Ne živimo v istem času. OPEN CALL 2026 • TkalkaUnfolded
TkalkaUnfolded je štiriletni program, ki čas razume kot nestabilno strukturo — kot polje napetosti med zaznavo, tehnologijo in družbenimi ritmi, ki nenehno preoblikujejo sedanjost.
Vsako leto program poveže umetnika, kuratorja in kritika v skupni projekt, ki se razvija kot proces, ne kot vnaprej definirana ideja.
Leto 2026 odpira prvi cikel: The Absent Now / Izmuzljiva sedanjost
Sedanjost ni stabilna točka, temveč razpršeno in fragmentarno polje, v katerem se čas vzpostavlja skozi zamike, prekrivanja in prekinitve.
Zanimajo nas projekti, ki časa ne predstavljajo, temveč posegajo v njegove pogoje.
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We are thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibition HORIZON : UNSEEN — a collaboration between Tkalka Gallery and the International Student Biennial from Osijek presenting an artistic dialogue between Croatian artist Nikola Pjevačević and Slovenian artist Katarina Snoj.
Join us for the opening night this Friday, 22 May 2026, at 19:00 at Tkalka Gallery.
Exhibition Horizon: Unseen asks whether we truly see images at all or merely process them. In the works of Nikola Pjevačević and Katarina Snoj, painting becomes a space where the instability of perception is no longer concealed but exposed.
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Curated by Miran Blažek & Tina Gerlec.
The exhibition is supported by the Municipality of Maribor.
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Read more about Dominik Štibernik’s artistic practice and his exhibition Author — a reflection on traces, absence, institutional space, and the fragile conditions through which artworks emerge and persist.
Today is the last chance to see the exhibition.
The gallery is open from 16:00–19:00.
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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 still on view at @tkalka_gallery
First two photos: 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥 and 𝐥𝐥 (2026): retrieved pencil test sheets originating from an art supply store. Over time, the sheets accumulated layered marks produced by multiple anonymous users.These traces are framed with museal UV anti-reflective glass, stating that authorship and artistic value is in the intent, in the decision – in the Artist’s Gesture.
The most “concrete” of all works on display is 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐞 (2025); a hyper-realistic silicone autoportrait that lies inside a horizontal cuboid, which at first glance resembles a gallery bench. The double of the author rests within this white, reclining structure, an object that merges funerary and museal furniture into a single form.
Photos by @gregor_salobir
"AIR CONDITION"
Artist: Albert Mayr @jonnyhawaiii
Curated by: Nataša Berk @natasa_berkg
📍Tkalka Gallery, Tkalski prehod 4, Maribor @tkalka_gallery
27.02-20.03.2026
Read the complete text on lowgroundpressure.blog web platform (🔗 in stories).
📸 Jaka Babnik @jakababnik , courtesy the artist and the gallery;
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Par sekund čist v šoku, preden dojameš …
👉 to je umetnost.
🎨 Dominik Štibernik – AUTHOR
📍 Tkalka Gallery
Razstava, ki te ne pripravi na to, kar vidiš.
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Thank you all for coming to the exhibition opening on Friday! Your presence made the evening special!
Big thank you to @dominik_stibernik and Niko Čajič for the amazing collaboration — grateful to create together!
The Exhibition is on view until 8.5.2026!
Gallery is open every Thursday and Friday from 16:00 -19:00!
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One of the exhibited works is Herbarium (2026), which consists of twelve identical frames bought from an affordable retail store, each housing a generic decorative graphic that came supplied with the frame. As in other displayed works, authorship and artistic value in Herbarium are not asserted through image-making but through appropriation, intent, and exhibitionary framing of the materials that - through the aforementioned processes - now emerge almost as museum artifacts.
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We are thrilled to announce the exhibition opening of Dominik Štibernik: Author this Friday, 27.3.2026 at 19:00!
Dominik Štibernik’s work often engages with absence, emptiness and expectation. In Author, he shifts this perspective, opening questions around artistic authority; more specifically the artist's decisions and gestures that execute the transformation of non-art into a work of art.
The exhibition ultimately asks: is being a “great artist” something authentic or a carefully staged performance?
We look forward to welcoming you!
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On Form as an Emerging Condition - read more about Albert Mayr’s artistic practice and his perspective on form as something that does not exist as a fixed entity, but unfolds through process, relation and interaction, where sound, movement and space continuously shape and reorganize the conditions of perception.
@jonnyhawaiii
📷 @jakababnik
AIR CONDITION unfolds as a curatorial proposition across three rooms, each articulating the event through a distinct temporal condition.
In the first room, the exhibition establishes a field of actualization, where movement arises through contingent relations between air, object and viewer. The kinetic situation produces the event as a moment of convergence, material contact extended into light and sound while the photographic work reframes movement as constructed sequence, opening a dialogue between immediacy and representation.
From this interplay between real-time emergence and its spatialized trace, the exhibition transitions into the second room, where temporality shifts into latency. Here, the installation is structured around suspension: a composition held in a state of unresolved potential. The absent action, the unreleased arrow displaces the event into anticipation, where sound is not heard but imagined, and time is stretched into a charged, pre-event condition.
Extending this tension further, the third room introduces repetition as a generative system. Mechanical choreography and process-oriented works articulate movement as continuous event, where iteration produces its own temporal logic. The accompanying drawings and collage deepen this inquiry, positioning construction and formal reduction as active phases within the unfolding of the work.
Across all three spaces, AIR CONDITION constructs a relational environment in which the event is not singular or spectacular, but dispersed—emerging through interaction, suspension, and repetition, and continually reconfigured through the presence of the viewer.
Join us for the finissage and a final guided tour with artist Albert Mayr and curator Nataša Berk this Friday, 20.3., at 17:00!
@jonnyhawaiii@natasa_bergk
📷 @jakababnik
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At Tkalla Gallery, the solo exhibition AIR CONDITION by Albert Mayr is on view until March 20, 2026.
In the first room, visitors encounter the kinetic sculpture “Relationship,” previously shared as a video moment. On the left wall hangs a photograph of the sculpture “Walking” (2013), also featured last week and worth a second look.
In the second room, one immediately senses the tension between two forms. In fact, it is a single sculpture in dialogue with itself. The dialogue can be seen and felt, encouraging visitors to imagine the sounds that might emerge from this interplay.
An audio-associative sculpture titled Gravity and Music #1 (Tusch).
“Tusch” - a German word for a short, dramatic musical fanfare that punctuates a moment, emphasizing its theatrical or celebratory effect.
The sculpture brings to life a concept first sketched in 2021, transforming an early illustration into a realized form.
