Opening of the exhibition Borut Krajnc: Turning Point
You are cordially invited to join us at the opening of the overview exhibition by Borut Krajnc, which offers a comprehensive insight into the oeuvre of one of Slovenia's most prominent photographers and photojournalists, who has consistently documented the social, economic, and political shifts of recent history throughout his decades-long career.
How are we to perceive the present, woven from a multitude of individual and often contradictory moments, lies at the heart of Borut Krajnc’s photographs and photographic series. With thematically and conceptually cohesive cycles and a carefully considered selection of works, he presents a retrospective exhibition of his socially engaged photographic oeuvre at the Ljubljana City Art Gallery. The exhibition Transformation brings together the photographic cycles Emptiness (2005–2008), Path (2015), Politics (2012–2015), Pressure (2020), Transitions (2020–2021), and the cycle Turning Point, which includes the series Mura (2009–2014), Adria Airways (2019), and Maribor Foundry – MLM (2024–2025). The titles of these individual series alone already suggest that emptiness and transformation are at the heart of Krajnc’s photographic practice. Over the past two decades, these interconnected themes have shaped his reflections, sensibility, and critical understanding of social reality.
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Borut Krajnc's exhibition offers an insightful photographic look into key social and political turning points of the Slovenian transition, through which the author, as a chronicler of his time, visually exposes the impact of capitalism, political populism, and media and consumer saturation on contemporary everyday life.
Borut Krajnc began his career in the late 1980s at the student newspaper Tribuna, continued at the newspaper Demokracija, and in 1991 became a member of the photographic editorial team of the weekly Mladina, where he still works today. His original expression was distinctly journalistic, adapted to the format of print media and photo-reportage, through which he documented, among other things, the independence war in Slovenia, landmark events in Russia in 1993, and protests against global capitalism.
All events are held in Slovenian language. For English guided tours please make an inquiry at prijava@mgml.si.
Mestni trg 5, SI–1000 Ljubljana
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Opening Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday: 11.00–19.00
24. in 31. December: 11.00–14.00
Mondays, 1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
Free admission