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The opening of this year’s Textile Art Biennial in the Goriška region is behind us! On Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21, BIEN: AIR was officially opened in Nova Gorica, Gorizia, and Solkan. The project of students from Faculty of Design was also opened at the Museum night in Tržič. You are warmly invited to visit the exhibitions, which will be on view until August 14.
Watch the opening video from Nova Gorica.
Watch the opening video from Gorizia.
Marielle MacLeman (Ireland) is installing a fragmented pattern of traditional garments, cut from silk and Tyvek (a protective material used for museum artifacts), onto the windows of the GONG Gallery in Nova Gorica. GONG also features artworks of Sam Gardner (Poland/US) and an artistic investigation into the heritage of silk production by Lavoslava Benčić, Žiga Pavlovič, Katarina Ekart and Mateja Fajt (SI).
Ellen Dynebrink exhibits her work in the Fresco Hall (Sala Affreschi) of Gorizia’s Lantieri Palace, alongside other artists such as Zixiang Zhang (China), who integrates mycelium into textile objects, Estefania Tarud (Chile), and Kristi Komel (SI-Nova Gorica). The Fresco Hall will also feature Borjan Litovski (Slovenian-Macedonian), who presents his master’s thesis, for which he received the Eta Award and will embark on an artistic residency at Lottozero in Prato.
A true artistic highlight will be featured in the heart of the new cultural metropolis. The City Hall of Nova Gorica contains a stone atrium surrounded by a pergola – a space defined by the architectural shift from darkness to light, enclosure to freedom. This symbolic transition inspired a textile installation by artists Nika Batista, Mateja Golež, Lovro Ivančić, Marija Jenko, Maruša Kranjc, and Alenka More.
Each city tells its own story – check the full programs.
Join us in exploring textile art until August 14!
The participatory exhibition Material Flow by researchers Andrea Kaňkovská (CZ) and Lucia Horňáková Černayová (SK) is on view at the Carinarnica on the border between the two Goricas until July 8.
Foto:
Nova Gorica and Gorizia / Urban Cerjak
Tržič / Matic Kutin
Solkan and Carinarnica, NG / Matej Pirkovič
