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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre]] | * [[Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre]] | ||
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* [[Bežigrajska galerija]] | * [[Bežigrajska galerija]] | ||
* [[Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana]] | * [[Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana]] | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [http://www.mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/ City Art Gallery web page] | * [http://www.mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/ City Art Gallery web page] | ||
+ | *[http://www.mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/about-the-city-art-gallery-of-ljubljana/ City Art Gallery Ljubljana floor plans] (PDF bottom page) | ||
* [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webkst&kst_id=4245 City Art Gallery Ljubljana on Kunstaspekte website] (in German) | * [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webkst&kst_id=4245 City Art Gallery Ljubljana on Kunstaspekte website] (in German) | ||
* [http://www.artslant.com/ew/venues/show/2811-mestna-galerija City Art Gallery Ljubljana on Artslant website] | * [http://www.artslant.com/ew/venues/show/2811-mestna-galerija City Art Gallery Ljubljana on Artslant website] |
Latest revision as of 15:08, 21 January 2021
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8 Dec 2020
5 Apr 2021
International group exhibition When gesture becomes event curated by Alenka Gregorič and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, co-organised by the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. Related to the Slovenian-Austrian Year of Neighbourhood Dialogue and supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA) (Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna)
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10 Jan 2020
29 Feb 2020
The exhibition CODE:RED by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), co-produced by the P74 Centre and Gallery and City Art Gallery Ljubljana, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA),
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23 Aug 2019
13 Sep 2019
The exhibition CODE:RED by Tadej Pogačar (P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute), co-produced by the P74 Centre and Gallery and City Art Gallery Ljubljana, as part of the European Capital of Culture Rijeka 2020,
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25 Oct 2018
The seminar Collection Collective: Tools for Self-Representation with Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana), organised by Tranzit,
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10 Nov 2017
11 Dec 2017
Symptoms of Society, Contemporary Art Exhibition of Central and Eastern European Countries, curated by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana) and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Beijing,
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11 Oct 2017
The seminar Collection Collective. In the Future All Our Homes Will Be Museums with Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana), organised by Tranzit,
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5 Oct 2017
2 Nov 2017
Private D.M. Die Welt ist Schön (The World is Beautiful), a solo exhibition by Dušan Mandić, organised in cooperation with the City Art Gallery Ljubljana,
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27 May 2017
8 Jul 2017
Symptoms of Society, Contemporary Art Exhibition of Central and Eastern European Countries, curated by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana) and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Beijing
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4 May 2017
A presentation of the project and the reader Inside Out: Critical Artistic Discourses Concerning Institutions by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre) and Vít Havránek, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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10 Nov 2016
7 May 2017
Cold Front from the Balkans, an exhibition co-curated by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana) also featuring works by Irwin, Laibach, the OHO Group, Jasmina Cibic, and Mark Požlep,
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30 Apr 2015
3 May 2015
The festival of contemporary visual art and theory Vrbnik May Day Assembly / Transactions also featuring the works of Mark Požlep, curated by Alenka Gregorič and co-organised by City Art Gallery Ljubljana,
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24 Apr 2015
8 May 2015
Fokus Grupa: As It Once Was – the Art of Nation Building, an art exhibition curated by Alenka Gregorič (City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre), at OFF-Biennale Budapest
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26 Nov 2013
A lecture by Alenka Gregorič, Art Director and Curator of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Tel Aviv,
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11 Oct 2013
Vasja Nagy (free-lance curator) participating in a podium discussion about the project Balkan(s) Now, organised in co-operation with the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Open Systems, Vienna, and Remont, Belgrade
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22 Oct 2011
4 Dec 2011
Background and venues
The City Art Gallery Ljubljana is the ancestor of the old building of the Jakopič Pavilion (the first Ljubljana exhibition space built in 1908 by the painter Rihard Jakopič). After it was demolished in 1961, the house at Mestni trg 5 was chosen for the new venue for exhibition activities and their management. In November 1962, the Jakopič Pavilion was renamed as Mestna galerija Ljubljana. In 1990 and 1991, the Municipality of Ljubljana financed a thorough renovation of the building. In addition to modernised exhibition rooms and offices in the converted loft, the gallery now also features a café on the ground floor.
