The 29th Interliber International Book Fair in Zagreb showcased 40 award-winning authors from Slovenia in November 2006. This was the biggest ever presentation of Slovene authors at such an event abroad. Slovene literature was showcased at a special stand featuring a selection of 300 books published over the past two years. The books were afterwards donated to Karlovac City Library. Apart from readings by acclaimed Slovene authors such as Drago Jančar, Veno Taufer, Tone Pavček, Maja Vidmar and Milan Jesih, the event featured presentations of Slovene literary magazines, children's literature and a panel. Several other events were held simultaneously in Zagreb, including a screening of Damjan Kozole's feature film Delo osvobaja ('Labour Equals Freedom'), a performance of Evald Flisar's Nora Nora ('Mad Nora'), and a production by the Prešeren Theatre Kranj at the Gavella Theatre. The Fegus String Quartet performed a concert at the Vatroslav Lisinski Hall, while costumes by designer Alan Hranitelj were on display at the Museum of Arts and Crafts. A concert by pop-punk-folk band Orlek was also scheduled.

In March 2007 Slovene literature was in the spotlight at the Leipzig Book Fair, the oldest book fair in Europe. Študentska založba Publishing House, Ljubljana won the competition to represent Slovenia at the fair for the next three years in order to secure more comprehensive presentation which would bring contacts with foreign publishers. The organisers hosted several Slovene authors whose books have already been translated into German: Florijan Lipuš, Drago Jančar, Brina Svit, Suzana Tratnik, Uroš Zupan, Tomaž Šalamun, Mojca Kumerdej, Aleš Čar and Aleš Šteger. The authors also participated in reading sessions, discussions and round tables, such as 'Germans and Slavs: Language Delicacies' and 'What is Happening With Central Europe?'. The best-known Slovene authors in Germany are Drago Jančar and Slavoj Žižek, who participated in a 'Night of Philosophy and Literature' at the Bibliotheca Albertina together with Mladen Dolar, Durs Gruenbein, Tomaž Šalamun and Aleš Šteger.

Slovene publishers of books for children had a national stand at the 44th Bologna Children's Book Fair for the first time in April 2007. One of the criteria in selecting the books for the fair was the awards they had won, such as the Best Picture Book, Desetnica and Večernica Awards. The presentation was accompanied by a catalogue, presenting all important Slovene authors and illustrators of children' books. In 2007 too, best-selling Slovene children's writers Tatjana Kokalj, Desa Muck and Andrej Rozman-Roza humorously and charismatically introduced excerpts from their recently-published books to the public in the USA. Their works are part of Slovene-English bilingual series Spominčice ('Forget-me-nots') - cf http://www.forgetmenotbooks.com.

Several recent international events presented Slovene performing art groups. Thus the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Japan and the contemporary experimental choir Carmina Slovenica undertook a further international tour, while the Gorišek-Lazar Duo was presented in New York. The Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama presented Oedipus Rex at the Solun Festival, Greece, The Bacchae in St Petersburg, Russia, and Alamut directed by Sebastijan Horvat in Salzburg. That theatre house has continued its ongoing exchange with Belgrade theatre houses as well as presented its work at the acclaimed BITEF Festival. Mladinsko Theatre has participated in several festivals round the world, including the Nitra Festival in Slovakia. Two actors from Mladinsko Theatre performed in the last production of Jan Fabre which was premiered in Salzburg in August 2007. Maska Productions toured with Emil Hrvatin's production We Are All Marlene Dietrich, and Maska Magazine was presented at Documenta 12 - Magazines Section in Kassel in 2007. Magdalena Reiter, a Pole living in Slovenia, organised several exchanges and co-productions within Staragara - Ljubljana, while Ljubljana Dance Theatre (PTL) collaborated with Slovak dancers living and working in Slovenia. An exhibition of Meta Hočevar's stage designs was presented at the Prague Quadrennial.

Presented in London and Chicago and at the Berlin exhibition 'The Building Site Slovenia', the 'Six Pack' exhibition featured the work of six different Slovene architectural offices - Bevk-Perovič Arhitekti, Dekleva-Gregorič Arhitekti, Elastik Architecture, Maechtig-Vrhunc Arhitekti, Ofis Arhitekti and Sadar-Vuga Arhitekti. All of these architects studied at various prominent international architectural institutions such as the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Berlage Institute and UCLA. The Berlin exhibition focused on 23 high-profile buildings from the last five years, and also featured a review of contemporary Slovene architecture focusing on the most distinguished Slovene architects, Jože Plečnik and Edvard Ravnikar.

The exhibition dubbed 'Eye Try' was held in April 2005 in Cork, Republic of Ireland, as part of that city's European Capital of Culture celebrations. The paintings, sculptures and installations were selected by the Maribor-based KIBLA Multimedia Centre and offered a wide range of creations, from classical to highly sophisticated technologies. The show intertwined classical with modern, individual with collective, local with global, spectacular with intimate. Featured in the exhibition were artists Uršula Berlot, Natalija Šeruga, Marko Jakše, Andrej Brumen Čop, Boštjan Novak, Marko Črtanec, Magdalena Pederin, Matjaž Krivic, Žiga Koritnik and the artist groups son:DA and Intima Virtual Base.

