Exhibitions
The exhibition of posters designed by students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Ljubljana offers an insight into diverse interpretations of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and is connected, both in content and in form, with the exhibition1495 Days Ljubljana During World War II. The graphic statements, created during the academic years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 as part of the course Visual Analysis of Graphic Products 2, build a bridge between the past and the present, with a view to a free future.
Silvester Plotajs Sicoe, an academic painter, presents his most extensive and in-depth overview exhibition to date at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. The exhibition, entitled How to Dream Backwards?, is a carefully conceived selection of works in which the artist has attained personal painterly and narrative maturity – the refinement he has persistently, thoroughly, and patiently pursued since the very beginning of his career.
The exhibition in the museum Treasury is dedicated to presenting archaeological finds from the excavations at the new National and University Library (NUK II) site, conducted in 2024 and 2025 by the ZVKDS, Centre for Preventive Archaeology (CPA). On display will be several particularly interesting small finds, among which stands out a small bronze figurine of Priapus, the deity of fertility and the protector of livestock and gardens.
The exhibition of selected works by the doyen of Slovenian modern painting, a pedagogue and author of university textbooks on art education methodology and theory, features drawings, paintings, and a series of small sculptures marked by the artist’s most intimate and expressive depictions.
The presentation of the artist, who through photography and memory—by sequencing and layering short diagonal lines on the base surface—creates an image of decaying nature, portrays the world within its ecosystem, its degradability and transience, and addresses us on the importance of shared coexistence.
Plečnik’s urban projects reflect a unique blend of classical and modernist styles and shape the identity of today’s Ljubljana. His works are renowned for their innovative use of spoliation – the reuse of historical architectural elements or spolia, which he skilfully integrated into his architectural designs. Plečnik's use of spolia is highlighted in the exhibition and accompanying publication ‘Repurpose, Reinterpret: Tracing Spolia and Reuse in Plečnik’s Ljubljana’.
In the exhibition Temporary Address, we present 17 authors selected through the participants of the Up Close: Photography as a Way of Seeing study group. Their projects are imbued with feelings of closeness and familiarity, vulnerability and change, as well as an awareness of their own transience. They recreate ambients and question the meaning of the various spaces we inhabit.
The study of stones from the periods of ancient art and architecture and the Baroque.
After its successful presentation at the Plečnik House, the exhibition 'Master Woodcarver Maks Bergant and Plečnik: The Charm of Wood' moved to Kamnik – the town where Bergant spent most of his creative life. Its display at the Inter-municipal Museum Kamnik at Zaprice Castle is both a tribute to a local artist and an opportunity for visitors to discover a valuable heritage that was born in Kamnik yet transcended local boundaries.
The exhibition, which marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, presents the key events that took place in Ljubljana during the occupation. It highlights the everyday lives of residents during the war, their personal choices, the violence of the occupiers, and the organized resistance. Through individual stories, it reveals the difficult dilemmas people faced in the most challenging times and encourages visitors to reflect on peace, war, and the culture of nonviolence – themes that remain relevant to this day.
Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.
How well do you know the rich history of Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle and New Ages, the 20th and 21st centuries… what is the history of Ljubljana? Get to know Ljubljana's past - see the chronological presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia of heritage with precious authentic artefacts, like the world's oldest wooden wheel with an axle!
“A tower, a mule, me and the garden” – that is how Jože Plečnik imagined his life when he didn’t know yet that after Vienna and Prague his native Ljubljana would be his lifetime’s environment for his creative work.
The exhibition The Painting Race by the anonymous Italian art trio CANEMORTO at the Match Gallery represents the final part of a series on the plurality of approaches, techniques, and positions in painting as a medium. It is conceived as a playful futuristic presentation of the art world as a system in which artists and their works constantly compete for attention, recognition, and market opportunities.
An annual exhibition of poets that combines literary and visual arts into a holistic image using various prints and typographies. The creativity of visual and concrete poetry is based on the letter, which as a means of formative expression gains greater visual and textual message.
Ivan Cankar, a Slovenian author, playwright and essayist born in 1876 in Vrhnika, spent a few years of his life in Ljubljana. Having returned from Vienna to Ljubljana, he established himself on Rožnik Hill which today forms part of the Tivoli, Rožnik and Šišenski hrib landscape park.
Survey exhibition of the photographic works of the IRWIN art collective will present, for the first time, more than 90 photographs by one of the most important internationally active Slovenian artist groups. The exhibition encompasses records of their artistic interventions, performances and temporary installations, as well as conceptually designed artworks in their own right, spanning four decades of production.
A special place in Ljubljana's history is reserved for Roman Emona, the traces of which have been preserved in the very centre of the city.
Welcome to a trail tracing the 2000-year-old heritage of Emona. A walk through modern Ljubljana can take you further than you think! It takes you to the time of Emona, a city brimming with life between the first century and early sixth century.
Tanja Lažetić is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores feminism, female identity, and social roles. The exhibition spans her practice from 1997 to the present, bringing together key works and examining themes of vulnerability, resilience, and identity.
In collaboration with Fotomuseum Den Haag we are preparing an exhibition by the renowned Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra, entitled Ordinary People. Over the past twenty years, Hornstra has created a portrait of our times by photographing people in their everyday lives. In Ljubljana the photographer will also premiered several newer works from the Europeans series, which he is developing with artist Arnold van Bruggen.
The main exhibition of the 20th edition of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival, one of the most visited exhibition projects of the Match Gallery, will be marked by the theme of Diversities in 2026.