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The CC Tobačna 001 is entering the new year with the exhibition project "Adagio for Space", by the Israeli artist Moran Victoria Sabbag. The gallery’s programme will continue with solo art projects. During the first six months of the year, ...
The City Art Gallery of Ljubljana is entering 2018 with the exhibition Quasimodo (1971–2017), which displays the less known and rarely seen works of artist Tugo Šušnik, selected from various private and public collections. The gallery programme will continue with ...
“The artist Moran Victoria Sabbag, who arrived to the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML) residency centre from the Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon, presented us with the interesting audio-visual project "Adagio for Space", at the end of her ...
With Plečnik's Year 2017 coming to its end, the Plečnik House in Ljubljana presented the newest addition among the publications concentrating on Plečnik's work – Plečnik's Architecture in Ljubljana. The book, written by Andrej Hrausky, an architect who already authored ...
With 2017 being Plečnik Year, TV Slovenia collaborated with art historian and writer Noah Charney and the end result is the feuilleton entitled Contemplating Plečnik. You can watch it on Saturday 2 December at 5.20 p.m. on TV Slovenia's first ...
We are inviting you to an exhibition of documentary material and artworks by the members of the music group SAETA, composers, and artists, with which the group creatively worked with for the last, very respectable, 40 years. The international exhibition ...
On Monday 27 November 2017, a celebratory event was held at the Plečnik House, as the highly distinguished Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Order award was entrusted to the safekeeping of the Plečnik Collection of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana. The ...
In the Middle Ages, knights mostly belonged to the gentry. They served their feudal lord and in return for payment (or land) did military service and performed other tasks as well.
The 33rd Slovenian Book Fair, which you can visit at the Congress Centre Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana between 22nd and 26th November, will be highlighted by the publication of two new books on architect Jože Plečnik. Both books were co-published ...
"For me, none of my art is complete without drawing, which is the foundation for my creative expression. The nature I depict is universal and eternally relevant, and I'm fascinated by the repetitive character of natural forms in the micro ...
Tihomir Pinter, a master of black-and-white analogue photography, is presented at the retrospective exhibition "The Chemistry of the Image", opening on Tuesday, 28 November 2017, 7 p.m., in the Jakopič Gallery. A general knowledge of his oeuvre is often limited ...
The travelling exhibition Plečnik's Ljubljana marked the beginning of this month, as on 6 November the exhibition opened in Hauptbücherei am Gürtel, Vienna's Central Library. Before stopping in Vienna, the exhibition was also hosted, from late September to mid-October, by ...
Exhibition Symptoms of Society, curated by Alenka Gregorič, opened in Zheijang Art Museum on Saturday, 11 November. This is the second presentation of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana in China this year. Exhibition is featuring over thirty internationally established ...
"Analogue Magic: B&W analogue photography. From a photographic series to an exhibition" is the title of the second workshop of the series "Up Close: Photography as a Way of Seeing", which will take place on November 17 and 18 at ...
On Saturday 28 October 2017, the Independent Czechoslovak State Day, a ceremony was held at the Vladislav Hall in the Prague Castle, at which the president of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, posthumously awarded Jože Plečnik with the Tomas ...
If you only had 36 hours to visit Ljubljana, how would you use them? Well, according to Alex Crevar from The New York Times, a visit to the Plečnik House is a must on your to-do list.
Casting death masks is one of the oldest sculptural portrait techniques. Immediately after the passing of an important individual, a professional sculptor created a mould of his face and cast a limited number of masks in wax or plaster.
The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana: Birth as Criterion, part of which is also the overview exhibition "Printmaking Forever" by the internationally renowned Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, has been extended until 5 November 2017.
The Tel Aviv-based Israeli artist, art director, and violinist Moran Victoria Sabbag is the current artist-in-residence at the CC Tobačna 001. In her work, she often focuses on sculptural objects, which have been impressed in the emotional and conceptual pattern ...
The opening of the Dušan Mandić's exhibition Private D.M. Die Welt ist Schön was on Thursday 5 October at the Podroom Gallery in the Belgrade Cultural Centre. The exhibition, which was already on view at the City Art Gallery ...
The exhibition "Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory" at the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana is presenting art projects produced by authors who cooperated in the residency and gallery programme the CC Tobačna 001 over the past six years. As ...
2017 is Plečnik’s year, as we commemorate 60 years since the passing and 145 years from the birth of the architect. The Post of Slovenia joined the commemoration by publishing new philatelic products and celebratory postage stamps that also depict ...
This weekend, 22 and 23 September, the capital of the Czech Republic will be in the sign of Ljubljana, as Ljubljana Days in Prague is taking place. Part of the event is, inside the Old Town Hall in the very ...
A gallery has been built within the Match Gallery for "Work or Your Art", a group exhibition of an art collective deriving from the Shimbun Onna Gallery in Osaka. Visitors can thus relive the proportions of the Japanese gallery and ...
Exhibition Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory, opening on Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm at City Art Gallery Ljubljana, will display art projects produced by authors that have cooperated with us over the past six years within the framework ...
The photographic exhibition Ljubljana, a City with Plečnik's Signature, which is adorning the Jakopič Promenade at the Ljubljana's Tivoli Park will continue to entice its visitors until 7 November. The extended exhibition displays archival photographs of Plečnik's Ljubljana taken ...
As part of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, the Jakopič Gallery is exhibiting a retrospective exhibition of the internationally renowned artist Maria Bonomi, titled "Printmaking Forever". "The Brazilian artist and activist is a long-term supporter of the biennial and ...
