Photon Gallery

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Galerija Photon
Križevniška 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana


Phone386 (0) 1 2302071, 386 (0) 59 977907,
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Photon Gallery is beside the Galerija Fotografija one of the two on the photography specialized private galleries in Ljubljana. Since its establishing in 2004 it presents, promotes and sale photography of Slovene as well as international authors. The Photon Gallery collaborates on many international and national projects. Since 2005 is the initiator of the Month of Photography in Ljubljana. The Photon Gallery attends regularly international art fairs.


Exhibitions

Focused on the contemporary photography of Slovene and other photographers of CEE regions, the Photon Gallery prepares approximately one exhibition monthly. The Gallery features plenty of solo exhibitions. Recently the Gallery exhibited works of young Slovene artist Špela Volčič, the representative of the new wave photography Vanja Bučan, but also work of Tomo Brejc, photographer of middle generation, known also for the cooperation with Irwin. Each year the Gallery presents also artist of older, classical Slovene photography; in 2009 the gallery featured the series entitled Vanishing of Janez Korošin.

Beside solo exhibitions, is Photon Gallery known also for its themed group shows like Early 80s Music Scene, Laibach-Focus or Contemporary Erotic Photography, which was prepared in the cooperation with Primož Lampič, the head of the photography department of the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana. The exhibition in 2008 featured also works of Goran Bertok, Matjaž Prešeren, Jure Breceljnik, Voranc Vogel, Rajko Bizjak, and of tandem Barbara Jakše and Stane Jeršič.

Moreover, the nudity is the theme often present in the programme of the Photon Gallery like in the work of French artists Enna Chaton or Italian photrographer Luca Donnini, whose works expresses the unusual presence of a highly involved voyeur – both solo exhibitions were featured in 2009, the last one within the programme of the Red Dawn International Women's Festival in the Autonomous Cultural Centre Metelkova mesto in Ljubljana.

The Gallery intensively cooperates with national and international institutions. In the summer of 2009 it was featuring as well the group exhibition Camera Obscura – Autoportrait of the Students of Photography from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. In the collaboration with Nessim Gallery from Budapest the Gallery presented in the beginning of 2010 a renowned Hungarian contemporary photo artist Gabor Kerekes with the series Over Roswell and a selection of other works.

Ljubljana Month of Photography and Photonic Moments

Video in progress

Commercial brunch and international art fairs

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