The Present and Presence exhibition, featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) was opened in November 2011 in the renovated building of the former barracks complex on Metelkova Street with the exhibition The Present and Presence, featuring the international collection of Moderna galerija, Arteast 2000+, and The Museum of Affects exhibition, a part of the L’Internationale project.
The new building houses also the Moderna galerija library, the extensive Modern art archive, a translation and publications department and a conservation-renovation department.
Background
The idea of the new museum of contemporary art in Ljubljana evolved on the basis of the Arteast Collection 2000+. The collection of predominantly Eastern European art based on the traditions of the avant-gardes has been built by Moderna galerija since 1995.
Due to the space shortage the collection was presented publicly for the first time in June 2000 to coincide with Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, in the not yet renovated building of the former barracks complex on Metelkova Street.
In April 2002 the director of Moderna galerija, Zdenka Badovinac, and the curator Igor Zabel conceived the mo(nu)ment Museum of Contemporary Art - Metelkova 22 programme.
Arteast 2000+ Collection
L’Internationale project
From May to October 2011 a part of the Arteast Collection 2000+ was presented at the MACBA in Barcelona as a Museum of Parallel Narratives exhibition in the framework of the EU supported L’Internationale project.
See also
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Projects
Gallery
1:1 Stopover installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, 2013-2014. The Collection, The Museum and The History presented by Walter Benjamin. Left: Kunsthistorisches Mausoleum, Belgrade, Observing the Observer, 2003. Right: Salon de Fleurus, New York, From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1992.
The Present and Presence exhibition, featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2011
With the exhibition The Present and Presence, which features a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova was opened in November 2011
The Present and Presence, an opening exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, 2011
The Present and Presence, a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, November 2011