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| local name  = Moderna galerija Ljubljana
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| name        = Moderna galerija (MG)
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| local name  = Moderna galerija  
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| logo        =
 
| street      = Tomšičeva 14
 
| street      = Tomšičeva 14
| image        = Museum of Modern Art (logo).svg
 
 
| town        = SI-1000 Ljubljana
 
| town        = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone    = 386 (0) 1 241 6800, 386 (0) 1 241 6834
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| telephone    = 386 (0) 1 241 6834
 
| fax          = 386 (0) 1 251 4120
 
| fax          = 386 (0) 1 251 4120
 
| map          = http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.053296&lon=14.4989&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
 
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| email        = info@mg-lj.si
 
| email        = info@mg-lj.si
 
| website      = http://www.mg-lj.si/
 
| website      = http://www.mg-lj.si/
|founded by    = Government of the Republic of Slovenia,
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|founded by    = Government of the Republic of Slovenia  
|founded by 2   = Ministry of Culture
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|managed by    = Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
 
| contacts = {{Contact
 
| contacts = {{Contact
| name        = Zdenka Badovinac
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| name        = Martina Vovk
| role        = Director
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| role        = Acting Director
| email        = zdenka.badovinac@mg-lj.si
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| email        = martina.vovk@mg-lj.si
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{{Contact
 
| name        = Maks Soršak
 
| role        = Secretary General
 
| email        = maks.sorsak@mg-lj.si
 
 
}}
 
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{{Contact
 
{{Contact
| name        = Adela Železnik
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| name        = Sanja Kuveljić Bandić​
| role        = Public Relations Officer
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| role        = International projects manager
| email        = adela.zeleznik@mg-lj.si
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| email        = sanja.kuveljic-bandic@mg-lj.si
 
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|opening hours = 10am-6pm Tue-Sun, free admission every first Sunday, closed on public holidays
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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://www.facebook.com/MGplusMSUM
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https://www.instagram.com/mgplusmsum/
 
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The Moderna galerija in Ljubljana is the Slovene national institution for [[Museum of Modern Art|modern and contemporary art]]. Currently situated in the recently renovated space alongside Tivoli Park, Moderna galerija is set to split the museum's activities into two venues in October 2011 when the renovations to its new space at 22 Metelkova street are finished. The former space will then serve as the Museum of Modern Art, focusing on the art of the 20th-century modernism and contemporary works disseminating modernistic ideas, the latter will serve as the domicile of the [[Museum of Contemporary Art]]. Alongwith temporary exhibitions and projects, both venues will present the museum's permanent collections: first, its collection of Slovene 20th-century art, and the second, its international collection, Arteast 2000+. The latter collection is presented from May to October 2011 at the MACBA in Barcelona as a ''Museum of Parallel Narratives'' exhibition in the framework of the EU supported project ''L’Internationale''.
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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'']].  
  
Additionally Moderna galerija manages [[Mala Gallery, Museum of Modern Art|Mala Gallery]], an exhibition platform for artists' personal presentations and for innovative curatorial projects, a [[Museum of Modern Art Library|library]], an [[Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art|extensive archive]], a publications department and a conservation-renovation department.  
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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]].
  
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
  
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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]] (1907–1993) 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 [[Established::1948]].
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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]] (1907–1993) 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. These have included 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.
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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.
  
==Collections==
 
In addition to studying, collecting, and presenting 20th-century Slovene art, Moderna galerija is responsible for maintaining and constantly developing the national collection of 20th-century and 21st-century Slovene art. Moderna galerija's holdings in 2009 included: 502 sculptures, 1,301 paintings, 3,079 prints by Slovene and foreign artists, 11,069 drawings, and approximately 2,000 photographs, as well as some representative works of new media art and Video, and Internet projects.
 
  
 
===Permanent collection===
 
===Permanent collection===
The permanent collection of Moderna galerija is currently in an installation process. Before the renovation it was staged through four rooms, each had its focus: Room 1 featured 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 presented Modernist art from the 1950s and 1960s, both abstract and figurative. Room 3 presented 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 focused 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]], [[Žiga Kariž]], [[Dušan Kirbiš]], [[Marko Kovačič]], [[Neue Slowenische Kunst - NSK State|Neue Slowenische Kunst]], [[Projekt Atol Institute|Marko Peljhan]], [[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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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.
  
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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.
  
