Razstavišča / Venues: Galerija mesta Ptuj, Dominikanski samostan, Miheličeva galerija, Ptujski grad, Razstavišče Knjižnice I. Potrča Ptuj, Galerija Luna, Galerija Magistrat, Galerija FO.VI, Kreativni center Breg, Grad Borl
Tema 23. festivala sodobne umetnosti Art Stays na Ptuju, v organizaciji Kulturno umetniškega društva Art Stays, ki bo potekal od 10. julija do 14. septembra 2025, je PRAH: Kajti prah si in v prah se boš vrnil. Gre za nadaljevanje večletnega programa, v katerem sta direktorja Jernej Forbici in Marika Vicari vodila artikuliran razmislek o odnosu med človekom in okoljem, pri čemer sta upoštevala tako njegove možnosti kot ranljivosti.
Negotova in pogosto krhka narava prihodnosti je po njunem mnenju odvisna od naše sposobnosti skrbnega upravljanja naravnih virov in postprodukcije, kar odraža našo nenehno željo po spreminjanju in preoblikovanju sveta. Potreba po zavestnem pristopu in iskanju prostora – razumljenega kot fizično okolje in konceptualni prostor – je razširitev našega vpliva in odgovornosti. To so le nekateri od elementov tega novega potovanja, na katerega nas vabi festival.
PRAH je točka odhoda in prihoda; ozemlje pripadnosti in vrnitve; kompleksna estetska izkušnja z napetostmi in mejami. Tema in material se morda zdita preprosta, vendar vsaka umetniška raziskava razkrije različne posledice, bodisi družbene, zgodovinske, geografske ali fizične.
The theme of the 23rd Festival Art Stays in Ptuj, which runs from 10 July to 14 September 2025, is ‘DUST: For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return‘. This is the continuation of a multi-year programme in which directors Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari have conducted an articulate reflection on the relationship between humans and the environment, considering both its potential and its vulnerabilities.
The uncertain and often fragile nature of the future is seen as dependent on our ability to carefully manage natural resources and post-production, reflecting our constant desire to change and reshape the world. The need to approach this with awareness and to find space — understood as both the physical environment and conceptual space — is an extension of our influence and responsibility. These are just some of the elements of this new journey to which the festival invites us.
DUST is a point of departure and arrival; a territory of belonging and return; a complex aesthetic experience with tensions and limits. The theme and material may appear simple, but every artistic investigation reveals different implications, whether social, historical, geographical or physical.
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Umetniki / Artists: Marko Batista, Filippo Berta, Lynn Book, Vincenzo Castella, Jera Dacar, Metod Frlic, plesna skupnost GEA (Maja Butolen Zorko, Staša Dabič Perica, Majda Fridl, Maja Koštric, Živa Koštric Trop, Bronja Merc, Maja Tofant, Eva Vidovič), Bojan Golčar, Paul Hazelton, Ana Janež, Ajda Kadunc, Boštjan Kavčič, Julien Klopfenstein, Alja Košar, Tomas Koudela, Blažka Križan, Claudia Kubler, Liza Libenko, Talya Lubinsky, Katarina Marov, Marijan Mirt, Maria Elisabetta Novello, Gabriele Picco, Anastazija Pirnat, Wojtek Radtke, Marek Schovanek, Juan Sorrentino, Cristina Treppo, Wolfgang Stiller, Serena Vestrucci, OoopopoiooO (Valeria Sturba and Vincenzo Vasi), Giuseppe Ripa, Paolo San Martin.
Foto: Miloš Vujinović (Arhiv Art Stays)
