In July and August, Moderna galerija and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova are open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
Every Thursday between 6 and 8 p.m. there will be free guided tours and other events.
Guided tour of the exhibition Monument – Drago Tršar.
Summer guided tours include a short tour of the exhibition and of Tršar’s sculptures in Ljubljana: People in Perspective and Manifestants in front of MG+ and the public sculptures Equilibrists in Tivoli Park; Monument to the Revolution and Edvard Kardelj on Trg Republike, and the reliefs on the façade of the Faculty of Arts.
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Program for children and families
Sculpture workshops for all generations. Drago Tršar’s unique art world comprises various interesting human figures and the time and place they inhabit; as such it simply calls for early sculpture evenings outside the museum. On summer Thursdays, sculptor Tomi Blažević will model with you in clay and also give professional advice..
Workshops for children during the summer break week-long program PovezujeM/Tivolski ustvarjalni krog, a creative circuit organized by the museums near Tivoli Park: Nationalo Museum of Slovenia (NMS), Moderna galerija (MG), International Center of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Museum of Contemporary History (MNZS) and the National Gallery (NG).
Performances at the opening of the Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal exhibition:
8 p.m. Maja Smrekar, Opus et Domus, 2018
8 p.m. Sven Stilinović, Geometry of Bloodthirstiness, 2018
Oxana Timofeeva: The Living Soul, lecture
Do humans and other animals really have souls? If so, what do their souls look like? What are they made of? Where does the living soul, anima, that animates the animal, come from? Where is it located? Where is it located, and in what is it different, if different at all, from the body? Today, such questions might sound naive and obsolete. This talk, however, will demonstrate their relevance.
Oxana Timofeeva is an Associate Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), a member of the artistic collective Chto Delat? ("What is to Be Done?")
Guided tour of the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal.
All of us – humans, plants, and animals – are suffering because of climate change, because we are merely raw material for further production and not beings who desire freedom and harmony. This produces the desire to escape our intolerable conditions, to resist – and if we listen to the indirect message our artists are conveying, it is possible to imagine a common resistance shared by all living beings. But are humans able to resist together with plants and animals?
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Workshop Being an animal
A series of workshops for children related to the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal and exploring the interesting and often unusual ways artists approach this topic in contemporary art, followed by trying out the different artistic techniques – painting, molding, design, photography, animations, performance, readymade, dance…
ELEPHANT AT THE MUSEUM | Summer CreActivities – weekly animated film workshops Please register by filling out the form. Registration is possible until all the places are taken. Each child can only apply once. The summer week programs are intended for 6–10 y/o children with permanent residence in Ljubljana.
Guided tour of the exhibition Monument – Drago Tršar.
Summer guided tours include a short tour of the exhibition and of Tršar’s sculptures in Ljubljana: People in Perspective and Manifestants in front of MG+ and the public sculptures Equilibrists in Tivoli Park; Monument to the Revolution and Edvard Kardelj on Trg Republike, and the reliefs on the façade of the Faculty of Arts.
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Program for children and families
Sculpture workshops for all generations. Drago Tršar’s unique art world comprises various interesting human figures and the time and place they inhabit; as such it simply calls for early sculpture evenings outside the museum. On summer Thursdays, sculptor Tomi Blažević will model with you in clay and also give professional advice.
ELEPHANT AT THE MUSEUM | Summer CreActivities – weekly animated film workshops Please register by filling out the form. Registration is possible until all the places are taken. Each child can only apply once. The summer week programs are intended for 6–10 y/o children with permanent residence in Ljubljana.
Guided tour of the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal.
All of us – humans, plants, and animals – are suffering because of climate change, because we are merely raw material for further production and not beings who desire freedom and harmony. This produces the desire to escape our intolerable conditions, to resist – and if we listen to the indirect message our artists are conveying, it is possible to imagine a common resistance shared by all living beings. But are humans able to resist together with plants and animals?
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Workshop Being an animal
A series of workshops for children related to the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal and exploring the interesting and often unusual ways artists approach this topic in contemporary art, followed by trying out the different artistic techniques – painting, molding, design, photography, animations, performance, readymade, dance…
Strolling the exhibition: MONUMENT – DRAGO TRŠAR
a guided tour aimed at parents and grandparents, nannies and everyone else strolling around Ljubljana with a baby stroller.
Baby Steps: MONUMENT – DRAGO TRŠAR
A guided tour with activities for children 2–4 y/o.
Guided tour of the exhibition Monument – Drago Tršar.
Summer guided tours include a short tour of the exhibition and of Tršar’s sculptures in Ljubljana: People in Perspective and Manifestants in front of MG+ and the public sculptures Equilibrists in Tivoli Park; Monument to the Revolution and Edvard Kardelj on Trg Republike, and the reliefs on the façade of the Faculty of Arts.
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Program for children and families
Sculpture workshops for all generations. Drago Tršar’s unique art world comprises various interesting human figures and the time and place they inhabit; as such it simply calls for early sculpture evenings outside the museum. On summer Thursdays, sculptor Tomi Blažević will model with you in clay and also give professional advice.
