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|Name=Moderna galerija Ljubljana
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| status      = PHOTO NEEDSUPDATE  INFOBOX TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
|Street address=Tomšičeva 14, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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| maintainer  = Simon Smole
|Telephone=386 (0) 1 241 6800, 386 (0) 1 251 4101
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|Fax=386 (0) 1 251 4120
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|E-mail=adela.zeleznik@mg-lj.si
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| name        = Moderna galerija (MG)
|Website=http://www.mg-lj.si
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| local name  = Moderna galerija
|Proprietor=Ministry of Culture
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|Contact=Adela Železnik Public Relations, Educational Programmes
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| street      = Tomšičeva 14
|Opening hours=Normally 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, 10am-1pm Sun and second day of two-day national holidays, closed Mon; NB the Moderna galerija's exhibition premises are currently closed for extensive renovation works. with a planned reopening date in mid 2009, however its staff may be reached from 8am-4pm Monday-Friday and the Mala Galerija remains open
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| town        = SI-1000 Ljubljana
|Photo=[[Image:Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana.jpg]]
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| telephone    = 386 (0) 1 241 6834
|Street=Tomšičeva 14
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| fax          = 386 (0) 1 251 4120
|Town=SI-1000 Ljubljana
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| map          = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.053296&lon=14.4989&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
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| email        = info@mg-lj.si
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| website      = http://www.mg-lj.si/
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|founded by    = Government of the Republic of Slovenia
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|managed by    = Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
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| contacts = {{Contact
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| name        = Martina Vovk
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| role        = Acting Director
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| email        = martina.vovk@mg-lj.si
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{{Contact
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| name        = Sanja Kuveljić Bandić​
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| role        = International projects manager
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| email        = sanja.kuveljic-bandic@mg-lj.si
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|opening hours = 10am-6pm Tue-Sun, closed on Monday and public holidays; check for summer Wed nocturnal opening hours (till 9pm)
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http://twitter.com/MGplusMSUM
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http://www.facebook.com/MGplusMSUM
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http://www.youtube.com/user/modernagalerija
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https://www.instagram.com/mgplusmsum/
 
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The Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art) in Ljubljana is the Slovene national museum of modern and contemporary art. Charged with studying, collecting and presenting 20th-century Slovene art, it is responsible for maintaining and constantly developing the national collection of 20th-century Slovene art.
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===History===
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{{wide Image|Museum of Modern Art - 19.jpg}}
  
Designed by architect Edvard Ravnikar (1907-1993), the museum was founded in 1947 on the initiative of art historian, critic, writer and diplomat Dr Izidor Cankar, following receipt of a generous grant from the heirs of industrialist Dragotin Hribar. Over the years the Moderna galerija has presented numerous important exhibitions, many of which have been pivotal in the development of Slovene art. These have included Slovene Impressionism exhibition of 1949, which constituted an important victory over extreme ideological dogma; the exhibition of Riko Debenjak and Stane Kregar of 1953, which brought abstract art to a wider audience; the Henry Moore exhibition of 1955, which gave powerful stimulus to modernist tendencies; and the first [[Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art]] of the same year, which began the important tradition of the [[International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana]]. Recently, the significance of the international exhibition programme in the work of the Moderna galerija has grown considerably and major names in the contemporary world art are regularly presented in individual and group exhibitions.
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The [[Moderna galerija (MG)|Moderna galerija]] in Ljubljana has been the Slovene national institution for modern and contemporary art since [[established::1948]]. In November 2011 when the renovations of its new space in the new cultural quarter at Metelkova were finished, the institution split into two venues and got the longer name and an abbreviated form MG+MSUM standing for [[Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova|''Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova'']].  
  
===Permanent Collection===
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The Museum of Modern Art continues its activities in the recently renovated space alongside Tivoli Park, focusing on the art of the 20th-century modernism and contemporary works disseminating modernistic ideas. Along with temporary exhibitions and projects MG presents ''20th Century / Continuities and Ruptures'', the permanent collection of Slovene 20th-century art. Its auditorium hosts various public presentations, symposia, conferences, and workshops organised either by Moderna galerija or other producers.
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The [[Museum of Modern Art Photo Archive|photo archive]] of the museum is located at the Moderna galerija, while a [[Museum of Modern Art Library|library]], an [[Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art|extensive Modern art archive]], a translation and publications department and a conservation-renovation department are situated at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova]].
  
