Ljubljana Art Weekend
Screening and talk
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 9 pm
Inner courtyard of Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
Community
Participating: Diego Menendes, Miha Možina, Ester Ivakič, Nikita Kopitin
Curator: Robert Kuret
The film program explores various ways of forming communities, from the gradual formation of a community between two friends looking for work, to a temporary protest community where alliances are formed quickly and dissolve even faster, to a caring community far from the madding crowd, and ultimately to a community that must reinvent its infrastructure. Through various detours, the program attempts to outline the steps necessary for building a community, even though these repeatedly prove to be temporary formations, subject to constant reconfiguration.
2013, 9′
The second part of Diego Menendes’s web series.
2020, 11′
A peculiar cast of dissatisfied Slovenians from all walks of life gather for a quite schizophrenic protest during the pandemic lockdown. Will this petite nation full of potential ever be able to come together with enough lucidity to deal with their past and achieve a better tomorrow or will they shrivel away?
2018, 18′
Somewhere far away from the village and people, four hundred wind gusts away, Marija and Drevo are dealing with the acceptance of the upcoming loss of their friend.
2025 30′
When Nikita Ko returned to his second homeland Montenegro in 2022, he was cut off from the skate community due to the ongoing war. There were no local skaters, no skateparks, and the street spots left much to be desired. While exploring the beauty of the Balkan Peninsula, Nikita realised he was surrounded by a skate-able environment.
Photo: Marijo Županov @ljubljanaartweekend, _etcmagazine, SCCA-Ljubljana archive
VideoGarden (VideoDvorišče) is a programme of curated screenings and talks on art, video, and film. In the spring-summer period we step out of the dark cinema and the cold gallery space into the open air. In collaboration with Škuc Gallery we organize screening events in its inner courtyard.
DIVA Station is an online and physical archive that SCCA-Ljubljana has been developing since 2005 with the aim of researching, documenting, archiving and presenting art film, video and new media art.
In case of rain, the screening will be held in the gallery.
The talk with the present artists will be held in English.
Free admission.
Organization: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station, Škuc Gallery
Supported by: City Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
