Lucija Rosc (1995) is a visual artist whose practice combines a research-based approach with playful interpretation, drawing inspiration from childhood memories, family archives, and the environment in which she grew up. With the project Birthday Maypoles, she sheds light on rural traditions and places them in new contexts, highlighting the importance of community and the transmission of folk customs into the contemporary era.

The artist has held several solo exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and has participated in numerous international group shows. Her works have been presented at contemporary photography fairs such as Unseen Amsterdam and Photo Basel, as well as at contemporary art fairs including Viennacontemporary and Art Salon Zürich.

Rosc is a recipient of the UL ALUO Prešeren Award, a nominee for the OHO Group Award (2024), and the winner of the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, an international award for contemporary women photographers.

As part of the Visible-Invisible cycle — dedicated to presenting photographic projects that address themes often found “on the margins,” pushed aside and overlooked, frequently stigmatized and misunderstood by society — this year’s exhibition features Taiwan-born photographer Simon Chang, who lives and works in Slovenia.

The exhibited photographic series continues a multi-year project that the artist began in 2021 by photographing the Slovenian drag queen and drag king scene. Over the years, this sustained engagement has deepened his understanding of the community and its members, as well as his own personal experience of perceiving society, individual, and collective identity.


Simon Chang: Dolls of the Valley
Free Portfolio Review with Simon Chang 
(As part of the programme accompanying Simon Chang’s solo exhibition, Dolls of the Valley, at Mala Galerija, Cankarjev dom)
18 December 2025 and 8 January 2026 at 6:00 PM
M2, Mala galerija, Cankarjev dom  

You are warmly invited to a free portfolio review with Simon Chang. We will focus especially on your personal, long-term projects. If you’d like to take part, please sign up below. Each participant will have about 15 minutes to discuss their work, show photographs, and receive feedback. If you have any questions, please feel free to DM or contact Simon directly at spotsonscreen@gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing your stories soon.


Guided Tours and Portfolio Review with  Simon Chang

• 11.12.2025 at 5:00 PM  – Guided Tour 
• 18.12.2025 in M2 at 6:00 PM  –  Free Portfolio Review with Simon Chang Portfolio Review 
• 8.1.2026 in  M2 at 6:00 PM -  Free Portfolio Review with Simon Chang Portfolio Review 
• 15.1.2026 at 6:00 PM- Guided tour 
• 22.1.2026 at 6:00 PM  -  Guided Tour
•  29.1.2026 at 5:00 PM – Guided Tour
• 5.2.2026 at 5:00 PM – Guided Tour
• 8.2.2026 (Prešeren Day) at 5:00 PM – Guided Tour

Please be informed that guided tours of the exhibition and free portfolio reviews will be conducted in English. 
For further information visitors may refer to the Slovenian-English exhibition brochure.

For the Kranj Foto Fest 2025 exhibition, a professional jury selected 15 outstanding projects from a record 1,523 submissions by photographers from more than 80 countries. Among them were two winners, one special mention, and twelve finalists.
The exhibition at the CD Small Gallery presents a selection of six projects, offering a small but significant insight into the exhibitions that took place in Kranj’s old town centre this summer.

The group exhibition features works by the following artists:
Pasha Kritchko (Belarus) – Winner of Kranj Foto Fest 2025, Balázs Turós (Hungary) – Winner of Kranj Foto Fest 2025, Emilia Martin (Poland) – Special Mention, Marcia Beltrão (Brazil), Mohamed Hassan (Egypt), and Marianne & Katarzyna Wasowska (Poland).

Jury of the Kranj Foto Fest Open Call 2025:
Carol Körting (Photo Editor at Leica Fotografie International, Germany), Emese Mucsi (Curator at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Hungary), Krzysztof Candrowicz (Co-founder of Fotofestiwal, Poland), Sandra Križić Roban (Head of the Office for Photography, Croatia), and Fernanda Prado Verčič (Director of Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia).

The 18th anniversary of the Godibodi Festival will be marked by a group photography exhibition that brings to light the vibrancy and sincerity, as well as the unique atmosphere of an event that since its very beginning has been supporting talent and opening up the possibilities for creating, performing and listening to fresh music. The photographs were taken at the many venues that have hosted the festival over the years. Bojan Stepančič, a long-time festival photographer, occupies a special place in the exhibition, alongside Alan Orlič, Aleš Rosa, Boris Voglar, Goran Antley, Iztok Ameršek, Jure Matoz, Marko Alpner, Peter Miloševič, Sunčan Stone and Žiga Koritnik.

Italian photographer Pino Ninfa’s exhibition is a journey into the world of jazz. The series of black-and-white photographs is defined by an exceptionally strong narrativeness, the stories of musicians and their work, as well as the events before, during and after a concert. Stories on- and offstage, in between sacred places and secular architecture, in the middle of nature or by the seaside, aim to capture a gesture or a reflection, waiting for the decisive moment.

