ETC. Magazine

#2 min Fotograf Zone

16. 9. 2025

ETC. team, photo: Lucija Rosc
ETC. team, photo: Lucija Rosc
#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Curating

ETC. is an innovative platform that combines the presentation of artists in an annually published magazine, a year-long international exhibition cycle and various forms of collaboration and promotion such as conferences, presentations, talks and other events. Founded in 2021 to promote emerging artists, ETC. aims to build bridges between domestic and international contemporary art production and thought, becoming a new form of presenting, exhibiting and reflecting on contemporary artistic production. 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.

About the curators

HANA ČEFERIN

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).  

AJDA ANA KOCUTAR

is a curator and producer, co-founder and co-curator of ETC. Magazine (2021–), and has been collaborating as an editor and curator with MGLC (International Centre for Graphic Arts) (2024–), and is the assistant curator of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She was formerly a member of the DobraVaga collective (2017–23) and head of the cultural and arts education program at Kino Šiška (2022–23). She curates numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and regularly contributes texts for exhibition catalogues and other publications. She completed her education at the School of Art (SCCA) and furthered her studies at the Salzburg Summer Academy and Utrecht Summer School.  

LARA MEJAČ

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 program 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, curator and producer for Projekt Atol in Ljubljana, and artistic director of the International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor (along with Davide Bevilacqua). She is a co-founder and member of the curatorial team of ETC. Magazine, which took over the artistic direction of Ljubljana Artweekend in 2024. She was a participant in the School of Art (SCCA).

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Curating

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.

Fever State

#4 min Fotograf Zone

Fever State

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13

Illness and vulnerable states of being unsettle the way we know and speak about the body. These conditions—whether chronic or transitory—fracture language, bend perception, time, and resist being neatly contained in existing forms of representation. Fever State emerges from this friction: the struggle to articulate experiences of vulnerability, crisis, and repair when established vocabularies fail. Where we, as diverse, mixed-abled bodyminds with different capacities, cannot align with or adhere to normative concepts of time, space and productivity. Therefore, in the context of the exhibition, images become more than documents; they operate as gestures of resistance, intimate testimonies, and tools for reclaiming agency.