Luka Uršič, The Gift of Failure

You are cordially invited to the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana for the opening of the exhibition The Gift of Failure by Luka Uršič on Thursday, 4 June 2026, at 19.30.

Failure as a point of departure for potential future success is today a key part of the artistic process. What might elsewhere be understood as an error or anomaly can become an expressive value and a space of freedom in art. With new works produced this year in the MGLC Print Studio, Luka Uršič explores the potential of his artistic practice as a reparative mechanism.

Through screenprinting interventions on the unsuccessful and discarded Polaroid photographs by others, the artist returns to the source of failure and symbolically takes on the blame and responsibility for failed actions. In this way, he confronts his own and others’ unease, while simultaneously attempting to approach the liberating possibility of redemptive correction and improvement.

Curator of the exhibition: Yasmín Martín Vodopivec 

Before the opening, you are warmly invited to the sound walk Pod(hod), which the artist will perform in his musical role as Kalu in collaboration with the CONA Institute for Contemporary Art Processing at 18.00 in the Ajdovščina underpass in Ljubljana.