Russian-born artist Vadim Fiškin, now resident in Ljubljana, presented an installation called 'Another Speedy Day' at the 51st Venice Biennale of 2005. Fiškin's work unites the themes of utopia, cosmogeny and aeronautics, personal poetics and a self-critical attitude to his artistic practice and its social context - his art works are always on the border between fiction and reality. This exhibition was a homage to Albert Einstein and the 100th anniversary of the Theory of Relativity. In 2007 Tobias Putrih, Slovene artist living in New York (Max Protech Gallery), appeared at the 52nd Venice Biennale with his project 'Venetian, Atmospheric', installed in two different venues: in A+A Gallery, Venice and in the garden on the Island of San Servolo where a full-scale pavilion/movie theatre was erected. This structure will operated as a fully-functional cinema featuring daily screenings of art films of the 1960s and 1970s as well as two programmes of recent films by contemporary artists. An architectural project and a sculpture designed to surround the viewer created perceptual illusion - its title is a homage to architect John Eberson's 'atmospheric' and decorative style of cinema design.

Witty and poetic installation artist Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, whose 'dressed house' of 1993 was recreated for the Venice Biennale of 1999, created various site-specific installations in Australia in the period 2002-2005. His project 'Car Park: Members Only', an installation consisting of 15,000 toy cars placed on the wall of a building in Adelaide in response to the city’s traffic and parking problems, continued to the Australian outback, where he created a watering-can installation comprising some 2,000 plaster watering cans arranged over the area of a football field in a region largely devoid of rain. As part of the 2003 Awesome Festival in Perth he filled up an area of 7,000 square metres with 10,000 balloons of red, orange, blue, pink, green and yellow colours, and in 2005 he filled the atrium of the former Melbourne Post Office with 1,000 umbrellas. In the same year a work by Matej Andraž Vogrinčič commissioned for the 4th Liverpool Biennial of 2006 took the form of an installation of 56 upturned boats placed inside the bombed ruins of St Luke’s Church. In 2007 his project in New Haven, USA, transformed an abandoned railway cutting into an amazing site-specific work of art, using giant modular components similar to parts of the Erector Set which was originally manufactured by a leading New Haven company.

The 'Any Sharp Objects?' exhibition of work by Slovene Textile and Fashion Designers toured America and Europe in 2005 and 2006. Featured designers included Mateja Benedetti, Metod Črešnar, Olga Košica, Zoran Garevski, Tanja Devetak-Gomez, Urška and Tomaž Draž, Sanja Grcić, Leonora Jakovljević, Petra Grmek, Monika Lorber, Vesna Mirtelj, Peter Kostrun, Tjasa Bavcon, Katja Burger, Elena Fajt, Jasmina Ferček, Jana Mršnik and Natasha Peršuh, who designed 11 variations on the topic of travel and put their designs into 11 suitcases.

Stripburger's Honey Talks - comics inspired by painted beehive panels, initially exhibited at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana in March 2006 and later in Radovljica Museum of Apiculture - was invited to participate in the Festival of Alternative Comics in Pančevo, Serbia, to Serieteket/Kulturhuset in Stockholm, to the Festival Retine in Albi, France and to the Festival Visionario in Udine.

Makrolab, conceived by Marko Peljhan and developed by his Projekt Atol Institute, was first set up at Documenta X. This ongoing mobile laboratory and information base for open and integral research and the common work of artists, scientists and tactical media workers in the fields of telecommunications, migrations research, weather and climate, subsequently moved to Western Australia (Rottnest Island), Slovenia (Veliki Kras), the Scotish Highlands (Atholl Estates), the island of Campalto (Isola di Campalto), and in 2003 the Venice Lagoon as part of the Venice Biennale. In 2007 Makrolab began its final journey to the autonomous territory of Nunavut in Canada and to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. Makrolab has made a great breakthrough in art-science communication – it has succeeded in becoming part of the International Polar Year 2007-2008, an international programme of co-ordinated, interdisciplinary scientific research and observations in the Earth's polar regions. In 2001, Marko Peljhan, together with German conceptual artist and electronic musician Carsten Nicolai, was awarded the Golden Nica Prix at Ars Electronica in Linz for the project Polar, created in collaboration with Japanese laboratory Canon Artlab.

The broadest presentation of Slovene films for the wider public occurred at the Cannes 2004 Marché du Film, where for the first time there was a dedicated Slovene stand, which presented seven films and a variety of Slovene film festivals. Classical retrospectives of Slovene film have also taken place in Barcelona, New York, Rome, Stockholm and Cannes, while contemporary Slovene films have been represented at film festivals around the world.