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Biennial of Design (BIO)
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One of the Biennial of Design exhibitions, held at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019
Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025
GO2025 The City Yet to Become
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In this postcard celebrating Nova Gorica in the 1950s, we find many symbols of the city's identity that continue to mark it today.
Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2024
Current events
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Four performances of "Pigs - Svinje", an absurd grotesque drama about isolation and loneliness. Directed by Primož Ekart and acted by Nikla Petruška Panizon and Tina Gunzek. Produced by Slovene Permanent Theatre in Trieste.
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Austria Vienna STRABAG Art Site at Gironcoli-Kristall
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The exhibition "Nothing is Going to Happen Without a Warning" by Tina Dobrajc, a recognition award winner of the STRABAG Artaward International 2024.
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24 Jan 2025
Ireland Dublin Europa Gallery,European Commission and Parliament Representation in Dublin
Žiga Kelenc presents two artworks from his painting series "Extensive Unified Reconstruction" (2024) in the framework of a group exhibition "Belong", curated by Taffina Flood from NCAD. Financially supported and promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Dublin.
Upcoming events
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National Gallery of Slovenia will be collaborating with Viennese museum Belvedere in order to exhibit the best of Slovenian painting between 1848-1918 in the biggest exhibition of Slovenian art in Vienna to date: "The World in Colours. Slovenian Painting 1848-1918 - Svet v barvah. Slovensko slikarstvo 1848-1918".
Festivals
The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.
Images
Museum of Modern Art is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Female nude, by Zdenko Kalin and Echo, by Karl Putrih.
The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014
Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015
The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016
Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011
Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775
The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.
A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011
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