Exhibitions

#The Architect of Light" is the first retrospective exhibition of the architectural photography of Damjan Gale. An architect by profession, between 1974 and 1993 Gale created a striking photographic oeuvre. If Janez Kališnik is the pioneer of architectural photography in Slovenia, then Damjan Gale may be considered the first photographer to have encouraged theoretical reflections on architectural photography as a distinct genre, thereby leaving an indelible impression.

The "Tree" project and exhibition are the result of a collaboration between the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and five Slovenian academies and universities educating future photographers. It is a creative response to the conceptual triggers that have inspired Ljubljana through its European Green Capital title as well as the "Genesis" exhibition of photographs by the globally renowned Sebastião Salgado.

A retrospective exhibition by an important Slovenian artist with an impressive oeuvre, but who has yet to get his due. The exhibition "Memory of Earth" presents the highlights of his oeuvre in various art mediums and is accompanied by a publication that illuminates all of the artist's phases and cycles.

As one of the main cultural projects of the 2016 European Green Capital, the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana is presenting the momentous exhibition "Genesis", a project by the world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado.

The exhibition "ALUO LXX. Past, Present, Future" is dedicated to the anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, at the time known as the Academy of Representational Art, introducing its regular academic programmes. It was seventy years ago, on 14 January 1946, that lessons were initiated by the subsequent chancellor Božidar Jakac and six full professors who had set the fundamental guidelines of the art education process.

As one of the main, now traditional, venues of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, the Jakopič Gallery is also taking part in the 31st edition of the biennial in 2015. Titled "Over you/you", the biennial takes its starting point from a thought hastily scribbled in a corner of one of Martin Kippenberger’s drawings, and is combining traditional and not so traditional forms of graphic art production, presenting them as sites where political and aesthetic operations find a common ground.

A strong personal touch, classical understanding of art and a master's sense of complex sculpting materials are intrinsic to the work of Stojan Batič, a sculptor of the first post-WW2 generation of the 20th century whose retrospect entitled "The Man and the Myth" is on display in the Jakopič Gallery.

With the exhibition "Fifth Element" the Jakopič Gallery continues in its path of presenting quality photography, this time we will again put the spotlight on a Slovenian photographer. Marko Modic is one of the more important photographers from the mid-generation of Slovenian artists, who has lately been mostly exhibiting abroad.

Muzeum Theatre was established in April 1994, its aim having been to explore five separate spheres of art and the relations between them: visual arts, architecture (space – time), drama (history), music (sound), movement (gesture). Forty-four events were produced in the period 1994–2014, the structures of which were exploring the relations and borders between individual spheres of arts and humanities.

In the year 2014 Jakopič Gallery is one of the exhibition venues of 24th Biennial of Design BIO 50, which marks 50 years of the oldest international design event in Europe. Jakopič Gallery returns as one of the main locations of the event with a long tradition, since it was, in the 50-year history, often its central venue.

Josef Koudelka, one of the world’s most acknowledged masters of photography, a member of Magnum Photos and the winner of prestigious photography prizes, who has to date shown his work in major centres of photography and contemporary art around the world, is presented in Slovenia for the first time at the Jakopič Gallery.

On the 90th anniversary of the renowned Slovene academic painter Jože Ciuha's birth, the Jakopič Gallery is presenting a retrospective exhibition of his works. His diverse creativity has left an indelible mark on almost seven decades of Slovenian art.

Jakopič Gallery is one of the main venues of the Biennial of Graphic Arts since 2009. This year the gallery is hosting the exhibition of Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, who was awarded with Grand Prix at the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana.

Niko Matul is one of the most prominent Slovenian film artists. As a production designer he participated in an immense number of Slovenian films, those that have entered our collective memory as nostalgic, ground-breaking, exceptional achievements in the moving image.

The exhibition "What is, and What is Possible" is an introduction to this year's Exodos festival, whose curator is Tim Etchells. As a visual artist, Etchells appears within the framework of a solo exhibition at the Jakopič Gallery.

The "Fragments of Unspoken Thoughts" exhibition tries to juxtapose some historical works with contemporary works which will widely contextualise the issue of so called "romantic" or "warm" conceptualism or it's legacy through the prism of artistic practices from differnet generations and different geo-political conditions.

The Jakopič Gallery is the main exhibition venue of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) and the EarZoom sonic arts festival 2012. It is featuring a selection of works by different artists and includes spatial sound installations and interactive pieces, which deal with the perception of sound and space as well as with the perception of time during sonic reception.

"Magnum’s First: The Face of Time" is the very first group exhibition of Magnum Photos which is considered a photographic myth of the 20th century, time and again inspiring new generations of photographers.

The exhibition provides an insight into a series of Sedlaček's art projects from the past ten years, in which special attention was paid to various innovative and alternative forms of activity, with an emphasis on recycling practices.

The presentation of 59 black-and-white large-size photographs follows a gallery arrangement which moves away from a chronological and, to a large extent, contextual arrangement, whilst at the same time mainly emphasising the aesthetic author-oriented aspect of these outstanding portrait, concert and documentary photographs taken in the two decades preceding the turn of the millennium.