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Bojan Jablanovec

Theatre director, VN artistic director

Projects (92) Photo (121) Video (83) Media responses (306) Text (64)

MAGA 2025 Luka Jovanov, Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach, Varja Hrvatin, Bojan Jablanovec, Anja Bezlova Završnik, Špela Trošt, Miša Gams, Marcandrea Bragalini

MandićCircus (raw) 2025 Marko Mandić, Samo Kutin, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini

Everything We Dumped 2024 Loup Abramovici, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Adela Železnik, Špela Trošt

Fearsome Ass 2024 Tomaž Grom, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Uršič

For All Pigs in My Heart 2024 Kristina Aleksova, Tomaž Grom, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Dejan Habicht, Ana Lorger

Gallop 2002-2022 2024 Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Peter Uhan, Srdjan Pabllo Doroski, Jakub Wittchen, Špela Trošt

Hope 2024 Olja Grubić, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Marcandrea Bragalini

MandićBaptism 2024 Marko Mandić, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Gaja Pöschl, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Ana Lorger

No No No, No No No 2024 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Matej Stupica, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek, Adela Železnik, Vid Uršič, Ana Lorger

Now 2024 Barbara Kukovec, Rob Canning, Bojan Jablanovec, Matej Stupica, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek

The Article 2024 Nataša Živković, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Adela Železnik, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič

The Second View 2024 Špela Trošt, Tomaž Grom, Matej Stupica, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Vid Hajnšek, Vid Uršič, Adela Železnik

Final Solution 2023 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini

/ auto / 2022 Anita Wach, Olja Grubić, Luka Piletič, Lucija Ostan Vejrup, Ena Kurtalić, Mitja Lovše, Sara Horžen, Jeff Stein, Lučka Centa, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini

Balance 2022 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini, Bojan Jablanovec

Consumer Art 2022 Bojan Jablanovec, Anita Wach, Olja Grubić, Špela Trošt

MandićCircus 2022 Marko Mandić, Bojan Jablanovec, Eduardo Raon, Matej Stupica, Stella Ivšek, Mojca Sarjaš, Samo Kutin, Robi Laznik, David Potočnik, Marko Kržič, Aleš Anžič, Tomislav Samardžija, Viktor Čuk, Jure Lavrin, Špela Trošt, Peter Uhan, Nora Čulić Matošić, Nataša Govedić, Maša Radi Buh, Melita Forstnerič Hajnšek, Benjamin Zajc, Matic Ferlan, Zala Dobovšek, Živa Kadunc, Metod Zupan, Tadeja Krečič Scholten, Petra Tanko, Nina Gostiša, Vid Hajnšek, Rok Kajzer Nagode, Vid Uršič, Marjana Ravnjak, Gaja Pöschl

Republic 2022 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Rok Kajzer Nagode, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Two Bottles 2022 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt

One Two Free 2021 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Rok Kajzer Nagode, Eduardo Raon, Kristina Aleksova, Špela Trošt

Physis 2021 Bojan Jablanovec, Gregor Zorc, Aleksandra Kmetič, Anita Wach, Daniele Tenze, Ena Kurtalić, Kristina Aleksova, Loup Abramovici, Mitja Lovše, Nina Goropečnik, Olja Grubić, Rok Kravanja, Sara Horžen, Tjaša Črnigoj, Rea Vogrinčič, Vesna Hauschild, Eduardo Raon, Vid Hajnšek, Rok Kajzer Nagode, Jernej Škof, Timotej Novaković, Tina Habun, Neža Blažič, Igor Remeta, Špela Trošt, Vid Uršič, Janko Oven, Matjaž Rušt, Zala Dobovšek, Melita Forstnerič Hajnšek, Daliborka Podboj, Benjamin Zajc, Špela Škulj

Tomorrow We Attack (The Kiss) 2021 Kristina Aleksova, Bojan Jablanovec, Rok Kajzer Nagode, Loup Abramovici, Špela Trošt

