Exhibition Season 2022/23

PIXXELPOINT, 23rd International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices :
TRUST AND RISK
 
Festival Events: 10. 11. – 13. 11. 2022

Festival Exhibition: 10. 11. – 26.11. 2022

Curator: Nina Jeza

Trust and risk are closely intertwined concepts. We build interpersonal and intersocietal relationships through trust, we establish an equilibrium between what we believe and what we find alien, but most of all we enter a civilisational discourse, which connects both aforementioned concepts. Art is undoubtedly the ‘means’, which with its aesthetic value and impartial communication addresses the individual as well as society. Changing human attitude to nature, art or people means to have a critical, favourable or unfavourable, i.e. positive or negative attitude. The curator Nina Jeza believes that because every change demands time, we have to address the question how ‘to neutralise the risk for trust or how to come up with a new world order, within which the relationships within society have changed as a result of the pandemic so that they can no longer be recognised’.

The organisers will also place trust and take a risk with this year’s transformed Pixxelpoint. Within the frame of the festival, which will take place over four days, great emphasis will be placed on education through lectures, presentations of cooperating artists, intermedia festivals, the MCRU network, all of which will be joined by performances in the evening hours. The exhibition itself, which will show installations, objects and other exhibition pieces, will be on display for two weeks. The festival will focus predominantly on young Slovenian intermedia artists, who are at the beginning of their creative careers, as well as a few established names from the intermedia scene. At the end of the festival, we will award the Pixxelpoint Award for the best exhibition project.

Curator: Nina Jeza
Nina Jeza graduated from the Department of History of Art at the Faculty of Art in Ljubljana in 2007. Today she is an independent cultural worker, curator and art teacher. She also works as a pedagogue, she had prepared and organised the intermedia festival KIBLIX (2013–2018), within the frame of which various workshops in the field of intermedia and connecting technologies take place. Between 2013 and 2015 she was the artistic director of the International Festival of Computer Art (MFRU). She signed her name under successfully executed events and articles in various electronic and printed media, including television and radio contributions. She was behind the idea and organiser of the Maribor Art Fair art-MUS (2015–2021). She recently initiated the project ARTSTORAGE, which presents an innovative business idea for storing, archiving, digitalising and selling artworks by Slovenian artists. She is the cofounder and co-owner of Artists & Poor’s.