On Saturday 2 September 2017, the Italian archaeologist Sara Zanni will begin her journey from Aquileia to Belgrade by following the ancient Roman path. Three days later, on Tuesday 5 September, she will be joined by Dr. Bernarda Županek, curator ...
City Museum of Ljubljana is among the recipients of the 2017 Experts' Choice Award from TripExpert. The Award reflects the views of journalists and professional travel writers and is bestowed on only the best attractions around the world. Museum was ...
The international conference BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures took place in early July at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron near Ironbridge in the United Kingdom. Curator of the Plečnik House, Ana Porok, participated with a lecture on ...
The traditional annual puppet exhibition to reopen Bežigrad Gallery 1 at the end of August. Recordings of puppet shows are screened alongside the exhibition, which this year features artists working with Maribor Puppet Theatre, in which the visual concepts were ...
"Artists had very diverse approaches in researching Jože. Some of them visited Plečnik House to be inspired more by his life, while others studied literature, dedicating interest to his symbolism or architecture," summoned curator Lara Mejač on how different sources ...
The exhibition will present a selection of works from one of the most important and innovative Slovenian artists. The exhibition in Bežigrad Gallery 2 will feature over 50 drawings and paintings through the courtesy of Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec, is ...
On the basis of an open call by the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, the filmmaker and visual artists Valerie Wolf Gang has been selected for the artist residency in The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. Filmmaker and visual ...
The monograph titled Eternal Architect: The Life and Life of Jože Plečnik, Modernist Mystic is a new and welcomed book addition to the Plečnik Year 2017. The book, which is an important contribution to the studies of Plečnik's oeuvre, is ...
The Match Gallery is presenting the group exhibition "The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors", authored by the internationally renowned curator and art director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV, Dortmund) Inke Arns.
As part of the 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, the exhibition "Printmaking Forever", by the internationally renowned Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, is presented at the Jakopič Gallery. With her modus operandi, with her "graphic philosophy" as Maria Bonomi calls her ...
We are concluding the first half of Plečnik Year with a fresh new book on Plečnik's life and work, written by Dr. Noah Charney, and the photographic exhibition Ljubljana, a City with Plečnik's Signature at the Jakopič Promenade (designed by ...
The Guangdong Museum of Art, one of China’s most prominent art museums, is currently hosting the exhibition Symptoms of Society, a production of Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana. The exhibition's curator is Alenka Gregorič, artistic director and curator at the ...
Between 25 May and 1 October 2017, the Ljubljana Castle is presenting the project Plečnik Above the City, which combines the exhibitions in the Casemate and at the castle’s Šance. Both exhibitions are a collaboration between Ljubljana Castle, Museum ...
CC Tobačna 001 is hosting Mike Hentz, a visual and multi-media artist of Swiss-American origin. He is also a performer and musician, and belongs among the pioneers of media art in the 1980s. He was a professor at art academies ...
“Critical voices of Turkish visual artists Seza Paker, Ayşe Erkmen and Ali Kazma were given a platform at the recently opened Murmuring exhibition in the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana.
On Thursday, 27th April, Ulay’s exhibition I Other opened at the Vivacom Art Hall gallery.
The group exhibition Symptoms of Society, curated by Alenka Gregorič, is opening at the Guangdong Museum of Art in China. The exhibition will be on display from 27 May to 8 July 2017. Its focus is on the presentation of ...
Several institutions from Ljubljana and around Slovenia are joining the Plečnik Year 2017 commemorations. They prepared quite a few interesting exhibitions and guided tours for these spring months. Below you can see where Plečnik’s unique works await for your visit.
“Corpulent ladies in ‘light clothing’ who resist gravity and, sooner or later, bring spectators to a cheerful mood, followed closely by similarly good-natured carved bodies of anonyms, while the other side is laden with unwanted bodies that make you want ...
This year’s residential artist, part of the residential exchange programme with the Tottenham Hale International Studios, London, is James Hatton. The artist, currently residing at the CC Tobačna 001, uses analogue and digital moving images, drawing, performance and photography ...
The library of the National Museum of Slovenia is joining the Plečnik Year with the Exhibit of the Month. The small exhibition highlights fascinating publications dedicated to Plečnik and his works, while some of the architect’s original artefacts, on loan ...
The group exhibition Corporeality is opened in the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana. According to curator Sarival Sosič, the body is certainly the field of greatest possible expressiveness, while corporeality is a result of diverse body functions. "Namely, corporeality is ...
The exhibition Architecture – Stocktaking 2014–16 on view until 16 March 2017 at the Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, in Ljubljana is currently presenting architectural projects which have been realised in the last two years. Organised by the Association ...
The Greek-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis passed away, aged 80. He was one of the leading figures of the neo-avant-garde movement Arte Povera, which derived from the critique of the dominant position held by established institutions of art, politics and society. ...
“A series of classical photo portraits of the homeless African American people in New York City of the 90s, in which the author, with great sensibility and as official portraits, immortalised people from the economic edge was a true surprise. ...
On this day, 23 January 1872, architect Jože Plečnik was born in Ljubljana. "He was an idealist and he measured the present with a measuring stick of the past, he was conservative and saw his role models in the past, ...
"Milijana Babić from Rijeka is an artist whose works are based on the performance art practice. During her stay at the CC Tobačna 001 residential centre, she researched the role of the Roman Catholic Church institution and its connections with ...
CC Tobačna 001 is hosting Bosnian artist Adela Jušić who has exhibited in around 100 international exhibitions including Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Image Counter Image, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, Balkan Inisght, Pompidou Center, Paris etc. ...
"At this hour we say our final goodbye to a role model, an educator, master, and, finally, a fighter. We are taking responsibility for the bright character of a creator and for the principles of his timeless work," architect Vladimir ...