True Story 2021 Satya Bhabha, Jonathan Bonnici, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Matjaž Rušt, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Škulj

On This Merry Day of Culture 2020 Tomaž Grom, Ana Čigon, Andrej Fon, Anita Wach, Anja Novak, Barbara Kukovec, Blaž Lukan, Eduardo Raon, Igor Remeta, Irena Z. Tomažin, Ivo Poderžaj, Janez Janša, Jaša Mrevlje Pollak, Jure Boršič, Jurij Konjar, Katarina Stegnar, Katja Legin, Kristina Aleksova, Mare Bulc, Marko Mandić, Martin Ukmar, Matej Recer, Matej Stupica, Mateja Pucko, Sonda7, Nataša Živković, Nika Rozman, Olja Grubić, Bojan Jablanovec, Primož Bezjak, Primož Čučnik, Rok Kravanja, Stane Tomazin, Špela Trošt, Uroš Kaurin, Urška Preis, Vesna Godler, Vitja Balžalorsky, Vito Weis, Zala Dobovšek, Aleš Hvasti, Andraž Polič, Andrej Boštjančič Ruda, Andrej Koruza, Andrej Morovič, Aphra Tesla, Arjan Pregl, Blaž Božič, Blaž Šef, Boris Petković, Borja Močnik, Borut Kržišnik, Boštjan Gorenc, Boštjan Perovšek, Dragana Alfirević, Drago Ivanuša, Dušan Teropšič, Gal Škrjanec Skaberne, Gašper Piano, Gregor Gruden, Gregor Podlogar, Igor Štromajer, Ina Puntar, Iuna Ornik, Ivan Peternelj, Iztok Kovač, Jaka Šimenc, Jan Rozman, Janez Križaj, Jože Bogolin, Katarina Juvančič, Lenka Đorojević, Luka Juhart, Luke Thomas Dunne, Matej Ocepek, Matija Vastl, Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, Meta Grgurevič, Miha Ciglar, Milko Lazar, Mojca Zupančič, Nejc Prah, Nina Fajdiga, Nina Meško, Omar Ismail, Polona Janežič, Primož Sukič, Rok Zalokar, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Sebastian Cavazza, Suzana Koncut, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Tea Vidmar, Tina Janežič, Tine Grgurevič, Tone Škrjanec, Urban Kušar, Urša Adamič, Vanja Djuran, Žiga Ipavec, Žiga Jenko, Žigan Krajnčan, Leon Vidmar, Marcandrea Bragalini, Marko Jenič, Jošt Drašler, Samo Kutin, Mladen Dolar, Gregor Kocijančič, Klara Širovnik, Tanja Lesničar Pučko, Ivana Maričič

Physis Icons 2020 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Eduardo Raon

*oly *ary 2019 Rok Kravanja, Bojan Jablanovec, Olja Grubić, Špela Trošt, Klavdija Janežič, Marcandrea Bragalini, Anja Guid, Nika Švab, Martina Dervarič

Organic Waste 2019 Sara Horžen, Mitja Lovše, Medea Novak, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Olja Grubić, Bojan Jablanovec, Miša Gams, Martina Dervarič, Špela Trošt

Sorry 2018 Anita Wach, Gregor Zorc, Andrej Fon, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini, Varja Hrvatin, Marcin Miętus, Marzena Dobosz, Martina Dervarič, Marta Ankiersztejn

The Heart 2018 Kristina Aleksova, Olja Grubić, Sonda7, Tomaž Grom, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt, Ivan Lotrič, Alja Bulić, Martina Dervarič, Sara Horžen, Marcandrea Bragalini

There Will Be No Bread From This Flour 2018 Olja Grubić, Kristina Aleksova, Varja Hrvatin, Sara Horžen, Brina Klampfer, Staša Jovanović, Mirel Knez, Nika Švab, Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Martina Dervarič, Špela Trošt

Normal 2017 Kristina Aleksova, Daniel Petković, Daniele Tenze, Olja Grubić, Lana Zdravković, Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt, Alja Lobnik

