Announcing

untranquil now

A constellation of narratives and resonances
Group exhibition in collaboration with Hamburger Kunsthalle
18. 6. 2026 — 3. 1. 2027
Upstairs Galleries
untranquil now
Photo © © Courtesy Jan Mot gallery, Brussels, and the artists; Manon de Boer / Latifa Laâbissi: Ghost Party (2), still, 2022.

With untranquil now, attention is focused on artworks by more than 20 international transgenerational artists primarily from the Hamburger Kunsthalle collection. It features films, artefacts, figures, and events that authorise complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories.

In doing so, they disarm configurations of power, unlocking the imagination to explore heterogeneous narratives. These artistic and performative gestures bank on a creative breakthrough of the world.
Being transdisciplinary, the exhibition presents artworks and performances that explore forms of displacement of the stage, to become modernist building, social housing, roof, public place, park, abandoned site, archaeological excavation, industrial platform, and the presence of human or animal characters.
Proposing a web of historical resonances or coincidences, a multiplicity of situated contexts and spatio-sensorial experiences influenced by political and social circumstances, the exhibition establishes relations to memory, heritage, and intimacy. It brings to the surface historic sediments to propagate their effects. In doing so, in various regimes of intensity, it evokes what Edward Said terms “contrapuntal consciousness” and explores how art does justice to the event, in attempting to restore its intensive potential.

Curated by Dr. Corinne Diserens

Exhibition Production and Coordination: Janja Buzečan; Public Relations: Mojca Podlesek; Educational and Andragogical Programme: Nina Vošnjak; Production Assistance: Neža Vengust; Conservation and Restoration of Slide Projectors: Marko Turkuš; Design: Ajdin Bašić; Head of Technical Team: Jože Kalan; Technical Team: Andrej Črepinšek, Borut Wenzel, Martin Lovšin.

In collaboration with Hamburger Kunsthalle.


Opening hours

Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00–19.00
24 and 31 December: 10.00–14.00
Closed: Mondays, 1 January, 1 November, 25 December

Tickets

Adults: €10
Primary and secondary school students, university students, retirees, unemployed visitors, visitors with disabilities: €8
Family ticket (up to 5 members): €22
Free admission: children aged 7 and under, companions of persons with disabilities, tourist guides, ICOM, SMD, Ljubljana Card holders, students of ALUO, AGRFT, AU UNG, Art Education PEF, UMZGO, AVA, NTF, VUO UP PEF, Cultural Studies at FDV, students of the Secondary School of Design and Photography, PRESS (upon prior confirmation)

THE OPENING

You are invited to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 19:00 at Cukrarna Gallery. Admission to the opening is free.