Closed to the public for renovation at the time of writing, the museum’s permanent collection comprises selected works of Slovene artists from the museum collection from 1950 to the present day.
 
  
Room 1 surveys the beginnings and development of Modernist forms in Slovene art since the early 1950s, with a special focus on the traditions of the Intimist and the fantastic figurative art in Slovenia. Room 2 presents fully-developed Modernist art from the 1950s and 1960s, both abstract and figurative. Room 3 presents works from the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, beginning with examples of new figurative art, geometric abstraction and ''avant garde'' works, continuing with ‘primal’ and ‘fundamental’ abstract works from the mid-1970s and concluding with Neo-Expressionist and New Image art from the first half of the 1980s. Finally, Room 4 focuses on contemporary artistic creativity from the past decade, featuring pieces by several internationally-acclaimed Slovene artists of the younger generation, including Jože Barši, Mirko Bratuša, Vuk Ćosić, Bojan Gorenec, Tomaž Gregorič, [[Irwin]], Bogoslav Kalaš, Janez Janša (formerly known as Žiga Kariž), Dušan Kirbiš, Marko Kovačič, Neue Slowenische Kunst (see [[Neue Slowenische Kunst - NSK State]]), Marko Peljhan (see [[Projekt Atol Institute]]), Tadej Pogačar and the [[P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art (PMCA)]], Marjetica Potrč, Zora Stančič, Apolonija Šušteršič, Lujo Vodopivec, VSSD and Žarko Vrezec.
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==History==
  
In the international collection of the gallery from the 1990s, Miroslaw Balka, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cristina Iglesias, Anish Kapoor and Ulf Rollof and others are represented, all of them exhibited in the gallery. <span class="webonly">The ''Moderna galerija ''also houses a collection of the work of 20th-century artists from the territories of former Yugoslavia, including important works by artists such as Jovan Bijelić, Dusan Džamonja, Oton Gliha, Ljubo Ivančić, Frano Kršinić, Petar Lubarda, Nikola Martinoski, Ivan Mestrović, Pedja Milosavljević, Milo Milunović, Frano Šimunović, Miroslav Šutej, Marino Tartaglia, Rudolf Valdec, Vladimir Veličković and Lazar Vozarević. </span>
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In the 1990s Moderna galerija began to assemble its international collection Arteast 2000+, a collection of works mainly by Eastern European artists. Its goals are to present Eastern European art, which has been overlooked until now, to establish a dialogue between Eastern and Western European artists and in this way create a new, different view on the development of art in the second half of the 20th century. For more information please see <span class="wlink">[[http://www.2000p.org/eng]]</span>.
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The museum was initiated by the art historian, critic, writer, and diplomat [[Izidor Cankar]], following the receipt of a generous grant from the heirs of industrialist [[Dragotin Hribar]]. Designed by architect [[Edvard Ravnikar]] (1907&ndash;1993) in the 1930s &ndash; before his studies in Paris with Le Courbusier, when he still followed the classicist principles of [[Jože Plečnik]] &ndash; construction on the museum was halted during WWII, leading to its official opening in 1948.
  
Since 1991 the Moderna galerija has also collected photographs by Slovene photographers from the period between the two world wars, works by contemporary Slovene photographers and works by some international photographers who have exhibited at the Moderna galerija (Thierry Girard, Timo Kelaranta, Cesare Pietroiusti, Armin Linke, Andres Serrano). Because of their importance and quantity, the works of Fran Krašovec (1892-1969), considered the pioneer of modern photography in Slovenia, represent a large part of the collection.
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Over the years Moderna galerija has presented numerous important exhibitions, many of which have been pivotal in the development of Slovene art. Such exhibitions include the ''Slovene Impressionists'' exhibition of 1949, which constituted an important victory over extreme ideological dogma; the exhibition of [[Riko Debenjak]] and [[Stane Kregar]] of 1953, which brought abstract art to a wider audience; the [[Henry Moore]] exhibition of 1955, which gave powerful stimulus to modernist tendencies; and the first [[Biennial of Graphic Arts|Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art]] of the same year, which spurred the inception of numerous biennials around the globe.
  
