Exhibition
10 September – 4 October 2025
DobraVaga, Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 5, Ljubljana
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 7 pm
For the exhibition, the gallery’s ZINE VITRINE section will be transformed into a community garden and publication flower bed. Understanding the vitrine as an open flower box for planting printed matters, Nina Prader will exhibit publications and banners, celebrating 10 years of planting libraries and independent publishing under her label as Lady Liberty Press & Libraries.
This year, the focus of World of Art’s series of public events is contemporary zines at the intersection of art and community.
- Wednesday, 10 September, DobraVaga
7 pm – ZINE VITRINE | Nina Prader: Plant Libraries – Here to Express!, exhibition opening
- Thursday, 11 September, DobraVaga
3 pm – Nina Prader: Community Zine Ships – Ahoy, Power Lines!, workshop
6 pm – Nina Prader: The Library Is an Event – Enter the Reading Ring!, lecture
7 pm – Glasgow Zine Library: The Radical Present of Self-Publishing, lecture
Nina Prader a.k.a. Lady Liberty Press is an artist, writer, curator, mentor, independent publisher — or in short, an artist-librarian at large between Vienna, Berlin, and the world. Born in Washington, DC, she studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston in affiliation with Tufts University and at the Slade in London in affiliation with UCL. She received her MA in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has exhibited and written internationally in Boston, New York, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, and London. Her most recent projects include graphic novel artist books, printed by Risograph, and directing the Lady Liberty Library project. This year, she celebrates 10 years of Lady Liberty Press & Library activities on printed matters. (Photo: Malte Spindler)
Original text: Nina Prader
Organised by: World of Art/SCCA-Ljubljana, DobraVaga/Kino Šiška
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
