Publications
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 ...
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 ...
Academic painter Jurij Kalan presented his works for the first time at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, and at the same time, this is his most comprehensive presentation to date. ...
The exhibition of photographer Meta Krese is the most comprehensive presentation of her photographic series or cycles so far. At this exhibition, the artist places (or takes) somewhat personal photo ...
The publication is designed as a walk through the rich creative oeuvre of Jasna Hribernik, a film director and one of the most important prominent Slovenian intermedia creators, who has ...
Academic painters Mitja Ficko and Marko Jakše presented a series of jointly created paintings and works on paper entitled From Sky to Sky that were already created in 2014 and ...
Metod 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 ...
Artists presented at the exhibition: Ian Burns, Piero Pizzi Canella, Tony Cragg, Gunter Damisch, Jim Dine, Oliver Dorfer, Erró, Shepard Fairey, Flavio Favelli, Lucio Fontana, Ivana Franke, Vasilena Gankovska, IRWIN, ...
The overview exhibition gives us an insight into the work produced over the past thirty years by Žarko Vrezec, a disciplined explorer of a purified artistic language within the boundaries ...
Artists presented at the exhibition: Andrej Brumen Čop, Andreja Gomišček, Jasna Klančišar, Neža Knez, Andrea Knezović, Gašper Kunšič Aprilija Lužar, Miha Satler, strtgm, Filip Vurnik.
The basic tendency to create works of art is always individualistic. It is born out of a personal reaction, escalated into artistic action, from a subjective point of view. This ...
Learning and Forgetting (City Art Gallery Ljubljana, 2021) was the first major solo presentation by the architect, sculptor and educator Jože Barši since 2013. It provided an insight into ...
Sixteen polyphonic, critical, constructive and imaginative voices drew up a feminist vocabulary spanning across strategies, forms of action and utopian endeavours to help rethink collective action, co-operation, solidarity and shared ...
Academically trained sculptress Dragica Čadež marks the Slovenian artistic or cultural space with great creative energy. Through her distinct artistic language, she has created an extensive opus of various series, ...
The exhibition of visual, audio and interactive installations was produced by established female artists Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Polona Tratnik, who have been active at the ...
"Exhibition with Many Titles" was accompanied by the publication of the volume titled Ta knjiga je boljša od idealne (This Book is Better than Ideal). The 300 pages long volume contains ...
"It was the first time I took a thorough look at it, it was lying on the river bank and shimmering unusually, it was a sunny day and the clear ...
Academic sculptor and academician Drago Tršar has for many decades marked the Slovenian artistic space with a great creative energy and author's recognizable artistic language. He represents one of the ...
This exhibition and catalogue is an invitation to explore a variety of historical and geographical connections between Europe, especially its Easts, and the Middle East, particularly Egypt, with the Suez ...
From its inception in 1999 and its first public manifestation at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Tadej Pogačar’s "CODE:RED" has seen numerous presentations, interpretations, and analyses.
Exhibit A brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed artists whose response to the complex problems plaguing modern society consists in the use of forensic aesthetics and scientific tools of physics, sociology, ...
Rather than a classic retrospective overview, exhibition of Marjan Gumilar’s painting at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana thematically revolves around one of the main recurring and constitutive elements in his ...
Iztok Sitar aka Ninel (this is an anagram, which can be read backwards) is among the most significant comic book artists in Slovenia. His body of work is extensive, and ...
The selected artists are at different stages in their career: some have just entered the field of contemporary visual art while others have already drawn considerable attention, in Slovenia and ...
As he stated in several interviews, some also reprinted in this publication, Tomislav Gotovac did not have an exhibitionist’s easy attitude to nudity. He found it quite hard – even ...
Exhibition "Densifying "is an intimate experience, as we live within the world of metaphors, concepts and relations, some exclusively general, others subjective. In the world of multiplicity of individuals, sculptures ...
Winner of the 31st edition of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015) Ištvan Išt Huzjan presented a series of works from the past few years at the City Art ...
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 ...
"Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory" unveils strategies that artists employ in dealing with urban architecture and range from investigating the construction process, researching architectural structures and materials to analysing ...
The meaning is considered to come from the sound made by leaves rubbing against each other, referred to as rustling. Life blossoms within this bare murmur. The sounds heard are ...
Visual art is to a large degree the art of the body, as its mission is to create images, which are most often connected with the body as the object ...
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 ...
More than merely the principal document of the "I Other" exhibition, this publication is also conceived as an afterword to it and the unique tale of it, recounting the idea ...
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 ...
The group exhibition "Waves in Sculpture" continues the thematic series of exhibitions that analyse contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a selection of some of the most renowned Slovenian academic sculptors of ...
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 ...
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"Inside Out - Not So White Cube" is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and CC ...
"Inside Out - Not So White Cube" is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art
On the occasion of the centenary of this key Suprematist object of early twentieth-century historical avant-garde art, City Art
Examples of Laughter in Art features artists of different generations, with widely varied personal poetics, who, in their work, deal more or less openly with themes, forms and variations on ...
With his creative practice, Žiga Kariž has since the mid-1990s represented not only one of the central but also one of the most controversial contemporary painters. His way to refurnish ...
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 (1979–2014)" exhibition is one of ...
With a selected and refined concept these exhibition and catalogue put emphasis on the structure, form, composition, the variety of themes and materials and spatial possibilities of sculpture.
This is not an exhibition catalogue. Neither is it a monograph of an artist. And it is not an artist’s book either. It is a book. A book, whose dramaturgy ...
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“Born in stars, we live on earth as poets.” In a Hegelian twist, English poet, painter, and mystic William Blake's notion could also read born on earth, we live in ...
This exhibition, "What I Talk About When I Talk About…" in the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana is without doubt the most extensive and most complex display of Rene Rusjan's ...
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 ...
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 ...
How does television – that omnipresent, one-way disseminator of imagery, information, and ideology – affect our daily lives and inform our view of reality? The exhibition is not intended to ...
People are multi-layered, plural, multi-sensual systems, we are subjects composed of body and soul, we are the sites where an infinite multitude of feelings and perceptions erupt, where art is ...
An Exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the central Ljubljana art gallery, which has left an indelible mark in the history of Slovenian culture with its distinctive program features and ...
Painter Milan Erič’s retrospective exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is the most extensive overview of his artistic output to date. It is conceived as a visually dynamic display ...
What do sports and art, or more precisely, football and art have in common? The idea behind the exhibition entitled The Beautiful Game is not to ponder about and draw ...
The exhibition offers an emotional and formal approach to sculpture which, in spite of its variety, appears as a major work of art, with various degrees of comprehension, recognition, association, ...
Sandi Červek has been creating abstract paintings using only black since 1989. Since they might seem sad and hermetic people do not usually relish such works at first sight, however ...
The exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and catalogue concentrates on the role of drawing in Slovene comics from inception to the present day. In this medium the drawing ...
"The Borrowed Time" comprises photographs of stage performances of Jan Fabre made by masters of photography of the latter part of the twentieth century. They are a metamorphosis of a ...
There are quite a few stories about Ljubljana institutions such as Ljudmila, which played a crucial role, particularly in the 1990s, in creating the local art scene, each in its ...
Goran Djordjević has been active in the art scene from the mid seventies as one of the protagonists of the so-called “analytic line” of Belgrade conceptualism. In 1979, he has ...
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 ...
What is the position of the Shuffle exhibition in relation to the existing reality? Always a critical and insightful observer of reality, its everyday aspects, representations, and theoretical interpretations, Lenárdič ...
What happens if we divest language of figurativeness and start taking it literally, word for word? With a number of selected idioms of the Slovenian language as our points of ...
First and foremost, it brought us up against the dilemma of how to “shortlist” the artists that we should meet, or rather, that others might think we should meet. We ...
"My life is at the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures… Life changes and I change with it, but change takes time… This has taught me to go with fate ...
