Galerija Velenje
Titov trg 5, Sl-3320 Velenje
Phone386 (0) 3 897 6840
Managed byVelenje Urban Municipality
Festival Velenje - Velenje Gallery
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History
From 1976 until 2005 it was organised as as part of the former Ivan Napotnik Cultural Centre. Today it is a separate institution, situated in a modernist building designed in 1971 by Adi Miklavc, which stands in daring contrast to adjacent buildings in the square which are just one decade older.
Exhibitions
Beside solo exhibitions of the young generation of local artists with representative in Uroš Potočnik and Barbara Jurkovšek, the Velenje Gallery features also solo exhibitions of established Slovene artists like Metka Krašovec or local artists like Željko Opačak and Stane Špegel, who was cooperated for the exhibition about local monuments in 2009 with Peter Marinšek and Mladen Stopnik, another representative of young establish generation of Slovene artists.
In last years gives the Gallery regularly once per year the podium to the Slovene Fine Art Critics Association (DSLK) and their annual exhibition. Each year the Gallery organises the Velenje Artists' Colony including the exhibition of the graduate student of the the Academy of Arts, Ljubljana, which was for its 20th anniversary in 2009 opened by Bojan Gorenec and Nadja Gnamuš.
Collection
Velenje Gallery is The permanent collection comprises around 700 paintings, sculptures and works on paper (prints, drawings, photography) by Slovene artists of the 20th century, with a particular focus on the youngest artists, especially those from the Šaleška and Savinjska Valleys. Since 1978 the Gallery's permanent collection of modern Slovene art (the Gorenje Collection) and paintings a well-known local painter Lojze Perko have been exhibited at Velenje Castle as part of the collections of Velenje Museum.
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Velenje Gallery is the oldest and most important fine arts institution in the Šaleška Valley. +
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