Via Nova Museum

Synthesizing Memory

Via Nova Museum presents a conceptual synthesis of the Via Nova cycle. The projects bring together, juxtapose, and reconfigure performances from the cycle, transforming them into more complex formations that enter into dialogue with the architecture of the site—be it a theatre, museum, or gallery—or with the conceptual framework of the event in which they are presented, whether an exhibition, festival, or symposium.

These group presentations often take on the names of the venues or festivals that host Via Nova, allowing the project to situate and articulate its presence through the conceptual narratives of the contexts it enters. In this sense, each presentation becomes not merely a configuration of existing works, but a new encounter between the Via Nova cycle and the spatial, institutional, and conceptual conditions of its presentation.

Concept and artistic direction
Bojan Jablanovec

Producer
Špela Trošt

Photo and video documentation
Marcandrea Bragalini • Tone Stojko • Bojan Jablanovec

Co-producers and partners
City Museum of Ljubljana • Ex ponto Festival, Ljubljana • Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb • Eurokaz Festival, Zagreb • Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf • New Territories Festival, Glasgow • Multimedia Culture Centre, Split • Mavena, Split • Crossings Festival, Maribor • Maribor Theatre Festival • Performance Studies International • Zadar snova Festival, Zadar

Izvedbe
22-12-2015, +MSUM Ljubljana — Retrospective VN 2002 – 2012 (Art in Slovenia 2005 – 2015)
27-11-2013, Spectacular, San Vito dei Normanni — Hunt for the Real (Lecture)
22-07-2013, Thealter Festival, Szeget — Balkan Connection
02-06-2013, MSU Zagreb — No One Should Have Seen This: Via Negativa via MSU Zagreb (Video installation)
15-12-2012, MG Ljubljana — Retrospective VN 2002 – 2012 (Concert No One Should Have Hear This)
14-12-2012, MG Ljubljana — Retrospective VN 2002-2012 (Video installation No One Should Have Seen This)
20-05-2012, Crossings Festival Maribor — Via II. Gymnasium Maribor
08-09-2011, Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam — Hunt for the Real (Seminar)
27-05-2011, Performance Studies International #17 Utrecht — Mandić? What the fuck is Mandić?
23-04-2011, MKC Split — Via MKC Split (Video retrospective, 23.04 – 26.04)
22-04-2011, MKC Split — Via MKC Split
15-03-2011, New Territories Festival, Glasgow — Via New Territories
29-01-2011, Stara mestna elektrarna, Ljubljana — Balkan Connection
28-01-2011, Stara mestna elektrarna, Ljubljana — Hunt for the Real
20-11-2010, FFT Düsseldorf — Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
19-11-2010, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf — Naked Presence
17-11-2010, FFT Düsseldorf — Hunt for the Real
23-10-2010, Maribor Theatre Festival — Being Ignacij Borštnik
23-06-2010, MSU Zagreb — Via MSU Zagreb (Video installation, 23.6. – 27.6.)
19-06-2010, MSU Zagreb — Via MSU Zagreb
25-09-2009, Perforations Festival, Dubrovnik — Balkan Connection
20-09-2009, City Museum Ljubljana — Via Nova Museum
18-09-2009, Es.Terni Festival, Terni — Balkan Connection
14-08-2009, Zadar snova Festival — Balkan Connection