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Oloop collective's retrospective exhibition
20. 6.–17. 8. 2024
Main exhibition hall Center Rog Ljubljana
The women's design collective Oloop is celebrating 20 years of activity! You are invited to visit a retrospective exhibition in the main exhibition hall of Center Rog from Thursday, June 20th to Saturday, August 17th.
The Oloop Collective consist of artists and designers Tjaša Bavcon, Katja Burger Kovič, and Jasmina Ferček and has been active since 2003. They are engaged in various fields of visual creation, from product design and spatial installations to textile art. Oloop also conducts training sessions, lectures, and workshops, connecting design with socially engaged projects. Their products and projects are featured in the most important showcases of Slovenian design both at home and abroad.
The exhibition offers a journey through the group's twenty-year social design practice, showcasing numerous products, creative processes, and projects that Oloop has created in participatory and socially engaged projects, as well as projects that have promoted the empowerment of participants. The exhibition highlights themes the group has dealt with in the past that are still relevant today—the importance of manual work, collaboration and co-creation, building textile communities, and empowering women. These themes, or rather values, are revisited in theory and practice during the exhibition's accompanying events.
The exhibition has free entrance and is open weekdays from 8 AM to 10 PM and Saturdays from 8 AM to 6 PM. Closed on Sundays and holidays. The exhibition will be open until August 17th 2024.
EVENTS IN JUNE
Saturday, 22nd June 2024, 10:30 AM, main exhibition hall
Together on the Carpet, a free event for everyone who wants to contribute to the growth of the community carpet with the Oloop collective
Saturday, 22nd June 2024, 12:00 PM, main exhibition hall
Public tour of the exhibition with Zala Orel and the Oloop collective
Monday, 24th June 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, main exhibition hall
Crocheted Sculptures: Co-creating and Connecting through Art, a free participatory spatial crocheting event with Icelandic textile artist Halla Armanns
Wednesday, 26th June 2024, 6:00 PM, main exhibition hall
BIEN Artist Talk: Halla Armanns, presentation of Icelandic textile design and the Icelandic Textile Center, discussion led by Zala Orel
Thursday, 27th June 2024, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM, main exhibition hall
Crocheted Sculptures: Co-creating and Connecting through Art, a free participatory spatial crocheting event with Icelandic textile artist Halla Armanns
EVENTS IN JULY
Monday, 1st July 2024, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM , main hall
Oloop Experience: The Dance Thread, a free movement-tactile and experiential workshop for the whole family with choreographer and designer Ajda Tomazin.
Friday, 5th July, Thursday, 11th July, Friday, 12th July, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM, green lab, textile lab
The Colors of Center Rog, a 3-day workshop where first we’ll dye wool using natural colors and later create a hand tufted carpet and other craftworks.
Monday, 8th July 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM , main hall
Oloop Well-being: Embodied Emotions, we invite everyone to a free participatory event of self-exploration with textiles and the Oloop collective.
Tuesday, 9th July 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM , main hall
Oloop Well-being: Presentation of the Community Embroidery Project
Tuesday, 10th July 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM , main hall
BIEN Artist Talk: Oloop Collective, a discussion with the members of the Oloop Collective.
Thursday, 18th July 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM , main hall
Oloop Knowledge Transfer: Embroider Your Own Badge!, free creative workshop and presentation by the Breja Preja textile community from Škofja Loka.
Wednesday, 31st July 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM , main hall
Oloop In Theory: What Does It Remember?, a participatory event for all those who have attended any of Oloop’s workshops, actions, or projects in the past and wish to share their memories, stories, and insights with us.
EVENTS IN AUGUST
Thursday, 1st August 2024, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM , main hall
Oloop Well-being: Textile Communities as Spaces of Power, workshop on making textile dolls – an experience of a temporary textile community and a discussion about textile communities.
Thursday, 8th August 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM , main hall
Oloop Experience: Slow Art Time, a free slow-art-looking experience where you will engage in slowed-down observation and creation, a practice that museums and galleries around the world have been offering for years but is still relatively unknown in our region.
The O2OOP retrospective exhibition and accompanying events were produced in co-production with the Rog Centre and the Textile Art Biennial BIEN (Zavod Carnica), with financial support from the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) and the ACF Program (in Slovenia 2014-2021).
Photos: Tjaša Bavcon
Cover photo: Kristjan Jarni
