Sculpture Institute
Programme
On the sculpture oriented association operates on two locations in Ljubljana. It runs the open-air Gruber Sculpture Gallery in front of the Gruber Palace (the headquarters of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (ARS)), where is featuring annual at least one exhibition lasting several months. In 2009 it presented the project dLAN of Darko Golija from Maribor, where he works also as professor of sculpture at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. His colleague from Ljubljana the sculpturer Alen Ožbolt, head of the Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, presented his latest works entitled Ensembles – Prostorski rebusi/Kamen na nebu at Gruber Sculpture Gallery in 2008.
The second venue of the Sculpture Association is on Križevniška 2. After the renovation in October 2009 this is the space for presentation of solo and group exhibitions of its members. The very first presentation of the renovated space was saleable oriented and presented graphics, paintings and sculptures created by its members. In March 2010 it exhibited sculptures from the series the Summer [Poletje] of Jiři Bezlaj. It presented also from them published monograph of Bezlaj with texts of Petja Grafenauer, Miklavž Komelj and Janko Rožič.
On the beginning the Association had two open-air galleries, one in Ljubljana (Gruber Sculpture Gallery in front of the Gruber Palace, National Archive, in Ljubljana) and the other in Maribor, where open-air exhibitions are organised every year. Kri#evniska
To date the following sculptors have created works for its annual annual exhibitions: Jiři Bezlaj, Giorgio Celiberti, Jožef Vrščaj, Marjan Drev, Lovro Inkret, Lučka Koščak and Tomaž Kolarič. In 2002 the workshop 'Sculpture in Ice' took place in Ljubljana, involving the sculptors I Brunec, L Koščak, T Kolarič, D V Rozman and students from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The exhibitions were accompanied by essays by Slovene sociologists and philosophers such as Lev Kreft, Darko Štrajn and Aleš Erjavec. The Association organised several group exhibitions held at Ljubljana Town Hall and in Maribor.