Exhibitions

Stane Jagodič, a master of satire, artistic exploration and a pioneer of socially engaged art in Slovenia, presents a comprehensive exhibition of his rich creative oeuvre from the 1970s to the present. Jagodič addresses key societal themes such as ecology, anti-militarism and social justice. He is recognised as one of Slovenia’s most important artists in the field of socially engaged art and various experimental techniques from X-ray art to mail art. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Photon Gallery in Ljubljana, offers a fresh reading of the artist's contribution to Slovenian contemporary art.

The Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts is one of the oldest international biennial events in the world, celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2025. This edition, under the artistic direction of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus Martínez, refers to the oracle in the sense of the ancient term for a place where we meet the future. At the same time, the Biennale explores the power of imagination to renew our faith in freedom and solidarity. In collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), the Biennale will also be on show at City Art Gallery Ljubljana.

Zora Stančič is an established visual artist who, through her extensive body of work, actively shapes contemporary Slovenian fine art. She explores the boundaries of printmaking and its role in modern visual language. Her first such comprehensive presentation at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana offers a thorough selection of graphic artworks, focusing on the diversity of narrative motifs and in-depth exploration of technical and formal execution. The exhibition is curated by Sarival Sosič, PhD, who places the exhibition within the broader context of contemporary artistic practices.

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.  

The exhibition Differences will display sculptural works by contemporary Slovenian academic sculptors, who are diverse both in their artistic poetics and in the use of materials for their artistic expressions, which reflects in their artworks.

Mladen Stropnik’s exhibition project addresses questions of dynamics and perception of various realities in our daily lives. Not only those we are aware of but also all those that can be found beyond the logical and the conscious, in the realms of the strange, impossible, alien, different, including unconsciousness and dreams.

Academic painter and director Robert Černelč successfully, particularly analytically systematically, combines the mediums of painting, video art, and film-making in his artistic work. He expands his activities into the fields of video art, set design, and screenwriting.

The Face of Corporate Building is a research project that explores the various strategies of formulating narratives and specific rhetorical patterns crucial in creating artistic NFT platforms. 

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.

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.

The pop-up exhibition shows the development of the Rubin Sans font in the oeuvre of Honza Zamojski, from the introduction of individual letters in 2014 to the production of the complete version in 2022.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Ian Burns, Piero Pizzi Canella, Tony Cragg, Gunter Damisch, Jim Dine, Oliver Dorfer, Erró, Shepard Fairey, Flavio Favelli, Lucio Fontana, Ivana Franke, Vasilena Gankovska, IRWIN, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Šejla Kamerić, Peterson Kamwathi, William Kentridge, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Jiří Kolář, Joseph Kosuth, Ángel Marcos, Jacques Monory, Ivan Moudov, Hermann Nitsch, Oswald Oberhuber, Cameron Platter, Patricia Piccinini, Sara Rahbar, Arnulf Rainer, Mel Ramos, Hans Staudacher, Mladen Stilinović, Miha Štrukelj, Stinkfish, Marko Tadić, Marco Tirelli, Simón Vega, Erwin Wurm.

The exhibition gives us an insight into the work produced over the past thirty years by Žarko Vrezec, a disciplined explorer of a purified artistic language within the boundaries of ideologically neutral modernist practices, and one of the most actively and explicitly abstract painters on the Slovenian art scene since the late 1970s.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Andrej Brumen Čop, Andreja Gomišček, Jasna Klančišar, Neža Knez, Andrea Knezović, Gašper Kunšič Aprilija Lužar, Miha Satler, strtgm, Filip Vurnik.

The basic tendency to create works of art is always individualistic. It is born out of a personal reaction, escalated into artistic action, from a subjective point of view. This subjective level encapsulates all emotions, ideas, rationality, goals and values. Such art, unencumbered from all modern trends, is created by the self-made artist Samo.