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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.

23.12.2024 ENG GrooveBox Radio presents the recording made at Carinarnica, on the border that divides Gorizia from Nova Gorica, fifth episode of the Borderless Sessions Registered on 23/12/2024 Video Editing: Mateja Nikolić Technical Support: Paolo Barbato ITA GrooveBox Radio presenta la registrazione effettuata alla Carinarnica, sul confine che divide Gorizia da Nova Gorica, quinto episodio delle Borderless Sessions Registrato il 23/12/2024 Video Editing: Mateja Nikolić Supp

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...

16.11.2024 Pakistani architect, researcher, and artist Ishrat Shaheen comes from the Punjab region Lahore, which was divided between India and Pakistan during the bloody partition. This traumatic border experience has led her to take a particular interest in border issues, especially in Europe, where many borders have already fallen. These areas have given rise to interesting cultural projects that reflect the concept of liminality and cross-border life through art. With the

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�

05.11.2024 An evening with Hapkult, a cultural organization based in the double town of Haparanda-Tornio, straddling the Sweden-Finland border. The organization Hapkult is made up of three artists – Anna Lindkvist, Kenneth Mikko, and Pia Sunoneri – their mission is to bridge contemporary art and culture with the humanities and sciences, with a special focus on rediscovering the arctic bordlerlands. They organize the acclaimed sound festival Haparator and have completed a resi

05.10.2024 ENG GrooveBox Radio presents the recording made at Carinarnica, on the border that divides Gorizia from Nova Gorica, fouth episode of the Borderless Sessions Registered on 10/05/2024 Video Editing: Mateja Nikolić Technical Support: Max Sebastien, Paolo Barbato ITA GrooveBox Radio presenta la registrazione effettuata alla Carinarnica, sul confine che divide Gorizia da Nova Gorica, quarto episodio delle Borderless Sessions Registrato il 05/10/2024 Video Editing: Mate

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

02.06.2024 With our partners Dotart / Exhibit Around APS Exhibit Around APS in collaboration with IN/ARCH Triveneto we organized art residency Dvojno mesto / La città doppia / Double City. Three residents spent a good week here exploring the twin cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica and their surroundings. Their aim was to explore and understand the complex reality of communities separated by borders and to offer an indepth look at the current challenges and dynamics that ...

25.5.2024 Tanel Rander (1980) is an Estonian artist, curator and art writer. He has always been interested in tensions between subjectivity and its external influences. Since 2010, his work has been focused on East European identity and decoloniality. During the latest years, he has become interested in mental health, as well as therapeutic and reconcilable qualities of art. His latest solo exhibition was “Angelus Novus” (2022) in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn. His latest curato

This concert series is dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of sound, noise and voice. The project’s title aims to highlight the Slovenian word “šum” (noise), the Italian “voce” (voice) and the Croatian “šumsko voće” (forest fruits), which – beyond its literal meaning - evokes the ambient sounds of the nature. Over the last year or so, we have hosted various musicians: Andrej Kobal, Jaka Berger, Aleš Krebs, the Italian duo Annalized Noiose, the Sicilian performer

24.05.2024 The Whispering Bowls project deals with the auditory perception of the relationship between the artificial and the natural, the real and the fictional, individual freedom and the control or restriction of that freedom. The project uses recorded archival texts, texts recorded using a text generator, electroacoustic processing of texts, conversion of text material into MIDI notation, and collection of data on individuals' movements, converted into MIDI notation. The