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“Dante Buu is a young Montenegrin artist currently participating in the artist-in-residency programme in Ljubljana. He comes from Rožaje – a town in Sandžak, situated on the border between Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia. Producing needlepoint tapestries and various kinds of ...
The City Art Gallery of Ljubljana kicks off its programming year with the survey exhibition of Iztok Sitar, one of the leading authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. Opening on 30 January, the exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey ...
The CC Tobačna 001 starts off its programming year with the exhibition of Jasmina Cibic, who represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennale with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”.
Bežigrajska galerija 2 is presenting the painter’s personal vision of his own imaginations and – never fully elaborated – synchronicity between Old Church Slavonic Glagolitic script engraved in stone and typical, adopted coastal dry stone walls – gromače (pl.) (From ...
“The new installation at the City Art Gallery, one in a series of exhibition venues marking the 90th anniversary of Drago Tršar, will help us “see and feel Tršar’s erotic sculptures.”
“Much of the opus or creative production of the academic painter Drago Tršar’s has been devoted to erotic sculpture, demonstrating that the erotic aspect of his creativity or his inclination towards eroticism within art plays a crucial part in his ...
The Artist Residency Centre Tobačna 001 is currently hosting Dante Buu (Rožaje, Montenegro). In his artistic practice he combines photography, text, video, embroidery and performance. His works are underscored by an incessant inquiry into the increasingly blurred boundaries between the ...
"The two-month residency of the Croatian art collective Fokus Grupa at the Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre has facilitated the implementation of the project, entitled “Invisible Matter” and curated by Alenka Gregorič. In their creative production, the authors Iva Kovač and ...
Through their participation in artist residencies, workshops and collaborative exhibitions, Fokus Grupa have consistently aimed towards creating a synergy with the gallery space. Their current show is conceived in the same vein, whereby they augmented their ongoing project "Invisible Matter" ...
On 28 November, 2018 at the Bežigrad Gallery 1 we are opening the traditional annual exhibition of visual and concrete poetry by founding members Živko Kladnika, Nejč Slapar and Franci Zagoričnk from the period between 1972 and 2013.
The exhibition is on view in the frame of the Month of Photography Festival in Bratislava till 20 November 2018.
“Calliope - In Corn We Trust” is a project by Maxime Berthou and Mark Pozlep that will start as a restoration of a traditional paddle steamer, to cruise the 1712 miles of the Mississippi River from it source in Minnesota ...
The public seminar Collection Collective: Tools for Self-Representation took place in Bucharest. "Collective Collective" is a prototypical art collection, founded and managed by its members, wherein are artists, curators, architects, designers, anthropologists, producers, lawyers, and economists. The project that began ...
On 6 November at the Match Gallery we are opening the Earthlink exhibition by Saša Spačal, an artist working at the intersection of intermedia art, exploration of living systems and audio frequencies.
Amazing, interesting, stunning, wonderful, beautiful, magnificent, conscious… are the common adjectives our visitors used to describe their impressions after viewing the "Marc Riboud: Conscious Traveller. Concerned Photographer." exhibition.
Having opened at the end of June in the Norbertov Centre, Prague, the exhibition ‘Plečnik House. The Architect’s Experimental Hotbed’ has been received so warmly that it remains on view in the Czech capital until Sunday 21 October 2018.
Established in 1999, CODE:RED is a complex participatory project researching various aspect of sex work as a specific parallel economy and as a form of economic “disobedience”. It encourages discussions and works as an ongoing participatory interdisciplinary platform, which in ...
Fokus grupa has been active since 2012. In its work, it tries to establish a critical framework for reading the artistic, economic and political surroundings in which it operates. It lends and learns from design, architecture, curatorship and writing, while ...
The first half of this year has brought an appealing range of professional publications on architecture, which featured the works of Jože Plečnik as well as the related plans that are kept in the Plečnik Collection of the Museum and ...
Recent archaeological excavations at Gosposvetska cesta comprised approximately 1360 hours of fieldwork. Around 1150 visitors were taken through the site in 66 guided tours.
At the end of June, the Plečnik House received an EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra 2018 at a ceremony in Berlin held within the European Cultural Heritage Summit!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responsible for The Oscars film awards, invited to their ranks one of the most productive and internationally successful Slovenian film authors – Špela Čadež. The artist is currently presenting her works at ...
Last year, the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana hosted the provocatively titled exhibition Better Doggy Style than no Style, which displayed a selection of male painters, and now it is women artists who are wittily striking back with their own ...
On Monday 18 June, two separate exhibitions on Ivan Cankar opened at different venues, one mainly literary, the other biographical. This relates nicely to the “urban legend” on Ivan Cankar and two carriages.
Rona Stern creates her work by connecting daily images found in her immediate environment using the syntax of marketing and commercial language.
The exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, which is being prepared in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will also feature an iconic item from the Plečnik collection: a model of the unrealised Slovenian parliament, Plečnik’s ...
The winners of the 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were announced today, 15 May 2018, by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage network. The ...
As a film auteur, we automatically connect Tomislav Gotovac with four of his early films from his first period, which began in the late 1950s and lasted for two decades. "Afternoon of a Faun" (1963) was declared by Gotovac to ...
On May 8, 2018 the Osten Gallery in Skopje (Macedonia) is opening an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by world-renowned Slovenian artist Jože Ciuha. The selection of his works was prepared by our curators Barbara Savenc and Marija Skočir.
