Editing Ljubljana (section)

===Popular urban culture and alternative scene===
[[File:20190510_KinoSiska_01_PhotoNejcKetis.jpg|thumb|[[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] in Ljubljana]]
[[File:Metelkova_mesto6.jpg|thumb|''The Barn'' building located in [[Metelkova]], the Ljubljana equivalent of the Copenhagen's [[Freetown Christiania]].]]
In the 1980s with the emergence of [[subculture]]s in Ljubljana, an alternative culture began to develop in Ljubljana organised around two student organisations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gržinić |first1=Marina |title=Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation |last2=B. Lengel |first2=Laura |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-56750-466-8 |pages=198–202 |chapter=Video as Civic Discourse in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia: Strategies of Visualization and the Aesthetics of Video in the New Europe: Ljubljana's Alternative or Subculture(e/al) Movement |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsEpW9kbyosC&pg=PA198 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222170728/https://books.google.com/books?id=jsEpW9kbyosC&pg=PA198 |url-status=live }}</ref> This caused an influx of young people to the city centre, caused political and social changes, and led to the establishment of alternative art centres.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dawisha |first1=Karen |title=Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983–2007 |last2=Parrot |first2=Bruce |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-03735-912-9 |editor-last=P. Ramet |editor-first=Sabrina |page=227 |chapter=Democratization in Slovenia–The Second Stage |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hE3oIMB6aj8C&pg=PA227 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222170728/https://books.google.com/books?id=hE3oIMB6aj8C&pg=PA227 |url-status=live }}</ref>

; Metelkova and Rog

A Ljubljana equivalent of Copenhagen's [[Freetown Christiania]], a self-proclaimed autonomous [[Metelkova]] neighbourhood, was set up in a former Austro-Hungarian barracks that was built in 1882.<ref name="Metelkova2">{{cite web |title=Metelkova |url=http://www.ljubljana-life.com/ljubljana/metelkova |access-date=7 August 2012 |publisher=ljubljana-life.com |archive-date=19 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719081859/http://www.ljubljana-life.com/ljubljana/metelkova |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Metelkova mesto2">{{cite web |title=Metelkova mesto |url=https://www.culture.si/en/Metelkova_mesto_Autonomous_Cultural_Zone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923124352/https://www.culture.si/en/Metelkova_mesto_Autonomous_Cultural_Zone |archive-date=23 September 2018 |access-date=23 September 2018 |publisher=culture.si}}</ref>

In 1993, the seven buildings and {{Convert|12500|m2}} of space were turned into art galleries, artist studios, and seven nightclubs, including two LGBTQ+ venues, playing host to music from hardcore to jazz to dub to techno. Celica Hostel is adjacent to Metelkova<ref name="CelicaHostel2">{{cite web |title=Celica Hostel |url=http://www.ljubljana-life.com/sleep/hotels_details/9-Celica_Hostel |access-date=7 August 2012 |archive-date=31 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331161821/https://www.local-life.com/ljubljana/hotels/9-Celica_Hostel |url-status=live }}</ref> with rooms artistically decorated by Metelkova artists. A new part of the Museum of Modern Art is the nearby Museum of Contemporary Art.<ref name="CalgaryHerald2">{{cite news |date=21 July 2012 |title=Lovely Ljubljana; Its name is hard to pronounce, but the city's easy to love and explore |newspaper=[[The Calgary Herald]] |url=https://theprovince.com/travel/Ljubljana+easy+love+explore/6912326/story.html |access-date=7 August 2012}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Another alternative culture centre is located in the former [[Rog (factory)|Rog factory]]. Both [[Metelkova]] and the [[Rog (factory)|Rog factory]] complex are near the city centre.

In 2023, the Rog factory underwent a complete renovation and rebranding, and it is now known as Center Rog. Center Rog has nineteen project studios and five residential apartments in addition to a new branch of the Ljubljana City Library (Rog Library), a large exhibition and event hall, a café, bistro, and restaurant, and several shops with local products.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Center Rog |url=https://www.ljubljana.si/sl/moja-ljubljana/ljubljana-zate/projekti-mol/obnova-roga/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.ljubljana.si |language=sl}}</ref>

; Šiška Cultural Quarter

Šiška Cultural Quarter hosts art groups and cultural organisations dedicated to contemporary and avant-garde arts. [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] is there, a venue offering concerts of indie, punk, and rock bands as well as exhibitions take place. The Museum of Transitory Art (MoTA) is a museum without a permanent collection or a fixed space. Its programs are realised in temporary physical and virtual spaces dedicated to advancing the research, production and presentation of transitory, experimental, and live art forms. Yearly MoTA organises the Sonica Festival. Ljudmila (since 1994), which strives to connect research practices, technologies, science, and art.