ALL ACTIVITIES

15. 05. 2026 At the exhibition Kickstarters, sculptural devices threaten passers-by with kicks into not necessarily welcome beginnings. Their name mischieviously echoes the diluted mission of a well-known public benefit corporation, which has frequently fostered highly controversial and rather tragicomic initiatives. Four, like the directions of the sky, the horsemen of the apocalypse or the two-colored tokens that connect into a winning line, get united under a simple common

23. 05. 2026 What if a painting began to breathe? This installation, which combines painting and digital media, transforms the space into a fluid, living experience. Through projection mapping, the images step out of their frames, take on movement, and blur the line between the static and the living. Before you unfolds the “space in between” the painting and the projection, perception and reality. A state of constant change and happening. An entry into an environment that tra

23. 04. 2026 At exhibition OBRAČUN, the star of the show was the receipt—that piece of paper we encounter at every turn and usually just crumple up and throw away. A receipt is a document of purchase, a companion to consumption, and a small reminder that nothing comes for free. ​ In the exhibition, receipts appear in a playful, almost childlike guise: they are cut into little squares, just like the ones we used to make from napkins in elementary school. Like snowflakes—each o

15. 04. 2026 Internationally renowned Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen , who—in addition to performing with the ensembles Trespass Trio, Angles 9, and All Included—composes music for theater, film, and sound installations, joins the electro-acoustic duo SUBBURBEN — drummer and percussionist Gal Furlan , a student of Zlatko Kaučič and leader of the Štala Club at KUD Kussa, and composer and sound designer Andrej Kobal , creator of the internationally acclaimed virtual instrum

14.03.2026 ENG GrooveBox Radio presents the recording made at Carinarnica, on the border that divides Gorizia from Nova Gorica, seventh episode of the Borderless Sessions Filmed on 14/03/2026 Video Editing: Denis Furlan ITA GrooveBox Radio presenta la registrazione effettuata alla Carinarnica, sul confine che divide Gorizia da Nova Gorica, settimo episodio delle Borderless Sessions Registrato il 14/03/2026 Video Editing: Denis Furlan SLO GrooveBox Radio predstavlja posnetek n

13. 03. 2026 On Friday the 13th, ANTIMILITARTE arrived in Gorizia / Nova Gorica It's a traveling exhibition project that highlights artistic sensibility as a diverse and shared voice of criticism, resistance, and imagination against the epidemic of war and the militarization of society. ​ For a world where people matter more than governments and multinational corporations. ​ Antimilitarte cultivates the idea of traveling and spreading, crossing territories and cities to pos

06. 02. 2026 6th February 2026 at 20h Via Carducci 47, Gorizia (IT) The presentation of the CD of the multimedia art project Trachea, which, between July 8 and September 30, 2025, reframed the two tunnels under Kostanjevica as organs of the respiratory and digestive system — trachea and esophagus. The project organized by Gallery GONG as part of the European Capital of Culture GO!2025 programme, figured the pedestrian passage under the hill as an animated transitional organis

30. 01. 2026 Illustrations: Tamara Mihalič Music and lyrics: Niko Novak Labels: Ports of Call and ŠKUC Album production: Jim Jones Performers (at the event on January 30, 2026): Soma Arsen and Niko Novak The HAPHAZARD RERUNS series was created as a reinterpretation of Niko Novak’s music. Each song is presented in the illustrations through its own narrative. The illustrations relate to individual tracks on Novak’s new album and depict a visual interpretation of the stories the

13. 12. 2025 Salvatore Calì is Italian artist born in Sicily (Misterbianco) in 1966. Photography, video, and performance are the main means of his artistic exploration, in which nature, science, spirituality, and social discourse become gestures, actions, and works of art in interaction with the natural and human ecosphere. Salvatore currently lives and works in Nova Gorica.