In 1996 the City Art Gallery Ljubljana opened another premise, Mestna galerija 2, to feature its permanent collection. Soon this venue became the programme addition to the Mestna galerija 1 featuring the newest production of Slovene and international artists. The venue was closed in 2010. Since 1996 the City Art Gallery Ljubljana has also been administrating the Bežigrajska galerija (established in 1976) and since 2002 the new venue also on the north-bound artery: the Bežigrajska galerija 2.
When the City Museum of Ljubljana and the City Art Gallery Ljubljana merged into a new public institute Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana in 2009, the Mestna galerija venues began to be administratively operated under the umbrella institute as 2 of 8 autonomous units specialised or connected to contemporary art and culture.
Programme and mission
Both venues of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana are focused on the production and presentation of exhibitions of contemporary art positions. The City Art Gallery Ljubljana also provides a public service with exhibitions of modern and contemporary visual art in Slovenia and abroad.
The City Art Gallery Ljubljana also promotes the visual arts by producing publications and prints and organising seminars, lectures, art workshops, and cultural events compatible with its main activities.
Mestna galerija
Staging approximately 8 exhibitions annually, the Mestna galerija features solo exhibitions of Slovene artists (with special attention to artists from Ljubljana) and complex group exhibitions linking national and international artist positions and statements. This activity has become stronger since the appointment of the new artist director Alenka Gregorič. Many projects are curated in cooperation with other local or international colleagues. Opening complex but focused topics of contemporary arts, the projects mirror some of the most vital themes of the field as was evident in the discursive exhibition and project Communication Networks curated by Alenka Gregorič and Bojana Piškur, the senior curator of the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition featured almost 30 more and less established international authors and artistic groups as Ernesto Neto and Erzen Shkololli, including two Slovene artists Apolonija Šušteršič and Vesna Bukovec. The active participants were also guests from many international institutions such as Eyal Danon from the Israeli Centre for Digital Art in Holon, Iara Boubnova from ICA in Sofia, Gülşen Bal from Open Space in Vienna, Zoran Erić from the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Ana Janevski from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and others.
Another project marking the new period of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana was the January 2010 exhibition Sweet Nowhere curated by Alenka Gregorič and which presented the production of 13 mostly Ljubljana-based artists or art tandems and collectives who deal with the city of Ljubljana from different points of view (architectural, social ...) and in different media (photography, music, video, film ...). This exhibition was also accompanied by a guided tour of the exhibition together with a number of artists. The show featured the work of Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, Vuk Ćosić, Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Vadim Fiškin and others.
In recent years, the solo exhibition programme has focused on the older generation of Slovene artists such as Zdenko Huzjan, Zmago Jeraj, Boris Gaberščik orSandi Červek, the stage of Mestna galerija is also dedicated to the younger generation.
The collection
The City Art Gallery Ljubljana collection comprises 190 mostly donated original works on paper by 70 Slovene and 60 foreign artists. It has a heterogeneous character as artists from different periods and styles of expressions are presented – from traditional, realistic portrayals of objective reality to fantasy and abstraction. The concept of the collection grew out of the gallery's exhibition activities. Mostly all the major representatives of Slovene art of the 20th century are included, although the City Art Gallery Ljubljana started to collect works for its collection only in the 1990s.
The collection is not presented permanently, but periodically. The first public display of the collection was staged on the premises at Mestni trg 4 in 1996 and after a few months was dismantled. In 2002 it moved to another location at Mestni trg 11/1 where it presented 50 artists from all generations, from the oldest, Marij Pregelj and Vladimir Makuc, to the youngest, Silvester Plotajs-Sicoe, featuring a wide range of techniques, subjects and foreign works not previously exhibited.
See also
- Tobačna 001 Cultural Centre
- Vžigalica Gallery
- Bežigrajska galerija
- Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana