12.12.2024 – 09.03.2025, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Launched in 1993, the Slovenian Biennial of Illustration was founded by the Illustrators’ Section of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU). The Biennial, with its extensive media coverage, contributes greatly to the promotion of illustration as an important artistic discipline that plays a responsible educational role, bringing stories to life as well as providing visual cues that help readers connect emotionally with the material and cement understanding. The exhibition presents works by Slovenian illustrators of all ages and publications issued by Slovenian publishing houses over the past five years. The selection is made by a five-member judging panel based on the entries received in the call for applications. The judging panel also selects the winners of the Hinko Smrekar Award, Slovenia’s most prestigious prize for achievements in illustration. A special focus is placed on this year’s winner of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, illustrator, painter, graphic artist and designer Tomaž Kržišnik. The prize is awarded posthumously.

06.12.2024 – 24.12.2024, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

For the tenth year in a row, December brings the Illustration Fair, and with it the opportunity to view and purchase illustrations by 30 of the most prominent local artists, from venerable old men to brilliant young people. Both original works and signed prints, limited and unlimited series, framed and unframed, are available. At the fair, you will also find a selection of illustrated books by participating authors.

This year, the fair is moving back to VODNIKOVO DOMAČIJA ŠIŠKA, at Vodnikova cesta 65, and will be open from December 6th to 24th, and online a few days earlier, from December 1!

31.10. – 12.11.2024, SHANGHAI, CHINA

The exhibition of Slovenian writer Alma Karlin was arranged by the Slovenian Consulate in Shanghai to be held in the Wukang Building, the most famous building in Shanghai with a history of 100 years. The building was designed by the star architect Laszlo Hudec in 1924. This may not be accidental. This is the intersection of cities and the intersection of humanities. 100 years ago, Slovenian writer and traveler Alma Karlin also came to Shanghai, China. This may not be accidental. This is an event of the intersection of cities and humanities. The multimedia exhibition Connects the World is also an exhibition of the intersection of time and space.

17.04. – 31.12.2024, BEIJING, CHINA

An exhibition dedicated to Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein and his astronomical observatory in Beijing opened on April 17, 2024, in Beijing, China. The exhibition is the result of many years of fruitful cooperation between the Archives Administration of China, the First Historical Archives of China, and the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia.

The exhibition was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, Ms. Tanja Fajon.

08.04. – 11.04.2024 , BOLOGNA, ITALY

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is a 4-day event aimed exclusively at the professional public, with around 30,000 visitors. The Bologna Book Fair is, alongside the Frankfurt Book Fair, the international platform on which the largest number of Slovenian publishers in the field of children’s and young people’s literature present themselves. Huiqin Wang was chosen as one of the twelve slovenian representatives this year.

06.02.2024, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

Guests cut the ribbon at the inauguration ceremony of a replica of Hallerstein-designed armillary sphere in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Feb. 6, 2024. A full-scale replica of the armillary sphere with rotating rings created by Augustin Ferdinand Hallerstein, or Liu Songling by his Chinese name, in the 18th century, will be permanently installed in Ljubljana.

Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar, Chinese Ambassador to Slovenia Wang Shunqing, and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic attended the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday in front of the Slovenian Archives building on the bank of Ljubljanica River, which runs through the capital.

07.12.2023 AT 7:45, K3 FILM FESTIVAL, VILLACH, AUSTIRA

The Slovenian poet Alma Karlin was the first women to travel the world alone. Based on the book “Little Alma on the Great Road” by Huiqin Wang, the film portrays the peculiar personality of the famous cosmopolitan and writer, tells of her youth and her stay in Japan, showing feelings that we did not know about her.

15.11.2023 – 23.11.2023 IN HAUS AM DOM, FRANKFURT, GERMANY

The exhibition Alma Maksimiliana Karlin highlights the literary journey of Alma M. Karlin and its interweaving in time and space. The exhibition builds on quotes from her books, with which she interrogates ever-current questions about positions of power, the role of traditions, and the issues of gender and social inequalities. The exhibition is connected by contemporary artistic and literary reflections: enlargements of illustrations and a selection of originals by painter Huiqin Wang, the artist who illustrated the picture book Little Alma on the Great Road and supplements for the animated film Alma, an indomitable woman.

SHORT FILM BY HUIQIN AND ANDREJ KAMNIK

The animated film is about an unique artist and writer, a multilingual cosmopolitan and world-traveller, Alma Karlin (1889-1950), about her youth, her stay in Japan and her work and life there. The film summarizes her personality and part of Alma Karlin’s journey around the world, and shows feelings that we did not know about her. On her eight-year journey she circled the globe. Her works reveal an incredibly relevant way of thinking, as she remains a most fascinating figure of the first half of the 20th century.