Public and private funding for contemporary art seem to be more and more interconnected. Especially with regards to the geopolitical focusses of the conference - on the one hand South-EastEurope, on the other the "Alpine-Adriatic" region - money flows in the art field are said to follow the logic of "public-private partnership". Nevertheless this is often a relationship of mutual competition and exclusion, where a further distinction of the respective mechanisms, functions and effects of private and public funding is imperative.

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Concept by Gregor Podnar in collaboration with Nataša Petrešin.

The participants of the conference: Marius Babias (Berlin), Zdenka Badovinac (Ljubljana), Riccardo Caldura (Marghera/Venice), Vesna Copic (Ljubljana), Dobrila Denegri (Rome), Els Hanappe (Athens), Janos Szoboszlai (Budapest), Erden Kosova (Istanbul), Brane Kovic (Ljubljana), Tomi Medak (Zagreb), Miran Mohar (Ljubljana), Angelika Nollert (Munich), Blaž Peršin (Ljubljana), Robert Pfaller (Vienna), Sonia Rosso (Turin), Andreas Schnitzler (Graz), Erzen Shkololli (Peja), Goran Sergej Pristaš (Zagreb), Attila Tordai-S. (Cluj-Napoca), Nebojša Vilic (Skopje), Franci Zavrl (Ljubljana).

Moderated by: Steve Green (British Council, Ljubljana), Bernard Micaud (Institut Français Charles Nodier, Ljubljana), Nataša Petrešin (free-lance curator, Ljubljana), Gregor Podnar (Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj/ Ljubljana), and Eva Maria Stadler (Grazer Kunstverein).

Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art
SLO - 1000 Ljubljana, Tomsiceva 14

Public vs. Private is organised by Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, as part of the project republicart. Public vs. Private also takes place in the context of "In the Cities of the Balkans", the 2nd part of the "Balkans trilogy", a project initiated by the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. The conference will be hosted by Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, co-organiser of the project.

Funded by: European Cultural Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Culture 2000, Ministry of Culture of the Republic Slovenia and Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture and Research.