Galerija Fotografija

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Galerija Fotografija
Mestni trg 11/I, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 251 15 29
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Established in 2003, the Galerija Fotografija ('Photography Gallery') is beside the Photon Gallery one of the two on the photography specialized private galleries in Ljubljana. Located in the first floor of the medieval house in the old Ljubljana centre, the Gallery aims at popularisation of high-quality photography of established Slovene and international authors. The Gallery entered the international art market in 2009, participating on the Viennafair.


Programme

Alongside up to 8 exhibition annual the Gallery organises also lectures, screenings of the masters and project presentations. The exhibiting programme is mostly marked by solo exhibitions. Comparing to early years is this programme recently dedicated mostly to the presentation of international established artists. In 2009 the Gallery features 2 solo exhibitions of Slovene authors (Tihomir Pintar and Žiga Koritnik), in the year before 3 Slovene photographers (Bojan Radovič, Igor Andjelić, Aleš Bravničar). In 2004, the first year of the Galerija Fotografija operation there was exhibited 7 Slovene solo presentations (Neca Falk, Marko Jamnik, Matjaž Krivic, Sibil Slejko, Jože Suhadolnik, Tomo Jeseničnik, and Joco Žnidaršič) and one tandem (Bojan Brecelj and Saša Petejan).

In 2004 the Gallery featured the work of Helmut Newton. In 2009 the exhibition of American photographer Sheila Metzner (working also for numerous magazines like Vanity Fair and Vogue, also for clients as Chanel, Victoria's Secret, Ralph Lauren, Valentino) was prepared in the cooperation with Emzin, Institute of Creative Production. Among others the gallery featured recently also solo exhibitions of Paul Serrada, Angelika Sher, Roger Ballen, Wilhelm Heiliger, Sarah Moon, etc.

Very significant for the Galerija Fotografija are group exhibitions. One of first was the Today About Yesterday featuring the great names of Slovene photography as Stojan Kerbler, Alenka Vidrgar, or Dragan Arrigler. In 2006 the most prominent international names of photography history was shown on the exhibition entitled Art & Photography (Archipenko, Chagall, Christo, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Soto, Vasarely, Warhol, Wesselman, Doisneau, Klein, Modotti, Newton, Taylor-Wood, Sieff, Wegman and some others). The same year the gallery gave the podium to the exhibition entitled American Photography Week including also works of William Wegman, Diane Arbus, and Nan Goldin.

In 2007 Marina Gržinič


At the 2005 auction works by several Slovene and international photographers were available including some anonymous pictures from the end of the 19th and 20th century.

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