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Exterior of the Maribor Art Gallery building in 2007. In the cellar of the historical building one can find the Satchmo Jazz Club, Maribor

With its collection of more than 3,000 art works by Slovene artists from the end of the 19th century up to the present, the Maribor Art Gallery (Umetnostna galerija Maribor (UGM)) is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture, and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations, and interactive art projects. UGM serves as a regional museum of modern and contemporary art in the area of the Municipality of Maribor, its founder, as well as in the greater area of north-eastern Slovenia. The museum also runs the UGM Studio and manages the Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection in the City Park. The researchers can benefit from its rich Library and Archive. In 2015 UGM has been in charge of the Slovenian pavilion featuring JAŠA at the Venice Biennial.

Background and venues

By establishing the Maribor Art Gallery in 1954 as the first professional institution in the field of fine arts Maribor again became a relatively important centre of artistic and cultural development that goes back to the tradition of the Grohar Art Club, which was established in the 1920s and had a pioneering role in the organised art life in Maribor. By moving into the building on the corner of Strossmayerjeva and Orožnova streets, UGM acquired about 800 square metres of exhibition space, including the representative Knights' Hall and Pillar Hall. The main exhibition venues are located in the former manor house built in the first half of the 19th century and the former church of the Celestine monastery from the second half of the 18th century.

In 1966 the gallery acquired the Rotovž Salon located at the old Town Hall ('Rotovž') and in the 80s a Department for Contemporary Art and an additional modernist space for presenting contemporary visual art in the very centre of the town. The former space was closed in the 90s, while the second one runs the contemporary art programme as an UGM Studio.

Programme

With its collection and the programme of approximately 20 exhibitions and events annually – ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovene artists, through solo and group presentations of visual and new media artists to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions – UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia, regionally and internationally. The most important international event is the International Triennial Ecology and Art, organised by the Maribor Art Gallery since 1980. The museum also collaborates with other local organisers. In 2010, for example, it hosted the exhibition Twenty-six million minutes later. New Tendencies, from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb in the framework of the International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA).

The gallery's Education Department runs an art programme for children and youth, including an annual exhibition Gallery-suits-me [Miprijagalerija].

Collection

The collection contains works by major artists of modern and contemporary art, particularly by those from Styria (Štajerska region), Carinthia (Koroška region) and East Slovenia (Prekmurje region). Since 1999 UGM has held the first collection of video art in Slovenia. The collection of UGM comprises mainly works acquired through a systematic purchase policy, plus donations and legacies and also a small number of works of art transferred from the Maribor Regional Museum.

Paintings and sculptures

The collection of paintings comprises major historical styles of fine art of the 20th century and represents the core of the permanent collection of UGM. The features of the UGM collection are some complete opuses of selected authors from north-eastern Slovenia, such as Janez Šibila, Maks Kavčič, Oton Polak, and Zmago Jeraj. Another focus are certain art movements, especially Slovene Expressionism and New Objectivity: the collection contains a few excellent works by Tone Kralj and France Kralj, and Fran Stiplovšek, as well as the opuses of Slavko Tihec and painter Rudolf Kotnik, the pioneers and leading figures of Slovenian abstract art of the early 1960s.

The production of the recent decades is represented by the works of Oto Rimele, Darko Golija, Jurij Kalan, Marko Jakše, Zdenka Žido, and others. The collection attracts attention also with the works of Zoran Mušič, an internationally acclaimed Slovenian painter who spent his youth and early creative years in Maribor.

Prints and drawings

Printmaking, drawing and other works on paper form a substantial part of the UGM collection, again based on 20th-century styles. Works on paper have been created by using different classic and experimental techniques and represent an interesting study material. The collection of prints includes works by all major Slovene artists; among those particularly interesting are Lojze Šušmelj's opus from the late 1960s, Bojan Golija's cycle of prints from the late 1950s that was inspired by Japanese prints, excellent works by the so-called "Ljubljana Printmaking School" works by Bogdan Borčić, a leading Slovene printmaker of the older generation, as well as works by one of the most prominent printmakers of the younger generation, Samuel Grajfoner.

Photography

UGM primarily collects photographic works produced after 1960, when photography in Slovenia became an independent artistic medium. During this time some Maribor-based photographers were also acclaimed in the wider area of the former Yugoslavia. The central part of the collection consists of works by members of the "Maribor Circle" with Zmago Jeraj, Ivan Dvoršak, Branko Jerneić, and Janko Andrej Jelnikar who donated more than 140 photographs in 2009. The museum acquires also the works by younger artists who have established themselves through photography, among them Aleksandra Vajd.

Video and new media

In 1999 UGM was the first museum in Slovenia to collect works by Slovene video artists. The collection is conceived as a historical survey of Slovene video works from the 1960s to present time. It includes the works by the pioneers from the 1960s and 1970s (Nuša Dragan & Srečo Dragan, Miha Vipotnik), and by the most important video artists of the 1980s and 1990s, when the medium was established as an independent and equal medium of artistic creativity (among them Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Marko Kovačič, Andrej Lupinc, Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik & Neven Korda). The works from the 1990s by Nataša Prosenc, Andrej Zdravič, Jasna Hribernik, Franc Purg, and Ema Kugler are presented as well as the contemporary production expanding to new media (Vuk Ćosić, Igor Štromajer, Janez Janša, Apolonija Šušteršič, Damijan Kracina & Vladimir Leben, and Son:DA).

In 2009 the selected works from the collection were presented on the To Be Continued exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Rijeka, Croatia.

External Links

Gallery

Closing days of the 8th International Triennial Ecology and Art EKO at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 2021.

Opening of the exhibition A Letter to the Future at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 8th EKO 2021.

Closing days of the 8th International Triennial Ecology and Art EKO at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 2021.

Opening of the exhibition A Letter to the Future at the former MTT textile factory in Maribor, 8th EKO 2021.

A concrete sculpture by Banzo Matsura, made in 1977 and standing on Ptujska cesta (Ptujska road) in Maribor, 2008

A concrete sculpture by Dragica Čadež Lapajne (SI), made in 1986 and standing in front of the Primary School Gustav Šilih in Maribor, 2008

A concrete sculpture by Maciej Szankowski (PL), made in 1977 and standing in Bresternica, a village near Maribor, 2008

Exterior of the Maribor Art Gallery building in 2007. In the cellar of the historical building one can find the Satchmo Jazz Club, Maribor

Impossible Machines, an exhibition by Meta Grgurevič at Maribor Art Gallery, 2020.

Interior of Maribor Art Gallery, 2020.

