The curator Marko Jenko, PhD, has chosen to present the reconstruction of the Trieste Constructivist Space (1927 / 2011).

“When I started working for Moderna galerija, my first job was a presentation of the historical Slovene avant-garde; that was in 2011. Prior to that, i.e. before 2011, the Slovene historical avant-garde had never been included in the permanent collection display in such extent. (The 1998 watershed exhibition Tank! is a separate matter.) The jewel in our crown is of course the so-called Trieste Constructivist Space. I vividly remember the process of its reconstruction, which would not have been possible without Dragan Živadinov and Miha Turšič. Especially our trip to Trieste stands out in my mind. A lot has been said and written about the Space and its provisional name. Personally, I’m increasingly inclined to think it should be renamed as Abstract Construction or simply Construction – this follows from the Group of constructivists’ manifesto and Černigoj’s words in the second issue of tank magazine, where he also write of ‘the manifestation of constructivists’. It is not a space. In both texts, Černigoj uses the word space geographically rather than artistically, in terms of Trieste as a particular locality and milieu. Simply put, it is about motion and momentariness as object, rather than an object – or a space – that is motion and in-motion, as indicated by floating or semi-floating objects in space. Everything previous and earthly is negated, also the perception of time – of everything. Picture this: you are in Moderna galerija and an object starts rising off its base of its own accord − suddenly it is hovering in the air before you. This is it. That’s the moment our constructivists created.”