Exhibitions

The new series of paintings is inspired by videos and microscopic photographs of neurons damaged or altered due to the use of various substances or neurodegenerative diseases.

The collection gives an impression of a personal archive of dreams, hopes, secrets and regrets.

Miklavž Komelj sees his artwork as a bridge between painting and poetry that is lined with various verses or text fragments of his own or other authors’ texts in different languages and from different periods of time.

Matej Čepin’s paintings depict landscapes where time seems to have stopped and where people and plants barely exist. They look like frozen photographs or film frames of human shapes that look right at us, yet past us.

On display are prints that were created as independent works of art in the following techniques: linocut, offset and screen printing.They blend visual and concrete poetry with fine art.Artists: Getulio Alviani, Luciano Caruso, Ryosuke Cohen, Continuum 4: Luciano Caruso, Laura Marcheschi, Steliomaria Martini, Felice Piemontese, Giovanni Polera, Patrizia Vicinelli, Emilio Villa, Franco Visco, Eugenio Miccini, Hugo Mund jun., Jack Keguenne, Balint Szombathy, Robert Rehfeldt, Ruth Wolf Rehfeldt, Romolina Trentini, Tipolito Maghina, Guy Schraenen and anonymous.

Blažka Križan works with cutting various monochromatic paper surfaces. In this way she creates longitudinal undulating shapes which are then sequenced to create integral forms that together constitute a similar wavy image.

The exhibition From Sketch to Puppet, arranged jointly by Bežigrad Gallery 1 and Mini Teater Ljubljana, revolves around the art of puppetry in The Nutcracker, a puppet show based on the story written by Prussian author E.T.A. Hoffmann.

The Manganese series and the Outlines series.The painter’s more recent medium-format artwork was created daily in the form of artistic diary entries. Her focus is on exploring nature and the artistic medium through drawing – her main means of expression.

An exhibition overview of works from the last forty years of Janko Testen's career and the painter's second presentation at the Bežigrad Gallery 1 since 1982. The works on display show his artistic world of object and non-object images and have their artistic starting point in paintings from the 1970s.

Her artwork typically features spatial installations and the integration of various media. Kosi often explores the concepts of (non)space, home and domesticity, and the relationship between man and architecture.

This year's edition of the annual From Sketch to Puppet exhibition, which has been run by BežigradGallery 1 and 2 since 1980, is organised jointly with Mini Theatre Ljubljana. It features sketches,puppets and stage design elements created by puppeteers Milica Grbić Komazec and Nikola Komazec for the children's performance All Here, All Together, which was staged in 2017 in Mini Theatre Ljubljana. The goal is to demonstrate the process of creating a work of artfrom the initial idea to the final puppet performance.

The artwork on display mainly includes prints that were created as independent pieces of art. They represent a link between visual and concrete poetry and fine art. The exhibition continues the tradition in Bežigrad Galleries featuring independent and group exhibitions of poets. From 1980 and to this day.

The display is presented serie of paintings from 2014 to 2022, in many ways, are reminiscent of his artistic work when he just started out.

Paintings by Monika Slemc can be observed and perceived in a single moment. That's how fleeting they are. But one may stare at them forever and still the image would be there, infinite.

Exhibition of paintings personal approach and attitude towards the past, which is the main topic of the young artist thesis. 

The artist builds her artwork on printmaking and combines it with poetry and painting. Her main techniques are drypoint, etching, reservage and aquatint. This independent exhibition at Bežigrad Gallery 1 features a series of prints from the cycle she has created in recent years. Her memories of her childhood and home environment are etched into her works. 

Having been staged annually by Bežigrajska galerija 1 ever since 1980, the traditional From Sketch to Puppet exhibition presents an overview of how an artwork is made, from the puppet sketch, scenery and scenic elements to the final product. This year's exhibition focusing on the Robert Smolík, scenographer, puppets creator and mechanical objects.

This overview exhibition features objects and sculptures by Polona Demšar from the past twenty years. It is also a logical continuation of her PD Profil exhibition, which was actually on display in Bežigrad Gallery 1 in 2013. It was designed based on the profile of the artist’s face.

The visual field, for him, is a heavily diversified yet psychologically united field - and this is why he refuses to specialize in merely one among the visual modes of expression. Besides the basic preoccupations (painting), he deals with photography, theater and film set design, gr. design and also traditional mural paintings in fresco technique

The 28th exhibition in the series of visual poetry shows at the Bežigrad galleries in Ljubljana is dedicated to the memory of Živko Kladnik (1948–2017), one of our most important authors of visual poetry. The first retrospective exhibition will present eighteen collages, created by the artist at the start of the 21st century. A characteristic of his collages is the density of scraps and cuttings from newspapers and magazines, pasted on basic surfaces or blind frames.