Sugar 2016 Jakub Čermak, Lana Zdravković, Olja Grubić, Andraž Jug, Sara Horžen, Yuliya Molina, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Hundred Toasts 2015 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Tomasz Ćwiertnia, Matija Pavlovec, Alicja Müller, Marta Seredyńska, Suzana Marjanić, Daliborka Podboj, Tadej Čater, Monika Żmijewska, Eleonora De Caroli, Andreja Kočar, Špela Trošt, Tobiasz Papuczys

To the Last Drop 2015 Lana Zdravković, Olja Grubić, Nika Rozman, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Gregor Zorc, Špela Trošt

And So On And So Forth 2014 Bojan Jablanovec, Anita Wach, Anna Krzystek, Gregor Zorc, Magnus Logi Kristinsson, Rok Kravanja, Timo Fredriksson, Marcandrea Bragalini, Tomaž Grom, Vasja Progar, Meri Ekola, Marina Andersson-Rahikka, Nenad Jelesijević, Tanja Lesničar Pučko, Špela Trošt, Ana Čigon

On the Right Track 2013 Bojan Jablanovec, Gregor Zorc, Vito Weis, Igor Remeta, Marcandrea Bragalini, Mateja Benedetti, Jaša Lorenčič, Bence Bíró, Artner Sisso, Tomaž Grom, Špela Trošt

The Brake 2013 Rok Kravanja, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Igor Remeta, Nika Arhar, Nenad Jelesijević, Bence Bíró, Artner Sisso, Špela Trošt

Visiting Hour 2013 Eric Dean Scott, Bojan Jablanovec, Urša Sajko, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Just the Beginning 2012 Bojan Jablanovec, Anita Wach, Boris Kadin, Gregor Zorc, Katarina Stegnar, Loup Abramovici, Lada Petrovski Ternovšek, Vito Weis, Marcandrea Bragalini, Igor Remeta, Mateja Benedetti, Ioanna Kleftoyannis, Mojca Ketiš, Maja Čakarić, Nenad Jelesijević, Špela Trošt

Oops 2012 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Janko Oven, Marcandrea Bragalini, Joanna Leśnierowska, Melanie Suchy, Zala Dobovšek, Špela Trošt

Three Pieces on Happiness 2012 Vito Weis, Rok Kravanja, Zala Ana Štiglic, Bojan Jablanovec, Špela Trošt

Via II. Gymnasium Maribor 2012 Bojan Jablanovec, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Gregor Zorc, Jaka Lah, Marko Mandić, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom, Katarina Stegnar, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Mandić? What the fuck is Mandić? 2011 Marin Blažević, Bojan Jablanovec, Marko Mandić, Nicolas Salazar-Sutil, Anna Teresa Scheer, Špela Trošt

Shame 2011 Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc, Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Darko Japelj, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Marcandrea Bragalini, Igor Remeta, Ajda Tomazin, Fanni Nánay, Ana Schnabl, Zala Dobovšek, Špela Trošt

The First Law of B.K. 2011 Barbara Kukovec, Rob Canning, Borut Kumperščak, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Matija Pavlovec, Igor Remeta, Špela Trošt

Via MKC Split 2011 Bojan Jablanovec, Gregor Zorc, Uroš Kaurin, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Katarina Stegnar, Žare Kerin, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta, Natasha Kadin

Via New Territories 2011 Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom, Jaka Lah, Primož Bezjak, Marko Mandić, Bojana Kunst, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Being Ignacij Borštnik 2010 Bojan Jablanovec, Marko Mandić, Uroš Kaurin, Katarina Stegnar, Tomaž Grom, Katja Čičigoj, Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Casablanca Therapy 2010 Anita Wach, Bojan Jablanovec, Gregor Zorc, Magdalena Tuka, Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Marketa Faustova, Marcandrea Bragalini, Antonio Baroni, Zala Dobovšek, Adriana Světlíková, Janko Oven