Entrance of the UGM Studio, former Rotovž Salon, 2008

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-Established in 1954 within a 16th-century Celestine monastery building, [[Maribor Art Gallery]] started to develop its permanent collection in 1961, and subsequently acquired an additional space in Maribor Town Hall at Glavni trg ([[Rotovž I Exhibition Salon]]). In 1985 the Gallery acquired a further space at Trg Borisa Kraigherja ([[Rotovž II Exhibition Salon]]), which now functions as an exhibition hall for modern art. Today its collection consists of some 3,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, comprising mainly works acquired through a systematic purchase policy, plus donations and legacies and also a small number of works of art transferred from [[Maribor Regional Museum]].
+With its collection of more than 3,000 art works by Slovene artists from the end of the 19th century up to the present, the [[Maribor Art Gallery]] (Umetnostna galerija Maribor (UGM)) is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture, and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations, and interactive art projects. UGM serves as a regional museum of modern and contemporary art in the area of the [[Municipality of Maribor]], its founder, as well as in the greater area of north-eastern Slovenia. The museum also runs the [[UGM Studio]] and manages the [[Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection, Maribor|Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection]] in the City Park. The researchers can benefit from its rich [[Maribor Art Gallery Library and Archive|Library and Archive]]. In 2015 UGM has been in charge of the Slovenian pavilion featuring [[JAŠA]] at the Venice Biennial.
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-The collection of Slovene graphic art is of high quality, as is the collection of art works from the post-war period to the 1960s and 1970s, when the visual arts flourished in Maribor and reached one of their peaks in works by Rudolf Kotnik and Slavko Tihec. This latter section presents paintings by Lajči Pandur, Jan Oeltjen and Maks Kavčič, and sculptures by Gabrijel Kolbič, Stojan Batič and Vlasta Zorko. The collection also includes paintings by members of the first generation of artists who graduated from the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design]] in Ljubljana and worked in Maribor (Oton Polak, Slavko Kores, Milan Vojsk and Janez Šibila). The following section presents the now middle-aged generation of Slovene painters. The 1970s are marked by Pop-art, New Realism and Conceptualism (Bogdan Čobal, Lojze Logar), with a focus on Zmago Jeraj, the central figure of the period. Work by painters from Prekmurje (France Mesarič, Zdenko Huzjan) and a presentation of the 'young' generation (Mirko Bratuša, Sandi Červek, Darko Golija, Oto Rimele, Andrej Brumen Čop) concludes the presentation of the collection.
+==Background and venues==
+By establishing the Maribor Art Gallery in [[established::1954]] as the first professional institution in the field of fine arts Maribor again became a relatively important centre of artistic and cultural development that goes back to the tradition of the Grohar Art Club, which was established in the 1920s and had a pioneering role in the organised art life in Maribor. By moving into the building on the corner of Strossmayerjeva and Orožnova streets, UGM acquired about 800 square metres of exhibition space, including the representative Knights' Hall and Pillar Hall. The main exhibition venues are located in the former manor house built in the first half of the 19th century and the former church of the Celestine monastery from the second half of the 18th century.
-In 1999 the gallery began its collection of Slovene video art known as the 'UGM Video Collection'.
+In 1966 the gallery acquired the Rotovž Salon located at the old Town Hall ('Rotovž') and in the 80s a Department for Contemporary Art and an additional modernist space for presenting contemporary visual art in the very centre of the town. The former space was closed in the 90s, while the second one runs the contemporary art programme as an [[UGM Studio]].
-See also [[Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection, Maribor]].
+==Programme==
+With its collection and the programme of approximately 20 exhibitions and events annually &ndash; ranging from retrospective reviews of works by Slovene artists, through solo and group presentations of visual and new media artists to international festivals of contemporary art as well as architecture and design exhibitions &ndash; UGM importantly shapes both the art scene in Slovenia, regionally and internationally. The most important international event is the [[International Triennial Ecology and Art]], organised by the Maribor Art Gallery since 1980. The museum also collaborates with other local organisers. In 2010, for example, it hosted the exhibition ''Twenty-six million minutes later. New Tendencies, from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb'' in the framework of the [[International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)]].
