Opening of the art exhibition of Paola Korošec: Process
You are cordially invited to the opening of the art exhibition:
Paola Korošec: Process
on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 18:00 in the Gallery of the National Institute of Chemistry
The academically trained sculptor from Academy of Fine Arts and Design addresses contemporary space and time through the prism of materiality and its absence, where saturation represents one of the key challenges of modern society. She explores the process of dematerialization (and forgetting) as an extreme boundary within sculpture, reflected in the use of materials such as salt, caramel, and graphite. She focuses on projects in unconventional spaces, with an emphasis on engaging passers-by.
Since 2014, she has been an active member of the Section of Sculptors and Artists Working in Public Space within ZDSLU. She collaborates with the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU, and MGML on the development of experimental techniques within archaeological research, as well as on the study and reinterpretation of ceramic and metal materials.
Transience, to which we are all bound, is a process that sculpture seems to evade — or so it appears. The sculpture standing before the building we pass every day remains, while generations of people change: some depart, others arrive. Yet the road to eternity is profoundly solitary if you share nothing with your surroundings. Not even a single electron. The traces of footsteps form the tissue of emptiness, offering themselves before us like a premonition of the future.
Curator: Jiri Kočica
The musical performance will be given by Ian Miklavčič, a jazz guitar student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.