Likovni salon Celje

Since 2005 managed by the Celeia Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Likovni salon Celje (Likovni Salon Gallery) is a referential contemporary arts space where exhibitions of Slovene and international artists are featured. Many exhibitions extend to other venues managed by the institute. The gallery opened in 1963 as a modernist white cube exhibiting space in the ground floor of the Narodni dom cultural house and was initially managed by the local Association of Fine Artists.

Programme

The Gallery is preparing approximately 10 exhibitions and interdisciplinary events each year, out of which in 2009 there were 3 huge international group exhibitions featured, one of them was organized in the cooperation with the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art, namely the exhibition entitled Forbidden Death, which beside the foreign artists and known Slovene artists as Jože Barši and Franc Purg was featuring also the young generation of artists like Nika Autor, Goran Bertok and Andreja Džakušič, who is living and working in Celje. Together with Celje gallery of Contemporary Art it was in 2008 co-organizer of the exhibition The Image of the Space in two parts, significant for the regional art scene, where more than 50 local artis were presented.

The Likovni salon Celje was recently also the podium for solo exhibition of some in the moment most visible young artists from Slovenia like Matej Košir and Meta Grgurevič, further of local very active artists as Borut Holland and Vanja Madla, it features also solo exhibitions of foreign artists as Rumanian Roman Tolici or Dutch artist Erwin Van Doorn, processually oriented and in active interaction with the social environment.

The Gallery practises cooperations with freelanced curators from Slovenia, sometimes also from abroad. Special attention goes to curators of the the AIR residency, whose holder is Celeia Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts and has been developed from the need for a more active flow of people and ideas in culture and arts in the city of Celje and it is modelled on contemporary models of the residencies, which are no longer isolated art communities, but dynamic forms of creativity in an urban setting.

In 2008 the Salon exhibited the exhibition Down the Rabbit Whole, prepared by Ganes Pratt Gallery from Ljubljana in the cooperation of independent curators Petja Grafenauer and Nadja Gnamuš, with the aim to respectfully show, how the classical media of painting is actually popular in Slovenia. Included artist Viktor Bernik, Ksenija Čerče, Ištvan Išt Huzjan,Arjan Pregl, Miha Štrukelj, Sašo Vrabič, etc.

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Likovni salon Celje

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