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Coming from the architect Andrej Lodrant, the Plečnik House received a precious gift – an authentic drawing tool from the maestro Jože Plečnik.
"Stone has a particular charm. It is very old, millions of years, and emanates its age-old wisdom. Handling it, one absorbs the stone’s knowledge. Sculpting is also a kind of meditation. According to oriental schools of alchemy, on reaching their ...
If you noticed the poster or visited the exhibition Plečnik and the Sacred, Jože Plečnik, Slovenian Architect and Designer, you have surely seen the Škorjanc Chalice as the exhibition’s iconic artefact. Its photograph is on all accompanying publications. What ...
Today, 3 December 2019, the University of Ljubljana commemorated its hundredth anniversary with a formal sitting. At the sitting, the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković presented a precious gift to the rector, Prof. Dr. Igor Papič, in the name of ...
We are proud to announce the results of the call for applications Vision 20/20 for Indonesian photographers to participate at the exhibition in Jakopič Gallery in 2020.
Contemporary Lynx has picked five of Ukraine’s top artists, who are known for communicating directly with audiences using the international language of Art, and revealing Society’s state; it’s essence. The artist Anna Zvyagintseva who presented her work at the ...
At the 9th Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design, the design team from KABINET 01 has been awarded for their design of the catalogue and the exhibition graphics of our 2018 overview exhibition How to Draw a City?. The ...
The current project presents the Macedonian tandem composed of Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski. The artists express themselves through performance as well as conceptual and participatory art with a view to preserving and recreating history. Energetic and dynamic, their works ...
The Slovenian Association of Art Critics presented Sarival Sosič, a curator of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, with the Critique Pen Award for art critique and curatorship. Sarival Sosič demonstrates a broad understanding of art and culture. In 1987, he ...
Indigo Festival will host lecture by Vlado Martek on Friday, September 13, at 7.30 pm at the ZRC SAZU. His retrospective was recently on display at the MMSU Rijeka, and in February 2020 his works will be presented at the ...
Honouring the bearers of the units Bobbin lace-making in Slovenia and the Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques, which were both inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The art practice of Natalija Vujošević focuses on the transmission of life and reality into spaces of exhibition activities. She aims to do this in a number of different ways, but most often by transposing elements from nature, such as ...
Following successful shows at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana in 2018, curated by Alenka Gregorič, and the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, CODE:RED, a retrospective exhibition by Tadej Pogačar, is now moving to the Mali Salon of the Museum ...
On Saturday 27 July, a new supplement began to be published in the Primorski dnevnik newspaper, namely the 'Memories and dreams of Kristina B., Ljubljana 1941–1945'. The graphic novel was created by Blaž Vurnik, PhD, historian and curator of modern ...
Exhibition venue: Jakopič Gallery, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Submission fee: none
Being familiar with the culture of others enriches our own cultural space.
The exhibition, which presents 33 liturgical vessels by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik to more than 20,000 daily visitors of the Vatican Museums has already been extensively reported on in Slovenian and foreign media. However, a few days ago an ...
The façade of the National and University Library (NUK), a graceful vignette and the door handle in the form of a dove are three of Plečnik’s works that were inspirational to the students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and ...
On Friday, 12 July 2019, at 8 p.m., the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (MMSU) will inaugurate "Exhibition with Many Titles", the first retrospective of Vlado Martek, a Croatian conceptual artist and member of the Zagreb-based Group of ...
During July and August, the City Museum of Ljubljana is switching to its summer opening hours, which means that our doors will also stay open on Mondays! We are inviting everyone to the Auersperg Palace, which reveals the rich heritage ...
During the summer months of July and August, the Plečnik House will switch to its summer opening hours. This means that we will be also welcoming visitors on Mondays! We invite you to the house in which Plečnik's Ljubljana was ...
This year’s winner of the 26th edition of the Tour of Slovenia will also receive a trophy in the shape of the 5200 years old wooden when with an axle, which was found in the Ljubljana Marshes and is now ...
On Museums on a Summer Night, we are opening our doors for visitors.
Saturday, 15 June: Opening doors for visitors
10:00 –20:00 Nika Zupančič: Side Vision, Paintings
Saturday, 15 June: Opening doors for visitors
10:00 –20:00 Josip Korošec, Rememberings, Paintings and drawings 1984–2013
10:00–12:00 Workshop for children: Drawings with colour pencils
18:00–20:00 Workshop for children: Drawings with colour pencils
On Friday 31 May, the atmosphere on the Croatian island of Veliki Brijun was especially ceremonial, as the exhibition Plečnik on Brioni opened there. The exhibition presents Plečnik's last fully completed work – the garden pavilion dedicated to President Tito. ...
