The Fabula literary festival is starting in Ljubljana today under the slogan Future = Privilege? in response to changed living conditions during the pandemic, due to which the festival will be held in a hybrid format while its theoretical segment has been postponed from May to September.

The first Garden Couch Festival will take place in Slovenia from Friday to Sunday in what the organisers say is a series of intimate events that bring live art and culture back among people, and serve as a sort of an awakening of the culture scene.

Austrian artist Katharina Cibulke, whose feminist work of art exhibited in Ljubljana was vandalised earlier this week, said that an artwork could be destroyed but the belief in its power to unite and inspire people could not.

A major exhibition put together by Slovenian curator Zdenka Badovinac and showcasing contemporary art from the region of the former Yugoslavia with heroism as the recurring theme, has been put on display at the MAXXI museum in Rome.

A feminism-themed work of art from Katharina Cibulke's Solange project which was displayed on the facade of Palača Cukrarna in Ljubljana was set on fire last night. The police have already inspected the scene, while the Ljubljana City Gallery said it was surprised and saddened by the act of vandalism.

On Vegova Street, between the National and University Library building and Križanke Outdoor Theatre, stands a small, rather minimalistic construction, a brick cylinder about three metres high covered by a simple flat roof. It was designed by Jože Plečnik in the first half of the 20th century.

The Gorizia community centre, a hub bringing together the Slovenian minority in the Italian border city and broader area, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. It was marked on Thursday with the opening of an exhibition featuring more than 60 artists who have donated their work to Kulturni Dom Gorica in the last 40 years.