In June, the final two-day workshop will be held in the framework of the study group "Up Close: Photography as a Way of Seeing", which focuses on a different training model, where learning means teaching and teaching means learning: a ...
From 24 April to 8 May, the State Archive of Varaždin is hosting the exhibition Plečnik on Brioni, supplemented by the architect’s projects realised elsewhere in Croatia, and some of his unrealised visions. The exhibition has been brought to Varaždin ...
With a keen sense for drawing and for use of materials, Anna Zvyagintseva captures traces of daily life, encounters, coincidences or autobiographical facts in her sculptures, drawings and film works. Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan uses his artworks to compel us ...
“He is best remembered by how he ran naked down a street, strolled around, laid on a sidewalk, and kissed the asphalt. He would consciously use mass media to establish himself as an uncompromising artist, as well as consciously triggering ...
“On Thursday, the City Art Gallery Ljubljana opened the exhibition ‘Don’t Ask Where We’re Going’ by the Croatian artist Tomislav Gotovac. Works by this pioneer of experimental film and performance, which are also in the MoMA collection, will be on ...
"As he stated in several interviews, Tomislav Gotovac did not have an exhibitionist’s easy attitude to nudity. He found it quite hard – even shameful – to bare all, to the point where on a number of occasions he demurred, ...
Gotovac is securely placed among the most important contemporary artists. His works are, among others, part of the Arteast 2000+ International Collection at the Museum of Modern Art of Ljubljana and of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New ...
“The artist’s questioning of the role of time in this process is not directed to what time destroyed, but more towards a sense of what it brought. It triggered life, the intrusion of nature into the building’s interior”, and that ...
From 10 to 13 April 2018, the fourteenth festival of video will present authors who have been selected through a competition: Nina Baznik, Boris Beja, Oskar Cergolj, Domen Dimovski, Gaja Golja, Andreja Kranjec, Davorin Marc, Amir Muratović, Jaša Muller, Anže ...
"You are a sort of a Pygmalion, Otto Wagner told me once in a fatherly fashion," architect Jože Plečnik remembered his professor who thusly commented Plečnik’s working enthusiasm. In 2018, our north neighbour Austria is commemorating the 100th anniversary since ...
The overview exhibition "Paola Korošec: Spaces of Reflections" presents the artist's works from the last decade. In her works, Paola Korošec harmonises various materials and shapes into groups of objects that form a whole.
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at 19.00 at Bežigrad Gallery 1 we are opening "Andrej Trobentar: I construct a painting as a building in space" exhibition. The exhibition of drawings and tempera paintings is one of now rare solo shows ...
“Stratification of views, matter densified within sculptural forms, or time densified and compressed in geological rock layers that, after hundreds of millions of years, glisten through the polish of a modernist sculpture.”
“Following the group show "Waves in Sculpture" from 2016, the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana continues with the exhibition and theoretical research of contemporary Slovenian sculpture with "Densifying’”
In the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana we are proud recipients of two awards, awarded by the international guidebook "Ljubljana In Your Pocket City Guide". In the Best Art Gallery category, the City Art Gallery occupied the third place, while ...
The international guidebook "Ljubljana In Your Pocket City Guide" announced the results of the voting for of "2018 Best of Culture in Ljubljana". City Art Gallery Ljubljana received a recognition for one of the Best Art Gallery in the category.
The international guidebook "Ljubljana In Your Pocket City Guide" announced the results of the voting for of "2018 Best of Culture in Ljubljana". The Jakopič Gallery is the winner in the Best Art Gallery category.
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"Plečnik and Rothmayer. Teacher and student. The latter built his home in Prague according to Plečnik’s Villa Stadion in Ljubljana, built due to the Bežigrad stadium. By buying a ticket for the lottery raffle, people were able to support the ...
The artist-in-residence centre of the CC Tobačna 001 is currently hosting the Bulgarian artist Kamen Stoyanov, whose work focuses on the questions of identity, migrations, historical definitions, and on topical issues regarding social and cultural development. He often uses public ...
The Jakopič Gallery programme for 2018 is dedicated to the presentation of important Slovenian and foreign photography. After the conclusion of the retrospective exhibition of Tihomir Pinter, a master of black-and-white analogue photography, we will be opening the exhibition "Photographer" ...
This year's Match Gallery programme began in a committed fashion – with "Private", an exhibition by Siniša Labrović, the most socio-politically committed Croatian artist. For this exhibition, he, as a prisoner of his own existence, permanently inscribed the pain of ...
The exhibition Plečnik’s Ljubljana opened yesterday at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, as part of the Season of Slovenian Culture in the Russian Federation 2017/18. The exhibition is a joint effort by the Museum and Galleries of ...
Voting, which ends on 31 January, is conducted in order to commemorate the Slovenian Cultural Holiday. The guidebook’s readers, art lovers, and foreign visitors will select the winners. In this year’s voting for Best of Ljubljana - Best Culture in ...
The Plečnik House 2018 exhibition programme will focus on Plečnik's work, the achievements of his collaborators, and on establishing Plečnik's oeuvre as an inspiration for contemporary creativity.
Four temporary exhibitions at Plečnik House, two new publications on Plečnik's life and work, more than 3000 guided tours of the architect's home for visitors, families, and persons with special needs, a presentation of Plečnik's Ljubljana around the world, a ...