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{{short description|Slovenian politician}}
{{Short description|Slovenian politician (born 1984)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Asta Vrečko
| name = Asta Vrečko
| image = File:Asta Vrečko (cropped).jpg
| image = Asta Vrečko (Asta Vrecko) in 2024 (cropped).jpg
| office = Minister of Culture
| office = Minister of Culture
| term_start = 1 June 2022
| term_start = 1 June 2022
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| birth_name = Asta Vrečko
| birth_name = Asta Vrečko
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|8|13|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|8|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Celje]], [[SFR Yugoslavia]]
| occupation = politician, art historian
| occupation = politician, art historian
| party = [[The Left (Slovenia)|Levica]] (since 2017)
| party = [[The Left (Slovenia)|Levica]] (since 2017)
| otherparty = [[Initiative for Democratic Socialism|IDS]] (2014-2017)
| otherparty = [[Initiative for Democratic Socialism|IDS]] (2014–2017)
| office2 = Coordinator of [[The Left (Slovenia)|Levica]]
| predecessor2 = [[Luka Mesec]]
| termstart2 = 2 September 2023
| caption = Official portrait, 2024
}}
}}
'''Asta Vrečko''' (born 13 August 1984 in [[Celje]]) is a [[List of Slovenian art historians|Slovenian art historian]] and [[List of Slovenian politicians|politician]]. She serves as the minister of culture of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |title=dr. Asta Vrečko, ministrica za kulturo {{!}} GOV.SI |url=https://www.gov.si/drzavni-organi/ministrstva/ministrstvo-za-kulturo/o-ministrstvu/dr-asta-vrecko-ministrica-za-kulturo/ |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=Portal GOV.SI |language=sl}}</ref>
'''Asta Vrečko''' (born 13 August 1984) is a Slovenian politician. She serves as the minister of culture of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |title=dr. Asta Vrečko, ministrica za kulturo {{!}} GOV.SI |url=https://www.gov.si/drzavni-organi/ministrstva/ministrstvo-za-kulturo/o-ministrstvu/dr-asta-vrecko-ministrica-za-kulturo/ |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=Portal GOV.SI |language=sl}}</ref> She became the coordinator of [[The Left (Slovenia)|Levica]] in September 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ma |first=Al |title=Nova koordinatorica Levice je Asta Vrečko. "Levica ostaja trdna, močna in stabilna." |url=https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/nova-koordinatorica-levice-je-asta-vrecko-levica-ostaja-trdna-mocna-in-stabilna/680003 |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=rtvslo.si |language=sl}}</ref>


==Youth and education==
==Youth and education==
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==Politics==
==Politics==
Vrečko has been involved in activism for many years. She was a member of [[The Workers and Punks University]], and in 2014 she co-founded the [[Initiative for Democratic Socialism]], which was then part of the [[The Left (Slovenia)|United Left]]. Today she is a member of the [[The Left (Slovenia)|Left]] party.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.levica.si/amo-team/asta-vrecko-2/ | title=Asta Vrečko }}</ref> In the local elections of 2018, she was elected to the post of city councilor in the [[City Municipality of Ljubljana|Municipality of Ljubljana]], where she is one of the three councilors of the Left.<ref>[https://www.ljubljana.si/sl/mestni-svet/mestni-svet-mol/clani-mestnega-sveta/levica-3-svetniki/asta-vrecko/]{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref> In 2021, she was chosen as the deputy coordinator of the party.<ref>{{cite web |title=Luka Mesec na čelu stranke ni več sam |url=https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/luka-mesec-na-celu-stranke-ni-vec-sam/ |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=www.delo.si |language=sl-si}}</ref> She ran for the party in the [[2022 Slovenian parliamentary election|National Assembly elections in 2022]] and won 1,074 votes in the Ljubljana Šiška 1 district, or 10.49 percent of the vote, but she was not elected as a representative.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://volitve.dvk-rs.si/#/rezultati |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=volitve.dvk-rs.si}}</ref>
Vrečko has been involved in activism for many years. She was a member of [[The Workers and Punks University]], and in 2014 she co-founded the [[Initiative for Democratic Socialism]], which was then part of the [[The Left (Slovenia)|United Left]]. Today she is a member of the [[The Left (Slovenia)|Left]] party.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.levica.si/amo-team/asta-vrecko-2/ | title=Asta Vrečko | date=24 March 2022 }}</ref> In the local elections of 2018, she was elected to the post of city councilor in the [[City Municipality of Ljubljana|Municipality of Ljubljana]], where she is one of the three councilors of the Left.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ljubljana.si/sl/mestni-svet/mestni-svet-mol/clani-mestnega-sveta/levica-3-svetniki/asta-vrecko/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 July 2022 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531162541/https://www.ljubljana.si/sl/mestni-svet/mestni-svet-mol/clani-mestnega-sveta/levica-3-svetniki/asta-vrecko/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2021, she was chosen as the deputy coordinator of the party.<ref>{{cite web |title=Luka Mesec na čelu stranke ni več sam |url=https://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/luka-mesec-na-celu-stranke-ni-vec-sam/ |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=www.delo.si |language=sl-si}}</ref> She ran for the party in the [[2022 Slovenian parliamentary election|National Assembly elections in 2022]] and won 1,074 votes in the Ljubljana Šiška 1 district, or 10.49 percent of the vote, but she was not elected as a representative.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://volitve.dvk-rs.si/#/rezultati |access-date=12 July 2022 |website=volitve.dvk-rs.si |title=DVK - Volitve / Elections }}</ref>


