John Fekner is considered one of the most "known-unknown" artists working in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s. He was part of the vibrant art scene of the time and exhibited with Don Leicht, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Jenny Holzer and others. Fekner's retrospective-documentary exhibition at the Match Gallery is the first solo presentation of his art in a public institution, which, interestingly, is located not far from the birthplace of the artist's father, Ivan Fekner, born in 1909 on Karlovška Street in Ljubljana.
Tomaž Furlan is an established sculptor and intermedia artist. He has been active in the Slovenian and international art scene for over two decades. Hitherto he has not had a comprehensive presentation of his work, and thus the City Art Gallery Ljubljana will showcase his versatile artistic oeuvre for the first time in one place.
On the spaces for gathering, support, and organized advocacy of the LGBT movement, which have been shaping the urban culture and social life of the capital for 40 years.
Photography remains the key tool for documenting important social movements because, despite the challenges of the digital era, it maintains the position of a witness and the ability to tell stories. The exhibition Our Claim: Slovenian Protest Photography 2020-2022 presents the period marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrations across Slovenia and highlights the role and meaning of photography in recording social events and valuing of our common heritage. The exhibition features more than 250 photographs by 38 photographers and will be also expanded with photographs by visitors until mid-January.
Join us on a journey through time with an exhibition on significant changes in the world of clothing. The exhibition will open the doors to the world of dressing as a distinct form of communication, revealing societal shifts and individual milestones that influenced the decisions of our ancestors on how to dress.
The exhibition entitled From the Collection of W. B.: Protocol (Presence of J. P.) will feature ten paintings from 2023 and a video from 2019. The works on display are linked by a painting concept in which the author perceives time as a painterly competitor.
“A tower, a mule, me and the garden” – that is how Jože Plečnik imagined his life when he didn’t know yet that after Vienna and Prague his native Ljubljana would be his lifetime’s environment for his creative work.
Within the exhibition projects of contemporary interpretation of Plečnik's heritage, this year we have invited Bart Lunenburg, an innovative and promising multidisciplinary artist of the younger generation, to participate. The project is a collaboration with RAVNIKAR, a contemporary visual arts gallery, and with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Slovenia and the Dutch foundation Mondriaan Fund for visual arts and cultural heritage.
A tribute to the museum as a place of encounter and dialogue.
How well do you know the rich history of Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle and New Ages, the 20th and 21st centuries… what is the history of Ljubljana? Get to know Ljubljana's past - see the chronological presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia of heritage with precious authentic artefacts, like the world's oldest wooden wheel with an axle!
Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.
The central theme of the final assignment was Challenge: Tomorrow’s Yesterday, developed in collaboration with the City Museum of Ljubljana. Each student set off on a journey exploring paintings, portraits and objects exhibited in the museum. Next, they immersed into the theme and searched for inspiration, which culminated in the prodigious diversity of collections thus developed.
In developing their design concept, 1st and 2nd year students in the Faculty of Design’s Fashion and Textiles track drew on the City Museum of Ljubljana’s permanent collection.
During archaeological research at Ljubljana Castle, a proper button making workshop was documented. It was in operation in the 19th century, during a time when the castle building had been turned into a penitentiary.
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The 1st edition of Klavdij Sluban's "Nekje drugje Tukaj / Elsewhere Here" photomonograph, that accompany the actual exhibition in our gallery, was sold out at the end of May. That's why we've produced a 2nd, revised and expanded international ...
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Dr Marija Skočir, Art Gallery Director and Curator of the Jakopič Gallery, will be among the 165 international experts in the field of photography taking part in this year's Photo Folio Review at the renowned French photography festival Les Rencontres ...
We are inviting you to participate in a creative competition that we are organising alongside our international partners as part of the European project Open Atelier - a Creative Europe project
Photographer Blaž Gutman's project Seventy Years Ago Was Seven Minutes Ago made it onto the shortlist of 19 projects at Kranj Foto Fest 2024 out of 1,014 submissions from all over the world. He developed this intimate project about dementia ...
On Friday and Saturday, 5 and 6 April 2024, the Plečnik's Ljubljana hackathon was happening at the Plečnik House, an event organised by the house's team as part of Open Atelier, a Creative Europe Programme. The winning team of the ...