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POGLED Z DRUGE STRANI, Strokovnjaki, združeni za ohranjanje skupne kulturne dediščine

Spletni katalog ob istoimenski razstavi (2023) laičnemu bralcu ali strokovnjaku prinaša konservatorske zgodbe konkretnih predmetov oz. muzealij, katerih procesi za zaščito in ohranitev so še posebej zanimivi - zaradi svoje ...

OTON ŽUPANČIČ: RISBE »Pinxi me ergo sum – « / »Naslikal sem se, torej sem.«

Katalog ob razstavi 158 risb Otona Župančiča, ki kažejo, da je bilo za enega naših največjih poetov vizualno izražanje enako pomembna notranja nuja kot pisanje.

Ko ste v dvomu, pojdite v muzej

Katalog ob istoimenski razstavi
O zbirateljstvu kot aktu ljubezni z veliko mero odgovornosti.

Knjiga. Znanje. Razum  Od protestantizma do razsvetljenstva (1500–1800)

Monografija s prispevki z znanstvenega posveta ob razstavi Knjiga. Znanje. Razum  Od protestantizma do razsvetljenstva (1500–1800)


DK: Scotoma

The DK: Scotoma exhibition is accompanied by a publication containing over 100 photographs and two texts written by the curator of the exhibition Dr Marija Skočir and the philosopher Dr ...

Bojan Radovič: Replica

The exhibition Bojan Radovič: Replica was accompanied by a comprehensive monograph of the same name. The book is dedicated to the acknowledged Slovenian photographer Bojan Radovič (1960) that for four ...

The World According to Roger Ballen

The exhibition “The World According to Roger Ballen” is accompanied by a guide featuring some of Ballen’s most famous photographs and a number of images of his photographic installations as ...

On the Other Side. Volume 1: Indtroduction

The Introduction can be accompanied by a note that this first part of the publication "On the Other Side" represents the minimum of what the Slovenian photojournalism needs in terms ...

On the Other Side. Volume 2: Identity

The papers in the second volume of the "On the Other Side" publication offer a view of Slovene photojournalism through the prism of identity. The presented chapters do not share ...

On the Other Side. Volume 3: Power

The papers in the third volume of the "On the Other Side" publication shed light on Slovene photojournalism through the theme of power.

On the Other Side. Volume 4: The Everyday

The papers in the fourth volume of the "On the Other Side" publication shed light on Slovene photojournalism through the theme of the everyday.

History of Ljubljana: From pile dwellings to a green capital

Artefacts, images, and texts, condensed into ten chapters, bring to life the history of Ljubljana, from the prehistoric first settlement to the development of a modern capital and contemporary city.

Iron Greetings from the Sky

Archaeological investigatin and recovery of Supermarine Spitfire MJ116

Vision 20/20: Community. Contemporary Indonesian Engaged Photography

The "Vision 20/20: Community" exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing photographs of the participating authors and a text written by the curators (Marija Skočir, Jakopič Gallery, SIovenia; Ng Swan ...

Zgodovina prihodnosti. Praelementi Plečnikove arhitekture

Knjiga ZGODOVINA PRIHODNOSTI: Praelementi Plečnikove arhitekture, predstavlja serijo fotografij in aksonometričnih risb abstraktnih modelov iz lesa, epoksidne smole in mavca – t. i. »praelementov«, v katerih so študentje Fakultete za ...

Nulla dies sine linea. Profesor Plečnik in njegova šola

Avtorji kataloga, dr. Tomaž Jurca, Katja Ogrin in Ana Porok, nam v publikaciji razkrijejo kakšen je bil Plečnik kot profesor, kaj vse je zahteval od svojih študentov ter kakšno življenjsko ...

Plečnikove tržnice. Bogastvo skritih detajlov

Katalog avtorsko podpisuje Irena Vesel iz Zavoda za varstvo kulturne dediščine in ta bralcu ponuja nekatere nove uvide v sicer skrite detajle arhitekture Plečnikove osrednje ljubljanske tržnice. Pri tem izstopajo ...

