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Exhibitions

Current Plečnik House
Dorit Margreiter Choy
Dorit Margreiter Choy A Structure, a Book, We and the Garden
26. 5. 2023–17. 9. 2023

Through these collaborations, they aim to reinvigorate and translate Plečnik's work into the present. Dorit Margreiter Choy's artistic intervention at Plečnik House as a historically marked site, including the architectural structures, the garden, and display elements, deals with the relationship between past and present, between living space and workspace, and the complicated interplay between private and public.

Current Match Gallery
Lighting Guerrilla: Space
Lighting Guerrilla: Space
22. 5. 2023–27. 8. 2023

The 17th edition of the international Lighting Guerrilla festival, based in and around the Match Gallery, will explore issues of space, which is also its central subject. Space, that ungraspable and infinite given, in which the totality of reality unfolds on the temporal line, raises many questions and, at the same time, a series of issues of great relevance to many aspects of contemporary life.

Current City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Meta Krese
Overview photographic exhibition
Meta Krese Have you come to stay?
18. 5. 2023–20. 8. 2023

Opening of the exhibition: May 18, 2023 at 7 p.m..

The exhibition of photographer Meta Krese will be hitherto the most comprehensive presentation of her photographic series and cycles. The photographer is among the most prominent Slovenian photojournalists, who has established herself in this predominantly male profession.

Current Bezigrad Gallery 2
Borut Krajnc
Photographs 2005–2021
Borut Krajnc Like Here and Beyond
17. 5. 2023–24. 6. 2023

The cycles Emptiness, Pressure and Transition featuring documentary photographs taken between 2005 and 2021 reveal the authors eye for local and global socio-political phenomena. With a clever conceptual approach he tackles current dilemmas of the capitalistic economy, the press and the post-COVID society.

Current Bezigrad Gallery 1
Tina Konec
Drawings 2020–2023
Tina Konec Layering / Manganeses and Outlines
10. 5. 2023–20. 6. 2023

The Manganese series and the Outlines series.
The painter’s more recent medium-format artwork was created daily in the form of artistic diary entries. Her focus is on exploring nature and the artistic medium through drawing – her main means of expression.

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Archaeological park Emona
Archaeological park Emona
6. 5. 2023–8. 10. 2023

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. 

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Ivan Cankar Memorial Room
Ivan Cankar Memorial Room
27. 4. 2023–29. 10. 2023

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.

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Odkrijmo umetnost, razkrijmo lepoto!
Odkrijmo umetnost, razkrijmo lepoto! Komunikacijska akcija podprta s priložnostno razstavo
25. 4. 2023–20. 8. 2023

Muzeji smo včasih nepričakovano deležni medijske pozornosti globalnih razsežnosti. In to ne nujno zaradi razstave, ki jo odpiramo. Včasih se delu javnosti naše zbirke ali to, kako jih interpretiramo, zdi kontroverzno in tako se znajdemo v središču zanimanja medijev in splošne javnosti. 

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Ancient walls for modern people
Ancient walls for modern people 10 years of adventures in the Archaeological Park Emona
6. 4. 2023–3. 9. 2023

The Emona Archaeological Park, with its 2000-year-old remains of the Roman colony of Emona, forms part of Ljubljana city centre. Development of the park began in the 1930s. During the most recent restoration work, 10 years ago, we decided to protect and revitalise the Emonan remains by creating an exciting programme and encouraging the public to visit. Today, where ancient walls once stood, we now create, learn and amuse ourselves.

Current Cultural Centre Tobačna 001
Tobacco Museum
Tobacco Museum
Permanent exhibition

The Tobacco Museum offers a glimpse into part of Ljubljana's rich industrial heritage. The museum's presentation was created in close cooperation and from the collections of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and Tobacco Ljubljana.

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Oton Župančič: Drawings
Oton Župančič: Drawings “Pinxi me ergo sum” / “I have painted myself, therefore I am"
30. 3. 2023–30. 9. 2023

 The exhibition presents 158 artworks from seven sketchbooks and folders with individual drawings, which could be often distinguished by the same impulses we encounter in his poetry.

Current Jakopič Gallery
Ripples
Ripples A Visual Diary of Water
14. 2. 2023–4. 6. 2023

The core visual story of the exhibition project Ripples: A Visual Diary of Water is narrated by cutting-edge water-themed photographs from the archives of the Dutch photography agency NOOR Images. The project is based on a re-questioning of gallery settings practice whether expensive frames, large formats and high-end display equipment really make the photographs and the exhibition more meaningful. Over 15 years of activity in Jakopič Gallery we have accumulated a lot of materials, which were up-cycled through the co-creative process. The concept and the experience of the exhibition it is also supported with soundscapes.

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
A mysterious grave without a body
A mysterious grave without a body Two Emonan burials in Argentina Park
8. 2. 2023–8. 10. 2023

In July and August 2022, during renovation of the hot water supply system in Argentina Park, archaeological research was carried out in the area between Štefanova ulica and Puharjeva ulica. The excavations uncovered part of Roman Emona’s northern cemetery. At one time, this would have extended along the road leading to Celeia (today’s Celje).