ELEPHANT AT THE MUSEUM | Summer CreActivities – weekly animated film workshops Please register by filling out the form. Registration is possible until all the places are taken. Each child can only apply once. The summer week programs are intended for 6–10 y/o children with permanent residence in Ljubljana.
WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS
Marko Pogačnik, “Face to face with animals”
The aim of the workshop is to intuitively connect with various animals in the zoo and experience them as our close relatives. The artist has developed various ways of experiencing living beings in such manner that one connects with them at the level of consciousness and experiences their uniqueness inside oneself.
Guided tour of the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal.
All of us – humans, plants, and animals – are suffering because of climate change, because we are merely raw material for further production and not beings who desire freedom and harmony. This produces the desire to escape our intolerable conditions, to resist – and if we listen to the indirect message our artists are conveying, it is possible to imagine a common resistance shared by all living beings. But are humans able to resist together with plants and animals?
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Workshop Being an animal
A series of workshops for children related to the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal and exploring the interesting and often unusual ways artists approach this topic in contemporary art, followed by trying out the different artistic techniques – painting, molding, design, photography, animations, performance, readymade, dance…
Guided tour of the exhibition Monument – Drago Tršar.
Summer guided tours include a short tour of the exhibition and of Tršar’s sculptures in Ljubljana: People in Perspective and Manifestants in front of MG+ and the public sculptures Equilibrists in Tivoli Park; Monument to the Revolution and Edvard Kardelj on Trg Republike, and the reliefs on the façade of the Faculty of Arts.
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Program for children and families
Sculpture workshops for all generations. Drago Tršar’s unique art world comprises various interesting human figures and the time and place they inhabit; as such it simply calls for early sculpture evenings outside the museum. On summer Thursdays, sculptor Tomi Blažević will model with you in clay and also give professional advice.
Guided tour of the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal.
All of us – humans, plants, and animals – are suffering because of climate change, because we are merely raw material for further production and not beings who desire freedom and harmony. This produces the desire to escape our intolerable conditions, to resist – and if we listen to the indirect message our artists are conveying, it is possible to imagine a common resistance shared by all living beings. But are humans able to resist together with plants and animals?
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Workshop Being an animal
A series of workshops for children related to the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal and exploring the interesting and often unusual ways artists approach this topic in contemporary art, followed by trying out the different artistic techniques – painting, molding, design, photography, animations, performance, readymade, dance…
18:30 Alexi Kukuljevic, “The Birds is Coming”, lecture
Alexi Kukuljevic is an artist and lecturer in Art Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is also part of the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal.
Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde – that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its own absence.
20:30 | Oleg Kulik: PressionSuPression, performance
Of his current practice Kulik says: Performance is when you can really produce some reality-on-art action, when reality begins to work as it would never otherwise work.
Where is the art product? There is a history, but there is no fact that you can leave after you. There is no idea of eternity, there is nothing out of you, you have finished the action – the art has ended.
12:00 | Zdenka Badovinac, Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts, lecture
18:00 | Boris Buden, The Language of the Avant-garde, lecture
11:00 | Lev Kreft, Politics of the Avant-garde in Central Europe, lecture
18:00 | Eda Čufer, Play Within a Play: Institutional Critique in Late Socialist Yugoslavia, lecture
19:00 | Branislav Dimitrijević, Thinking by Cutting: Branko Vučićević and a Coy Recurrence of the Avant-garde, lecture
18:00 | Keti Chukhrov, The Ruptures and Continuities between Avant-garde and Contemporaneity, lecture
Workshops for children during the summer break week-long program PovezujeM/Tivolski ustvarjalni krog, a creative circuit organized by the museums near Tivoli Park: Nationalo Museum of Slovenia (NMS), Moderna galerija (MG), International Center of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Museum of Contemporary History (MNZS) and the National Gallery (NG).
Strolling the exhibition: MONUMENT – DRAGO TRŠAR
a guided tour aimed at parents and grandparents, nannies and everyone else strolling around Ljubljana with a baby stroller.
Baby Steps: MONUMENT – DRAGO TRŠAR
A guided tour with activities for children 2–4 y/o.
18:00 | Arseny Zhilyaev, (Post)-Avant-Gardist Art. Towards Museification of the Universe, lecture
Guided tour of the exhibition Monument – Drago Tršar.
Summer guided tours include a short tour of the exhibition and of Tršar’s sculptures in Ljubljana: People in Perspective and Manifestants in front of MG+ and the public sculptures Equilibrists in Tivoli Park; Monument to the Revolution and Edvard Kardelj on Trg Republike, and the reliefs on the façade of the Faculty of Arts.
Introduction to the guided tour in English at 17:30.
Program for children and families
Sculpture workshops for all generations. Drago Tršar’s unique art world comprises various interesting human figures and the time and place they inhabit; as such it simply calls for early sculpture evenings outside the museum. On summer Thursdays, sculptor Tomi Blažević will model with you in clay and also give professional advice.
19:00 | Vít Havránek , Subjective Organisations, lecture
We reserve the right to change the program.