Ljubljana
MGML
Exhibitions
Current
group exhibition
Co-EXISTENCE Boris Beja, Maja Smrekar, Urša Vidic, Miha Godec
1. 12. 2023–11. 2. 2024
The exhibition’s title relates to the thought of the philosopher Timothy Morton, who, in his book Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, defined the ecosystem as interconnectedness and ecological thought as thinking about interconnectedness, as well as what should philosophy of ecology be in this Anthropocene era.
Past exhibitions
Overview painting exhibition
Jurij KalanFractions
7. 9. 2023–12. 11. 2023
While this will be the first presentation of the works by the academy-trained painter Jurij Kalan at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, it will also be his most comprehensive presentation to date. The artist represents a very high artistic level in contemporary fine art, with a very extensive oeuvre that mainly focuses on figurative art.
Overview photographic exhibition
Meta KreseHave you come to stay?
18. 5. 2023–20. 8. 2023
Opening of the exhibition: May 18, 2023 at 7 p.m..The exhibition of photographer Meta Krese will be hitherto the most comprehensive presentation of her photographic series and cycles. The photographer is among the most prominent Slovenian photojournalists, who has established herself in this predominantly male profession.
delo v nadaljevanju
Jasna Hribernikl'avenir
7. 3. 2023–2. 5. 2023
There’s a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, “l’avenir” (to come), which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. (Jacques Derrida)
overview exhibition
Mitja Ficko & Marko JakšeFrom Sky to Sky
30. 11. 2022–12. 2. 2023
What and whom is it that the creative energy is connected with, why and how does it arise? The ones who create do not even concern themselves with it, great volumes indeed have already been written about it and about the art springing from it, volumes were written about artists who carry it within and turn it without.
survey exhibition
Ranko NovakThe Form of the Content. Graphic Design 1974–2022
15. 9. 2022–13. 11. 2022
This exhibition of selected design works by Ranko Novak, who originally trained as an architect, has been timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the architect Jože Plečnik and provides an insight into the work of one of the City Art Gallery’s key external collaborators. Novak has worked with the gallery both on an occasional basis and, from 1989 to 2002, as an associate, during which time he designed nearly all its visual materials and exhibition layouts.
Survey Exhibition
Metod FrlicPillow, low, low, low, mud
14. 6. 2022–28. 8. 2022
This exhibition will be the most extensive presentation to date of works by the academically trained sculptor, Metod Frlic. Frlic is one of Slovenia’s foremost sculptors, seeing sculpture as an open form and using a variety of materials and sculptural techniques. Many of his works expand into the surrounding space, allowing the viewer to move physically through a world of contemporary sculpture of Frlic’s own creation.