Since 2004, KUD Mreža has been running a programme called Urban Art Projects, also called Gesamtkunstwerk Metelkova mesto. – Urban Art Projects & Kid And Youth Activities –
In 2015, KUD Mreža joined Improcon – Congress Of Free Improvised Music, Arts & Thoughts, an international workshop festival for improvised arts, organized by Croatian association Gokul and Slovenian organization Klub Metulj – Youth Centre Bistrica ob Sotli partnered by two Austrian organizations, Šopron Shuffle from Vienna and Graz-based Schaumbad. KUD Mreža has been organizing the annual International Feminist And Queer Festival Red Dawns since 2000, bringing concerts, exhibitions, multimedia projects, performances and lectures to a great number of alternative venues in Ljubljana and Slovenia.
The event series is happening exclusively at Klub Gromka at Metelkova where classical composed music is rarely presented. Since 2014, Metabonma has presented artists such as Andrea Centazzo, Mate Bekavac, Bruce Hamilton, Marko Hatlak, Valentine Collet, Slovenian saxophone quartet 4Saxess or percussion duo Drumartica. Since 2016, FriForma has worked with musicians such as Taku Sugimoto, John Butcher, Rie Nakajima, Alex Ward, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Jean-Luc Guionnet or Seymour Wright – and most importantly, has initiated numerous international collaborations between local and invited musicians.Ĭoncert series FriForma is complemented by Metabonma, a series for staging classical and contemporary composed music, curated by Jože Bogolin and Simon Klavžar. James’s Parish Church.ĭžez Pri Koritu had invited and hosted artists such as Marc Ribot, Tristan Honsinger, Linda Sharrock, Keith Rowe, Martin Küchen, Seijiro Murayama or Kazutoki Umezu.
Nowadays FriForma takes place at various venues in Ljubljana such as Klub Gromka, Museum Of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), Vodnikova Domačija Šiška, Kapelica Gallery, ŠKUC Gallery, Fran Vesel’s Garden at The Slovenian Association Of Fine Arts Sociaties, Pocket Teater Studio or St. KUD Mreža’s free improvised music and free jazz concert series Džez Pri Koritu had been held at cultural and youth center Menza Pri Koritu from 2007 until 2015, and got renamed in 2016 as FriForma – as the name suggests still focusing on free improvised music, curated by Nataša Serec and László Juhász. Since 2000 the association has the status of public interest in the field of culture, and since 2012 has the status of public interest in the field of youth. KUD Mreža team is always ready for new proposals for co-operation, KUD Mreža offers practical help to inexperienced organizers and offers assistance in finding financial support for emerging artists. KUD Mreža has extensive experience with organization of cultural work in all areas that are necessary for quality implementation of large-scale events, projects or programs. In addition to the long-standing efforts for the rational self-management of Metelkova, KUD Mreža provides financial funds from the Ministry Of Culture Slovenia, Municipality Of Ljubljana (Department Of Culture and Office For Youth), European Social Fund (in conjunction with the Ministry Of Culture), European Cultural Foundation – and many others.
Furthermore, in the past two decades we are providing the audio-, video- and documentary archive of Metelkova mesto as Metelkova Archive. From 2004 we have been working with local and international artists from the field of urban art. Between 20 KUD Mreža had been co-managing cultural and youth center Menza Pri Koritu.
Since 1996 we are successfully managing Alkatraz Gallery, and Studio Asylum for longer residency programmes since 2006.
Ljubljana-based cultural and artistic association KUD Mreža (Kulturno & Umetniško Društvo Mreža) is active ever since the founding of Metelkova mesto in order to improve the alternative cultural centre’s infrastructure and productional conditions, always focusing on the independent local cultural and art scene.