Heuer stellen sich auf der VIENNAFAIR unter 122 österreichischen und internationalen Galerien aus 26 Ländern auch zwei Galerien aus Slowenien vor: P74 Gallery (Ljubljana) und Galerija Gregor Podnar (Ljubljana, Berlin).
Galerija P74 Established in 1997 by internationally recognised Slovene artist Tadej Pogačar, the P74 Center and Gallery is an open platform for presentation, promotion and education of contemporary visual, new media and time-based arts. Since 1999 it operates under the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute. The centre fosters knowledge, encourages the exchange of new ideas, and promotes innovative and challenging models in contemporary art and culture. This mission is achieved by P74’s programme of solo and group exhibitions as well by other national and international visual arts, new media arts, and experimental music projects (for example, Sound Explicit). Artists‘ books: In 2003 the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute started a public artist’s book competition for artists of all nationalities living and working in Slovenia. Two years later, the organisation began producing and publishing artists‘ books. Since then, the venue has become the home of its growing Artist’s Book Collection. In 2010, in collaboration with the UNESCO project World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute organised Blind Date Convention: The First International Festival of the Artist’s Book which including exhibitions, retrospectives, symposia, and even a book fair. The Blind Date series of events has been dedicated to artists‘ books: in 2011 P74 organised the exhibition of books published by Lubok Verlag, Leipzig. Exhibitions: Since the beginning the P74 Center and Gallery has featured projects by emerging Slovene artists featuring solo or group shows. Some of the artists that have started here are Sašo Vrabič and Žiga Kariž as well as Tanja Lažetić, Dejan Habicht, Miha Knific, Nika Zupančič, Tobias Putrih, Metka Zupanič, Lada Cerar, Vesna Bukovec, Jure Engelsberger, and Tomaž Tomažin. Each year one of the solo exhibitions is dedicated to the winner of the OHO Group Award. In recent years the P74 Center and Gallery increasingly cooperates with guest curators to include work of Slovene artists within an international context.
Galerija Gregor Podnar Since its establishment in Slovenia in 2003 the Gregor Podnar Gallery has been one of the most internationally vivid Slovene commercial galleries. A frequent attendee of international art fairs like Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze Art Fair London, Fiac Paris, etc., the gallery has brought not only Slovene artists to greater international recognition but artists from the greater Central and Eastern European region as well. In 2007 Gregor Podnar opened a branch in Berlin (Galerienhaus Lindenstrasse 34-35). The gallery presents internationally well-known and established artists mostly from Eastern European centres, as well as young emerging artists from a wider context. These include Attila Csörgő, Vadim Fishkin, Alexander Gutke, Irwin, Magnus Larsson, Yuri Leiderman, Dan Perjovschi, Goran Petercol, Tobias Putrih, Nika Špan and Goran Trbuljak. Since 2008 he presents also Ariel Schlesinger, a young Israel artist who lives and works in Berlin, and since 2009 he represents another young Polish artist, Marzena Nowak, as well. Podnar works also with the following artists: Primož Bizjak, Tomaž Gregorič, Miha Knific, Bogoslav Kalaš, Antal Lakner, Kazimir Malevič, Andrei Monastyrsky, Tadej Pogačar, Christine Rebet, Guia Rigvava, Giovanni Morbin, and Mladen Stropnik. Since 2005 Galerija Gregor Podnar has been publishing monographies, books about specific projects, and special editions by individual artists (Nika Špan, Vadim Fishkin, Tobias Putrih, and Attila Csörgő).