29/07/2024
WELTRAUM 031 - https://m.soundcloud.com/neodvisni-obalni-radio/weltraum-31-29-07-2024-matevz-celik-vidmar
Matevž Čelik Vidmar
Matevž Čelik Vidmar, architect, writer, researcher and cultural producer in the field of architecture and design, was the director of the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana from 2010 to 2020. In 2021, he designed the new European architecture platform LINA. The purpose of the LINA platform, similar to its predecessor Future Architecture (it was also founded by Čelik Vidmar in 2015), is exchange and networking between architectural institutions and support for young professionals.
MAO, which under the leadership of Čelik Vidmar became one of the most recognizable and internationally influential Slovenian cultural institutions, received more than fifteen professional awards in ten years. Čelik Vidmar designed, among other things, the renovation of the Design Biennale (BIO Ljubljana) and the Center for Creativity (CZK). With the renovation, BIO Ljubljana has turned from a standard design exhibition into a living experiment for exploring the potential of design. With the CZK project, which places culture and creativity alongside important economic sectors, the MAO has become a national museum with the mission of providing support for the Slovenian creative sector. In 2020, Čelik Vidmar received the Plečnik Medal for the leadership and establishment of the MAO in the international community, and BIGSEE declared him a visionary of Southeast Europe.
In 2016, 2018 and 2020, he was appointed commissioner of the Slovenian pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice. He was a guest critic and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana, the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice, the Institute of Architecture in Dessau and the Leibniz University in Hannover. Between 2014 and 2018, he was a member of the regional advisory committee for the exhibition of Yugoslav architecture from the post-war period entitled Towards the Concrete Utopias: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He is a member of the advisory board of the Archipelago architecture festival in Geneva and a member of the advisory board of the Villardjournal magazine at the IUAV in Venice. He was a member of numerous competition and prize juries, including for the Plečnik Prize and the European Urban Public Space Prize.