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Plečnik: The Metropolis, Place, Garden
Plečnik Year 2022
Plečnik: The Metropolis, Place, Garden
22. 6. 2022–27. 8. 2023

A central exhibition of the Plečnik Year 2022 sheds light on Plečnik’s architectural oeuvre and unveils numerous innovative ideas and techniques, which this multifaceted artist used in his diverse fields of creative work. The exhibition offers an opportunity for a reflection on Plečnik’s ideas and an artistic view of them in the 21st century.

Current Villa Zlatica
Ivan Hribar and the Ljubljana Bourgeoisie
Poklon Ivanu Hribarju in njegovi hčerki dr. Zlatici Hribar
Ivan Hribar and the Ljubljana Bourgeoisie
Permanent exhibition

Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.

Current City Museum of Ljubljana
Ljubljana. History. City.
Find your own favourite period in Ljubljana’s history!
Ljubljana. History. City. Discover the Spirit of the City!
Permanent exhibition

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!

Current Plečnik House
Plečnik House with a permanent 'Plečnik' exhibition
a pearl of Slovenian cultural heritage of 20th century
Plečnik House with a permanent 'Plečnik' exhibition
Permanent exhibition

“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.

Upcoming Plečnik House
Vlasto Kopač
Vlasto Kopač
16. 6. 2023–8. 10. 2023

The exhibition is being developed for the 110th anniversary of Vlasto Kopač’s birth, which we will commemorate in 2023. The architect Kopač began studying architecture in 1934 at the Department of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. Between 1937 and 1940, he worked as a draughtsman for professor Jože Plečnik.

Upcoming Jakopič Gallery
SUSAN MEISELAS
SUSAN MEISELAS Mediations
20. 6. 2023–22. 10. 2023

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York and a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She creates works that raises provocative questions about documentary practice and the relationship between the photographer and the subject. The exhibition Mediations highlights her unique working method, which combines photography, video, sound and installation to explore different time scales and conflicts, from the personal to the geopolitical.

Upcoming City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Jurij Kalan
Overview exhibition
Jurij Kalan
7. 9. 2023–12. 11. 2023

While this will be the first presentation of the works by the academy-trained painter Jurij Kalan at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, it will also be his most comprehensive presentation to date. The artist represents a very high artistic level in contemporary fine art, with a very extensive oeuvre that mainly focuses on figurative art.

Upcoming Match Gallery
Dominik Mahnič
Dominik Mahnič
19. 9. 2023–5. 11. 2023

Dominik Mahnič is an academic painter, a master of video and one of the most active and lucid street art artists in Slovenia. His artistic work focuses primarily on the exploration of the mechanical dissolution of the holistic image. For the exhibition at the Vžigalica Gallery, he is designing a robotic arm that will paint artworks according to the visitors' wishes through an artificial intelligence interface.

Upcoming Plečnik House
STELE AND PLEČNIK
STELE AND PLEČNIK
20. 10. 2023–28. 1. 2024

The exhibition, an ongoing collaboration with the ZRC SAZU France Stele Institute of Art History, will present the close relationship between Dr. France Stele and Plečnik, which was both professional and a true friendship, which we can read from the extensive correspondence that Stele preserved. During the construction of Plečnik’s projects in Ljubljana, Stele was the head conservator and the head of the Monument Office.

Upcoming City Museum of Ljubljana
V ozadju
V ozadju
26. 10. 2023–18. 2. 2024

Razstava je plod sodelovanja konservatorske službe MGML, ALUO, Oddelka za restavratorstvo, Restavratorskega centra ZVKDS in drugih številnih zunanjih sodelavcev.

Upcoming Jakopič Gallery
Slovenian women artists in the period 1850-1950
Slovenian women artists in the period 1850-1950
14. 11. 2023–25. 2. 2024

In cooperation with the City Museum of Ljubljana, we will organise an exhibition on Slovenian women artists in the period 1850-1950. The aim of the two-part exhibition is to present female artists in Ljubljana who presented themselves to the public during the selected period and who, despite the social conventions of the time, established themselves in the public space. The museum will focus on women painters and sculptors, while the gallery will focus on women architects, designers and photographers.

Upcoming City Museum of Ljubljana
Kaj bi dekleta morala vedeti?
Kaj bi dekleta morala vedeti? Slovenske umetnice v obdobju 1850–1950
14. 11. 2023–25. 2. 2024

Dejstvo je, da so ženske ustvarjale skozi vso zgodovino likovne umetnosti. A je bilo njihovo delo zaradi poenostavljanja in izčiščevanja, ki ju zahteva umetnostna kronologija, ves čas prepuščeno pozabi. Poveličevanje posameznikov in ustvarjanje mitov je v zgodovinopisju dovoljevalo le vpis posameznic, kot je v slovenskem primeru denimo Ivana Kobilca.

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