Within the framework of the exhibition Baroque in Slovenia, as part of training and workshops in the Costume and Mask Class under the mentorship of assistant professor Tina Kolenik, MA, and assistant Nina Čehovin, second-year students of Stage Acting, Theatre Directing, and Dramaturgy and Performing Arts at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television undertook to interpret the paintings The card players I and Card players II by the Baroque painter Joannes Almenak.

For this purpose, they created complex costumes in a modernized Baroque style, took photographs of themselves wearing them, thus becoming immersed in the characters of the convivial card players.

The resulting works reveal not only the students’ technical skills in costume creation but also their ability to translate historical imagery into a contemporary performance context. The photographs capture a playful tension between authenticity and reinvention, bridging centuries of artistic tradition while offering a fresh interpretation for modern audiences.