Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)

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Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova (MSUM)

Maistrova 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.mg-lj.si/

info@mg-lj.si

Phone386 (0) 1 241 6800, 386 (0) 1 241 6834

Founded byGovernment of the Republic of Slovenia,

 Ministry of Culture

Managed byModerna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

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The Present and Presence exhibition, featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2011

The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) was opened in November 2011 in the renovated building of the former barracks complex on Metelkova Street with the exhibition The Present and Presence, featuring the international collection of Moderna galerija, Arteast 2000+, and The Museum of Affects exhibition, a part of the L’Internationale project.

The new building houses also the Moderna galerija library, the extensive Modern art archive, a translation and publications department and a conservation-renovation department.

Background

The idea of the new museum of contemporary art in Ljubljana evolved on the basis of the Arteast Collection 2000+. The collection of predominantly Eastern European art based on the traditions of the avant-gardes has been built by Moderna galerija since 1995.

Due to the space shortage the collection was presented publicly for the first time in June 2000 to coincide with Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, in the not yet renovated building of the former barracks complex on Metelkova Street.

In April 2002 the director of Moderna galerija, Zdenka Badovinac, and the curator Igor Zabel conceived the mo(nu)ment Museum of Contemporary Art - Metelkova 22 programme.

Arteast 2000+ Collection

In the 1990s Moderna galerija began to assemble its international collection Arteast 2000+, a collection of works mainly by Eastern European artists. Its goals are to present Eastern European art, which has been overlooked until now, to establish a dialogue between Eastern and Western European artists and in this way create a new, different view on the development of art in the second half of the 20th century.

L’Internationale project

From May to October 2011 a part of the Arteast Collection 2000+ was presented at the MACBA in Barcelona as a Museum of Parallel Narratives exhibition in the framework of the EU supported L’Internationale project.

See also

• Museum of Modern Art
• Museum of Modern Art Library
• Modern Art Archive, Museum of Modern Art
• Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory

External links

• MSUM on the Moderna galerija website
• Moderna galerija Ljubljana on Facebook
• "L'Internationale" project website
• Text about the exhibition Museum of Parallel Narratives held at MACBA as part of l'Internationale project
• Museum of Parallel Narratives exhibition at MACBA, Barcelona

Gallery

Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), KUD Mreža, 2016

Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet workshop at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), KUD Mreža, 2016

U3, The 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia - Resilience exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), 2013

1:1 Stopover installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, 2013-2014. The Collection, The Museum and The History presented by Walter Benjamin. Left: Kunsthistorisches Mausoleum, Belgrade, Observing the Observer, 2003. Right: Salon de Fleurus, New York, From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1992.

Manu Weiss, curator of VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2018.

The building of the former barracks at the museum quarter before renovation, the future home of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2009

The Present and Presence exhibition, featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2011

With the exhibition The Present and Presence, which features a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova was opened in November 2011

The Present and Presence exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2011. Installation Articae Horulae by Alenka Pirman and Kazimir Malevič's The Last Futurist Show, Belgrade 1985–86 from the Arteast 2000+ collection (in the background)

The Present and Presence, an opening exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova featuring a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, 2011

The Present and Presence, a selection of artworks from the Arteast 2000+ collection and the Moderna galerija national collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, November 2011

VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova with Igor Prassel, 2018.

VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition was part of the 15th edition of Animateka which took place at Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2018.

VR/360°/GAMES@ANIMATEKA exhibition showed a collection of the best new VR and 360° experiences in author animated film, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2018.

Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) located in the new museum quarter in Ljubljana, 2014

Museum of Modern Art Library, Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2014