THU, 5 NOV
20.00
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | +MSUM Exhibition
Baraga & Raynaud:
Perfect Blue — 53 Variations on Cyanometer
(Exhibition)
Perfect Blue is a sonic and visual installation, developed as a continuation of Martin Bricelj Baraga's award-winning Cyanometer* project — itself an homage to Horace Bénédict de Saussure's pioneering instrument for measuring the blueness of the sky as an indicator of air pollution. The tool is a simple watercolor wheel of 53 shades of blue, against which to measure the blueness of the sky and air quality. In collaboration with sound artist Éric Raynaud, 53 vinyl records were pressed from this data, each holding a sonification of one shade — its blueness, its atmosphere, its quality of air. Each record carries two sides of sky: one side sonifies data from Ljubljana, the other from Geneva, the two cities where the Cyanometer installation lives. Placed across the gallery walls, this sonic archive invites visitors to select, combine and set the records in conversation, drawing out endless, ever-shifting sound atmospheres from the invisible transformations of the sky.
The Cyanometer by Martin Bricelj Baraga is a monument to the blueness of the sky. It is inspired by the original cyanometer invented by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1789. The Cyanometer is both a monument and software that periodically collects images of the sky.
The exhibition is on until 29 November.
Eric Raynaud (Fraction) is an artist-in-residence at MoTA within Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8),
a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union.
FRI, 6 NOV
20.00
Trnovo Church
Simina Oprescu: Auric Atmographies
(Sound Installation)
The work Auric Atmographies by Romanian sound artist Simina Oprescu concerns auric attention, which can be described as a form of tenderness that requires no witness. Such attention tends to appear in sacred spaces and in moments of deep remembering, when the body registers something that the mind has yet to name. A room feels altered after someone has been crying, since an energetic saturation lingers in it. Something comparable happens in a city after prolonged pollution, where the weight in the air is carried in breath and equally in the way thought and feeling become harder to hold. Understood in this sense, pollution is environmental, perceptual, and emotional at once, because it clouds, occludes, and disorients. Out of that interference it forms atmographies, which are shifting weather-maps of feeling. Because these atmographies alter our energetic fields, the fields expand, shimmer, drift, and at times fail to cohere. Yet in that failure something intimate becomes audible, and it is this atmosphere that Auric Atmographies works through, by way of data, breath, sonic failure, and the remains of tenderness. At the monumental Trnovo Church, Oprescu will present a new sound installation.
Simina Oprescu is an artist-in-residence at MoTA within Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8),
a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union.
FRI, 13 NOV
20.00
MoTA LAB
Matej Mihevc & Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek
(SONICA Residency 2026)
The most intimate evening of SONICA 2026 brings the premiere of a new commissioned work by this year’s artists in residence, Ljubljana-based visual artist Matej Mihevc and Polish drummer and composer Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek. Their collaboration brings sound, image, technology and improvisation into a shared experimental space. Mihevc works across interactive virtual environments, 3D modelling, sculpture, animation and AI, drawing on post-internet art, science fiction and media theory. Gąsiorek moves freely between percussion, electronic music, avant-pop, noise, field recordings and improvisation. A prolific bandleader and collaborator, he performs with projects including Pimpono Ensemble, Cześćtet and E/I, and has released music on labels such as Orange Milk Records, Pointless Geometry and Instant Classic.
Matej Mihevc and Szymon Gąsiorek are this year’s artists-in-residence,
supported by the SONICA Institute and MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art.
20.00
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | +MSUM Exhibition
Baraga & Raynaud:
Perfect Blue — 53 Variations on Cyanometer
(Exhibition)
Perfect Blue is a sonic and visual installation, developed as a continuation of Martin Bricelj Baraga's award-winning Cyanometer* project — itself an homage to Horace Bénédict de Saussure's pioneering instrument for measuring the blueness of the sky as an indicator of air pollution. The tool is a simple watercolor wheel of 53 shades of blue, against which to measure the blueness of the sky and air quality. In collaboration with sound artist Éric Raynaud, 53 vinyl records were pressed from this data, each holding a sonification of one shade — its blueness, its atmosphere, its quality of air. Each record carries two sides of sky: one side sonifies data from Ljubljana, the other from Geneva, the two cities where the Cyanometer installation lives. Placed across the gallery walls, this sonic archive invites visitors to select, combine and set the records in conversation, drawing out endless, ever-shifting sound atmospheres from the invisible transformations of the sky.
The Cyanometer by Martin Bricelj Baraga is a monument to the blueness of the sky. It is inspired by the original cyanometer invented by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1789. The Cyanometer is both a monument and software that periodically collects images of the sky.
The exhibition is on until 29 November.
Eric Raynaud (Fraction) is an artist-in-residence at MoTA within Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8),
a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union.
FRI, 6 NOV
20.00
Trnovo Church
Simina Oprescu: Auric Atmographies
(Sound Installation)
The work Auric Atmographies by Romanian sound artist Simina Oprescu concerns auric attention, which can be described as a form of tenderness that requires no witness. Such attention tends to appear in sacred spaces and in moments of deep remembering, when the body registers something that the mind has yet to name. A room feels altered after someone has been crying, since an energetic saturation lingers in it. Something comparable happens in a city after prolonged pollution, where the weight in the air is carried in breath and equally in the way thought and feeling become harder to hold. Understood in this sense, pollution is environmental, perceptual, and emotional at once, because it clouds, occludes, and disorients. Out of that interference it forms atmographies, which are shifting weather-maps of feeling. Because these atmographies alter our energetic fields, the fields expand, shimmer, drift, and at times fail to cohere. Yet in that failure something intimate becomes audible, and it is this atmosphere that Auric Atmographies works through, by way of data, breath, sonic failure, and the remains of tenderness. At the monumental Trnovo Church, Oprescu will present a new sound installation.
Simina Oprescu is an artist-in-residence at MoTA within Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8),
a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union.
FRI, 13 NOV
20.00
MoTA LAB
Matej Mihevc & Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek
(SONICA Residency 2026)
The most intimate evening of SONICA 2026 brings the premiere of a new commissioned work by this year’s artists in residence, Ljubljana-based visual artist Matej Mihevc and Polish drummer and composer Szymon Pimpon Gąsiorek. Their collaboration brings sound, image, technology and improvisation into a shared experimental space. Mihevc works across interactive virtual environments, 3D modelling, sculpture, animation and AI, drawing on post-internet art, science fiction and media theory. Gąsiorek moves freely between percussion, electronic music, avant-pop, noise, field recordings and improvisation. A prolific bandleader and collaborator, he performs with projects including Pimpono Ensemble, Cześćtet and E/I, and has released music on labels such as Orange Milk Records, Pointless Geometry and Instant Classic.
Matej Mihevc and Szymon Gąsiorek are this year’s artists-in-residence,
supported by the SONICA Institute and MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art.