Drop Dead 2010 Katarina Stegnar, Bojan Jablanovec, Mateja Benedetti, Tomaž Grom, Igor Remeta, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Guilty! 2010 Boris Kadin, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Iva Pejković, Nika Leskovšek, Jasmina Založnik, Zala Dobovšek, Špela Trošt

Hunt for the Real 2010 Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Barbara Kukovec, Uroš Kaurin, Blaž Lukan, Jaka Lah, Žare Kerin, Špela Trošt

Invalid 2010 Primož Bezjak, Tomaž Grom, Gregor Luštek, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Zvonimir Dobrović, Jurij Konjar, Nika Leskovšek, Lena Gregorčič, Zala Dobovšek, Mojca Kumerdej, Špela Trošt

Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee 2010 Bojan Jablanovec, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Bojana Kunst, Katarina Stegnar, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom, Žare Kerin, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Naked Presence 2010 Bojan Jablanovec, Marko Mandić, Jaka Lah, Barbara Kukovec, Katarina Stegnar, Kristian Al Droubi, Christoph Rech, Oliver Paul, Andreas Kleindopf, Melanie Suchy, Žare Kerin, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Still Life 2010 Nataša Živković, Bojan Jablanovec, Klemen Bračko, Eva Jurgec, Mirela Rihtar, Marcandrea Bragalini, Tanja Cirman, Zala Dobovšek, Matija Pavlovec, Leon Jablanovec, Aria Bragalini, Nuka Grom, Vito Weis, Uroš Kaurin, Igor Remeta, Špela Trošt

Via MSU Zagreb 2010 Bojan Jablanovec, Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc, Marko Mandić, Barbara Kukovec, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Primož Bezjak, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom, Marcandrea Bragalini, Zrinka Zorčec, Klemen Košak, Iva Gruić, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

All That You Came For 2009 Gregor Zorc, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Jasna Zavodnik, Anja Golob, Špela Trošt

Balkan Connection 2009 Bojan Jablanovec, Boris Kadin, Kristian Al Droubi, Lilla Proics, Ivan Kralj, Špela Trošt

Buyer With an Eye 2009 Katarina Stegnar, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Tomaž Toporišič, Zala Dobovšek, Anja Golob, Mojca Ketiš, Pia Brezavšček, Katja Čičigoj, Špela Trošt

Erasing the Audience 2009 Bojan Jablanovec, Boris Kadin, Gregor Zorc, Katarina Stegnar, Mateja Pucko, Kristian Al Droubi, Blaž Lukan, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Game With Toothpicks 2009 Kristian Al Droubi, Boris Kadin, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Lilla Proics, Ivan Kralj, Špela Trošt

Good Deal 2009 Gregor Zorc, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Jasna Zavodnik, Anja Golob, Špela Trošt

Interview With the Artist 2009 Kristian Al Droubi, Bojan Jablanovec, Bojana Kunst, Marcandrea Bragalini, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Lilla Proics, Ivan Kralj, Matija Pavlovec, Jedrt Jež Furlan, Špela Trošt

No One Should Have Seen This 2009 Katarina Stegnar, Bojana Kunst, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Katja Čičigoj, Špela Trošt

Pure Performance 2009 Jaka Lah, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Tomaž Toporišič, Špela Trošt

Spotlight on Me 2009 Barbara Kukovec, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Špela Trošt

Tonight I Celebrate 2009 Bojan Jablanovec, Uroš Kaurin, Tomaž Grom, Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Katja Čičigoj, Marcandrea Bragalini, Igor Remeta, Špela Trošt

Via Nova Museum 2009 Bojan Jablanovec, Gregor Zorc, Katarina Stegnar, Kristian Al Droubi, Marko Mandić, Mateja Pucko, Jaka Lah, Barbara Kukovec, Boris Kadin, Nataša Živković, Uroš Kaurin, Katja Legin, Marcandrea Bragalini, Zala Dobovšek, Blaž Peršin, Špela Trošt, Igor Remeta

