MGLC Summer in Tivoli 2025

This year, the MGLC Summer in Tivoli festival enters its fifteenth year and once again offers a diverse programme of art, music and a chance to get together surrounded by the green embrace of Tivoli Park, Grad Tivoli and Švicarija. After last year's successful iteration, we are again returning to the Plečnik Auditorium – the renovated summer theatre in the clearing behind Grad Tivoli, conceived by architect Jože Plečnik in 1933 following Greek models. The renovated auditorium, restored by the City of Ljubljana, has become a valued public space for cultural events in nature. In June, it will once again come to life with the freshness of summertime and a new renewed creative energy.

The festival takes place at the same time as the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, which celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2025. This year's edition is entitled The Oracle and was created under the artistic direction of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus Martínez. The oracle names and honours a symbolic place where all beings question the direction of their lives. If we care about tomorrow, we must also care about staying alive, about a world in peaceful coexistence. Art, by which we aim at all its forms, presupposes the existence of a minuscule but pertinent point, where one can be free and lost in reverie, and permitted to demand both freedom and peace. Peace is only possible if we love the world we live in, which comes as an extreme challenge in our present moment. And that is precisely what we want to learn together through the exhibition.