Grey Area
The project Grey Area is curated by Dexter Sinister, with a new monthly video by a designer, artist or group whose work exists somewhere in the middle of art and design.
You find yourself somewhere in-between: a Grey Area on the mezzanine floor of a large public arts centre. The building was originally a sugar refinery, built in 1828. It evolved into low-cost housing occupied by factory workers and soldiers, artists and writers, and became a cultural hub. After falling into disrepair, the city of Ljubljana bought the property and restored it to its previous form, reopening as Cukrarna Gallery in 2021.
This intermediate space has lower ceilings than the white-cube gallery floors that sandwich it above and below. It wasn't designed to be an exhibition space, but rather a place for events, conversations, gatherings, and other temporary activities. For the next year, it will be decorated and programmed by Dexter Sinister.
Look around: the room is lined with wall-to-wall medium-grey carpet and the walls are painted to match; windows are masked to modulate the sun and filter an even, grey light. It's mostly empty except for a few bean bags and a couple of tables, all in matching grey as well. In this space, Dexter Sinister will present one video each month by a designer, artist, or group whose work exists somewhere in the middle of art and design, including a few of their own works.
More at https://grey-area.cukrarna.art/
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00–19.00
Tickets
Free entry.
Press kit
OCTOBER 2024 : KCALB YKSIHW, DEXTER SINISTER (2022)
Which recounts the backwards story of a 12-year whisky produced on a farm in southern Germany, from the finished bottles to the promise which set the project in motion years before.
NOVEMBER 2024: 'INSERT COMPLICATED TITLE HERE', VIRGIL ABLOH (2017)
A talk delivered at Harvard University Graduate School of Design that tracks Abloh's fluid working principles, some mentors past and present, and how they feed myriad projects for companies such as IKEA, Nike, and his own company 'Off-White'.
DECEMBER 2024: THE IMPRINT OF NEWS - A VISUAL NEWS, LINDA VAN DEURSEN (2024)
A narrative collection of historical images, from Helen Harper Marquis wearing a dress made from issues of a local newspaper in 1898 to the stage of Dior's Fall/Winter 2020 women's collection.
JANUARY 2025: IDENTITY, DEXTER SINISTER (2011)
A three-screen projection that combines the story of three high-profile art institutional graphic identities – the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, and Tate – with a high-speed reverse-chronological history of graphic design's approximate 100-year evolution.
FEBRUARY 2025: REDISTRIBUTION, SETH PRICE (2007–ongoing)
An ambiguous, unstable palimpsest originally based on footage of a slide lecture Price gave at the Guggenheim Museum in 2007, which has since been intermittently re-edited and updated to incorporate emerging subjects and themes along the way.
MARCH 2025: GILBERT AGAIN (2022–2025)
A selection of shorts from Gilbert, an impeccably sculpted disembodied head with a penchant for online graphic design commentary.