Events

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

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

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

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

29. 8.–3. 10. 2025 The official opening of the Mesto knjige 2025 - City of Books 2025 festival happened with the Desperado exhibition by Ivan Volarič Feo. Ivan Volarič Feo, who knew how to convey the essence in just a few syllables, published the poem La guerre est finie in his cult poetry collection Desperado Tonic Water (published in 1975, half a century ago), which goes like this: when the war is over/ it is only the end of the war. As a farewell to the manifesto, on Frida

24.6.2025 On hot june day we opened a textile exhibition in collaboration with Bien from Kranj. Schedule: 12:00–16:00 Participatory Workshop of Material Flow 18:00 Opening of the exhibition Material Flow Authors: Andrea Kaňkovská (CZ) & Lucia Horňáková Černayová (SK) Material Flow Project is a participatory and processual work. We join our collections of materials and turn out the use of gallery space. We consciously decided to reach out and strengthen skills such as – collab

on Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 20, at 6 p.m. A satire in which the everyday adventures of neighbouring cats reflect pressing European political issues. The film takes place on the estates of three cats from different social classes, who protect their territories with hedges and gates. The already fragile neighborly relations are shaken by stray cats that invade their territories. To resolve the resulting international conflict, the most prominent cat statesmen

23.5.2025 Anyone can write, hardly anyone can read, but the hardest thing is to listen. At the evening of literary readings we tried to liesten to poetry by Igor Cvitkovič and Jernej Terseglav. After poetry there was relaxed socializing at Duty Free Garden of Carinarnica and musical afterparty with food and drinks.

16.5.-23.6.2025 Event organized as part of the official program of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorica, the Slovenian Animated Film Association (DSAF) and Carinarnica. Ana Čigon's multimedia installation Politika Mačka med vrati (The Politics of The Cat in the Doorway) is based on the animated satire Maček med vrati (The Cat in the Doorway), which highlights the tension between the European Union's declared ideals of unity and democracy and its actual mi

12.2.-5.3.2025 DAMN RAKE is Tanel Rander's insight into his subjectivity, based on performative research that he made during 2023 in...

7.2.2025 Before the opening of the borderless capital, there was a mandatory stop at the border line—at Carinarnica—for a night of pure...

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06.12.2024 Exhibition “Witness Corner Marked II - Milestones for a Border” by Manca Bajec was the result of an artist residency organized by IoDeposito. Starting from the Carinarnica cultural center, where an exhibition was hosted, the artist led a sound walk through some of the most representative places of the urban border, accompanied by the voices of its inhabitants and the surrounding sounds, staging a playful grounding of the space. The PV project was funded by the Euro

"Nova Gorica grows into something ominous in your mind" Exhibition at the end of literary residency 16.10.-2.11.2025 slo: "Nova Gorica v...

07. 11. 2024 - 17.11.2024 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑? 𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡�

Author: Katarina Kolenc Exhibition 12.9.-4.10.2025 Heatwave is a series of photographs capturing the author's memories of summers spent...

16.5.2024 "We first visited Nova Gorica as a union in the fall of 2022, and even then we opened up some critical local and national issues in our sector with the workers of Nova Gorica. A lot has happened since then. We have carried out numerous union actions. One of the most important is that we have started negotiations with the Ministry of Culture for a collective agreement for workers who work as external contractors in our sector, and this spring we are almost on the ver

Authors: MIHA KOSOVEL AND EVA SUŠNIK Exhibition 11.5.-24.5.2025 How should we imagine the city of the future? Not just any city, but a...