27. 2. 2026 Gala Alica / The Cabinet / Exhibition opening

Gala Alica / The Cabinet 
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Friday, 27 February 2026, 19:00

curator: Tevž Logar

You are warmly invited to the opening of the exhibition The Cabinet by Gala Alica at UGM Kabinet, taking place on Friday, 27 February 2026, at 19:00.

Gala Alica’s artistic practice is rooted in precise, almost archaeological observation of the built environment. Through this approach, she examines how individuals navigate the shifting boundaries between private and public space, and how these boundaries shape experiences of belonging, safety, and identity. She is interested in the historical layering of spaces, traces of use and abandonment, and the ways in which architecture structures everyday bodily and social experience. 

These fragments carry the material memory of former functions and activities, forming an archive of the building organised not by historiographical logic, but through affect, association, and spatial resonance. The appropriation of found objects is complemented by the artist’s material intervention, which takes place not in the exhibition space but in her studio. This process draws new meanings from existing traces, shifts them into new relationships, and opens them to contemporary interpretations, in which the past appears not as a closed narrative but as an open-ended process. 

The Cabinet is inhabited by four objects – more precisely, a set of anti-objects – each of which, in its own way, “undermines” specific architectural elements of the exhibition space: the passage, the vault, the floor, and the walls. These anti-objects do not function as autonomous sculptures, but as situations that both reveal and destabilise spatial conventions. In this sense, their approach may be compared to Sartre’s notion of the “anti-novel” – works that assume the form of the novel only to dismantle and question it from within.