Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air
January 29–April 6, 2025
Shona Illingworth’s immersive installation Topologies of Air explores the cultural meaning and visions of freedom associated with the sky and examines how airspace and outer space are being radically transformed into an increasingly complex, colonised, and instrumentalised spaces of military and corporate exploitation, increasingly pervasive and weaponised surveillance, nuclear threat and environmental degradation. Curated by Renata Salecl and Alenka Trebušak.
Anetta Mona Chişa and Aleksandra Vajd: Tar Star
February 6–April 6, 2025
The exhibition by Anetta Mona Chişa and Aleksandra Vajd features a new site-specific installation inspired by the architectural characteristics of Cukrarna Gallery. It builds on artists' long-standing collaboration and shared desire to explore forms of visual communication through the integration of interdisciplinary practices. Curated by Tjaša Pogačar.
Hassan Khan: GESTUS
April 15–August 17, 2025
Hassan Khan’s GESTUS project explores new methods in response to violent questions posed by the slowly forming new world. An assemblage produced at Cukrarna Gallery—including songs, phone-posters, absurd comedy, and glass pieces—serves as the starting point for this raw investigation. Curated by Mara Anjoli Vujić.
LAIBACH KUNST: UNTERNEHMEN BARBAROSSA
April 25–May 9, 2025
Beginning in April, the basement exhibition space at Cukrarna Gallery will become the setting for a project by the group Laibach. The UNTERNEHMEN BARBAROSSA project intertwines themes and visuals from Nikolaj Pirnat's partisan graphics with reference to Picasso’s Guernica, and the story of an Afghan family from Kabul who wove a carpet based on a sketch provided by the group. The exhibition will conclude with a recreation of Laibach's historic 1983 concert at the Music Biennale Zagreb—an event that led to their ban from 1983 to 1987. Laibach created the Barbarossa project in collaboration with A/POLITICAL. Curated by Alenka Gregorič.
Exhibitions by Dorit Margreiter Choy and David Maljković
May 15–October 26, 2025
Dorit Margreiter Choy's exhibition Passage will present a selection of interrelated works—films, mobiles, and photographs—that examine architecture and space in terms of their inscriptions of power, economy, and gender roles. Translating spatial structures into cinematic and photographic abstractions, these works resonate with the surrounding architecture of Cukrarna Gallery's exhibition spaces. They reinterpret existing modernist structures as incisive images of circulating capital, examining the contingent relationship between the image itself and its representational function when it interacts with landmark buildings conceived as manifestations of symbolic capital. Curated by Vanessa Joan Müller.
David Maljković's work explores the boundaries between architecture, painting, and sculpture, using diverse media such as canvas graphics, plexiglass structures, film, and collage. By emphasizing the process of image-making over content, the artist creates innovative visual dialogues that reimagine form and methodology. Curated by Kathrin Rhomberg.
Exhibition by Marko Batista
September 9–November 2, 2025
Continuing our commitment to ongoing collaboration with artists, we have invited Marko Batista, a Ljubljana-based sound experimentalist and intermedia artist to do an exhibition in the basement exhibition space in September 2025. The artist focuses on performative sound practices and spatial sound, characterised by a specific relationship between the listener/viewer and the spatial arrangement of sound-producing elements. Curated by Alenka Trebušak.
Ulay and Marina Abramović: Art Vital
November 30, 2025–May 3, 2026
On November 30, 2025, we will open a major exhibition of works by Ulay and Marina Abramović, organised by the curatorial team of Alenka Gregorič and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein in collaboration with the Ulay Foundation, Lena Pislak, Sidney Fishman and the Marina Abramović Archive. The exhibition will offer for the first time a multilayered insight into the collaborative work and life of the artist couple over a period of 12 years between 1976 and 1988.
PERFORMATIVA
In 2025, we continue the PERFORMATIVA program cycle, dedicated to performance and related performative practices, curated by Mara Anjoli Vujić. The program will feature works by artists and collectives such as Kristina Aleksova & Anita Wach, Eva Mayer-Keller, Damir Bartol Indoš & Tanja Vrvilo, CPG Impro and others.
