Exhibitions

This exhibition, "O čem govorim, ko govorim o..." (What I talk about when I talk about...) in the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is without doubt the most extensive and most complex display of Rene Rusjan's creations and work to this day. It reveals the fundamentals of her poetics, which are, predominantly, raising awareness by means of real, direct activity. Transforming her art into a personal culture, what we might, perhaps, call art as a form of self-giving, or an act that manifests within the creative process as an ongoing event that spans the years, a process, authorial meditation perpetually in the making.

Taking the form of a repeat presentation of his "Die Welt ist schön" project staged at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana in 1982, Mandić’s first solo appearance after thirty years of exhibiting and working exclusively with Irwin again offers a view of a segment of his early artistic production. He made the series of images-interventions on standard postcards, crosses, and letters during his one-year stint of military service in Niš.

The artist’s involvement in space reaches beyond the physical limitations of the gallery. Every exhibition project presents a new challenge. Specific layout of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana comprising several floors has led to careful consideration of the most harmonious spatial organization and to the final decision to use only one floor, on which the exhibited works from several periods will be brought together into an autonomous visual whole. 

Artists presented at the exhibition: Aleksandra Domanović, Omer Fast, Vadim Fiškin, Dalibor Martinis, Guy Ben Ner, Nam June Paik, Ivan Petrović, Dubravka Sekulić, Richard Serra, Miha Štrukelj, Bill Viola. How does television – that omnipresent, one-way disseminator of imagery, information, and ideology – affect our daily lives and inform our view of reality?

Artists presented at the exhibition: Joni Zakonjšek, Igor Škafar, Tina Mauko, Meta Krese, Milan Golob, Franc Novinc, Stojan Kerbler, Aldo Kumar. Is it even still possible to find and deliberate on happiness in contemporary art, in a world full of fear and uncertainty? Is happiness still present, has it disappeared, is it reappearing or waning away, does it bare its image or does it cover it with other, worthier and more dramatic themes and subjects?

An Exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the central Ljubljana art gallery, which has left an indelible mark on the history of Slovenian culture with its distinctive program features and made its place in the wider art world with its ramified, internationally conceived program of exhibitions.

The exhibition “Against Art. Goran Djordjević: Copies 1979–1985” is a joint project of Goran Djordjević and the curatorial team that present the works of this body of work through two different exhibition formats: reconstruction and contemporary installation.

Painter Milan Erič’s retrospective exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana (The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana) is the most extensive overview of his artistic output to date. It is conceived as a visually dynamic display of a selected series of drawings, paintings, and objects that the artist often combines, intertwines, adds to, takes apart, or jumbles up, depending on the exhibition space and the exhibition composition as a whole.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Josef Dabernig, Democracia, Jota Castro, Grupa Zvono, Sebastian Errazuriz, Harun Farocki, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Yuri Leiderman, Ingeborg Lüscher, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Ahmet Ögüt, Anri Sala, Cengiz Tekin, Borut Vogelnik, Sislej Xhafa. On the occasion of the European Football Championship, City Art Gallery Ljubljana is preparing an exhibition on the theme of football and art.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Dragica Čadež, Mirsad Begić, Matjaž Počivavšek, Rene Rusjan, Roman Makše, Mirko Bratuša, Metod Frlic, Darko Golija, Damijan Kracina, Boštjan Drinovec, and Marco Juratovec. This exhibition comprises selected works by a number of prominent Slovene sculptors of different generations.

"Sandi Červek has created abstract paintings using only black since 1989. Since they might seem to be sad and hermetic people do not usually relish such works at first sight, however history, especially of modern art knows quite a few artists who devoted themselves to such technique."

What is the correlation between the truth, storytelling and the narratives of history? Can the truth take on visual form? Does truth appear in a different form from untruth? Who is telling the truth? And how do we shape fictions to suit our personal truths?

It is generally acknowledged that comics are a product of the 20th century. Their strength lies in the combination of the visual and the verbal, even though the visual tends to predominate and there are comics that contain no text. In Slovenia, the author is extremely visible; comics showcase individual artists and are often a penetrating artistic expression of the times, society, and culture.

The new program guidelines of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, redefined last year, provide for a number of different headings under which the annual program exhibition projects can be subsumed. An important segment of the gallery program has always been exhibitions focusing on the town of Ljubljana, but now the angle has shifted slightly.

Exhibitions in the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre and Match Gallery are Fabre’s great exhibition comeback. With The Borrowed Time, Umbraculum, The Carnival Of The Dead Street Dogs, and The Catacombs Of The Dead Street Dogs he is represented in retrospective and with recent works.

This exhibition provides a multilayered view of the artistic production of the featured artists and the role, or perhaps simply a visual reflection, of their friendship with the two key protagonists, Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni.

The heterogeneity of Lenárdič’s art – between the media of painting, object, drawing, sound, and video – points to the characteristic mobility and flexibility which direct perception.

The exhibition of selected works by 24 artists and artist groups as well as objects and documents from four Slovenian museums reveal the 38 phrases.

Artists presented at the exhibition: Ervin Babić, Aleksandra Domanović, Dušica Dražić,Neda Firfova, Bekim Gllogu, Ibro Hasanović, Gjorgje Jovanovik,Verica Kovačevska, Arman Kulašić, Mladen Miljanović, Alban Muja, Fatmir Mustafa – Carlo, Andrea Palašti, Vedran Perkov, Renata Poljak, Danilo Prnjat, Irena Sladoje, SofijaSilvia, son:DA, Small but Dangers, Ivana Smiljanić, Mladen Stropnik, Goran Ŝkofić, Marko Tadić, Nikola Uzunovski, Katarina Zdjelar, Lulzim Zeqiri, Velimir Zernovski.

Exhibition (1998–2010) of Chinese-Slovenian artist presents her best works from numerous series over last 12 years. She lives the Asian-European experience in her own way, as a sensitive creator, that unites ontological experiences in art and culture of the Western and the Eastern traditions.