===Programme===
 
  
In addition to its role as a museum, Moderna galerija also functions as a temporary exhibition gallery which hosts retrospective exhibitions of work by key Slovene artists of the 20th century, as well as exhibitions of contemporary domestic and foreign art.
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===Permanent collection===
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In August 2011 a new permanent display of the selected works from the Moderna galerija collection was opened. Under the title ''20th Century / Continuities and Ruptures'' the exhibition abandons the chronological order and introduces the 20th-century avant-gardes and the art of the Partisan resistance to the national history of art on equal terms as the more familiar trends. The main novelties are the presentation of the avant-garde of the 1920s and the second reconstruction of the ''Trieste Constructivist Space'' (1927), supervised by [[Dragan Živadinov]] and [[Miha Turšič]] from the [[Delak Institute]], the art of the Partisan resistance, photography, and an overview of the art system in Slovenia in the 20th century. The exhibition was designed by [[Novi kolektivizem (NK)]] and conceived by art historians [[Sergej Kapus]], [[Miklavž Komelj]], and [[Beti Žerovc]] in collaboration with the Moderna galerija curators.
  
''NB the Moderna galerija's exhibition premises are currently closed for extensive renovation works. with a planned reopening date in mid 2009, however its staff may be reached from 8am-4pm Monday-Friday and the <span class="ref">[[Mala Galerija]]</span> remains open.''
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===International works===
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Another line of the international collection of the gallery is comprised of art works from the 1990s: Miroslaw Balka, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cristina Iglesias, Anish Kapoor, Ulf Rollof, and others. The third line of the Moderna galerija international collection contains 136 works of 20th-century artists from the territories of former Yugoslavia, including important works by artists such as Jovan Bijelić, Dušan Džamonja, Oton Gliha, Ljubo Ivančić, Frano Kršinić, Petar Lubarda, Nikola Martinoski, Ivan Meštrović, Pedja Milosavljević, Miroslav Šutej, and Vladimir Veličković.
  
Moderna galerija incorporates a [[Documentation Department]] which collects, processes and publishes documentary and archival material relating to modern Slovene art. It also runs an Information Centre which functions as an important resource for modern and contemporary Slovene art, and a [[Library]] which collects books, catalogues and all other relevant publications.
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===Photography collection===
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Since 1991 Moderna galerija has also collected photographs by Slovene photographers from the period between the two world wars, works by contemporary Slovene photographers, and works by some international photographers who have exhibited at the Moderna galerija (Thierry Girard, Timo Kelaranta, Cesare Pietroiusti, Armin Linke, Andres Serrano). Because of their importance and quantity, the works of [[Fran Krašovec]] (1892&ndash;1969), considered the pioneer of modern photography in Slovenia, represent a large part of the collection.  
  
Finally, Moderna galerija performs an important educational function which includes lectures, screenings, guided tours and workshops. It is increasingly involved in work with pre-school children and with students in primary and secondary schools.
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===New media collection===
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A collection of new media art is currently taking shape through the acquisition of video works, films, moving images installations, and Internet projects. It already comprises representative works that are good examples of the development of media art in Slovenia and presents, despite their relatively small number, a varied picture in terms of generation, expression, and technological approach.
  
More information about the Moderna galerija Ljubljana is available from the Museum's [[Documentation Department]], the [[Moderna galerija Ljubljana Library]] and [[Mala Galerija]].
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==Programme==
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In addition to its role as the Museum of Modern Art, Moderna galerija also functions as a temporary exhibition gallery which hosts survey or retrospective exhibitions of works by key Slovene artists of the 20th century, as well as exhibitions of contemporary domestic and international art.  
  
