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Ljubljana Street Art Festival 2022  – Outdoor Murals

Ljubljana Street Art Festival 2022 – Outdoor Murals

The Ljubljana Street Art Festival 2022 edition has come to an end, with great flourish. We’ve been reporting on it here on BSA, and now we bid adieu to the uniquely creative organizers. They planned some unusual events and installations – painted with fire extinguishers and activated by fire, for example, or an extended definition of street art via phone assisted augmented reality. We particularly are gratified to see the conscious effort organizers and educators make to engage with the community and to open the experience of art on the street to adults and children.

Danilo Milovanović “Head through the wall”. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Danilo Milovanović “Head through the wall”. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)

With an informed balance of mind and heart, the festival presented an extensive program of talks, panels, and related social and performative events remain relevant and educational while entertaining. Screening the documentary Street Heroines – a documentary exploring courage and creativity in the female graffiti/street art scene – was undoubtedly a pinnacle, as was interviewing the intrepid director Alexandra Henry.

Mathieu Tremblin. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Mathieu Tremblin. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)

The fulsome academic program brought several speakers to examine the role of new technologies in the field of street art, the cross pollination of politics and sociological movements, the response “the street” has to war and propaganda, the intersections with sport culture, and the built environment as memoryscape. As ever, speakers and audience together contemplated our ongoing struggles to define the vagaries of a vast street art practice worldwide presents.

In addition to the presenters and participants in the program, we extend our congratulations to the excellent team of organizers and curators, to the talented artists and photographers, to the team of volunteers, and of course, to the host city of Ljubljana and their welcoming residents. Or special gratitude to photographer Crt Piksi, who shares his documentation here with BSA readers. Until next year…

Mathieu Tremblin. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Mathieu Tremblin. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Mathieu Tremblin. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Marko Gavez x Neza Knez. This is an interdisciplinary project with Mr. Gavez painting the mural and Mr. Knez working on an AR visualization. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Nejc Ketis)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Nejc Ketis)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Nejc Ketis)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Nejc Ketis)
Veli & Amos. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Nejc Ketis)
Zebu. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Zebu. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Children’s Wall Project. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Children’s Wall Project. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Children’s Wall Project. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti and VJ graffiti jam. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti and VJ graffiti jam. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti and VJ graffiti jam. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti and VJ graffiti jam. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti and VJ graffiti jam. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti jam and VJ graffiti. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti jam and VJ graffiti. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti jam and VJ graffiti. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti jam and VJ graffiti. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Graffiti jam and VJ graffiti. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)
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Ljubljana Street Art Festival 2022

Ljubljana Street Art Festival 2022

Ljubljana is in the house!

“The big day has arrived and we are about to open the festival in a couple of hours,” says Sandi Abram as he looks over the final list of artists, talks, and programs that mean LJSAF 2022 is underway. We’ll be bringing you the action directly to your screens as it unfolds on the ground for its fourth year. With live painting, conferences, music, and community affairs, this annual festival is dedicated to showcasing the practitioners of graffiti, street art, and urban art.

As in years past it will be focusing on the unique curation by festival director Sandi Abram and the program directors Anja Zver and Miha Erjavec. A community-run affair with some serious academic punch, photographer Martha Cooper went last year and told us that it’s a festival that strikes a balance with what may appear as a quirky selection of artists to participate, “with an emphasis more on conceptual, political work than on aesthetics.” More to come..

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LJSAF 2022. Children participate in a painting workshop. Ljubljana, Slovenia. (photo © Crt Piksi)
LJSAF 2022. Children participate in a painting workshop. Ljubljana, Slovenia. (photo © Crt Piksi)
LJSAF 2022. Warm-up concert with by DJ LABELLO, dvidevat, and Nulla. (photo © Crt Piksi)
LJSAF 2022. Opening of Antigoon‘s exhibition. (this is a residency in collab between LJSAF and  EMOVES / UCMASTERS. A program run by Jasper Van Es. (photo © Crt Piksi)
LJSAF 2022. Guests attend the opening of the exhibition I <3 LJ by Nejc Zorenč. This is the first solo exhibition of the Slovenian artist who is also a graffiti writer. (photo © Crt Piksi)
Danilo Milovanović “Head through the wall”. LJSAF 2022. (photo © Crt Piksi)

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