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RAVNIKAR PROJECTS is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to fostering emerging and established voices in contemporary art.

RAVNIKAR Projects is a Ljubljana based contemporary art platform shaping exhibitions, publishing, residencies, and international exchange, with a strong focus on ambitious, research-driven and experimental practices. As a dynamic platform, it forges vital connections between independent artistic practices and the wider cultural landscape, nurturing dialogue, engagement, and critical thought. Throu

gh RAVNIKAR gallery and R SPACE, we champion progressive artistic expressions across visual and intermedia arts, presenting a carefully curated program of exhibitions, talks, mentorships, publishing, and international collaborations. Our approach transcends conventional boundaries, embracing fluidity in genre, form, and artistic discourse. Beyond exhibition-making, RAVNIKAR is an active force in shaping the contemporary art ecosystem—advancing the careers of artists from the region internationally, cultivating new audiences, and fostering sustainability within the arts. Flagship initiatives such as LJUBLJANA ART WEEKEND, the co-founding of ETC. magazine, and participation in major art fairs underscore our commitment to cultural innovation and exchange. A proud member of the New Art Dealers Alliance and the Gallery Climate Coalition, RAVNIKAR is dedicated to the future of contemporary art—bold, inclusive, and ever-evolving. Our work is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture.

14/07/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov
20/05 – 22/08/2026

Indra Gleizde
Eternal Calendar, 2026

Rogovka, a small village in Latvia’s eastern Latgale region near the European Union’s outer border, occupies a peripheral geographic position and possesses a complex history of resistance, faith, language preservation and self-determination. The Latgalian language and identity have been preserved despite language bans, deportations, occupations and cultural marginalisation. Myužeygays Kalinders (Eternal Calendar) emerges from this context, grounded in a manuscript by local farmer and cultural activist Andryvs Jūrdžs, created in response to the 1865 ban on printing in the Latin script in the Russian Empire. The photographic series engages with this archival material and the broader histories of constraint and survival in Latgale. It is accompanied by an essay that traces the artist’s return to Rogovka and juxtaposes it with her family history and the village’s past. Experiences of deportation, resistance and everyday endurance inform the conceptual framework of the work, yet they represent only one thread within the region’s wider cultural memory. Ultimately, the work asserts that Rogovka is not merely a peripheral site of victimhood but a place of agency. The village’s history includes peasants who successfully challenged landlords in court, underground youth resistance movements, and farmers who hand-copied books to preserve language and beliefs. What may appear marginal becomes generative through the villagers’ assertion of their power.

📸 Zupanov

13/07/2026

As part of our long-term collaboration with Bart Lunenburg, the artist is currently undertaking a research residency in Maribor in preparation for his forthcoming solo exhibition City as a Garment, curated by Eva Simonič and opening at UGM | Umetnostna galerija Maribor on 2 October 2026.

This marks Lunenburg’s second residency in Slovenia and continues an ongoing dialogue that has developed over several years through exhibitions, research and collaborative projects.

Developed by UGM in collaboration with RAVNIKAR | Projects, the project explores Maribor’s rich textile heritage and its role in shaping the city’s architectural, social and cultural fabric. Through archival research, observation and material experimentation, Lunenburg approaches the city as a kind of garment, examining how textiles have shaped its collective memory and built environment.

Bart Lunenburg (b. 1995, Utrecht, NL) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores architecture as a carrier of memory, history and lived experience. Working across sculpture, photography, drawing, textiles and installation, his research-based projects investigate the relationship between place, material culture and collective memory.

We look forward to sharing more as the project unfolds and to welcoming you to the exhibition this October.

07/07/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov
20/05 – 22/08/2026

Yours is the world in which I move uninvited (13’), 2025

On 26 February 1992, Slovenian authorities carried out what is now known as the erasure – an administrative removal of 25,671 individuals from the Register of Permanent Residents of the Republic of Slovenia. These individuals, who held dual citizenship of Yugoslavia and another Yugoslav republic but had registered permanent residence in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, were stripped of their legal status and basic human rights. Having to navigate life without access to medical care, unable to rent an apartment, work or send their children to school, many were left at the mercy of their relatives. One of the erased people was Maja Bojanić’s great-grandmother, to whom the work is dedicated and whose warm presence the artist portrays in her video installation. The artist used an infrared camera to materialise her daily routine in a suburban apartment. In this way, her absence becomes visible, her existence traceable, felt despite the violence she experienced. While the artist acknowledges that recollection is always situated, she attempts to portray her great-grandmother beyond the trauma. The presence recorded by the thermal camera seems ghostly, and since many of the erased testified to being falsely recorded as deceased, the metaphor is not far from the lived experiences. To haunt is to remain, however, to persist, to resist. To the artist, it is an extension of witnessing. The artwork becomes a counter-archive and a way of remembering a person who died twice.

📸 Zupanov

01/07/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov�20/05 – 22/08/2026

Luka Cvetkovic
LAMB (History Always Begins With You)
2021

In late March 2021, Luka Cvetković walked from Jarinje, an ethnically Serbian village in northern Kosovo, to Kaçanik, a predominantly Albanian region in the south. Over seven days and 150 kilometres, he carried and cared for a lamb, moving through checkpoints, divided towns, competing mythologies, and landscapes marked by war and memory.

The journey unfolded slowly, with roadside pauses, hill crossings, stretches of asphalt, and passages by KLA insignia, Serbian flags, unfinished houses, and fields beginning to turn green. The performance was documented not as heroic endurance, but from the lamb’s perspective, showing terrain, borders, and humans as transient elements in its perceptual field.

