If Goran Vojnović were a Serbian-Slovenian-Prekmurian feminist, I joked the first time I read this novel, it still wouldn’t have helped him. Because Ćrtice by Tina Perić, our former co-guide on the Ljubljana Feminist Tour, is such an astonishingly good book that it hurts. It is not “the next Southern Scum Go Home!”; it is...Continue Reading

The book Case Study: Anhovo: Between Asbestos, Waste, Development, and Health Crisis by environmental activist and our long-standing guiding colleague Jasmina Jerant represents one of the most comprehensive analyses of an environmental conflict in the Slovenian context. The local story of an industrial plant in the Middle Soča Valley is unfolded as an analytical lens...Continue Reading

We continue our series of stories on graffiti women for the GraFEM blog with a legendary writer! Vixen is known to anyone who has ever seen her plump green birds or rounded pink ponies on walls around the world. She came late to graffiti, doing her first ones at the age of twenty. Under the...Continue Reading

This is Part Two of the piece by Helena Konda about the Slovenian rebel graffiti women in the second world war. (You can read Part One here.) Ljubljana experienced its first flourishing of what we would now call political graffiti and street art under the Italian fascist occupation of 1941 to 1943, when movement was...Continue Reading

Ljubljana probably experienced its first flourishing of what we would now call political graffiti and street art under the Italian fascist occupation of 1941 to 1943, when movement was restricted, a curfew was in force and popular protest was suppressed. Acts of rebellion within the public space were largely carried out by women and included...Continue Reading

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We begin our series of stories for the GraFEM blog with writer DEE282, the first woman in Slovenia to spray paint subcultural graffiti. She painted her first graffiti on a non-authorised wall at the age of twenty-one and was a member of Ljubljana’s Guten Tag Crew for a number of years. In the mid-1990s, when...Continue Reading

At the moment, we are not running our tours and we don’t know when or whether we will be able to start again. The Coronavirus situation might force us to close shop. But we try to stay optimistic and behave like everything will go back to normal sooner or later. Before that happens, however, we...Continue Reading

Near the Ljubljanica River there is a container facility. Its sliding external doors allow it to be turned into three or four squares which can be opened or closed as required on the sides facing the road and the river. Until recently it was as white as snow, except for a few graffiti. In art...Continue Reading

Neža Jurman, known by her artistic pseudonym Nez Pez, is a multimedia artist working across sculpture, light art, animation, drawing, illustration, and street art. Currently, she is particularly drawn to installations exploring sound and space, abstract drawing, and zines and prints. Her work and life alternates between Berlin and Ljubljana, including mural projects often inspired...Continue Reading