Prostorski koncepti Plečnikovih prenov

Katalog razstave povzema dvoletno raziskovanje študentov Fakultete za arhitekturo, ki so pod mentorstvom prof. Maruše Zorec in Andraža Keršiča odkrivali in preučevali različne Plečnikove pristope k prenovi. Javni prostori, kot ...

Blaž Vurnik, Zoran Smiljanić: Plečnik (in pika)

Priložnost spoznati, kako je verjetno največji slovenski arhitekt Jože Plečnik videti kot stripovski junak, ponuja čisto sveža publikacija, strip z enostavnim naslovom 'Plečnik (in pika)'.

Plečnik. Vodnik po stalni razstavi v Plečnikovi hiši

Ob stoletnici naselitve arhitekta Jožeta Plečnika v njegov dom v Trnovem, ki smo jo obeležili v oktobru 2021, je izšel vodnik po stalni razstavi v Plečnikovi hiši.

Plečnik and the Sacred

A catalogue was published with the exhibition 'Plečnik and the Sacred'. In it, the exhibition's author, Tomaž Jurca, PhD, explores Plečnik's idea of what is sacred.

Plečnik's Architecture in Ljubljana

The book Plečnik's Architecture in Ljubljana, written by Andrej Hrausky, an architect who already authored several books and is a connoisseur of Plečnik's work, brings a comprehensive overview of Plečnik's ...

Noah Charney: Eternal Architect

The new book about the life and work of Jože Plečnik brings a fresh view on the Slovenian architect through the eyes of Noah Charney, PhD. The author connects and ...

Ljubica Čehovin - Suna: How to Draw a City?

The catalogue published with the exhibition of the same name offers a comprehensive insight into the works of the designer Ljubica Čehovin - Suna, who also found inspiration for her ...

Plečnik's unrealised projects for Ljubljana

Plečnik's unrealised projects were recreated with 3D modelling, visualisation and 3D print for the exhibition at the Plečnik House.

Hiša Plečnik House

The book "Hiša Plečnik House: on the centenary of the purchase of the house at 4 Karunova street in the year of Plečnik House's comprehensive renovation (1915–2015)" offers a comprehensive ...

Golden Book of Ljubljana Honorary Citizens

Within it one will find the names of those who have shaped the past, present and the future of the city.

Ivan Cankar: Images from Life

Only in Slovene language

Ivan Cankar

Exhibition Guide

Medieval Ljubljana

Exhibition catalogue

A New Age is Coming! Industry – Labour – Capital

Today it is golden shopping carts that are bringing us to the new age. In the past, privatisation vouchers, large home appliances, self-management, games of military hide-and-seek, the earliest trade ...

EMONA A City of the Empire

Exhibition Catalogue

VODA / WATER

Exibition guide

Memories and dreams of Kristine B.

A comic strip story about the city of Ljubljana and its inhabitants in the period from 1941 to 1945.

Lace, one woman's pittance, anothar woman's prestige

Lace - a decorative openwork of thread made with needles, knitting needles, bobbins, crochet needles or shuttles.

Jaka Babnik: Pygmalion

The "Jaka Babnik: Pygmalion" exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing 33 photographs and texts written by Jaka Babnik, Dr George Baker, Dr Sami Khatib, Tevž Logar and Dr Katja ...

Marc Riboud: Conscious Traveller. Concerned Photographer.

The "Marc Riboud: Conscious Traveller. Concerned Photographer." exhibition is accompanied by a guide with twenty of Riboud’s photographs.

Tihomir Pinter: The Chemistry of the Image

"Tihomir Pinter: The Chemistry of the Image" exhibition is accompanied by a book that includes an in-depth art-historical study of both the extent and the significance of Pinter’s oeuvre, as ...

Damjan Gale: The Architect of Light

Accompanying "Damjan Gale: The Architect of Light" exhibition is the first overview monograph about Gale’s work, containing over 180 black-and-white and colour photographs. 