===Minister of Culture===
===Minister of Culture===
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Latest revision as of 07:39, 9 August 2024

Asta Vrečko
Official portrait, 2024
Minister of Culture
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 June 2022
Preceded byVasko Simoniti
Coordinator of Levica
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 September 2023
Preceded byLuka Mesec
Personal details
Born
Asta Vrečko

(1984-08-13) 13 August 1984 (age 40)
Celje, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyLevica (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations		IDS (2014–2017)
Occupationpolitician, art historian

Asta Vrečko (born 13 August 1984) is a Slovenian politician. She serves as the minister of culture of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022.[1] She became the coordinator of Levica in September 2023.[2]

Youth and education

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Vrečko was born in Celje and grew up in Šentjur. She graduated in art history and got a job as a young researcher in the department of art pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana. Later, Vrečko was employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, where she received her doctorate in 2014.[3] Her areas of research are Slovenian and Yugoslav art in the 20th century, with an emphasis on the study and organization of artists, exhibition history and cultural policy in the period of both Yugoslavias, and camp art.[1]

She also works as an associate at the Božidar Jakac Gallery in Kostanjevica na Krki and also as an external associate at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She is also a curator and co-author of several projects.

Politics

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Vrečko has been involved in activism for many years. She was a member of The Workers and Punks University, and in 2014 she co-founded the Initiative for Democratic Socialism, which was then part of the United Left. Today she is a member of the Left party.[4] In the local elections of 2018, she was elected to the post of city councilor in the Municipality of Ljubljana, where she is one of the three councilors of the Left.[5] In 2021, she was chosen as the deputy coordinator of the party.[6] She ran for the party in the National Assembly elections in 2022 and won 1,074 votes in the Ljubljana Šiška 1 district, or 10.49 percent of the vote, but she was not elected as a representative.[7]

Minister of Culture

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When the Left entered coalition negotiations with the Freedom Movement and the Social Democrats, Asta Vrečko was mentioned as the future minister of culture. She was heard before the competent National Assembly committee on 31 May 2022.[8] She began her mandate on 1 June 2022.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "dr. Asta Vrečko, ministrica za kulturo | GOV.SI". Portal GOV.SI (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ Ma, Al. "Nova koordinatorica Levice je Asta Vrečko. "Levica ostaja trdna, močna in stabilna."". rtvslo.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Asta Vrečko | Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani". www.ff.uni-lj.si. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Asta Vrečko". 24 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Luka Mesec na čelu stranke ni več sam". www.delo.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  7. ^ "DVK - Volitve / Elections". volitve.dvk-rs.si. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Ministrica za kulturo bo Asta Vrečko: "Kulturna politika in ministrstvo se morata modernizirati"". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Poslanci in poslanke s 53 glasovi podpore potrdili vladno ekipo Roberta Goloba". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
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