MG - Exhibitions & Events

Photo: Matija Pavlovec

5 March - 12 April 2015
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15

Curated by: Martina Vovk

You are kindly invited to visit the exhibition of Tone Lapajne's early sculptures, which are going to be on view from 5 March on at the Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15, Ljubljana.

Dragica Čadež recently donated to the Museum of Modern Art four sculptures by Tone Lapajne (1933-2011) that belong to a relatively short but fruitful and contextually and topically interesting period of his work: Accent (Heavily Contrasted) or Product (Heavily Contrasted) from 1968

EDO MURTIĆ: HIGHWAY, 1952
Author: Nataša Jovičić


26 January - 29 March 2015
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15

The exhibition presents the educational tool with completely new methodology in interpreting art for the blind, which was conceived by the art historian Nataša Jovičić. This forms part of the gallery where next to the original picture of Edo Murtić (Highway, 1952) is placed a specially designed stand with five tactile diagrams printed in glass and accompanied by an audio system.

The Champion, 1976

4 November 2014 - 15 February 2015
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Cankarjeva 15

Curator: Igor Španjol

The exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of Tadej Pogačar's creative output over the past few decades and his P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, with special emphasis on selected projects that have left a lasting mark on contemporary art production in Slovenia.

February 6 - April 19, 2015
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Snejana Krasteva, and Bojana Piškur

Featured artists: Marina Abramović, Yury Albert, Nika Autor (in collaboration with Marko Bratina, Ciril Oberstar, and Jurij Meden (Obzorniška Fronta/Newsreel Front)), Yury Avvakumov, Jože Barši, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Geta Brătescu, Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurtz, Olga Chernysheva, Chto Delat, Lana Čmajčanin, Vuk Ćosić (in collaboration with Alexey Shulgin and Andreas Broeckmann), Goran Đorđević, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Vadim Fishkin, György Galántai, Gorgona, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid, Dmitry Gutov, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Tibor Hajas, Ibro Hasanović, IRWIN, Sanja Iveković, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Jarosław Kozłowski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Oleg Kulik, Zofia Kulik, Andreja Kulunčić (in collaboration with Ibrahim Ćurić, Said Mujić, and Osman Pezić), Vladimir Kupriyanov, KwieKulik, Laibach, Yury Leiderman, Kazimir Malevič, Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Jan Mlčoch, Andrey Monastyrsky, Ivan Moudov, Via Negativa, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), Timur Novikov, OHO, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Marko Pejhan, Dan Perjovschi, Tadej Pogačar, Darinka Pop-Mitić, Zoran Popović, Dmitry Prigov, Franc Purg (in collaboration with Sara Heitlinger), Guia Rigvava, Józef Robakowski, Alexander Roitburd, Mykola Rydny, Arsen Savadov, Kalin Serapionov, Nebojša Šerić-Šoba, Nedko Solakov, SOSka, Ilija Šoškić, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Krassimir Terziev, Raša Todosijević, Slaven Tolj, Milica Tomić, Goran Trbuljak, Josip Vaništa, Sašo Vrabič, Vadim Zakharov, Dragan Živadinov with Dunja Zupančič and Miha Turšič, and Konstantin Zvezdochetov.

Grammar of Freedom / 5 Lessons, developed in close collaboration with Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. The exhibition features more than 60 artists and art collectives, with works ranging from the 1960s to the present.

Photo: Dejan Habicht

Friday, 16 January 2015, at 6 p.m.
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15

You are kindly invited to attend the talk by Steven Brown on the "parasitism" in frames of Tadej Pogačar's artistic work. It is part of the programme of the exhibition Tadej Pogačar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art Hills and Valleys and Mineral Resources and the last lecture in the series "Short School of Parasitism."

11 December 2014 - 18 January 2015
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15

Trees is an experiment aiming to extend human perceptual faculties. The project's author Nataša Muševič showcases the electrical and acoustic frequencies inherent to trees.

Photo: Dejan Habicht

Friday, 19 December 2014, 6 p.m.
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

You are kindly invited to the lecture by an art historian, theorist and curator of visual art and culture from Macedonia Suzana Milevska on Friday, 19 December, at 6 p.m. at the Moderna galerija.

18 September - 7 December 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, Jakopič Gallery

During a period of six months, 120 international designers and multidisciplinary agents engaged in a large-scale collaborative effort to devise possible futures for design. Working on eleven themes that impact diverse aspects of everyday life, they were brought together by 3, 2, 1 ... TEST, the experimental framework that shaped BIO 50, the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana.

Božidar Jakac, New York from the 17th Floor of Hotel Manger, May 1931
owner of copyright Primož Pablo Miklavc Turnher.

12 June - 19 October 2014
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15

Exhibition curator: Lara Štrumej, MA

This exhibition provides the first comprehensive overview of Božidar Jakac's photography ever. Renowned as a printmaker, the artist sought creative outlets in new media even as a student. Giving prominence to the newly discovered photographs of his from before World War II, the exhibition follows the chronology of the photographs the artist took at significant stages in his life: in Prague (1922-23), Novo mesto (around 1923), Paris (1925), Tunisia (1925), America (1929-1931), and while with the partisan forces (1943-1945).

Guided tours in English: Wednesdays 23 and 30 July at 7.30; admission free!

New premiere: September 5-7, 2014, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 12 and 13, Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance - The Laurie Grove Theatre Space, London

Moderna galerija, Tomšičeva 14


Sobota, 21. junij 2012, 18.00 - 24.00

Studio, (1958), pen and watercolor on paper, 22.9 x 32.2 cm
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Photo: Dejan Habicht, Matija Pavlovec; Courtesy of Moderne glalerije, Ljubljana

18 December 2013 - 18 May 2014
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15

Curator: Martina Vovk

Last year we were celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest Slovenian painters of the 20th century, Gabrijel Stupica. In tribute, Moderna galerija has staged a retrospective exhibition, the first extensive study exhibition to come after the last survey exhibition of Stupica's oeuvre at the Moderna galerija back in 1968.