2^0 work: David Kucler
Solo exhibition
Curated by: Adrijan Praznik
23/05–04/07/2025
2^32 Space will host the next iteration of the 2^0 work programme cycle, which focuses on the analysis of a single artwork, series, or project as a complex nexus of material, conceptual, and production-related relations. Rather than following the typical logic of exhibition-making, this cycle opens up a discursive space where the artwork is treated not as an isolated object, but as a dense site of production, relation, and meaning.
The 2^0 work programme cycle examines the often-overlooked layers of artistic production – from conditions of creation, technical specificities, and collaborations to modes of institutional reception and the distribution of meaning. Each presentation is designed as a microscopic insight into the work, foregrounding its processual nature, contextual embeddedness, and the function of art within the contemporary art ecosystem.
During the Ljubljana Art Weekend, 2^32 Space will feature the painter David Kucler, whose practice explores the materiality of painting and its relation to the body, image, and the symbolic. His works often generate a tension between abstraction and figuration, between inner experience and the external world. Kucler continuously develops a painterly language grounded in experimentation with materials and approaches, textures, and techniques of layering pigment.
His presentation within the 2^0 work cycle will serve as a starting point for reflections on contemporary painterly language, its material constellations, and positions of representation in a time of hypervisual culture and fragmented perception. Here, painting persists not within the comfort zone, but at its threshold, where irrational affect and existential tension emerge through material articulation.
Organisation: 2^32 Institute
2^32 Space
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1
6th floor
SI—1000 Ljubljana
OPENING HOURS
Please note that the 2^32 SPACE will be open to the public only on Saturday, 24 May, from 12:00 to 18:00 and during curated Artwalk.