The Soteska Cultural Quarter extends on and around Gregorčič Street in Ljubljana's centre. In its small squares and streets, this ancient quarter hides a wealth of cultural, culinary, artisanal, and tourist experiences. Visitors and inhabitants of Soteska have, for quite ...
Their recent projects investigate the phenomenon of man-made landscapes around the world, where the making and marking of landscape (as a form of spatial modification) goes hand in hand with heightened state violence and the over-exploitation of resources. Recent exhibitions ...
Public and gallery spaces in the city centre until the 15th of June are taken over by the Ljubljana festival of light once again.
We invite you to apply to "Exhibiting in Slovenia. A Symposium upon the 110th Anniversary of the Jakopič Pavilion" to be held on December 5 and 6 at the conference hall at the City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka 15, Ljubljana. ...
Expecting the exhibition of the grandiose icons from the Russian museums.
On the initiative of the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Zagreb, the exhibition Plečnik on Brioni has been visiting Croatian cities for the past two years. At the start of April you can catch it in Split, while at ...
At the start of this year, the magazine Teatro Marittimo, published by the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, presented the architect Jože Plečnik and his works through three comprehensive articles. Among them is also an article on Plečnik's ...
At the beginning of March, the President of the Austrian National Council Mag. Wolfgang Sobotka paid a visit to the Plečnik House as part of the protocol programme. He was charmed with the house and Plečnik.
In the beginning of March, the ZRC SAZU Institute held the 10th Grošelj Symposium, which brings Antiquity and Humanistic Studies closer to contemporary audiences. Bernarda Županek, our curator for Antiquity, and Alenka Miškec, her colleague from the National Museum of ...
“The City Gallery Ljubljana hosts a retrospective exhibition of Sitar’s comic book Under the Red Star. Eight masterpieces of engaged comics put on view in as many rooms.”
The leading Austrian architectural magazine Architektur aktuell featured a review of Andrej Hrausky's book Plečnik's Architecture in Ljubljana, which was co-published in 2017 by the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and DESSA Gallery.
On 13 February the international guidebook Ljubljana In Your Pocket City Guide announced the results of the voting for of Best of Culture in Ljubljana 2019. The voters proclaimed Jakopič Gallery as the winner in the Best Art Gallery category.
The artist who first presented her works in 2017 at a solo show at Bežigrad Gallery 1 received the 2019 City of Slovenske Konjice Award for Young artist at the municipal celebration of Prešeren Day, the Slovenian cultural holiday. Tina ...
“Feeding his reflections and interpretations on imagery, Iztok Sitar is one of the most important comic book authors in Slovenia. Through pictures, comics and precise composition, he communicates with his surroundings using a compelling artistic language, which also conveys his ...
“The City Gallery Ljubljana has organized a retrospective exhibition of engaged comics by Iztok Sitar, an illustrator, a caricaturist and comic book author, who published his first comics in the Orwellian 1984, as he likes to point out.”
Incredible finds, discovered by archaeologists during the latest excavations at the Gosposvetska Street, have been extensively presented in an article published in the February issue of National Geographic Slovenia. The magazine’s editorial board in Washington also recognised the importance of ...
The National and University Library, Plečnik as Inspiration, Plečnik's Unrealised Projects for Ljubljana, Plečnik's sacral artefacts, and his last fully realised project, the pavilion on Brioni — all of them will leave a mark on the 2019 exhibition programme for ...
CC Tobačna 001 is nominated for the best art gallery by “Ljubljana in Your Pocket City Guide”. The annual vote, organized by “Best of Ljubljana”, takes place on the national Culture Day honouring the great nineteenth century poet and cultural ...
City Art Gallery Ljubljana is nominated for the best art gallery by “Ljubljana in Your Pocket City Guide”. The annual vote, organized by “Best of Ljubljana”, takes place on the national Culture Day honouring the great nineteenth century poet and ...
Iztok Sitar is one of the leading and most prolific authors of engaged comics in Slovenia. In the thirty-five years of producing authorial comics, he has managed to afford this artistic endeavour an important place in Slovenian cultural milieu.
Boris Gaberščik created 25 photographs specifically for this exhibition called The Fruit of a Long Experience in Bežigrad Gallery 1. Using completely analogue black-and-white photography to portray the world of everyday objects and inanimate nature, he nevertheless applies innovative creative ...
The Jakopič Gallery programme for 2019 is dedicated to the presentation of high quality Slovenian contemporary photography production and acclaimed foreign photographers.
This year's Match Gallery programme will begin with the third exhibition in the series, titled "Ljubljana Bows to Slovenia", which features a group of artists whose life or work has been tied to Kočevje: Tina Đenadić, Mina Fina, Nataša Gašparac, ...