Past events
Andres Serrano's Literary Inspiration
The work of the renowned American photographer Andres Serrano deals with social issues, sexuality, racial intolerance and dark aspects of human being. Join curator Otto M. Urban for a guided tour through both parts of the Infamous Beauty exhibition: a set of 60 works entitled Beauty, which feature a cross-section of the artist's oeuvre, and the more recent, complete series Infamous from 2019. The tour will be accompanied by reading of poems written by Andres Serrano himself!
Literature on Film: Leonora addio
Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, the Italian playwright, novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Recycliterature
An open art workshop for children aged 7 and up and adults, where we will breathe new life into discarded printed materials. We will focus on collage - combining text and photographic reproduction. By linking originally unrelated and fragmented texts and images, new, bizarre, humorous situations will be created.
The Universe of Art
An open art workshop for children aged 5 and up and adults relating to the book The universe of art and the current exhibitions of the DOX Centre.
Slam Poetry Night
Slam poetry. A genre on the border between poetry, theatre, and figure skating. A genre of performative poetry. Sometimes also an elocutionary contest or rhyming stand-up. Any label you try to give it will be wrong. To know what it is, you have to experience it!
ART/ificial: Art, Literature & Artificial Intelligence
The impact of AI on the art world is no longer fiction. How is AI affecting literature, art and human creativity today and what can the future bring? If art and literature is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?
Aleš Šteger: Neverend
On board the airship Gulliver, Aleš Šteger, one of the most prominent European literary voices of our time, will present his latest novel Neverend.
Storybox
Just as there is a story behind every picture, the right picture can illuminate (illustrate) the narrative. Art workshop for children and adults aged 5 and up for the exhibition Behind the Words. Discover the artist in you – come tell, create, narrate.
Stefano Carini: Visual Storytelling as Empathy Machine?
In this 1 hour presentation independent photography professional Stefano Carini, will bring the audience on a visual journey which starts more than 30.000 years ago, deep into the mountains of western Europe, South Africa and Indonesia where our ancestors left some of the first images known to us: they were the first visual storytellers, the first artists.
