IBA Stage: Tjaša Pogačar

Tjaša Pogačar, Curator 34th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. Courtesy MGLC Ljubljana

The 34th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts took place between the months of September and November 2021. It was one of the first International Biennials to be conceived, produced and realised entirely during the current pandemic. We are happy to present today Tjaša Pogačar, curator of ISKRA DELTA, as the biennial was titled, who will join us tomorrow, December 2nd at 3pm London time as part of the IBA Stage program to discuss with us the challenges and opportunities she had to face for this project.

ISKRA DELTA takes its name from a computer company active between the 70s and 80s in Yugoslavia based in Slovenia, which vanished much like the overnational state in 1990. The company’s history and its disappearance has served as a blueprint for the exhibition which is haunted by a future at the same time to come and never present. It unfolded over a number of spaces and institutions in the city as much as it referred to our online worlds.

Tjaša Pogačar is an independent curator of contemporary art and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Šum, a Ljubljana-based magazine and platform for art and theory-fiction. She worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Škuc Gallery and Aksioma Project Space, among others, curating solo and group shows and collaborating mostly with the younger generation of artists. In 2019/20 she curated two editions of IFCA – International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor titled Automated Ecologies and Infrastructure Complex: Altered Earth that focused on questions arising from the intertwining of technology and planetary ecologies. She works also as a curator and producer of intermedia art at the Projekt Atol Institute in Ljubljana. With Šum and Projekt Atol she launched an offsite/online exhibition project Plaza Protocol that is developing new formats and plots for and from an unfinished construction site of an underground shopping mall on the outskirts of the city. She is also the curator of ISKRA DELTA – 34th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale. (https://linktr.ee/tjasa.p)

We hope you’ll enjoy the conversation and look forward to having many of you present. As always our IBA Stage events comprise of a live audience for which we kindly ask you to register through the link below

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