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In 2021, Tobačna Gallery will continue its look at smaller projects by important artists of the middle and younger generations that, by employing experimentation and new production approaches, importantly contribute to the vitality of Slovenian and international creativity. The year ...
The City Art Gallery Ljubljana enters the new year with Dragica Čadež’s overview exhibition, which will be followed by Jože Barši’s solo show, the international group exhibition When Gesture Becomes Event and a survey exhibition of the artist Samo, which ...
The exhibition entitled ‘From Sketch to Puppet’ presents the authors of presents puppet sketch, puppet, scenic elements and pfotographs they made for the performances at the Mini Theatre Ljubljana. These are: Iva-Matija Bitanga for the performance Hlapič and Ana Viktorova ...
At Künstlerhaus in Vienna, an exhibition prepared in cooperation with the City Art Gallery Ljubljana that presents sixteen artists from Slovenia and Austria opened today. The group exhibition of Slovenian and Austrian artists is one of the larger projects in ...
Because the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is currently closed for visitors and we cannot invite you to creative workshops at our exhibition venue, we prepared a web workshop for the youngest to accompany Dragica Čadež’s exhibition. We took a walk ...
“Dragica Čadež is one of the first Slovenian artists that devoted themselves to sculpture as an open form, sculpture that opens out into space and enables the spectator to travel not only alongside it, but also through it. Her creative ...
The World of Art, School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing is admitting the 18th generation. We invite anyone that is interested in working in contemporary visual arts and would like to learn about curatorial work through theoretical and ...
This year’s Ars Electronica entitled In Kepler’s Gardens – A Global Journey Mapping the ‘New’ World will take place between 9 and 13 September in Linz and various other locations across the world. The festival will take place “not despite, ...
With their projects at Living Object, Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič and Polona Tratnik provide an insight into the relationship between humans, animals and plants in light of heterogeneity, hybridity, sympoiesis, intercognition and parallel evolutions.
The exhibition »Living object« at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is featuring artists: Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič and Polona Tratnik. The exhibition of visual, audio and interactive installations was produced by established female artists who have ...
Take part in the digital mapping of Jože Plečnik’s heritage.
Heritage of Emona connects to the heritage of the Danubian provinces of the ancient Roman Empire.
Ljubljana museums’ collective special offer for the summer: 1 ticket to 11 museums
As part of the exhibition "Free Sun", currently on view at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, a live artistic intervention Under the Free Sun will take place in the centre of Ljubljana on Friday, 19 June, between 3 p.m. ...
Tobačna Gallery is presenting works of Viktor Bernik at the exhibition "HA, HA, HA!". Bernik takes on contemporary society with playfulness and humour, shifting back and forth between the fields of painting and those of drawing, video, graphics as well ...
"Exhibition with Many Titles", which remains on view in the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana until Sunday, 24 May, was accompanied by the publication of the volume titled Ta knjiga je boljša od idealne (This Book is Better than Ideal). ...
In the desire to make “Exhibition with Many Titles” by the outstanding Croatian conceptual artist Vlado Martek more accessible, we have decided to present it to you through private guided tours which will be given by Alenka Gregorič, the art ...
The series of videos presenting the artists’ preparations for the upcoming exhibition “Free Sun” in the City Art Gallery Ljubljana continues with Miha Štrukelj. His video outlines the creation of Štrukelj’s work titled “Trolldomsfjellet”, which is a Norwegian word for ...
Are you at home due to the current situation? Are you bored or don’t know what to do with yourself because of stress and self-isolation? Would you like to try your hand at and keep busy with an art activity? ...
Due to the current situation, we have understandably postponed the opening of the exhibition “Free Sun” to a later date. Fortunately, however, artists that will present themselves in the upcoming show have been emerging from their self-isolation.
While our gallery’s doors remain closed amidst the spreading corona virus, we are opening space on Facebook and inviting all artists and creators to defy the prevailing sense of anxiety with their creativity and artworks.
Under normal circumstances, 16 April 2020 should mark the opening of the exhibition (ironically) titled “Free Sun” at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. The project was envisaged to present contemporary fine artists. We hope that the exhibition will take place ...
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 in the Jakopič Gallery we virtually opened the exhibition of contemporary Indonesian engaged photography.
A new campaign by the City Art Gallery Ljubljana/MGML aims to support artists during the current crisis. At a time when fear looms larger than creativity, when panic exceeds inspiration and the bad news outweighs the good, the City Art ...
After a year of enthusiasm, hard work and international cooperation, we are proud to see the exhibition Vision 20/20: Community – Contemporary Indonesian Engaged Photography finalised and ready for our visitors. However, all public events in Slovenia have been cancelled ...
All locations of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana are closed for ALL VISITORS until further notice.
Dear visitors of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana! Based on government measures for preventing the spread of coronavirus, all events held in closed spaces are cancelled until further notice or we will do our best to hold them at later ...
From pile dwellings to a green capital
In November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum publishes the »Atlas of Furniture Design«, a new comprehensive overview on the history of modern furniture design.
“I am a ten percent artist, a ten percent neighbour, a ten percent father, a ten percent husband, a ten percent patriot, a ten percent friend… I divided one hundred percent into ten percent for each area. This gives me ...
Offering a comprehensive overview of Vlado Martek’s work from the 1970s to the present, the retrospective "Exhibition with Many Titles" continues and complements the edition staged last year at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka. The Ljubljana ...
We are pleased to report that the VISION 20/20 exhibition on contemporary Indonesian photography is shaping up nicely. For the last two days the curators Marija Skočir (Jakopič Gallery-Slovenia), Ng Swan Ti (PannaFoto Institute-Indonesia) and Saša Kralj (Živi Atelje DK-Croatia) ...
"Marking the seventieth anniversary of the sculptor Jiři Bezlaj (1949), the City Art Gallery set up a survey exhibition presenting one of the most eminent Slovenian stone sculptors. Having worked in stone for more than forty years, Bezlaj has a ...
As lots of axolotls spend most of their lives as model organisms in scientific laboratories, the axolotls that were hatched at Sarah's aquarium are descendants from axolotls that had been lucky to leave the scientific laboratories. As they have been ...
The programme in 2020 will begin with the fourth exhibition in the series "Ljubljana Bows to Slovenia", linking Ljubljana with topical regional art initiatives and collectives – this time with Klagenfurt.
From contemporary Indonesian photography to Slovenian press photography
Between 14 and 17 April 2020, the Bežigrad Gallery 2 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is staging the video festival Natures 17. Works entered for the competition must include images of nature, even if only individual sequences.