Opening of the Rog Expo exhibition

You are warmly invited to the opening on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 7 PM, and to visit the exhibition, which will be on view until February 7, 2026.

This year’s thematic exhibition of the Center Rog’s annual production, entitled Boundaries and Friction, once again invites visitors into the dynamic world of contemporary design and craftsmanship, where hands, minds, stories, technologies, and methodologies meet. The selection of exhibited works explores spaces of contact, tension and collaboration, where limitations give rise to new ideas and forms of creativity.

The exhibition’s curators, Alja Fir and Anja Radović, once again selected the featured works through an open internal call, inviting all creators working at Center Rog to participate. Part of the presented projects also stems from thematic residency programs, clubs, and workshops held throughout the year. In total, 33 projects created by 58 artists and designers are being showcased. Additionally, the exhibition will feature the outcomes of the three-day Rog Kreaton, taking place from November 10 to 13, during which twenty-five young participants from around the world will seek solutions to five challenges.

The selected projects raise questions about material boundaries, particularly how new, biodegradable materials and local resources can transform aesthetics and reduce the environmental impact of design and production. Some touch on personal and cultural boundaries, seeking ways to bridge the gap between tradition and modernity through intimate stories, exploration of craft heritage and responses to climate change and other challenges. Others reveal social boundaries that they seek to transcend through inclusive design, questioning gender categories and identities, or giving a voice to communities that are marginalised by social or political conflicts. Some tackle technological frictions, the relationship between human imagination and artificial intelligence, between manual skills and digital precision, and between the analogue touch and design created in virtual space.

The products created at Center Rog arise from the specific situations of the makers: from a lack of access to various tools, machines and production space to a desire to reuse materials or restore and change the function of existing objects. The process often involves interactions and collaborations in labs. Design is understood here as a process in which learning, experimentation and production are constantly intertwined.

At a time when the world is increasingly divided by crises, inequalities and polarisation, the exhibition Boundaries and Friction encourages reflection on design as an activity that transcends divisions. Design can disrupt, calm or transform, but it always operates in relation to the other. This relationship is where its power and capacity lie – to create balance out of friction, dialogue out of conflict and a meeting place out of boundaries. This year’s exhibition features a variety of projects blending tradition and innovation, manual dexterity and digital experimentation, the individual and the community. This is a test of collective creative energy; at Center Rog, we have been nurturing it for the second year in a row as an inclusive process and a space where friction is not alleviated, but understood as an opportunity for growth, collaboration and change.

Authors of the works presented in the exhibition:

Agogo – Jure Ponikvar & Tobias Putrih, Tia Victoria Ansell, Benedetti Life – Matea Benedetti, Nej Bizjak, Daniela Doe, Almina Duraković Korošec, Gita Erznožnik, Karmen Gombač, Zala Gorenc, Hex Haus - Anže Sekelj & Staš Vrenko, Hishka – Nataša Peršuh, JSP - Jelena & Svetlana Proković, Jugošik – Nina Savič, Julija Karas, Hana Klincov, Kristi Komel, Amelija Kracina, Kolektiv Lufta – Matic Hlede, Jan Jandl & Lin Martin Japelj, Nataša Kovač, Milan Kreuschitz Markovič, Julija Lorenzutti, Lava studio – Tiana Miličević, Darja Malešič, Mare - Marija Staničić, Margaux Minodier, Ingrid Montier, Anže Mrak, Nixi studio - Nika Šantej, Tajda Novšak, Anže Orešnik, Tomo Per, Manon Pigeon, Nina Podobnikar, Pia Prebil, Sandra Pregelj, Lars Preisser, Maruša Ramšak, Anna Resei, Jožica Rihter, Salto Dionys – Rok Oblak, Chiaki Shimizu, Jaka Sojč, Miha Stroj, Tadej Šandor, Katarina Šporar, Andreja Štefe, David Tavčar, TerraViva – Strahinja Jovanović, Uroš Topič, Belén Villán Fernández, Margareta Vovk Čalič, Daniel Yemane, Hanna Zabudska

As part of the opening evening, there will also be the Community Patchwork Table — a communal feast conceptually and gastronomically designed by Tereza Poljanić. The menu will be created together with visitors during preparatory workshops in the Culinary Lab, led by the lab’s mentors and the Majaronka team, while the kombucha is being brewed in the Green Lab. The table setting will form a patchwork of various products created in the labs on different occasions.