Presentation of the ETC magazine followed by screening programme
ETC. Magazine: Full Circle

 ABOUT ETC. 

 

The international magazine ETC. is designed to bring together artists, curators, writers and publishers who work in the field of contemporary art. With each issue, the magazine addresses current issues in the fields of society, environment, and art, and is thus designed as a platform for diverse voices and opinions from across Europe, contributing to a broader understanding of specific issues and recontextualising stories that transcend national borders. Published in Ljubljana as the only English-language art magazine in the region with international distribution, its aim is to create a platform for the presentation of current artistic production, and thus to contribute to a better connection between local contemporary art and the international art scene.

 

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 BIOS 

 

The core editorial and curatorial team consist of Hana Čeferin, Ajda Ana Kocutar and Lara Mejač. Each year, we are joined by a guest curator from the region we cover.

 

Hana Čeferin (1995) is a curator, editor and art historian. She has been head of the programme of Mala galerija BS in Ljubljana since 2024 and is an assistant at the Department of Theory at UL ALUO. Between 2023 and 2024, she was Head of the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana. From 2015 to 2023, she worked with Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Since 2021, she has been the editor of ETC. magazine. As an independent curator, she has collaborated with the Improper Walls gallery in Vienna, KS Room Feldbach, the Alt+1000 Photography Festival in Switzerland, Cankarjev dom, Škuc Gallery, and others. She was a participant in the School of Art (SCCA).

 

Lara Mejač (1994) works as a curator and producer in the field of contemporary visual and new media art. Between 2016 and 2023, she was the curator, producer and programme coordinator at DobraVaga Gallery in Ljubljana. In addition, she worked for different institutions and galleries, such as Museum of Modern Art+Museum of Contemporary Art (MG+MSUM) in Ljubljana and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. She has curated and produced exhibitions in various galleries in Slovenia and abroad. She is currently the curator of the intermedia exhibition series Enter Here at Ravnikar Gallery Space in Ljubljana and curator and producer for Projekt Atol in Ljubljana. She is the co-founder and member of the curatorial team of ETC. magazine. She was a participant in the School of Art (SCCA).

 

Ajda Ana Kocutar (1994) is a curator, writer, and editor based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a co-founder and member of the curatorial team of ETC. Magazine, showcasing art “from the

Balkan to the Baltic” in both printed and exhibition formats. As a member of the ETC.

collective, together with Hana Čeferin and Lara Mejač, she also leads the Ljubljana Art

Weekend program from 2024 to 2026. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Slovenia

and abroad and regularly contributes texts to exhibition catalogues and other publications.

She was the assistant curator of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: The Oracle,

curated by Chus Martínez and co-editor of The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom (Sternberg

Press, 2025).

 

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 INFO ABOUT THE LATEST ISSUE 

 

No matter how many times we vow not to repeat the mistakes and injustices of the past, we seem to do it regardless. In its fifth issue, ETC. Magazine turns its attention to cycles – personal, political, historical – and asks what it means to come full circle. This issue explores the unstable terrain between the past and history: the former subject to nostalgia and mythologisation; the latter to institutional selectivity. How much do structures of power shape remembrance and commemoration? What role do archives, memorials, and collective memory play, not only in mourning, but in mobilising? And how much of what we know about the past is fictionalised, mythologised or otherwise misshapen and manipulated? As algorithms increasingly curate our understanding of history, magnifying certain narratives while burying others, what role does technology play in reshaping collective memory? Meanwhile, modern warfare, defined by drone strikes and AI-driven systems, repeats age-old patterns of violence while excusing its users from accountability. It leaves us questioning whether technology reveals cycles of oppression or brings new ones into existence.

 

When history is reduced to a slogan, is the responsibility to heed its message reinforced or diminished? “Never Again” might be repeated in classrooms, museums, and hashtags, but what does it mean when genocides continue to unfold, now with the eyes of the world observing the horror in real time? How do we, as witnesses, navigate the space between moral clarity and political paralysis? In this issue, we wonder how not to succumb to feelings of helplessness, and what steps we can take to confront them. What does it mean to boycott, to refuse, as well as to act and be present, even when actions often feel small? In any case, the fight feels endless – countless historical examples precede the protests of today, and the rights people once struggled to obtain, the same ones we have perhaps come to take for granted, are under attack again and again. Despite claims that we live in unprecedented times, there is much we could learn from history, past dynamics of power and forgotten stories. Full Circle invites artists and writers to consider the loop between memory and amnesia, past and present, reliving and erasing. In this issue, we ask whether we are doomed to repetition or can we return to the past in order to rethink the future?