Mediterranea 20: Biennial of Young Artists – full day programme Friday, 30 May

We warmly welcome you to Mediterranea 20 - the Biennale of Young Artists, which will bring together more than 94 young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

Programme:

16:00
Guest Project: Chemnitz Biennale exhibition opening
Palazzo Lantieri
Piazza S. Antonio, 6, 34170 Gorizia 

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17:30
Artist Talk – BJCEM member, Arci in conversation with selected artists 
Circolo Arci Gong 
Via delle Monache, 10/a, Gorizia 

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18:00
Opening of the annual students’ exhibition at the Academy 
Academy of Arts in Nova Gorica
Vipavska cesta 13, Nova Gorica

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20:00
Opening ceremony of the Mediterranea 20 – Young Artists Biennial
Welcome speeches by Mija Lorbek (Director of GO! 2025), Mercedes Giovinazzo (President of BJCEM) and Marko Rusjan (State Secretary of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia)
“Dear Bodies…“ opening address of the biennale curators, Tia Čiček and Misal Adnan Yıldız 
EPIC center
Trg Evrope/Piazza della Transalpina, Nova Gorica
Kolodvorska pot 10, 5000 Nova Gorica

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20:30
Tomasso Sandri, Food rolls
Food Rolls is a collective performance by Tommaso Sandri that explores food as a universal language of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. 
EPIC center
Trg Evrope/Piazza della Transalpina, Nova Gorica
Kolodvorska pot 10, 5000 Nova Gorica

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21:00
Savina Ražnatović, K.A.M.I., participatory performance, site-specific intervention
A shared ritual of combing and offering hair strands, which turns a solitary gesture into a shared expression, is at the very heart of K.A.M.I.
You are warmly invited to participate in this performance.
EPIC center
Trg Evrope/Piazza della Transalpina, Nova Gorica
Kolodvorska pot 10, 5000 Nova Gorica

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21:30
Domenika Georgiou, Perpetual Dream Machine, performance
Perpetual Dream Machine is an absurd mechanism striving for the unreachable. Its spiral image symbolises an elusive ideal, while its wings remain ineffective. Through immersive performance, it embodies the impossibility of completion, fueling perpetual evolution.
EPIC center
Trg Evrope/Piazza della Transalpina, Nova Gorica
Kolodvorska pot 10, 5000 Nova Gorica

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22:00 
After party Mostovna
Cesta IX. korpusa 99a, 5250 Solkan