 
===Photography collection===
 
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===New media 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.
 
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.
 
In 2010 Moderna galerija recieved the entire ''e-flux video rental (EVR)'' collection as a donation. EVR is a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprised of a video rental store, a public screening room, and a film and video archive with over 1000 works by 500 international artists. They have been selected since 2004 by over 100 curators from all over the world.
 
 
===International collections===
 
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.
 
 
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 and 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.
 
  
 
==Programme==
 
==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 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.  
  
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 like ''Body and the East – From the 1960s to the Present'' (1998), ''Form Specific/Arteast Exhibition'' (2003), ''7Sins: Ljubljana – Moscow'' (curated by [[Zdenka Badovinac]], Victor Misiano, and [[Igor Zabel]]), or ''Interrupted Histories'' (2006). Since 1994 Moderna galerija organises the [[U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts]].
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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.  
  
 
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During the renovation of Moderna galerija (December 2007 – April 2009) the project ''Hosting MG!'' was accomplished on 20 locations around Slovenia. Different kind of activities aimed to mitigate the negative effects of the suspension of the gallery's activities in Slovenia. The project was also a kind of appeal to institutions and individuals working in the field of contemporary art to establish a networking platform to facilitate easier communication and collaboration.
 
 
==Other activities==
 
Moderna galerija incorporates a [[Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art|Modern Art Archive]] which collects, processes, and publishes documentary and archival material relating to modern and contemporary Slovene art. It also runs a [[Museum of Modern Art Library|library]] which collects books, catalogues, and all other relevant publications.
 
 
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.
 
 
The auditorium hosts various public presentations, festivals, symposia, conferences, and workshops organised either by Moderna galerija or other producers such as the [[Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory]] or the [[Institute for Sonic Arts Research]].
 
  
 
==International cooperation==
 
==International cooperation==
Apart from the international character of its programme and collections, Moderna galerija and its staff participate also 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.
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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 2010–2013 [[Zdenka Badovinac]] was elected president of the CIMAM – International Committee of [[International Council of Museums (ICOM), Slovenia|ICOM]] for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.
  
In 2009 Moderna galerija cofounded ''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.
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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.
  
 
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".
 
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".
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==See also==
 
==See also==
* [[Museum of Modern Art Library]]
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*[[Moderna galerija / Muzej moderne umetnosti Ljubljana plus Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova]]
* [[Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art]]
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* [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]]
* [[Mala Gallery, Museum of Modern Art]]
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* [[Museum of Modern Art Photo Archive]]
* [[U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts]]
 
* [[MJ Manifesta Journal]]
 
* [[Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory]]
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
* [http://www.mg-lj.si/ Moderna galerija website]
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* [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/ MG+MSUM website]
* [http://www.2000p.org/eng/ Arteast 2000+ permanent collection website]
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* [http://www.mg-lj.si/en/about-us/682/history/ The history of MG+MSUM]
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ljubljana-Slovenia/Moderna-galerija/319298697712?v=wall Moderna galerija Ljubljana on Facebook]
 
* [http://modernagalerija.wordpress.com/ Moderna galerija Blog with recorded lectures]
 
 
Projects
 
Projects
* [http://modernagalerijau3.wordpress.com/ ''U3'' 2010 lectures and virtual tour]
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* [http://internacionala.mg-lj.si/index.php "L'Internationale" project website]
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** [http://www.macba.cat/controller.php?p_action=show_page&pagina_id=28&inst_id=30266 Text about the exhibition ''Museum of Parallel Narratives'' held at MACBA as part of l'Internationale project]
 
* [http://www.macba.cat/controller.php?p_action=show_page&pagina_id=28&inst_id=30266 ''Museum of Parallel Narratives'' exhibition at MACBA, Barcelona]
 
* [http://videolectures.net/nextstep09_ljubljana/ ''The Next Step'' International Conference of Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art (2009)] on [[VideoLectures.Net]] portal
 
* [http://zerogravity.mg-lj.si/eng/indexe.htm ''Towards Zero Gravity'' online archive]
 
References
 
* [http://www.artmargins.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=497:creating-context-zdenka-badovinac-on-eastern-europes-missing-histories-interview&catid=115:interviews&Itemid=94 Interview with director Zdenka Badovinac in ARTMargins]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdenka_Badovinac Zdenka Badovinac, director, on Wikipedia]
 
  
 
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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.

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External links

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