29.11.2025 Shooting of the special Andrej Kobal's performance at Carinarnica's BOILING BORDER event, part of the official closing of GO!2025 European Capital of Culture. Video editing: Denis Furlan

15. 11. 2025 On Saturday, 15 November, as part of the contemporary art practices festival Pixxelpoint, we opened a temporary space in front of the former Customs House on the border – a space for environmental reflection, the humanities, and the industrial history of the Goriška region. The pop-up exhibition “Krasna si, bistra hči planin in toksinov …” grew out of research, conversations with local people, and encounters with the natural environment around Anhovo. As students

13. 11. 2025 - 23.11.2023 co-conceived by: Benjamin Gruner, Francesco Scarel, Katarina Podobnik in pETER Purg Resonating Realities in the Fourth Space PREMISE A world stricken by multiple ecological, social, and economic crises and permeated by war. Never before has mankind had the data and the technology to understand and manage the world better. Societies and individuals, minds and bodies are crumbling. Mental health and public space are disintegrating. People feel isolated

13. 11. 2025 Enej Gala (1990) lives and works between London, Venice, and Nova Gorica. In 2014, he was on a student exchange at the William De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, graduating in 2013 and completing his master's degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice under Prof. Carlo Di Rac in 2015. In 2023, he completed a postgraduate program at the Royal Academy Schools in London. His practice expands the narrative by questioning traditional views of painting, per

30.10.2025 The duo 6YPAH (Buran), consisting of Jani Toplak (Nova Gorica) and Giorgio Multineddu (Gorica), returned to the stage after many years of absence with the album Prozorno mesto (Transparent City) – a collection of six songs that capture the sonic and literary vision of two decades of creativity in less than half an hour. Their story begins in 2008, when they turned a friendly experimental project into an enigmatic musical entity inspired by the Soviet space program

28. 10. 2025 - 07.11.2025 ARCI IN BICI 2025 is second edition of borderless project that finishes in photography exhibition by students of class 2 SCSv at the Istituto Professionale Cossar - da Vinci secondary school, Linguaggi fotografici. Cossar-da Vinci is a vocational secondary school offering several programs. A few years ago, the Gorizia police donated abandoned bicycles found around the city to students in technical programs. The students learned how to repair and mai

17. 10. 2025 Migrart: Art as Encounter is a project that, since 2015, has been collecting drawings and testimonies from migrants along migration routes on 30-meter rolls of paper. Ten years after, the Menti Libere collective is launching the project “Migrart: Unrolling the Border,” which involves the Italian-Slovenian cross-border territory in participatory actions and cultural initiatives capable of offering cross-cutting perspectives on the theme of the border as a socio-cu

15. 10. 2025 'Hai confini della roba' (The Limits of Things) This work analyzes, on the basis of biographical elements, the period in which the Eastern world came to Gorizia. To buy everything that was not available in Yugoslavia and other countries. In doing so, it created an economy dependent on this situation. Today, many shops have closed their doors, and this market no longer exists. Borders and boundaries were the first step that led man to captivity, slavery,...

3. 10. 2025 Book festival Mesto knjige - City of books ended with closing of the exhibition in Carinarnica. Event with DJ Willy (Vili Raholin) a long-time friend of Feo's, who played music that inspired the poet and which he often used as a reference in his books, was the last chance to see the exhibition before it moves up the Soča River. Cover: Saša Nikić www.mesto.knjige.si

27.09.2025 In the orbit of Borderless Taste/Gusti di Frontiera/Brezmejni Okusi GrooveBox Radio opened the console to Carinarnica on the city border, in the former Slovenian customs barracks. To participate in Open Decks, you only needed to bring a USB stick, and speakers and a basic console (mixer, Traktor X1 controller, and computer) were waiting for you!

20.9.2025 On busy saturday, at the end of september, in front of Carinarnica, a lot of interesting things for children and older human beings happened: Concert: Trkaj – Repki, Mattia Visintin, singer-songwriter, Out – Lot Live graffiti art Light installation: Teemu Nurmeli (Finland) "Under the same roof (we live)" (KUD Manifest) Exercise for EVERYONE! Žlikrof workshop with Patricija Horvat (MasterChef) Street drawing Stickers – unique sticker workshop (Ana Žerjal) Street gam