Tone Lapajne: Memory of Earth

"Memory of Earth" is a retrospective exhibition by Tone Lapajne, an important Slovenian artist with an impressive oeuvre, but who has yet to get his due. 

Sebastião Salgado: Genesis

The "Sebastião Salgado: Genesis" exhibition is accompanied by a guide that takes readers through 12 selected Salgado's photographs. 

Tone Stojko: The Body in Play

Catalogue accompanying the "The Body in Play" exhibition by Tone Stojko. Gesture and abstraction – two dimensions typical of painting – are introduced into photography by the master of photography ...

Co_Existence: Boris Beja, Maja Smrekar, Urša Vidic, Miha Godec

The exhibition’s title relates to the thought of the philosopher Timothy Morton, who, in his book Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, defined the ecosystem as interconnectedness and ...

Jurij Kalan: Fractions

Academic painter Jurij Kalan presented his works for the first time at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, and at the same time, this is his most comprehensive presentation to date. ...

Meta Krese: Have you come to stay?

The exhibition of photographer Meta Krese is the most comprehensive presentation of her photographic series or cycles so far. At this exhibition, the artist places (or takes) somewhat personal photo ...

Jasna Hribernik: l'avenir

The publication is designed as a walk through the rich creative oeuvre of Jasna Hribernik, a film director and one of the most important prominent Slovenian intermedia creators, who has ...

Mitja Ficko, Marko Jakše: From Sky to Sky - SOLD OUT

Academic painters Mitja Ficko and Marko Jakše presented a series of jointly created paintings and works on paper entitled From Sky to Sky that were already created in 2014 and ...

Metod Frlic: Pillow, low, low, low, mud

Metod Frlic is one of Slovenia’s foremost sculptors, seeing sculpture as an open form and using a variety of materials and sculptural techniques. Many of his works expand into the ...

ARTIST - COLLECTOR - PUBLIC The Hilger Collection

Artists presented at the exhibition: Ian Burns, Piero Pizzi Canella, Tony Cragg, Gunter Damisch, Jim Dine, Oliver Dorfer, Erró, Shepard Fairey, Flavio Favelli, Lucio Fontana, Ivana Franke, Vasilena Gankovska, IRWIN, ...

Žarko Vrezec: Documents 1990–2020

The overview exhibition gives us an insight into the work produced over the past thirty years by Žarko Vrezec, a disciplined explorer of a purified artistic language within the boundaries ...

Let it be queer! LGBTIQ+ exhibition

Artists presented at the exhibition: Andrej Brumen Čop, Andreja Gomišček, Jasna Klančišar, Neža Knez, Andrea Knezović, Gašper Kunšič Aprilija Lužar, Miha Satler, strtgm, Filip Vurnik.

SAMO U la la ! Solo - group exhibition

The basic tendency to create works of art is always individualistic. It is born out of a personal reaction, escalated into artistic action, from a subjective point of view. This ...

Jože Barši: Learning and Forgetting

Learning and Forgetting (City Art Gallery Ljubljana, 2021) was the first major solo presentation by the architect, sculptor and educator Jože Barši since 2013. It provided an insight into ...

When gesture becomes event

Sixteen polyphonic, critical, constructive and imaginative voices drew up a feminist vocabulary spanning across strategies, forms of action and utopian endeavours to help rethink collective action, co-operation, solidarity and shared ...

Dragica Čadež: A Story of Wood and Clay

Academically trained sculptress Dragica Čadež marks the Slovenian artistic or cultural space with great creative energy. Through her distinct artistic language, she has created an extensive opus of various series, ...

Living object

The exhibition of visual, audio and interactive installations was produced by established female artists Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Polona Tratnik, who have been active at the ...

Vlado Martek: This Book is Better Than Ideal

"Exhibition with Many Titles" was accompanied by the publication of the volume titled Ta knjiga je boljša od idealne (This Book is Better than Ideal). The 300 pages long volume contains ...

Jiři Bezlaj: Stone

"It was the first time I took a thorough look at it, it was lying on the river bank and shimmering unusually, it was a sunny day and the clear ...

Drago Tršar: Monument

Academic sculptor and academician Drago Tršar has for many decades marked the Slovenian artistic space with a great creative energy and author's recognizable artistic language. He represents one of the ...

After the Canal there was only "our" world

This exhibition and catalogue is an invitation to explore a variety of historical and geographical connections between Europe, especially its Easts, and the Middle East, particularly Egypt, with the Suez ...

Tadej Pogačar: CODE:RED

From its inception in 1999 and its first public manifestation at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Tadej Pogačar’s "CODE:RED" has seen numerous presentations, interpretations, and analyses.

Exhibit A

Exhibit A brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed artists whose response to the complex problems plaguing modern society consists in the use of forensic aesthetics and scientific tools of physics, sociology, ...

Marjan Gumilar: CUTS

Rather than a classic retrospective overview, exhibition of Marjan Gumilar’s painting at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana thematically revolves around one of the main recurring and constitutive elements in his ...

Iztok Sitar: Under the Red Star

Iztok Sitar aka Ninel (this is an anagram, which can be read backwards) is among the most significant comic book artists in Slovenia. His body of work is extensive, and ...

PRRRRRRR

The selected artists are at different stages in their career: some have just entered the field of contemporary visual art while others have already drawn considerable attention, in Slovenia and ...

Tomislav Gotovac: Don't Ask Where We're Going

As he stated in several interviews, some also reprinted in this publication, Tomislav Gotovac did not have an exhibitionist’s easy attitude to nudity. He found it quite hard – even ...

Densifying

Exhibition "Densifying "is an intimate experience, as we live within the world of metaphors, concepts and relations, some exclusively general, others subjective. In the world of multiplicity of individuals, sculptures ...

Ištvan Išt Huzjan: Measures

Winner of the 31st edition of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015) Ištvan Išt Huzjan presented a series of works from the past few years at the City Art ...

Tugo Šušnik: Quasimodo (1971-2017)

Tugo Šušnik, so it seems, could not have defined his forty-four years of artistic activity in the public eye in a more radical manner and with more self-irony than he ...

Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory

"Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory" unveils strategies that artists employ in dealing with urban architecture and range from investigating the construction process, researching architectural structures and materials to analysing ...

Murmuring: Ayşe Erkmen, Ali Kazma, Seza Paker

The meaning is considered to come from the sound made by leaves rubbing against each other, referred to as rustling. Life blossoms within this bare murmur. The sounds heard are ...

Corporeality

Visual art is to a large degree the art of the body, as its mission is to create images, which are most often connected with the body as the object ...

LET'S GO FORWARD! Slovenian Photography 1990-2015

Artists presented at the exhibition: Dragan Arrigler, Primož Bizjak, Rajko Bizjak, Bojan Brecelj, Jure Breceljnik, Božidar Dolenc, Jure Eržen, Saša Fuis, Boris Gaberščik, Tomaž Gregorič, Irena Herak, Lado Jakša, Manca ...

Ulay: I Other

More than merely the principal document of the "I Other" exhibition, this publication is also conceived as an afterword to it and the unique tale of it, recounting the idea ...

Better Doggy Style Than No Style (painting after the end of styles)

The selected painters are not only joined by their age (all born in the early 1970s), but also by their similar approaches regarding the questions of representation / representativeness of ...

Waves in Sculpture

The group exhibition "Waves in Sculpture" continues the thematic series of exhibitions that analyse contemporary Slovenian sculpture with a selection of some of the most renowned Slovenian academic sculptors of ...

Ivan Kožarić: In Wonderful Diversity, Unity!

Our presentation of Kožarić’s works is the most comprehensive in Slovenia to date, and has been staged in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU) in Zagreb. Conceived in ...

Zvonko Čoh: Capriccio – I Doodle over Whatever I see

An exhaustive insight into artistic functioning, often related to the elementarity of everyday and caught in creative stories, is also provided by the overall ...

Inside Out

"Inside Out - Not So White Cube" is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and CC ...

Inside Out – Not So White Cube

"Inside Out - Not So White Cube" is a long-term research and co-curatorial cross-disciplinary project initiated by Alenka Gregorič, the artistic director of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana ...

Hommage à Malevich. Black Square Continued

On the occasion of the centenary of this key Suprematist object of early twentieth-century historical avant-garde art, City Art Gallery Ljubljana hosted a themed group exhibition presenting a ...

Examples of Laughter in Art

Examples of Laughter in Art features artists of different generations, with widely varied personal poetics, who, in their work, deal more or less openly with themes, forms and variations on ...

Žiga Kariž: Painter '73

With his creative practice, Žiga Kariž has since the mid-1990s represented not only one of the central but also one of the most controversial contemporary painters. His way to refurnish ...

Bojan Gorenec: How Paintings Emerge (Paintings 1979-2014)

Following the first presentation of Bojan Gorenec’s work at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana) in 1990 (entitled Painting 1982–1990), "How Paintings Emerge (1979–2014)" exhibition is one of ...

Expanding Sculptural Structures

With a selected and refined concept these exhibition and catalogue put emphasis on the structure, form, composition, the variety of themes and materials and spatial possibilities of sculpture.

Rabih Mroué: Something of Something

This is not an exhibition catalogue. Neither is it a monograph of an artist. And it is not an artist’s book either. It is a book. A book, whose dramaturgy ...

net.art Painters and Poets

Exhibition of net.art at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a matter of continuing an exhibition series that forms an important part of the ...

COSMOS

“Born in stars, we live on earth as poets.” In a Hegelian twist, English poet, painter, and mystic William Blake's notion could also read born on earth, we live in ...

Rene Rusjan: What I Talk About When I Talk About …

This exhibition, "What I Talk About When I Talk About…" in the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana is without doubt the most extensive and most complex display of Rene Rusjan's ...

Private D. M. The World is Beautiful

Taking the form of a repeat presentation of his "Die Welt ist schön" project staged at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana in 1982, Mandić’s first solo appearance after thirty years ...

Jannis Kounellis

The artist’s involvement in space reaches beyond the physical limitations of the gallery. Every exhibition project presents a new challenge. Specific layout of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana comprising several ...

Amuse me

How does television – that omnipresent, one-way disseminator of imagery, information, and ideology – affect our daily lives and inform our view of reality? The exhibition is not intended to ...

Fragments of the Happiness in Art

People are multi-layered, plural, multi-sensual systems, we are subjects composed of body and soul, we are the sites where an infinite multitude of feelings and perceptions erupt, where art is ...

An Exhibition. 50 Years of City Art Gallery Ljubljana

An Exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the central Ljubljana art gallery, which has left an indelible mark in the history of Slovenian culture with its distinctive program features and ...

Milan Erič: Non Overview Exhibition

Painter Milan Erič’s retrospective exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana is the most extensive overview of his artistic output to date. It is conceived as a visually dynamic display ...

Beautiful game

What do sports and art, or more precisely, football and art have in common? The idea behind the exhibition entitled The Beautiful Game is not to ponder about and draw ...

Paths Through Sculpture

The exhibition offers an emotional and formal approach to sculpture which, in spite of its variety, appears as a major work of art, with various degrees of comprehension, recognition, association, ...

Ivan Hribar: Javno. Ustvarjalno. Zasebno.

Izid monografije spremlja končano obnovo vile Zlatica, nekdanjega Hribarjevega doma. Besedila za monografijo je prispevalo 12 avtoric in avtorjev, ki prinašajo novosti, dopolnitve in zanimivosti. Več je podrobnosti iz Hribarjevega ...

Ivan Hribar in Ljubljansko meščanstvo

Prenovljena Vila Zlatica v Rožni dolini, dom nekdanjega znamenitega ljubljanskega župana Ivana Hribarja (1851-1941), danes obiskovalcem nudi vpogled v življenje enega najbolj priljubljenih županov Ljubljane in spoznavanje z bivanjsko kulturo ...

Sandi Červek: Paintings and Drawings 1985 – 2011

Sandi Červek has been creating abstract paintings using only black since 1989. Since they might seem sad and hermetic people do not usually relish such works at first sight, however ...

Drawing in Slovene Comics

The exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and catalogue concentrates on the role of drawing in Slovene comics from inception to the present day. In this medium the drawing ...

Jan Fabre: The Borrowed Time

"The Borrowed Time" comprises photographs of stage performances of Jan Fabre made by masters of photography of the latter part of the twentieth century. They are a metamorphosis of a ...

Powered by Ljudmila

There are quite a few stories about Ljubljana institutions such as Ljudmila, which played a crucial role, particularly in the 1990s, in creating the local art scene, each in its ...

Goran Đorđević: Against Art, Copies 1979-1985

Goran Djordjević has been active in the art scene from the mid seventies as one of the protagonists of the so-called “analytic line” of Belgrade conceptualism. In 1979, he has ...

Traveling Companions

This exhibition provides a multilayered view of the artistic production of the featured artists and the role, or perhaps simply a visual reflection, of their friendship with the two key ...

Zmago Lenárdič: Shuffle

What is the position of the Shuffle exhibition in relation to the existing reality? Always a critical and insightful observer of reality, its everyday aspects, representations, and theoretical interpretations, Lenárdič ...

Word for Word, Without Words

What happens if we divest language of figurativeness and start taking it literally, word for word? With a number of selected idioms of the Slovenian language as our points of ...

255 804 km2

First and foremost, it brought us up against the dilemma of how to “shortlist” the artists that we should meet, or rather, that others might think we should meet. We ...

Huiqin Wang: An Interwoven Path

"My life is at the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures… Life changes and I change with it, but change takes time… This has taught me to go with fate ...

Wheel, 5200 years

Exhibition guide

Metamorphoses of Auersperg Palace

A long and picturesque history of Auersperg Palace in Ljubljana.

Josef Koudelka: Sledi / Vestiges 1991–2012

The "Josef Koudelka: Sledi / Vestiges 1991–2012" exhibition is accompanied by a publication with twenty reproductions of Koudelka’s photographs. Josef Koudelka is one of the world’s most acknowledged masters of ...

Jože Ciuha: The Labyrinth of Time

The retrospective exhibition "Jože Ciuha: The Labyrinth of Time" is accompanied by an extensive and comprehensive catalogue containing reproductions of over 200 works.  

Jože Suhadolnik: ALBUM, Neue Slowenische Kunst

The "Jože Suhadolnik: ALBUM, Neue Slowenische Kunst" exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with 59 reproductions of Suhadolnik’s photographs.  

Viktor Bernik: HA, HA, HA!

Viktor Bernik’s creative output is endowed with two distinctive features: referencing social reality and the use of various formal solutions. Bernik takes on contemporary society with playfulness and humour, shifting ...

Robertina Šebjanič: Aquatic Twilight_Lygophilia

Robertina Šebjanič engages in investigating living systems (bio art) and sound. Taking on the form of interactive installations on exhibition grounds, her research-based art projects primarily focus on cultural, ...

Marko Batista: Fluid particles of volcanic ash

Intermedia artist Marko Batista is well known for his experimental audio-visual performances and installations. His practice is based on an active use of technologies and the development of audio systems ...

Publications from the Membrana publishing house collection

Membrana is an independent publishing house that publishes journals Membrana and Fotografija and books from the field of photography theory. At the Jakopič Gallery, you may borrow and read more ...

Emona MM

Urbanizacija prostora - nastanek mesta

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