Sicilian-born, Milan-based photographer Pino Ninfa has been pursuing a career in music photography for a number of years. In addition to covering major music festivals, he dedicates himself to developing multimedia projects with various musicians. He served as the official photographer of the Heineken Jammin' Festival for many years and has covered several editions of the Umbria Jazz Festival. He has showcased his work in various museums in Italy and internationally, including the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche in Treviso and the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
 

Hana Knížová’s series Mothers offers a poignant yet playful reflection on the evolving role of motherhood, capturing its raw intimacy from the postpartum period to early adolescence. Through her lens, the everyday realities of motherhood are depicted with both candour and warmth, avoiding fixed poses in favour of life’s unfiltered moments.
As Knížová maintains a close relationship with many of her subjects, some photographed over extended periods, the series provides a compelling study of maternal transformation. Subtle shifts in demeanour and attitude reveal how a mother’s sense of self is negotiated within the ever-changing dynamic of the mother-child bond. 

Hana Knížová is a Czech photographic artist working in London and Prague. Her work reflects numerous visions of youth and interpersonal relationships, illustrated through conceptual and intimate series of portraits. She was awarded the prestigious John Kobal New Work Award from London's National Portrait Gallery, and the Photographer of the Year Prize by Czech Grand Design. Her work is regularly exhibited.

After the presentations at Sarajevo Photography Festival and Mesnographies Festival (France) in 2023, the series Mothers, and thus the artist’s first exhibition in Slovenia, is going to be shown at Cankarjev dom.

The solo exhibition is dedicated to photographs taken by Nik Erik Neubauer during his short stay in New York City, USA. Drawing on the characteristic rawness and immediacy of street photography, he focused mainly on the everyday life in a city marked by great social and cultural divisions, on the splendour and misery of a metropolis where only the wealthy live in comfort.

Neubauer's multi-faceted story centres on the lives of different communities that, through collective action, create the necessary conditions for a comfortable and affordable living. He furthermore highlights the fact that New York ranks among some of the most hyped and mythologised cities, in the 20th century gaining a reputation as an economic and cultural centre of power where only the best players can succeed. His work thus provides a critical examination of class injustice as well as an analysis of the mechanisms that give people hope for a better future. He employs images to analyse the idea of the American Dream, while interlacing the stories of individuals with his own assumptions, expectations and visions.
 

Within the context of the 2023 and 2024 Slovenian Photography Contest, we are pleased to present a survey exhibition that offers a glimpse at the exceptional creativity of Slovenian photographers over the past two years. The exhibition includes works in the categories of free colour photography, free black-and-white photography, documentary photography and photographic collection/album. Special attention has been paid to young artists, whose entries fall into two age categories: contestants aged under 15 and 16–21.

The selected photographs were carefully reviewed by an expert judging panel composed of members of the FZS Artistic Committee (Matej Peljhan, Andreja Peklaj, Jure Kravanja, Dušan Gorast Miška, Matjaž Čater), while the reviewing of documentary photography entries took place under the watchful eye of distinguished photographers Matej Peljhan, Katja Bidovec and Uroš Hočevar.

We sought to broaden the scope of entries for this year's contest, extending participation from the circles of so-called photo-society photography to a wider professional as well as general public. Aware of the fact that Slovenia has many excellent and renowned photographers, we believe it is only right that their work is showcased. That is why the genre of documentary photography has been added this year. The displayed works show references to events on a national and global scale. The artists couldn’t help but take notice of the floods, the disasters occurring around the world and the cycling craze.

We hope that the exhibition inspires you and provides you with new insights into the diversity and power of photographic expression. We would like to express our gratitude to both the artists for their contributions and the visitors who support the art of photography with their presence.
Tomaž Velechovsky, Chairman of the Fotoklub Ljubljana
 

In the spirit of the French Revolution's famous motto “equality”, the Paris 2024 Paralympics achieved new milestones in promoting the values of integration, inclusion and equality in sport. Athletes, their accompanying persons and fans (for the first time in Slovenia's history, also through live TV broadcasts) witnessed an extraordinary event that inspired the world on many levels. The GAMES OF COURAGE exhibition brings the exceptional spirit of the Paris Games to Ljubljana.

The GAMES OF COURAGE show provides a first-hand insight into the recently concluded and in many ways historic Paralympic Games, considered to be the world’s largest parasports event. All photographs have been contributed by a renowned sports photographer, one of the few in Slovenia with extensive experience in the field of parasports.
 

Vid Ponikvar, whose career spans more than 25 years, is widely regarded to be one of Slovenia’s leading sports photographers. Vid’s photographs of athletic events often succeed in capturing the game’s palpable emotions, its raw dynamic. After London, Rio and Tokyo, the Paris Games have been the fourth Paralympics with Vid Ponikvar as the official photographer for the Slovenian team.

The exhibition has been realised through the support of Loterija Slovenije, a long-time sponsor of parasports.

Curator: dr. Tadej Curk (Sports Museum)

Peter Gannushkin's photographs encapsulate the essence of live musicality, the atmosphere that pervades a concert. There’s a strong sense of heartfelt connection between the photographer and the theme he is addressing. He has close personal ties with many of his musician subjects. In approaching his work, Peter moves between strictly documentary and art photography.