Oskar Kandare
sys_6x3_CAT
Curated by
Ema Ograjenšek
Exhibition
5 November–19 December 2025
Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana
Part of U30+ production programme for supporting young artists
Oskar Kandare’s intermedia artwork sys_6x3_CAT consists of rudimentary motion sensors, mechanical components, and cable configurations. It is an autonomous kinetic system that functions like a primitive single-celled organism in its earliest stage of development. Lacking complex sensory perceptions, it responds only to its immediate surroundings. Its movement is uncertain, slow, and without real purpose—it exists only to exist.
sys_6x3_CAT has connected itself to the room’s electrical system, disrupted the geometrically ordered arrangements of local power units, and redefined the function of its motors. Now, through its movement, it increasingly influences the sensory characteristics of the space, changing and observing it with its presence.
The work explores the boundary between the living and the non-living, between evolution and stagnation, and within the duo exhibition, where artistic projects of Oskar Kandare and Lara Žagar co-create a shared space of speculative thought, raises questions about the meaning of bare, purposeless existence and the possibility of autonomy in such mode of being.
THE AUTHOR
Oskar Kandare is a visual artist and Master’s student in Visual Communications Design, specialising in Photography, at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. His practice explores cyberspace and the relationship between the physical world and simulation. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Mala galerija of the Bank of Slovenia, the Gallery Alkatraz, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, the 31st International Festival of Computer Art in Maribor, and Villa For Forest, Klagenfurt.
THE CURATOR
Ema Ograjenšek is a writer, critic and curator of contemporary visual art. She is the guest curator of the U30+ program for the exhibition production by young Slovenian artists at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art for 2023 and 2025 and the author of Restricting Flight for Surreptitious Assembly – The Diagrammatic, the Mark and the Vectorial Image (Aksioma, 2024). Her reviews and essays have been published in magazines and online platforms such as PASSE-AVANT, Artalk, Blok Magazine, Fotograf Magazine, all-over Magazine, etc. Magazine, Maska Magazine, ŠUM Journal, Borec Journal, Tribuna and Radio Študent. She has curated exhibitions at EXILE (Vienna), New Jörg (Vienna), the Museum of Madness Trate, SCCA-Ljubljana, Aksioma (Ljubljana), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (as a member of the Neteorit collective), Center for Contemporary Arts Celje (Likovni salon) and Škuc Gallery (Ljubljana). She is based in Vienna.
CREDITS
Author: Oskar Kandare
Curator and author of the text: Ema Ograjenšek
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2025
Part of U30+ production programme for supporting young artists
Financial support: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana