Labyrinth gives way to skin opens with the exhibition Boundless BodyMinds, featuring metaphysical artworks grounded in a common understanding of embodied cognition, which rhizomatically draw from a synthesis of ancient and contemporary spiritual, technological and...
Sonica’s 2021 theme Labyrinth gives way to skin is taken from the title of a composition by Maryanne Amacher for Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serves as a launching point for an exploration of the invisible...
Finnish artist Jenna Sutela seeks to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Her work Holobiont (2018) considers the idea of embodied cognition on a planetary scale, featuring...
SONICA 2020 EXHIBITION: PARADISE HAUNTED GARDEN Group Exhibition, Equrna Gallery 8.-27.9.2020 Exhibiting artists: Clara de Asis, Peter Kutin, Alois Yang, Svetlana Maraš, Simina Oprescu The exhibition presented new works by five international artists working at...
The 12th edition of the Sonica festival, under the theme Paradise Haunted Garden, evolved around 19 events that took place at eight venues in Ljubljana between 22 and 26 September 2020, featuring 16 artists from...
We’re happy to announce SONICA festival’s collaboration with INDIGO festival, presenting the SHAPE Platform artist KALI MALONE with her project Does Spring Hide Its Joy featuring Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley. Does Spring Hide Its...
Welcome to Mopcut, layered, noisy, all-pervading ecstasy of noise rock, free jazz, free improv, electronic music, all at the same time. MOPCUT is Lukas König, Audrey Chen, and Julien Desprez. Their objective is a construct...
Australian string player, vocalist, electrophonist and improviser Julia Reidy is one of the more intriguing names in the field of contemporary guitar music, “bringing to mind everything from Hope Sandoval to late-era Talk Talk, Jim...
SONICA Festival will happen this year. But before that join us at our pre-events. Next week, we’re partnering with Grounded Festival to present one of this year’s SHAPE Platform Artists, Yantan Ministry. Yantan Ministry is...
We are pleased to announce that we are once again partnering with Kamfest to present a musical evening on the Barutana Stage at Kamfest. The event is a pre-event of the SONICA Festival: Labyrinth gives...
We’re happy to announce SONICA festival’s collaboration with SAJETA festival, presenting two SHAPE Platform artists: Riccardo la Foresta and Lukas Koenig. RICCARDO LA FORESTA (ITA) Thursday, 8 July at 18:00 Tolmin Public Library “Ciril Kosmač”...
Nonument Group: The Exhibition is Outdoors 25. 5.—25. 7. 2021 At the Project space of the Museum of architecture and design, Nonument Group introduces itself with an exhibition with a suggestive title: The Exhibition is...
Pixxelpoint is a festival of contemporary artistic practices. The festival seeks synergies but also contrasts between media-art scenes and the names of the wider region. It looks to some of the most contemporary creative practices...
We're happy to announce tomorrow's exclusive live stream of Bescenje, a comission by SONICA Festival for SHAPE x XLR8R collaboration. The piece teleports us to the atrium between the Palace of Albania and the Cultural...
A sort of a two week online festival will present live video streams or exclusive audio/video material from a different artist each night. Tune in every day at 19:00 CEST.
Nonument Group premiered a new installation entitled German Marks at the Pochen Biennale in Chemnitz. The installation reflects on the collective memory and forgetting of the economic transition in the former DDR between 1989 and...
Third international NONUMENT symposium on decaying, destroyed and abandoned monuments, architecture and public space.
Pioneer Railway The Pioneer Raiway was a 4 km long narrow-gauge railway built in 1948 by pioneers and youth work brigades. Pioneer railways were intended as educational toys to strengthen children’s love of technology, responsibility,...
The all-day Sonica Sound Garden event in Koper featured: the ambient sound installation Sound Garden by Svetlana Maraš, the light-sound installation Wave by Martin Bricelj Barag and the concert Širom. Baraga – Wave modular light...
SONICA x LEVEL UP: LUCRECIA DALT BEEPBLIP Odprti oder na Muzejski ploščadi Sobota, 29. avgust 2020 www.sonica.si SONICA s preddogodkom festivala VRT, KI GA PREGANJA RAJ združuje moči z organizatorji koncertne serije Level Up. Tudi...
Nonument Group: From Nowhere to Noplace, Pioneer Railway Town Hall – Historical Atrium, Ljubljana 17. June 2020 – 26. July 2020 FB EVENT
Interactive concert stream from Kino Šiška. Imaginary world music with this year's SHAPE platform artists Širom.
Nonument Group: Ljubljana: Samoosamitveni sprehod Zvočni sprehod Dostopen od sobote, 25. aprila 2020 od 18. ure FB DOGODEK Mesto v času samoizolacije je pavza, zareza v normalnost, odtujena običajnost, nedomačen oder. Na prvi pogled je...
Architects! Artists! Researchers! Art Historians! Activists! Writers! Photographers! Think Nonument! Together Open Call: Deadline 15 th May 2020 The Nonument Group is calling for papers on the topic of nonuments to be published on nonument.org...
Martin Bricelj Baraga: Solocular + Zergon in Koper SOLOCULAR (part of the Sun Calendar Project) is going to Koper. Artist Martin Bricelj Baraga (Baraga Studio) is temporarily instaling his art instrument designed to engage people...
Sonica x Zagreb w/ Kontejner & ZEZ Last stop for SONICA’s international tour is Zagreb! We are teaming up with KONTEJNER | biro suvremene umjetničke prakse and ZEZ – Zavod za eksperimentalni zvuk to bring...
On November 28th, SONICA heads to London to join the celebration of the 5th anniversary of IKLECTIK, a creative platform for contemporary art, experimental music, and critical art, where we are curating a diverse program...
Artists, Wave lovers, Rainbow lovers, Island lovers! Save the date. Luka Ivanović (aka LukaToyBoy) is coming to MoTA LAB on November 12th, to present MultiMadeira artist residency taking place on Portuguese island Madeira, their programme,...
w/Lifecutter/Zergon/TUUM DIM BELGRADE 2.11.2019 LINE UP: Zergon LIVE (Ljubljana) Lifecutter LIVE (Ljubljana) TUUM Dj set (Portals Editions, Berlin) SONICA is going to Dim Belgrade, sister of a cult Drugstore club with a fine selection of...
This year we are looking forward to five days of music: live sets, AV live concerts, DJ sets, electro-acoustic avant-garde, ambiental expeditions, a sound walk, workshops, talks, and also an exhibition and a film. We...
MoTA –
Museum of Transitory Art
MoTA is a multidisciplinary platform dedicated to advancing the research, production and presentation of transitory, experimental, and live art forms.
MoTA is a museum without a permanent collection or a fixed space. Instead, its programs are realised in different locations and contexts in temporary physical and virtual spaces.
MoTA organizes and supports transitory art in the form of continuous events, exhibitions and educational programs both locally and internationally. As its name indicates, MoTA examines what a museum can be today and in the future.
MoTA is in constant search for the new, the uncertain, and the undefined.
MoTA works on several continuous programmes & projects. We run MoTA Point – a Space for Art & Ideas, we curate and produce the annual SONICA Festival, in addition to regular music programmes such as SONICA Series and SONICA Classics.
Within the years of running our residency programme, we’ve established T.R.I.B.E. – a network of residency spaces in the Balkans & Eastern Europe.
We’ve also initiated the research and archive platforms ArtistTalk.eu and Mediateque MoTA & Tomaž Brate. Our educational programmes serve a broader audience with ongoing workshops, talks, symposia, and internships.
