A project titled Here We Go Again...System 317 will represent Slovenia at the upcoming 58th International Art Exhibition in Venice. Creator Marko Peljhan revealed on Thursday that the project would feature a hypersonic propulsion vehicle enabling visitors to reflect on the current global state.

A special exhibition on Slovenia's castles and a new permanent exhibition on late medieval weaponry will be opened at Ljubljana Castle this evening. This year's central theme of the castle's programme is the country's cultural heritage of castles.

A visiting exhibition on shamanism in Siberia, put on by the Russian Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Saint Petersburg, is opening at the Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana on Wednesday. The exhibition presents the culture and shamanism of 18 indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

This year's Plečnik Prize, the highest accolade for architecture in Slovenia, goes to Marko Studen, Boris Matić and Jernej Šipoš for their design of a new technological centre of the national grid operator ELES in Beričevo.

The Latvian choir Jazepa vitola Latvijas muzikas akademijas Jauktais Koris was named the winner of the 15th Gallus International Choral Competition in Maribor on Sunday. The victory is also a ticket to the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Hungary next year.

The Nova Gorica City Art Gallery will put on display works by contemporary Slovenian painter Aleksij Kobal, with art historian Andrej Medved presenting the painter and his diverse oeuvre at the opening of the exhibition on Friday evening.

Artist, illustrator and animator Milan Erič will receive the Rihard Jakopič Prize, the top annual national award for lifetime achievement in fine arts and visual art, at a ceremony at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana on Friday evening.