Host: International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
Disciplines: visual arts (focus graphic arts); art critique and journalism; intermedia arts; interdisciplinary artistic practices
Location: Ljubljana

MGLC Švicarija is the central art residency point in Ljubljana. International artists, cultural workers (critics, curators, theoreticians, publicists, producers), humanities scholars and social scientists have three residential studios at their disposal, where we usually accommodate them for a month. We have been running our residency programme since 2017. In terms of development, we focus on: a) supporting the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; b) providing printmaking and reproducible media residencies; c) offering residencies for critics, and; d) managing the MGLC Academy educational platform residencies. We are updating the programme guidelines with new emphases in response to current trends in artistic mobility. Residents are selected through invitations, residency exchanges and public calls for submissions. We are developing permanent partnerships between similar residency centres abroad. We also organise residencies in co-production with Slovenian producers (Igor Zabel Society for Culture and Theory, Kino Šiška & DobraVaga Gallery, Ljubljana: City of Literature & Divja misel Institute …).

MGLC Švicarija is as well a creative centre closely linked to the location and history of the building, which already had an operational role as a production space in previous decades.
Further information here. [Photo: MGLC Švicarija, Jaka Babnik.]

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