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15. 09. 2025 Ana Maraž (1985) is an illustrator of highly stylized illustrations with a distinctive minimalist and flat style. She exhibits and publishes her work in renowned children's magazines at home and abroad, and her illustrations have also appeared in the books Kako dolg ječas (Mate Dolenc, Beletrina, 2019), Božaj veter (Miroslav Košuta, 2021), Protideževna juha (Majda Koren, KUD Sodobnost International, 2023), Narisati ptico (Kaja Teržan, Mladinska knjiga, 2024) and

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

15. 08. 2025 With her sensitive use of composition, shadows, and reflections, the author creates spaces of transition: between external reality and the inner world, between the past and present self, between the visible and the perceived. Photography is a kind of door—or perhaps just the illusion of a door—that invites the viewer to ask: Who am I in this moment of transition? And who will I be when I look away? / Tjaša Gnezda (1985) graduated from the Faculty of Social Scienc

15. 07. 2025 Anja Kranjc (1982) graduated in sculpture and obtained her master's degree in 2011. In 2006, she received the Prešeren Student Award. In addition to sculpture, she also works in painting, drawing, illustration, ceramics, and education. In her work, she primarily explores the thin line between the inner human being and the outer appearance of the body: how to shape the contemporary existential truth about the human body through movements, postures, limbs, full-len

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

15. 06. 2025 In this picture, the viewer looks at a familiar object—a door handle, which usually allows entry. But here, isolated against an empty background, it loses its function. With the caption "This is not a passage," the artist paraphrases Magritte's famous work This is not a pipe, thereby undermining our self-evident connection between image and meaning. In the space of the former customs office – the area of former border controls – the hook takes on additional...

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

15. 05. 2025 The illustration shows a black bear (Epicallia villica) on a common daisy (Bellis perennis); a species of butterfly that is also common in our region from mid-May to early June, in its three stages after the egg has developed. The larva (caterpillar) searches for food in the leaves of its host plant, the pupa hides safely on the underside of its leaf, and the butterfly feeds on nectar from flowers while resting. Eva M. Štanta has a master's degree in illustration

09.05.2025 ENG GrooveBox Radio presents the recording made at Carinarnica, on the border that divides Gorizia from Nova Gorica, sixth episode of the Borderless Sessions Filmed on 09/05/2025 Video Editing: Mateja Nikolić Technical Support: Paolo Barbato, Max Sebastien ITA GrooveBox Radio presenta la registrazione effettuata alla Carinarnica, sul confine che divide Gorizia da Nova Gorica, sesto episodio delle Borderless Sessions Registrato il 09/05/2025 Video Editing: Mateja Ni

15. 04. 2025 Vasja Drajne, "In unconsciousness, it carries a vibration, unknowingly carrying yours as well." IT It cannot cross over, it feels that it is drowning in this... The shift will only happen if it gets help. It knows you know you can see! It waits, it vibrates, everything is within reach, it just needs a shift, a transition, so it doesn't drown in the embrace of death. And so it is, and so it is right. A hybrid of female and male differences, which captures the simi

26.3.-25.4.2025 At one point, Borges took up Lewis Carroll's idea and wrote a short but powerful story about an empire where cartographers were so advanced that they drew a map on a scale of one to one, i.e., the size of the entire territory. In just a few sentences, the author suggests that this empire was doomed to destruction and that today only its remains and fragments of the map are visible. This story has become an important metaphor for semiologists, cartographers, an

15. 02. 2025 Damijan Kracina, Drogo: The hero of the novel The Tatar Desert, who spends his life guarding an old border fortress. Damijan Kracina completed his studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 1996 and obtained his master's degree in sculpture and video art there in 1999. He furthered his studies at residencies in Graz, New York, at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and at the Santa Fe Art Institute in the USA. He was a founding

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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30.12.2025 Subburben is composed of Andrej Kobal and Gal Furlan. One mechanical, the other acoustic, together they explore and experiment with sound, searching for the intersections and frictions between two worlds. Their music could be genre-defined as psychedelic noise with a touch of free jazz, and the situations they find themselves in during improvisation create a wide and colorful spectrum of sounds. Gal Furlan is a drummer and percussionist who comes from the school of

15. 01. 2025 After graduating from the Nova Gorica Art Gymnasium, Tamara Jenček enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, majoring in visual communication and graphic design. Even then, she was fascinated by illustration and animation. Today, she focuses primarily on digital media, where she uses intense colors and surfaces, and increasingly also centrally positioned plastic objects, to depict stylized motifs from nature and everyday life.