Exhibitions

Active since the late 1980s, Strip Core is a socially engaged multidisciplinary collective central to Slovenia’s independent art and comics scene. The exhibition presents its legacy and ongoing production, including Stripburger and Svetlobna gverila.

The exhibition presents the socially engaged photographic work of Mladina's photojournalist Borut Krajnc, one of Slovenia’s key documentary photographers, whose images critically document the country’s political and social realities over the past fifteen years.

Tanja Lažetić is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores feminism, female identity, and social roles. The exhibition spans her practice from 1997 to the present, bringing together key works and examining themes of vulnerability, resilience, and identity.

Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, an academic painter, presents his most extensive and in-depth overview exhibition to date at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. The exhibition, entitled How to Dream Backwards?, is a carefully conceived selection of works in which the artist has attained personal painterly and narrative maturity – the refinement he has persistently, thoroughly, and patiently pursued since the very beginning of his career.

Stane Jagodič is one of Slovenia's most prominent contemporary visual artists in the domain of socially engaged art. The exhibition presents his rich creative path since the 1970s, highlighting the synthesis of his experimental approaches within the expanded fields of photography, drawing and printmaking, where his characteristic concerns with ecology, social justice, solidarity, anti-militarism, technological progress and the search for balance between them are expressed with particular clarity.

The Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, which celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2025, announces its 36th edition under the artistic direction of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus Martínez, with City Art Gallery Ljubljana as one of the main exhibition venues.

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.