===Venues===
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In the last two decades, the significance of the international exhibition programme in the work of the Moderna galerija has grown considerably and major names in the contemporary world art are regularly presented in individual and group exhibitions.
  
[[Mala Galerija]]
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{{Image|Museum of Modern Art - 13.jpg}}
  
===Projects===
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==International cooperation==
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Apart from the international character of its programme and collections, Moderna galerija and its staff also participate in joint projects and platforms. For the period 2010&ndash;2013 [[Zdenka Badovinac]] was elected president of the CIMAM &ndash; International Committee of [[International Council of Museums (ICOM), Slovenia|ICOM]] for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.
  
[[U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts]]
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In 2009 Moderna galerija co-founded ''L'Internationale'', a trans-institutional organisation of five European museums and artists' archives (Július Koller Society from Bratislava, MACBA from Barcelona, VAM from Eindhoven, and M HKA from Antwerpen) with the aim to "to challenge common canons and dominant narratives of art history." In the same year Moderna galerija also joined the ''Digitizing Ideas: Archives of Conceptual Art Practice'', an EU project led by the Museum of Contemporary Arts Zagreb.
  
===International cooperation===
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Since the inception of the ''Radical Education Collective'' in 2006, [[Bojana Piškur]], a curator from Moderna galerija, coorganises or participates in events dedicated to learning knowledge "on the social and political responsibility of the researchers by experiencing it through the process of political self-emancipation".
  
===See also===
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As a partner in the EU project ''Gravity &ndash; Art, Religion, Science'' (2003&ndash;2005) Moderna galerija realised an innovative bilingual online archive ''Towards Zero Gravity. Gravity in Slovene Fine Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries'' conceived by [[Igor Zabel]] and facilitated by the [[Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art|Modern Art Archive]].
  
* [[U3_Triennial_of_Contemporary_Slovene_Arts]]
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==See also==
* [[MJ Manifesta Journal]]
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*[[Moderna galerija / Muzej moderne umetnosti Ljubljana plus Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova]]
* [[Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory]]
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* [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]]
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* [[Museum of Modern Art Photo Archive]]
  
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* [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/ MG+MSUM website]
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* [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/about-us/682/history/ The history of MG+MSUM]
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Projects
  
* [http://www.mg-lj.si/ Moderna galerija] - official website
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* [http://www.2000p.org/eng/ Arteast 2000+] - permanent collection's official website
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Moderna galerija 2011 Permanent collection Photo Dejan Habicht.jpgThe avant-garde of the 1920s presented in a permanent display of the selected works from the Museum of Modern Art collection, 2011

The Moderna galerija in Ljubljana has been the Slovene national institution for modern and contemporary art since 1948. In November 2011 when the renovations of its new space in the new cultural quarter at Metelkova were finished, the institution split into two venues and got the longer name and an abbreviated form MG+MSUM standing for Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.

The Museum of Modern Art continues its activities in the recently renovated space alongside Tivoli Park, focusing on the art of the 20th-century modernism and contemporary works disseminating modernistic ideas. Along with temporary exhibitions and projects MG presents 20th Century / Continuities and Ruptures, the permanent collection of Slovene 20th-century art. Its auditorium hosts various public presentations, symposia, conferences, and workshops organised either by Moderna galerija or other producers.

The photo archive of the museum is located at the Moderna galerija, while a library, an extensive Modern art archive, a translation and publications department and a conservation-renovation department are situated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.


History

Moderna galerija exterior Photo Dejan Habicht.jpgMuseum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

The museum was initiated by the art historian, critic, writer, and diplomat Izidor Cankar, following the receipt of a generous grant from the heirs of industrialist Dragotin Hribar. Designed by architect Edvard Ravnikar (1907–1993) in the 1930s – before his studies in Paris with Le Courbusier, when he still followed the classicist principles of Jože Plečnik – construction on the museum was halted during WWII, leading to its official opening in 1948.

Over the years Moderna galerija has presented numerous important exhibitions, many of which have been pivotal in the development of Slovene art. Such exhibitions include the Slovene Impressionists exhibition of 1949, which constituted an important victory over extreme ideological dogma; the exhibition of Riko Debenjak and Stane Kregar of 1953, which brought abstract art to a wider audience; the Henry Moore exhibition of 1955, which gave powerful stimulus to modernist tendencies; and the first Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art of the same year, which spurred the inception of numerous biennials around the globe.


