Piran City Gallery
Programme
Piran City Gallery, located on Tartini squeer in Piran, as a rule combines its programme with other venues of coastal Galleries, as well it cooperates with other national and international institutions. In 2009 the exhibition of paintings, gouaches and drawings of Zoran Mušič (1909 - 2005), the great Slovene painter, that marked the centenary of his birth, was prepared in the cooperation with the collector Igor Lah, Cortini Gallery from Venice and the Museum of Modern Art. The same year Piran City gallery gave the podium to the presentation of Riko Art Collection, showing established Slovene authors, what follows the programme politic of presenting established Slovene artists. In 2008 the gallery featured the exhibition The artist and the computer of Eduard Zajec, one of the world pieneers of computer arts, having the Slovene roots. The exhibition was curated by Vasja Nagy and Breda Škrjanec as the derivat of his retrospective prepared in International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana.
Piran City Gallery prepares approximately 6 exhibition annual, out of which the summer exhibition is reserved for the main location of the painting part of the Ex-tempore Piran - International Painting and Ceramics.