With the opening of Cukrarna Gallery in September 2021, the Slovenian capital gained a new space that serves both as a venue for exhibiting contemporary art and as a place where thoughts can be explored and contemporary art projects of all kinds - visual, intermedia, performance, sound, music and more - can be created and presented. The presentation of artworks through exhibitions and events is just one part of Cukrarna Gallery’s programme, however, as its main aim is to become a new cultural hub in the city.

Working with artists and other stakeholders from Slovenia and beyond, and fostering longer-term participation and interaction, its fundamental mission is to fulfil the role of a truly contemporary art institution: to root its exhibition, interpretation and education activities in pro-social, humanistic principles - respect for the other, responsibility towards the environment, and robust social criticism so as to constantly hold a questioning mirror to society - and to do all this in a way that is in keeping with the building’s past.