Viva Mandić 2009 Marko Mandić, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Ramunė Balevičiūtė, Katja Čičigoj, Špela Trošt

What Joseph Beuys Told Me… 2009 Boris Kadin, Bojan Jablanovec, Marcandrea Bragalini, Lilla Proics, Alenka Perpar, Ivan Kralj, Anja Golob, Špela Trošt

Viva Verdi 2006 Barbara Kukovec, Barbara Matijević, Dylan Tighe, Gregor Zorc, Katarina Stegnar, Kristian Al Droubi, Marko Mandić, Petra Govc, Petra Zanki, Sanela Milošević, Bojan Jablanovec, Ivanka Boljkovac, Vitomir Marof, Maja Mejovšek, Darjana Blaće, Dijana Hilje, Tvrtko Stipić, Opera Choir HNK Zagreb, Kornelija Čović, Špela Trošt, Marcandrea Bragalini, Arnaldo Casali, Igor Ružić, Una Bauer, Igor Mrduljaš, Zrinka Radić, Gregor Butala, Rok Vevar, Blaž Lukan, Klaus Witzeling, Christoph Forsthoff, Irmela Kästner, Iva Gruić, Branimir Pofuk, Nataša Govedić, Zvonimir Mrkonjić, Helena Braut

One More Warrior Every Day 2004 Bojan Jablanovec, Nana Milčinski, Daniel Budin, Students DDT Ljubljana, Špela Trošt

More 2003 Daša Doberšek, Petra Govc, Barbara Kukovec, Jaka Lah, Boris Mihalj, Marko Mandić, Mateja Pucko, Gregor Zorc, Bojan Jablanovec, Nana Milčinski, Jure Longyka, Blažka Müller Pograjc, Lado Bizovičar, Damir Meštrović, Helena Braut, Nataša Govedić, Hrvoje Ivanković, Giambattista Marchetto, Carmelo Alberti, Maria Grazia Gregori, Gianni Manzella, Renato Palazzi, Roberto Canziani, Angela Felice, Mario Brandolin, Christoph Forsthoff, Eckehard Rossmann, Marga Wolff, Anja Golob, Mojca Puncer, Blaž Lukan, Klemen Fele, Primož Jesenko, Daniel Budin, Špela Trošt

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Bojan Jablanovec

Theatre director, pedagogue, VN artistic director

Bojan Jablanovec (1961) studied Theatre Direction at the AGRFT in Ljubljana. Already in his graduation project Helios (a project based on Brecht’s Galileo Galilei, Cankarjev dom, 1988), Jablanovec showed his interest in opening up the theatrical field and exploring the audience’s perception. In 1989 he conceived and directed the performance Triumph of Death (SNG Maribor), which synthesised the theatrical trends that characterised the 1980s. From 1993 to 1999 he directed in most Slovenian theatres. His productions during this period included Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique (Slovenian National Award for Best Stage Design), Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Howard Barker’s The Love of a Good Man (Slovenian National Award for Best Director), Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Rex, Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney, Werner Schwab’s The Presidents, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Romulus the Great, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Bertold Brecht’s Puntila and His Man Matti, Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs, Antonin Artaud’s Jet of Blood. From 1997 to 1999, he was an assistant for theatre directing at AGRFT in Ljubljana.

In 1999, Jablanovec stopped directing in Slovenian institutional theatres and devoted himself to theatre research. In the period up to 2002, Jablanovec launched three research projects dealing with the staging of the subject through sexual difference (Europa – The Girl Who Ran Too Fast), the staging of the subject in relation to time (Lenora) and the staging of the subject through the difference between speech and language (Olga Grad vs. Juanna Regina). With these projects Jablanovec successfully established his working method and in 2002 he founded the international platform Via Negativa for contemporary performance art. From the beginning, his main goal has been to develop a working method that allows the performer to stand in front of the audience with his own statement, his own body and his own meaning. This basic creative field becomes the performative “here and now”: my story, my relationship, my body, my situation, my gesture, my conflict… The creative field is strictly limited: a reduction to basic stage elements (via negativa); theatre as a medium of communication and not aestheticization. Via Negativa focuses on the relationship between performer and spectator (between what is shown and what is seen – which is the basis of theatrical communication) and on the question of the real in this relationship (which is the key characteristic of a live theatre situation).

The first seven years of VN (2002 – 2008) were dedicated to seven negative aspects of life, commonly known as the seven deadly sins (anger, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, envy and pride). The result is a cycle of seven performances entitled Seven Deadly Sins, each of which deals with a ‘deadly sin’ as the basic agent that drives the performative act and forms the relationship with the audience. With the first performances, Starting Point: Anger (2002) and More (2003), Via Negativa clearly outlines its creative field, but the great response from audiences and critics confirms its production method. The next few years saw a period of rapid international expansion of the VN platform. Through a series of workshops, Jablanovec intensively developed a flexible model of international contemporary performing arts production that was not closed in the logic of a limited number of permanent group members. The team of artists becomes international, and with tours to international festivals and contemporary art centres, Via Negatova establishes itself in the European space (Eurokaz Zagreb, Venice Biennale, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Teatergarasjen Bergen…). In 2010, the Maska publishing house published the book No, Via Negativa 2002 – 2008.

Between 2009 and 2011, Jablanovec and Via Negativa devote themselves to a new cycle of performances under the collective title Via Nova – a reversal of Via Negativa, announced at the time of its founding in 2002. Via Nova reflects on its own production by asking questions about the relationships between old and new, creation and destruction, theory and practice, copy and original, presence and absence, value and price, etc. The result is a series of twenty small-format performances, which Jablanovec conceptually synthesises into more complex events, establishing a communication with the architecture of the venues and the context of the events into which VN enters (theatre, museum, gallery, symposium, etc.). The most important collective presentations from this period are Via Nova Museum (City Museum Ljubljana, 2009), Via MSU Zagreb (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 2010), Naked Presence (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2010), Via New Territories (Live Art Festival New Territories Glasgow, 2011), No One Should Have Seen This. The Theatre of Via Negativa 2002 – 2012 (Moderna galerija Ljubljana, 2013). In 2012, Maska Ljubljana published the monograph No One Should Have Seen This. The Theatre of Via Negativa 2002 – 2011.

In 2011, Jablanovec begins to create a new performance series under the collective title Irresolvable, which aims to build on the creative processes and performance strategies of VN. It focuses on questions of ideological instrumentalisation, aestheticization and representation of the body, and on the formation of collaborative creative processes. He shifts the creative interest from radical individualisation (as a critique of the neoliberal subject) to the collective, which still represents the utopian ideal of any ideology. Among the most notable projects of this period are On the Right Track (2013), Last Rehearsal for the Generation ( 2014), Hundred Toasts (2015), The Ninth (2016), Together (2018), 365 Falls (2018), Physis (2021).

The working method that Jablanovec continuously develops and improves in his artistic leadership of the VN platform has proven to be an effective educational model for introducing young artists to the field of contemporary performance art in numerous workshops at home and abroad. In 2012 , he founded VN Lab, the Via Negativa Laboratory for performance art. It is a programme of a continuous mentor-led creative process for artists who want to profile themselves as contemporary performance artists. In 2019, he also founded and launched the web portal for reflection on contemporary performing arts , Neodvisni (Independent). The aim of the portal is to establish a reference point for the reflection of independent contemporary performance art production. In 2019, with the aim of a higher level of integration of knowledge, experience and methodologies of artists and producers working in the field of contemporary performance art in Slovenia, he establishes and manages the residency programme for research in contemporary performance art PARL – Performance Art Research Ljubljana.

Between 2020 – 2023 he is teaching at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA Ljubljana). In 2023 he receive the Ksenija Hribar Award for outstanding contribution to the field of performance art, and in 2024, the Distinguished Artistic Achievement in Theatre Arts by the University of Ljubljana.