Opening of the Biennale of textile art in Kranj-BIEN 2025 Odprtje bienala tekstilne umetnosti v Kranju – BIEN 2025

festival culture exhibition

BIEN 2025: AIR / AIR

Biennale of Textile Art / Te Animattile Art Biennial

Kranj, Nova Gorica, Idrija, Jesenice, Skofja Loka / Slovenia

31. 5. ‒ 14. 8. 2025

The Biennale of textile art forms new contemporary expressions of textile creation and promotes interdisciplinary artistic integration. At the exhibitions she presents works by international and domestic artists, with special emphasis on the best works of current domestic and international student production. The Biennale Program focuses on different audiences and explores the effects of textile creation with them.

Opening in Kranj: Saturday, 31. May 2025 @ La Aliter's House, Tomsiceva 32, Kranj

Programme:

16: 00 Talk: Severija Inchirauskait / - Kriaunevichien /

17: 00 official opening of the Biennale

18: 00 Eta award announcement

18: 30 exhibition tours / art interventions by Ale Modander Sebastianus Hartanto (ID), Eli Herlaug Eines (NO)

20: 00 feast and DJ evening

Exhibition locations: La Amuter House, Skrlovec Tower, Kranj City Library, former DZS (Presernova 2), basement of the town hall, vovkov garden, horticultural garden Kranj, Gallery of the Kranj house (until 9.7.), Gallery on site-in front of the library (until 1.7.)

TEAM BIEN

Curator 2025: Lovro Ivanchi /

Curator of the program: Jasmina Fercec

Student project coordinator: Kristi Komel

Production team: Zala Orel, Urska Sadar, Teja Duhani

BIEN is an initiative of the Carnica Institute from Kranj, which organizes the Biennale together with the Aktivat Society, the Faculty of Natural Sciences and engineering of the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of design, an independent higher education institution, and many other partners. The project is co-financed by the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Slovenia, go! 2025-European capital of culture, Nova Gorica, and municipality of Kranj.

More information:

https://layer.si/bien/

https://layer.si/vnos/bien-2025-zrak-air/

BIEN 2025: ZRAK / AIR

Bienale tekstilne umetnosti / Textile Art Biennial

Kranj, Nova Gorica, Idrija, Jesenice, Škofja Loka / Slovenia

31. 5. ‒ 14. 8. 2025

Bienale tekstilne umetnosti BIEN oblikuje nove sodobne izraze tekstilnega ustvarjanja ter spodbuja interdisciplinarno umetniško povezovanje. Na razstavah predstavlja dela mednarodnih in domačih umetnikov, s posebnim poudarkom na najboljših delih aktualne domače in mednarodne študentske produkcije. Program bienala se osredotoča na različne publike in z njimi raziskuje učinke tekstilnega ustvarjanja.

Odprtje v Kranju: sobota, 31. maj 2025 @ Layerjeva hiša, Tomšičeva 32, Kranj

PROGRAM:

16:00 Pogovor: Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė

17:00 Uradno odprtje bienala

18:00 Razglasitev nagrade Eta

18:30 Ogledi razstav / umetniške intervencije Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto (ID), Eli Herlaug Eines (NO)

20:00 Pogostitev in DJ večer

Lokacije razstav: Layerjeva hiša, Stolp Škrlovec, Mestna knjižnica Kranj, nekdanji DZS (Prešernova 2), Klet Mestne hiše, Vovkov vrt, Hortikulturni vrt Kranj, Galerija Kranjske hiše (do 9.7.), Galerija Na mestu‒pred knjižnico (do 1.7.)

EKIPA BIEN

Kurator 2025: Lovro Ivančić

Kuratorka WellBIEN programa: Jasmina Ferček

Koordinatorka študentskih projektov: Kristi Komel

Produkcijska ekipa: Zala Orel, Urška Sadar, Teja Duhani

BIEN je pobuda Zavoda Carnica iz Kranja, ki bienale organizira skupaj z Društvom Aktivat, Naravoslovnotehniško fakulteto Univerze v Ljubljani, Fakultete za dizajn, samostojnim visokošolskim zavodom, ter številnimi drugimi partnerji. Projekt sofinancirajo Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije, javni zavod GO! 2025 – Evropska prestolnica kulture, Nova Gorica, in Mestna občina Kranj.

Več informacij:

https://layer.si/bien/

https://layer.si/vnos/bien-2025-zrak-air/

Description and event details are taken from here. All copyrights belong to the respective authors.
Organiser:
Zavod Carnica (Layerjeva hiša)
Location: Layerjeva hiša - hiša umetnikov, Kranj