IBA Stage: Nevenka Sivavec

Nevenka Šivavec, Director of MGLC Ljubljana. Photo Urška Boljkovac

We are delighted to have with us Nevenka Sivavec, director of MGLC in Ljubljana and of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, one of the oldest continuously running biennial, established in 1955. With her we will discuss the making of ISKRA DELTA, 34th Ljubljana Biennial on December 2nd 3pm London time. The project, realised over the past 2 years is one of the first biennials to have been fully conceived and realised during the Covid19 pandemic. We look forward to hearing what challenges this has posed and how the model and institution had to adapt.

Nevenka Šivavec is a curator, editor, and, since 2011, the director of the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana, where she has overseen the last five editions of the Biennial of Graphic Arts. She was also the artistic director of the 32nd (2017) and this year’s 34th Biennale of Graphic Arts (2021).

Prior to working at MGLC, she was for many years a curator at the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Celje, Slovenia. Her exhibitions focused particularly on researching and presenting neglected and marginalized art practices from local environments by juxtaposing established artists with self-taught and outsider artists. She has been a mentor for curatorial practice at the World of Art School for Critics and Curators of Contemporary Art, at SCCA Ljubljana, and was for a number of years a co-editor of the art journal Likovne besede (Artwords), published in Ljubljana. In 2018, she completed the International Leadership Programme in Visual Arts Management at the Deusto Business School in Bilbao.

If you haven’t done so yet, please follow the link below to register

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuivqTksHNdSviW5dtcIb63UifyVD4M8