Permanent collection

In August 2011 a new permanent display of the selected works from the Moderna galerija collection was opened. Under the title 20th Century / Continuities and Ruptures the exhibition abandons the chronological order and introduces the 20th-century avant-gardes and the art of the Partisan resistance to the national history of art on equal terms as the more familiar trends. The main novelties are the presentation of the avant-garde of the 1920s and the second reconstruction of the Trieste Constructivist Space (1927), supervised by Dragan Živadinov and Miha Turšič from the Delak Institute, the art of the Partisan resistance, photography, and an overview of the art system in Slovenia in the 20th century. The exhibition was designed by Novi kolektivizem (NK) and conceived by art historians Sergej Kapus, Miklavž Komelj, and Beti Žerovc in collaboration with the Moderna galerija curators.

International works

Another line of the international collection of the gallery is comprised of art works from the 1990s: Miroslaw Balka, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cristina Iglesias, Anish Kapoor, Ulf Rollof, and others. The third line of the Moderna galerija international collection contains 136 works of 20th-century artists from the territories of former Yugoslavia, including important works by artists such as Jovan Bijelić, Dušan Džamonja, Oton Gliha, Ljubo Ivančić, Frano Kršinić, Petar Lubarda, Nikola Martinoski, Ivan Meštrović, Pedja Milosavljević, Miroslav Šutej, and Vladimir Veličković.

Photography collection

Since 1991 Moderna galerija has also collected photographs by Slovene photographers from the period between the two world wars, works by contemporary Slovene photographers, and works by some international photographers who have exhibited at the Moderna galerija (Thierry Girard, Timo Kelaranta, Cesare Pietroiusti, Armin Linke, Andres Serrano). Because of their importance and quantity, the works of Fran Krašovec (1892–1969), considered the pioneer of modern photography in Slovenia, represent a large part of the collection.

New media collection

A collection of new media art is currently taking shape through the acquisition of video works, films, moving images installations, and Internet projects. It already comprises representative works that are good examples of the development of media art in Slovenia and presents, despite their relatively small number, a varied picture in terms of generation, expression, and technological approach.

Programme

In addition to its role as the Museum of Modern Art, Moderna galerija also functions as a temporary exhibition gallery which hosts survey or retrospective exhibitions of works by key Slovene artists of the 20th century, as well as exhibitions of contemporary domestic and international art.

In the last two decades, the significance of the international exhibition programme in the work of the Moderna galerija has grown considerably and major names in the contemporary world art are regularly presented in individual and group exhibitions.

Museum of Modern Art - 13.jpg7 sins - Ljubljana – Moscow exhibition catalogue cover, Museum of Modern Art, 2004

International cooperation

Apart from the international character of its programme and collections, Moderna galerija and its staff also participate in joint projects and platforms. For the period 2010–2013 Zdenka Badovinac was elected president of the CIMAM – International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

In 2009 Moderna galerija co-founded L'Internationale, a trans-institutional organisation of five European museums and artists' archives (Július Koller Society from Bratislava, MACBA from Barcelona, VAM from Eindhoven, and M HKA from Antwerpen) with the aim to "to challenge common canons and dominant narratives of art history." In the same year Moderna galerija also joined the Digitizing Ideas: Archives of Conceptual Art Practice, an EU project led by the Museum of Contemporary Arts Zagreb.

Since the inception of the Radical Education Collective in 2006, Bojana Piškur, a curator from Moderna galerija, coorganises or participates in events dedicated to learning knowledge "on the social and political responsibility of the researchers by experiencing it through the process of political self-emancipation".

As a partner in the EU project Gravity – Art, Religion, Science (2003–2005) Moderna galerija realised an innovative bilingual online archive Towards Zero Gravity. Gravity in Slovene Fine Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries conceived by Igor Zabel and facilitated by the Modern Art Archive.

See also

External links

Projects


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