19. – 21. 12. 2025,  5 pm.- 8 pm.
DUM project space, Kolodvorska 6, 1000 Ljubljana

left: Jaka Babnik, from the series Spatial Predictability #2 (2024-2025)
right: Mladen Stropnik, Waiting (2025), photo Nataša Skušek

The exhibition One Landscape showcases and confronts works of two entirely different artists, Jaka Babnik and Mladen Stropnik, who in their creative practices usually address some of the key societal and ethical questions. This time, they focus primarily on art itself; they address social status of a work of art and the organisation and overall appearance of the spaces for showcasing (visual) art, and in doing so they also reflect on the role of humans in an increasingly automated and technocratic world.

Such critical and analytical (self)reflection of their own professional and/or artistic engagement is also a kind of introspection of the art world itself. Instead of making material artworks Babnik and Stropnik create situations and provide the audience with an experience in order to stimulate deeper consideration on conventions and power relations in the world of art. They take distinctly personal and immediate approach to address these universal issues, as they offer a direct insight into their own reasoning and their own work. Babnik showcases a new variation of his ongoing piece Spatial Predictability, in which he focuses on the discourse of mediated images and their complex relationship with space. With his performative intervention, Stropnik questions the status and meaning of artworks that are reduced to simple, everyday gestures.