Exhibitions

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].  

Artists presented at the exhibition: Azra Akšamija, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Nemanja Cvijanović, Vlasta Delimar, Goran Đorđević, Stano Filko, Andreas Fogarasi, Liljana Gjuzelova & Sašo Stanojkoviќ, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Flaka Haliti, Albert Heta, IRWIN, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Ivan Moudov, Ilona Németh, Vesna Pavlović, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Tadej Pogačar, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak + Interim Study Room: Dragoljub Raša Todosijević, Jugoslovenska dokumeta, Podroom, ArtLeaks, L. Logar, Támas St. Auby, Miklosz Erdely & Indigo Group, Artpool.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Goran Đorđević, Bojan Gorenec, Igor Grubić, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Irwin,Duša Jesih, Kazimir Malevič, Vlado Martek, Radenko Milak, Vladimir Nikolić,Dimitry Orlac, Tanja Ostojić, Mladen Stilinović, Dragoljub Raša Todosijević. On the occasion of the centenary of this key Suprematist object of early twentieth-century historical avant-garde art, City Art Gallery Ljubljana is hosting a themed group exhibition presenting a selection of artists from the territories of our former common country of Yugoslavia.

Artists presented at the exhibition: academic painter and interdisciplinary artist Miha Vipotnik, comic book author Iztok Sitar, academic painter Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, academic painter Vladimir Leben, academic painter, philosopher and comic book author Izar Lunaček, academic painter Barbara Jurkovšek, graduated photographer Manca Juvan and photographer Matjaž Rušt.

Following the first presentation of Bojan Gorenec’s work at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana) in 1990 (entitled Painting 1982–1990), "How Paintings Emerge (Paintings 1979–2014)" exhibition is one of the major artist's exhibitions; the catalogue will include a theoretical essay by the artist on the status of painting today as well as a study by Dr. Tomislav Vignjević.