DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video, film and new-media art. It is based on collecting video material within a wider national context, and includes artists who work in Slovenia and/or abroad. It includes three basic categories: art video, events and sources.
Back2Back is a series of events where we invite local and international authors to present their production and establish a dialogue with works of their choice from the DIVA Station archive. In cooperation with the International Centre of Graphic Arts and the MGLC Švicarija residency centre, we have invited visual artist Lea Culetto. Participating: Andrea Aviles Torres, Sara Maffi (Luksuz Produkcija), Nataša Skušek, Ana Čigon, Tatiana Kocmur, Neža Knez, Ana Nuša Dragan, Jatun Risba. Talk and screening, 26 September 2024, MGLC Švicarija More
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in i...
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2023
The video consists of numerous scanned analog color photographs of close-ups of flowers and other plants, details of various architectural elements, shots of the sky and unrecognizable motifs. The images are grainy, made of atypical colours, random compos...
Production: Nika Jurman, 2022
A young artist who moved to Ljubljana from a village can no longer afford to live in an expensive city.To earn some money, she attends a posh party where the “aristocats” don’t mock only her art idea but also her rural upbringing. Humili...
Production: L.C., 2017
Video superimposes home footage of shaving in the bathroom with footage of shaving from commercials for cosmetic depilatory products. The third layer superimposes the text constructed of advertising slogans of cosmetic brands. The title of the work is tak...
