 Until the fall of the Iron Curtain the complex of buildings was not used.Change came in the mid-1980s and 1990s, when young alternative artists such as and theatre directors Matjaž Berger(1997 "Rotacija kozmosa 100", Ob stoletnici Mestne elektrarne ljubljanske) and Enrique Vargas within the framework of the Exodus festival.They started a new life called (in Slovenian) "Stara elektrarna".