Exhibitions

Artists presented at the exhibition: Suzana Brborović, Špela Čadež, Olja Grubić, Duša Jesih, Simona Semenič & Nada Žgank, Maja Smrekar. Following last year’s group exhibition of male painters, provocatively entitled "Better Doggy Style Than No Style", staging a show featuring an all-female selection was a must this year, in part also due to last year’s polemics a propos the not yet eradicated discrimination against women in society, and therefore in art and culture.

Retrospective exhibition gives an overview of the sixty-year practice of Tomislav Gotovac  a.k.a. Antonio G. Lauer (Sombor, 1937 – Zagreb, 2010), a pioneer in many different media, from experimental to structural film, from happening to actions and performances.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Polona Demšar, Aleksandra Saška Gruden, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Anže Jurkovšek, Spiro Mason, Mojca Smerdu, Jožef Vrščaj, Tomaž Zarifa. The exhibition is a continuation of the theoretical and exhibition research of contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a varied selection of artworks from some of the most prominent Slovenian academic sculptors.

Tugo Šušnik, so it seems, could not have defined his forty-four years of artistic activity in the public eye in a more radical manner and with more self-irony than he did by means of the metaphorical title he selected for his overview exhibition, which is personified by the famous character of Quasimodo from the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo.

The group exhibition entitled "Symptoms of Society" focuses on presentation of artworks from different generations, countries and mediums dealing with their historical and political specificities and social circumstances as well as addressing global issues. To facilitate dialogue between works by artists of different generations and preferences in terms of media, and to present a coherent picture of the region, the selection of works was based on their themes and subjects. 

The Podroom Gallery at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade opened the exhibition of Dušan Mandić, entitled “Vojak D.M. Die Welt ist Schön”, which was on view at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana from December 2013 to January 2014. He is considered the first artist in Slovenia to have transferred graffiti painting from the urban/street space to the gallery space.  

Artists presented at the exhibition: Vahram Aghasyan, Ovidiu Anton, Dušica Dražić, Thibaut Espiau, Anna Friz, Anne Harild, Minna Henriksson, Kud Obrat (Stefan Doepner, Urška Jurman, Polonca Lovšin, Apolonija Šušteršič), Tanja Lažetić, Ivan Moudov, Alban Muja, Géraldine Py & Roberto Verde, Maruša Sagadin, Miha Štrukelj, Efrat Vital, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič.

Winner of the 31st edition of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015) Ištvan Išt Huzjan presents a series of works from the past few years at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. Some of the works have already been shown as part of various group or solo exhibitions, but this particular exhibition is laid out based on two conceptual foundations divided spatially in accordance with the gallery's physical space.

The group exhibition entitled "Symptoms of Society" focuses on presentation of artworks from different generations, countries and mediums dealing with their historical and political specificities and social circumstances as well as addressing global issues. To facilitate dialogue between works by artists of different generations and preferences in terms of media, and to present a coherent picture of the region, the selection of works was based on their themes and subjects.

On the initiative of the Musiz Foundation, the Vivacom Art Hall Gallery in Sofia inaugurated Ulay’s exhibition entitled “I Other”, which was on view at Ljubljana’s City Art Gallery from December 2016 to February 2017. In addition to certain projects that now form part of the canon of performance art and photography, the exhibition also puts on view the unknown, ephemeral documents of Ulay’s long career in art, showcasing often ignored artistic materials such as journals, drawings, travel photography, sound recordings, and so on.  

Artists presented at the exhibition: Seza Paker, Ayşe Erkmen, Ali Kazma. A murmur is a whisper; it is barely a sound. In Greek, mormurein is used to refer to humming as well as to gleaming.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Uroš Abram, Rajko Bizjak, Robert Černelč, Ana Čigon, Jurij Kalan, Tina Kolenik, Samo, Kamila Volčanšek. The exhibition "Corporeality" continues with the research and display of paintings, photography and video art in contemporary Slovenian culture, based on a selected theme or content.

Active on the international art scene since the late 1960s, Frank Uwe Laysiepen, better known as Ulay, has been featured in numerous group shows and a number of solo exhibitions, yet his "I Other" exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is his first major solo presentation in the region. 

Pera Museum’s "Cold Front from the Balkans" exhibition brought together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. The exhibition focused on different generations of artists and art groups from the Balkan region.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Viktor Bernik, Žiga Kariž, Gorazd Krnc, Arjan Pregl, Sašo Vrabič and Miha Štrukelj. The selected painters are not only joined by their age (all born in the early 1970s), but also by their similar approaches regarding the questions of representation / representativeness of painting, which received new answers during the 1990s.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Dragan Arrigler, Primož Bizjak, Rajko Bizjak, Bojan Brecelj, Jure Breceljnik, Božidar Dolenc, Jure Eržen, Saša Fuis, Boris Gaberščik, Tomaž Gregorič, Irena Herak, Lado Jakša, Manca Juvan, Žiga Koritnik, Peter Koštrun, Miško Kranjec, Branko Lenart, Tomaž Lunder, Milan Pajk, Herman Pivk, Janez Pukšič, Bojan Radovič, Klavdij Sluban, Tone Stojko, Jože Suhadolnik, Jendo Štoviček, Jane Štravs, Aleksandra Vajd & Hynek Alt, Tanja Verlak, Franci Virant, Antonio Živkovič.

Upside Down: Hosting the Critique is a co-curatorial cross-disciplinary exhibition, which focuses on the transformation of the role(s) of museums, galleries and other public institutions in the production, presentation and collection of contemporary art in periods of transition and the part played by artists and independent artist-run spaces in these activities.Opening of the exhibition on Friday, 24 June at 7 pm at Belgrade City Museum.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Drago Tršar, Milena Braniselj, Marko A. Kovačič, Vit Rozman, Elena Fajt, Tobias Putrih, Katja Oblak and Jure Fingušt. The group exhibition "Waves in Sculpture" continues the thematic series of exhibitions that analyze contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a selection of some of the most renowned Slovenian academic sculptors of all ages and gender.

Our presentation of Kožarić’s works is the most comprehensive in Slovenia to date, and has been staged in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) in Zagreb. Conceived in well-rounded topical cross-sections of the artist’s exceptionally copious oeuvre, it includes over 200 sculptures, objects, assemblages, readymades, paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and textiles.

An exhaustive insight into artistic functioning, often related to the elementarity of everyday and caught in creative stories, is also provided by the overall exhibition of the academic painter Zvonko Čoh. The visual journey into numerous artistic narratives is taking place in his so-far most comprehensive exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana (MGML), titled "Capriccio – Vse, kar vidim, počečkam" [Capriccio—I Doodle over Whatever I See].