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ART FOR SALE / Contemporary Art for Sale

Panel discussions with experts:
How to enter the world of contemporary art
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 17:00-18:00
Centre for Creativity Maribor, Partizanska 11

UGM l Maribor Art Gallery, in cooperation with the Center for Creativity, at the Museum of Architecture and Design, invites you to a Contemporary Art for sale event.

We have organized discussions with experts on How to enter the world of contemporary art, where for the first time in Slovenia, important regional players in the fields of collecting, selling, and promoting contemporary visual arts will gather in one place. All lovers of contemporary art, creators and experts, beginner gallerists and aspiring collectors, and those who wish to become just that are invited to get involved in stimulating conversations and workshops featuring significant domestic and international guests. We will talk about the creation of private collections, the sale and purchase of works of art at international fairs and elsewhere, about the set-up and management of private galleries and festivals, and how we can communicate with different audiences about contemporary art. Art for Sale will be an excellent opportunity to learn about the rules of the unique art market!

Our panel discussions will bring together collectors, young and established gallery owners, directors of art fairs and festivals, critics and specialized communicologists from the local and broader regions to become engaged in a lively dialogue with the audiences. Within three discussion events—covering purchase, sales, and stories—our guests will present their personal and professional paths in the art market, their goals and inspirations, talk about the rules, traps, and opportunities of this unique branch, and answer all the questions you ever wanted to ask.
The panel discussions will be curated by Simona Vidmar of the Maribor Art Gallery.

17:00-18:00 How to: collect contemporary art?
Johanna Chromik, Artistic Director of the Vienna contemporary art fair, Vienna
Dorotea Fotivec, Marinko Sudac Collection & Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde, Zagreb
Vasa Perović, Architect and Collector, VJP Collection of Contemporary Art and Design, Ljubljana
Chaired by: Simona Vidmar, Senior Curator at Maribor Art Gallery

18:00-19:00 How to: set up your own gallery?
Barbara Čeferin, Founder and Director of Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana
Piera Ravnikar, Founder and Director of Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana
Tadej Pogačar, Artistic and Managing Director of P74 Gallery, Ljubljana
Chaired by: Simona Vidmar, Senior Curator at Maribor Art Gallery

19:00-19:45 How to: talk about contemporary art?
Ana Berlin, Founder and Director of Ana Berlin Communications, Vienna
Dušan Smodej, Director of Fotopub Festival, Novo mesto
Dorian Batycka, Independent Curator and Art Critic, Berlin
Chaired by: Jure Kirbiš, Curator at Maribor Art Gallery

Presentation of participants here.

THE DISCUSSIONS ARE FOLLOWED UP WITH:
Pop-up selling exhibition: Paper Matters
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 20:00
Centre for Creativity Maribor, Partizanska 11
The selling exhibition of artworks on paper called Paper Matters will offer beginner collectors and other enthusiasts the opportunity to become acquainted with a wide range of artistic works cerated by well-established and promising Slovenian artists and take these artworks home—at affordable prices. Paper Matters represent an interesting selection of works of art on paper or made of paper: screen prints, digital prints, drawings, watercolours, collages, illustrations, paper objects, zines, artists' books, and more. Come and let them captivate you!

The Art for Sale Programme will be held in the Slovenian and English languages! This project is a part of a partnership network Platform Center for Creativity co-financed by European Union from European Regional Development Fund and by Republic of Slovenia.

KINDLY INVITED!