City Art Gallery Ljubljana presents the 2026 programme

Silvester Plotajs Sicoe (5 March–3 May 2026)
Silvester Plotajs Sicoe will be exhibiting at City Art Gallery Ljubljana for the first time. This will be his most extensive exhibition to date, presenting an oeuvre that, over several decades of artistic practice, has been devoted primarily to figuration, often approached in the spirit of late modernism. Both in content and form, his paintings foreground contemporary challenges faced by society and the individual, drawing on personal experience, profound existential questions, and a sense of life’s hedonism, as well as reflections on the position of painting within contemporary visual art. The exhibition, structured to follow his artistic development, will present works created from 1985 to the present. Silvester Plotajs Sicoe received the Student Prešeren Award in 1987 and the Rihard Jakopič Award in 2021. Curator: Dr Sarival Sosič.

Tanja Lažetić (21 May–30 August 2026)
Tanja Lažetić works at the intersection of video, ceramics, performance, artist’s books, and photography, and is among the more prominent Slovenian multidisciplinary artists exploring the various roles of the individual in society. The exhibition presents the conceptual breadth of her practice and the development of her thought, which focuses on issues related to feminism and the position of women in today’s world—a position that, under the weight of expectations and imposed social norms, is often dual, combining vulnerability and resilience. The exhibition traces her work over an extended period, from 1999 to her more recent production, which conceptually and provocatively also engages with the medium of painting, exploring the relationship between error and perfection, the human, and identity. Among other works, several of her iconic projects will be shown together again after a long time, including Presence/Absence (1999), Wherever I am not(2000), Nude Descending (2012), Lilith (2017), and Whore (2010). Tanja Lažetić received the national Rihard Jakopič Award in 2017. Curator: Barbara Sterle Vurnik.

Borut Krajnc (17 September–15 November 2026)
Borut Krajnc is a long-standing photojournalist for the weekly Mladina and one of the most important Slovenian documentary photographers. In 2009, he won the Slovenian Press Photo festival. His practice focuses on socio-political reality, which he observes with exceptional sensitivity and critical distance. His photographs reveal how the media co-create our view of the world and how images shape our understanding of social reality. The exhibition focuses on his extensive socially engaged oeuvre from the past fifteen years, during which, through his photographic series, he closely followed numerous political and social events in Slovenia that have marked our time and place, as well as the individual stories of a wide range of people. Curator: Dr Sarival Sosič.

Strip Core (3 December 2026–8 February 2027)
The multidisciplinary art collective Strip Core has been active continuously since the late 1980s, operating at the intersection of music, comics, visual art, graphic design, and street art. It is characterised by social engagement and a critical reflection on various issues of contemporary time and space. Emerging from impulses of the alternative music scene and related subcultural movements, it became one of the key forces in the development of independent visual and comics production in Slovenia during the 1990s. Its work is marked by collaborative practices that transcend classical divisions between artistic disciplines. The exhibition will present the collective not only as a historical phenomenon but also as a living, engaged organism that continues to serve as a vibrant platform for experimentation, collaboration, and the production of new values and aesthetic concepts that extend beyond the realm of art alone. The exhibition will offer a comprehensive presentation of its rich activity and the current production of its present members. Under the auspices of Strip Core, the international comics magazine Stripburger—one of the oldest publications of its kind in this part of Europe—and the cult international festival Svetlobna gverila were founded. Curators: Barbara Sterle Vurnik and Katerina Mirović.