Main Opening of BIO 29: Soft Fields at MAO

03DEC

Main Opening of BIO 29: Soft Fields at MAO

03.12.2026
Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO), Ljubljana
18:00

From December 3, 2026, to April 4, 2027, MAO will come alive with the 29th Biennial of Design, BIO 29: Soft Fields.

As the central venue of the biennial, MAO will host the main exhibition of this year's interdisciplinary Production Platform. Under the curatorial guidance of Martina Muzi and associate research curator Ro Pérez Gayo, the museum's exhibition spaces will transform into a laboratory of contemporary design practices.The focus is on experimental practice projects that, in cooperation with local designers, explore the possibilities of opening up and redistributing knowledge from industrial, research, and infrastructural environments through the application of design methodologies. 

The exhibition brings together works by international and local creators, including Simon Denny with his Document Relief series, Theo Triantafyllidis (Radicalization Pipeline), Total Refusal (Hardly Working), and Audrey Large with her Flow Stones project. Technological, ecological, and spatial boundaries are questioned by artists and collectives such as Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Robertina Šebjanič, Inas Halabi, Simone Niquille, Saša Spačal, and Elena Khurtova & Anika Schwarzlose. A distinct focus is placed on transformed industrial design elements and light objects by designers like Soft Baroque, Lucas Muñoz, Fabien Neisius, Flora Lechner, and Theophile Blandet.

These spatial installations are complemented by the interdisciplinary research projects of the BIO 29 Production Platform, including Erratic Flows (Swamp Matter & Lučka Centa), Still Water music (Dorijan Šiško & Jaka Juhant), and visual mapping contributions by the Afterclass collective. Contemporary productions are placed in direct dialogue with archival heritage from the MAO collections including the iconic K67 Kiosk and the Universal Modular System by Saša J. Mächtig, as well as historical Postojna Cave maps by Stanka Šebela.

You are cordially invited to the opening on Thursday, December 3, at 18:00, which will feature the audiovisual installation Another Fountain by Swedish Girls and a music program by the Dorjan Collective.


Location: Rusjanov trg 7, Ljubljana
More Information: bio.si / @bio_ljubljana / @mala_galerija_bs

Photo: Miran Kambič

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