The opening weekend of the 22nd edition of the Art Stays Festival starts in Ptuj on Thursday, 4 July at 6 pm. Since 2003, the Art Stays Festival has been bringing to Ptuj and its surroundings top-class productions by local and international artists, from the most promising young artists to the big names of contemporary. Also this year the directors and curators Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari invite you to a new journey towards contemporary and international arts in the company of artists, curators, musicians and gallery owners.
This edition- titled THE SPACE – questions what space is, what kind of space we are talking about and whether what is around us is really all there is.
The programme includes exhibitions, performances and projects by artists such as Christiane Löhr, Wilhelm Mundt, Shaun Gladwell, Hans Op de Beeck, Franco Marrocco, Giancarlo Dell’Antonia, Béatrice Lartigue, Asako Hishiki, Cesare Galluzzo, Mauro Staccioli, Willy Verginer, Luigi Dellatorre, Gianfranco Gentile, Beppe Bonetti, Dušan Fišer, Vinko Tušek, Natalija R. Črnčec, Nina Šulin, JunesHelen, Navid Azimi Sajadi, Alessandra Calò, Davide Maria Coltro, Nicola Evangelisti, Armida Gandini, Carla Iacono, Saba Masoumian, Mona Lisa Tina, Mona Lisa Tina, Srdan Mohorič, Gašper Capuder, Nina Čelhar, Tjaša Rener Tjaša Rener, Renato Arnejčič…
The central exhibition PROSTOR / THE SPACE is held at the Ptuj City Gallery . In this location, the invited international artists present themselves in an open environment where mobility (Vinko Tušek), meta-rationality (Beppe Bonetti), visual fiction (Hans Op de Beeck), dimensions (Natalija R. Črnčec, Nina Šulin, JUNEsHELEN), processes of proliferation (Béatrice Lartigue) and equilibrium (Shaun Gladwell) offer reflections on the nature of space, change and human reflection. The exhibition is a journey in which the works redefine themselves in contact with each other. They gather, reflect or continually invite a new observation of space on the part of the viewer.
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