- NSK STATE

The NSK State Reserve is here again – holding our accounts while we do our reckoning

Series 41 of the NSK State Reserve note features a familiar sight from the news.

Entering the Forbidden Zone

We are very pleased to announce the release of Conor McGrady’s DVD, ‘Entering the Forbidden Zone’ featuring the soundtrack, ‘The Dream of Reason Brings Forth Monsters’ by Nurse With Wound.

Autarcheum - a photographic reflection on a ruined thermo-electric power station

A photographic reflection on the massive ruin of an Italian-built thermo-electric power station and its ambivalent legacy

Slovenian art collective IRWIN and Epifani Institute from Prishtina, Kosovo are announcing the ‘NSK Territory Prishtina’, their joint project at the location of On Top Residency. By raising the NSK flag, a small plot of land will be declared an “independent territory".

Publication Folk Art Between Home and the World

Publication Folk Art Between Home and the World: The SEM's Collection of Slovene Folk Art and IRWIN's Collection of NSK Folk Art by Citizens of NSK State, published by the Slovene ethnographic museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Opening Ceremony of the European Capital of Culture "Zeniteum :: 2022"

Zeniteum :: 2022 presents a symphony of music, drama, and dance acrobatics, with over 60 artists on stage, directed by the post-gravity artist Dragan Živadinov

Special limited edition of NSK FOLKART EXCHANGES

This publication is a comprehensive documentation of The 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale: NSK Folk Art Rising 1916-2016 that took place during the summer of 2016, and the exhibition Crisis Currency took place in May 2018 at Burren College of Art in Ireland. It explores these two seminal events that brought the NSK State in Time to the remote karst landscape of the Burren in the west of Ireland, and which constituted an ongoing dialogue between the NSK State and this European peripheral zone as coordinated and facilitated by Burren College of Art.

Folk Art between Home and the World

The Slovenian Ethnographic Museum (SEM) opens the exhibition entitled Folk Art between Home and the World: The SEM Collection and the NSK Folk Art Collection of the IRWIN Group on Thursday, 21 October 2021 at 7 pm.

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Exhibition: Entering the Control Zone

Solo exhibition of the NSK State artist Conor McGrady at the Museum of Fine Arts in Split

FolkArt Exchanges - announcing a new publication from NSK State

Five years after the 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale, nskstate.com announces a catalogue dedicated to the event

New Collectivism open air exhibition - Pro et Contra

A selection of political posters by New Collectivism, the design department of Neue Slowenische Kunst, is going on display at a street gallery in the centre of Ljubljana.

Our authority is that of the people!

"New Collectivism" studio presents their new poster “Our authority is that of the people!”. Feel free to print it and place it in your physical or virtual environment.

New Collectivism exhibition - Pro et contra

Within the event December Art Scene-DEUS, which the city of Podgorica has been organizing since 1993 as a recapitulation of annual cultural events, we have the honor to announce the opening of DEUS 2020 with the exhibition of posters New Collectivism, Pro et contra.

Online Symposium / Walking with the enemy

On Friday, November 20th at 18.00 (UTC +2), VIZ Laboratory for Visual Culture presents an online symposium addressed to all artists who follow art practices that have embraced mimicry rather than opposition as a subversive political strategy.

International support for non-governmental organizations at No. 6 Metelkova Street in Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the circumstances of a dramatic second wave of the epidemic in Slovenia, 18 non-government organizations were recently requested by the government (Ministry of Culture) to vacate their premises in the building at No. 6 Metelkova Street in Ljubljana, in which they have been operating since the mid-1990s.

Citizen Valnoir in the land of absolute freedom and total control

Since his first contribution to nskstate.com back in 2002, Valnoir was present in almost every NSK State event, designing posters and collaborating with NSK State artists. He has also worked for Laibach, designing all the North Korea Liberation Day visuals, the “Sound of Music”, “Party Songs” and “Kind of Laibach” albums and most recently the music video for “Smrt za Smrt” among other.

Laibach - 40th Anniversary Special Event

Laibach is marking 40 years of existence this year. There has already been series of anniversary events (two ongoing exhibitions and two concerts in Ljubljana), but the main event will be held on October 23rd in ‘Delavski Dom Trbovlje’ – where it actually all started 40 years ago. Unfortunately, due to the increasingly problematic viral situation and thus more stringent Covid-19 restrictions, a physical audience will not be allowed at the venue.

Laibach concerts at the Ljubljana Castle

Two SOLD OUT concerts by Laibach are planned as the opening event of the Dragon’s Fest, a traditional, diverse three-day event held on the Castle Hill in Ljubljana.

Laibach: Liberty Leads the People

Posters have a special place in Laibach’s production. Their basic task, which is to attract the attention of the public in the cacophony of the urban environment, was completely mastered by Laibach and then upgraded so that the posters are not only mediators of information about an event, but are also a commentary on happenings in society.

On this day in NSK State: FOLKART RISING 1916 – 2016

Four years ago, a transnational group of NSK State citizens, artists and allies gathered in the far West of Ireland for the 2nd NSK State Folk Art Biennale. Here we present a selection of photos from this memorable event.