Events
Friday, 11 September - Sunday, 13 September 2026
Archival Gaps and Forgotten Connections
Finissage Weekend
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), Ljubljana
With selma banich and the Politics of Touch collective, Jule Flierl, Agata Jakubowska, Mónica Mayer, Elva Peniche Montfort, Vesna Vuković
Curated and moderated by Iva Kovač and Bettina Knaup
To conclude the exhibition Archival Chain Reactions, we bring together artists and writers whose practices engage, in diverse ways, with archival gaps and forgotten artistic or institutional connections—through acts of voicing, metabolizing, tracing, or gifting.
Join us for talks and discussions (with Agata Jakubowska, Elva Peniche Montfort, Vesna Vuković), a performance lecture (Jule Flierl) and ceremonial gifts made by Mónica Mayer and by selma banich together with the Politics of Touch collective. Openly reciprocal, both gifts seek to bring people and stories less visible within institutions to their forefront.
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Friday, 19 June 2026, 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“Lubricating the System”
Infrastructural Strategies of Precarious Archives
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), Ljubljana
With Corinne Brenko, Andreja Dugandžić (online), Ida Hiršenfelder, Katja Kobolt & Dunja Kukovec, Mónica Mayer (online), Ana Obid, Urška Repar, Suzana Tratnik, Rok Vevar, Jasmina Založnik a.o.
Curated and moderated by Iva Kovač and Bettina Knaup
A series of lectures and discussions within the framework of the exhibition “Archival Chain Reactions: Between and Beyond Archivo Pinto mi Raya, re.act.feminism, City of Women”
This event explores the relations between independent, minoritarian, activist, or artivist archives and institutions, foregrounding the practices and labour involved in building connections and enabling knowledge exchange in order to preserve and animate important collections. Inspired by the Mexican artist and archivist Mónica Mayer and her strategic, playful and subversive practice of “lubricating the system”, the event considers the various ways of infiltrating institutions when necessary, forming occasional partnerships, while preserving a critical distance and independence. Speakers from Sarajevo, Mexico City and Ljubljana will introduce individual projects as comparative case studies, thus offering space for a broader discussion.