht, Vienna 2025

Kosovar Ambassador to Slovenia Hamdi Reqica, artist Lena Violetta Leitner, Deputy Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia Kristof Grabmayer-Keri, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Slovenia Sonja Reiser-Weinzettl, from left to right, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek (c) Bildrecht, Vienna 2025

Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum Marko Mele, State Secretary Matevž Čelik Vidmar, Director of the National Museum Slovenia Meteja Kos Zabel, Deputy Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia Kristof Grabmayer-Keri, Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum Josef Schrammel, from left to right, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek (c) Bildrecht, Vienna 2025

State Secretary Matevž Čelik Vidmar, Director of the National Museum Slovenia Meteja Kos Zabel, artist Lena Violetta Leitner, curator Günther Holler-Schuster, from left to right, photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek (c) Bildrecht, Vienna 2025

Exterior view, Alpine Adriatic region Pavilion of SHOWING STYRIA 2025 in Ljubljana, Museum Quarter Metelkova