-[[Satchmo Jazz Club, Maribor]] is located in the Gallery's cellar.
+The gallery's Education Department runs an art programme for children and youth, including an annual exhibition ''Gallery-suits-me'' [Miprijagalerija].
+==Collection==
+The collection contains works by major artists of modern and contemporary art, particularly by those from Styria (Štajerska region), Carinthia (Koroška region) and East Slovenia (Prekmurje region). Since 1999 UGM has held the first collection of video art in Slovenia. The collection of UGM comprises mainly works acquired through a systematic purchase policy, plus donations and legacies and also a small number of works of art transferred from the [[Maribor Regional Museum]].
+===Paintings and sculptures===
+The collection of paintings comprises major historical styles of fine art of the 20th century and represents the core of the permanent collection of UGM. The features of the UGM collection are some complete opuses of selected authors from north-eastern Slovenia, such as [[Janez Šibila]], [[Maks Kavčič]], [[Oton Polak]], and [[Zmago Jeraj]]. Another focus are certain art movements, especially Slovene Expressionism and New Objectivity: the collection contains a few excellent works by [[Tone Kralj]] and [[France Kralj]], and [[Fran Stiplovšek]], as well as the opuses of [[Slavko Tihec]] and painter [[Rudolf Kotnik]], the pioneers and leading figures of Slovenian abstract art of the early 1960s.
+The production of the recent decades is represented by the works of [[Oto Rimele]], [[Darko Golija]], [[Jurij Kalan]], [[Marko Jakše]], [[Zdenka Žido]], and others. The collection attracts attention also with the works of [[Zoran Mušič]], an internationally acclaimed Slovenian painter who spent his youth and early creative years in Maribor.
+===Prints and drawings===
+Printmaking, drawing and other works on paper form a substantial part of the UGM collection, again based on 20th-century styles. Works on paper have been created by using different classic and experimental techniques and represent an interesting study material. The collection of prints includes works by all major Slovene artists; among those particularly interesting are [[Lojze Šušmelj|Lojze Šušmelj's]] opus from the late 1960s, [[Bojan Golija|Bojan Golija's]] cycle of prints from the late 1950s that was inspired by Japanese prints, excellent works by the so-called "Ljubljana Printmaking School" works by [[Bogdan Borčić]], a leading Slovene printmaker of the older generation, as well as works by one of the most prominent printmakers of the younger generation, [[Samuel Grajfoner]].
+===Photography===
+UGM primarily collects photographic works produced after 1960, when photography in Slovenia became an independent artistic medium. During this time some Maribor-based photographers were also acclaimed in the wider area of the former Yugoslavia. The central part of the collection consists of works by members of the "Maribor Circle" with [[Zmago Jeraj]], [[Ivan Dvoršak]], [[Branko Jerneić]], and [[Janko Andrej Jelnikar]] who donated more than 140 photographs in 2009. The museum acquires also the works by younger artists who have established themselves through photography, among them [[Aleksandra Vajd]].
+===Video and new media===
+In 1999 UGM was the first museum in Slovenia to collect works by Slovene video artists. The collection is conceived as a historical survey of Slovene video works from the 1960s to present time. It includes the works by the pioneers from the 1960s and 1970s ([[Nuša Dragan]] & [[Srečo Dragan]], [[Miha Vipotnik]]), and by the most important video artists of the 1980s and 1990s, when the medium was established as an independent and equal medium of artistic creativity (among them [[Marina Gržinić]] & [[Aina Šmid]], [[Marko Kovačič]], [[Andrej Lupinc]], [[Zemira Alajbegović Pečovnik]] & [[Neven Korda]]). The works from the 1990s by [[Nataša Prosenc]], [[Andrej Zdravič]], [[Jasna Hribernik]], [[Franc Purg]], and [[Ema Kugler]] are presented as well as the contemporary production expanding to new media ([[Vuk Ćosić]], [[Igor Štromajer]], [[Janez Janša]], [[Apolonija Šušteršič]], [[Damijan Kracina]] & [[Vladimir Leben]], and [[son:DA]]).
+In 2009 the selected works from the collection were presented on the ''To Be Continued'' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Rijeka, Croatia.
 == See also ==
-* [[Rotovž I Exhibition Salon]]
+* [[Maribor Art Gallery Library and Archive]]
-* [[Rotovž II Exhibition Salon]]
+* [[UGM Studio]]
+* [[Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection, Maribor]]
+* [[Satchmo Jazz Club, Maribor]] located in the Gallery's cellar
+== External Links==
+*[http://www.ugm.si/en/ Maribor Art Gallery (UGM) website]
+* [http://www.ugm.si/en/collection/ UGM collection]
+* [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webkst&kst_id=3796 UGM on kunstaspekte website]
+* [http://videolectures.net/umetnina_gabrsek_prosenc_avtoportret/ Lecture on Jan Oeltjen's ''Self-portrait'' by Meta Gabršek Prosenc] on [[VideoLectures.Net]] (in Slovenian)
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