LAMB (History Always Begins With You) displaces the human from the centre of meaning. In a time marked by the climate crisis, nationalist resurgence, and inherited conflicts, it offers neither moral instruction nor reconciliation. By foregrounding the lamb’s perspective, the work challenges the anthropocentric belief that reality depends on human presence. By decentring the human subject while maintaining responsibility, it proposes that history begins not in myth or territory, but in the decision to refuse their compulsive re-enactment.

📸 Zupanov

26/06/2026

Open Studio Visit at Telegraph Olomouc shares a glimpse into the recently completed artist-in-residence programme, offering a look back at the dynamic working process developed over the past weeks inside the studio, where ideas, experiments, and works in progress unfolded in real time.

During the residency, Maja Babič Košir & Nevena Aleksovski explored new directions through sustained experimentation, research, and the shared rhythm of studio life. The open studio marked a moment within this process: an opening into evolving works, shifting ideas, and two distinct practices developing in parallel, each grounded in its own logic yet shaped by proximity and exchange.

Special thanks to Telegraph Olomouc, Robert Runták, the curatorial team and the entire Telegraph staff for their generous hosting, trust, and support.

RAVNIKAR | Projects is pleased to see the artists’ works now included in the Robert Runták collection, marking a meaningful continuation of this exchange beyond the residency itself.

📸 Nicol Michálková

18/06/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov
20/05 – 22/08/2026

Center for Peripheries: The Neighbour’s Garden, 2025

Before it became a familiar household container, the tin can was a practical solution for preserving and transporting food over long distances. As industrial production expanded, standardisation transformed the can into a symbol of modernity and middle-class aspiration. In the postwar decades, brightly printed labels proliferated and supermarket shelves became sites of perceived abundance. The can has consistently embodied more than sustenance, encapsulating trust, fear, class, empire and desire, all compressed into metal and encased in print. Center for Peripheries employ this charged object as its central narrative device. The project imagines everyday products whose labels reveal neighbourly relations across multiple scales, from fleeting solidarities and micro-conflicts to transnational movements. Rather than offering neutral branding, it uses packaging design to foreground histories of displacement, militarisation, resource extraction and resistance that underlie seemingly ordinary goods. Familiar formats such as nutritional facts, ingredient lists and brand slogans are repurposed to convey political messages and narrate entangled histories. Packaging design thus becomes a form of historiography, turning the act of browsing into an encounter with the infrastructures of power that shape everyday life.

📸 Zupanov

15/06/2026

Today, RAVNIKAR opens its presentation at Liste Art Fair Basel 2026 with a solo project by Mladen Stropnik.

For LISTE Basel, Stropnik presents a reimagined installation first developed for the 2025 Ljubljana Biennale. The work is centred on a large freestanding mirror supported by three sculptural sleeping bodies concealed behind its surface.

Exploring the relationship between embodied presence, perception, and self-observation, the installation positions the mirror as both a reflective surface and a metaphor for the digital interface, while the hidden figures point to the physical reality that underpins attention and consciousness.

We look forward to welcoming visitors throughout the fair.

LISTE Basel
16–22 June 2026
Booth 50 | RAVNIKAR (Ljubljana)

For available works and enquiries:
[email protected]

08/06/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Artists: Maja Bojanić, Rayna Teneva, Center for Peripheries, Damir Avdagić, Luka Cvetković, Indra Gleizde, Nevena Aleksovski
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov�20/05 – 22/08/2026

Emerging from the framework of ETC. Magazine’s fifth issue, Full Circle, the exhibition around every circle another can be drawn, brings together artistic positions that engage with migration, displacement, borders, and the unstable construction of collective memory across the regions stretching from the Balkans to the Baltics. These geographies resist easy definition. Often grouped under the reductive category of “Eastern Europe,” they are in fact shaped by profoundly heterogeneous histories, languages, political realities, and cultural experiences. One element, however, persistently traverses them: the continual renegotiation of borders and identities through war, state dissolution, ideological transformation, and migration.

History, identity, and belonging are never fixed, but continuously reshaped through movement, rupture, and return. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Circles, reflects on the impossibility of definitive endings. Every border implies another threshold, every displacement another beginning, and every historical formation the possibility of transformation.

Rather than presenting a singular narrative about these processes, the exhibition unfolds through a polyphony of perspectives, methodologies, and artistic languages. The exhibited works move between personal testimony and collective history, tracing how large-scale political transformations become embedded within intimate experiences, inherited trauma, labour, language, and the material conditions of everyday life.aleksovski, 2022–
Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands

, 2025
The Neighbour’s Garden

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01/06/2026

🅡 X ETC. | around every circle another can be drawn
Curated by: ETC. & Vasil Vladimirov
20/05 – 22/08/2026

Nevena Aleksovski | Melancholy of the Abandoned Lands (2022–ongoing)

In the latter half of the 20th century, migration in the Balkans was shaped by post-war industrialisation, socialist modernisation and the eventual dissolution of the Yugoslav state. Rural areas experienced depopulation under the guise of progress and the creation of a working class aligned with state ideology. Mining towns provided employment and stability, but often at the cost of forced resettlement and the subordination of entire communities to extractive economies. The project by
Nevena Aleksovski emerges from this context. It traces the interconnected histories of her family’s migration from rural North Macedonia to a Serbian mining town. The artist situates personal narrative within broader industrial and political frameworks, demonstrating that the extraction of land and labour is inseparable from the extraction of memory, belonging and identity. The installation, incorporating archival photographs, drawings, textual fragments, and readymade objects, constructs environments that oscillate between ruin and remembrance. These materials preserve history in the absence of comprehensive records. Family images, found photographs and natural materials serve as repositories of memory, while speculation becomes a means of engaging with absence.

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