(Disclaimer: the scheduling of the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art is provisional and depends on the renovation of the building after water damage.)
first half of 2022
The new circumstances created by the pandemic and the changed picture of the world have also given rise to the need to verify whether artists’ poetics have changed as well in this relatively short, but highly dramatic time. The exhibition will present the latest paintings produced since the beginning of the pandemic. They display highly heterogeneous impulses and poetics, related in time to a precarious reality, but transcending in their characteristics their circumstances and time. The Momental-mente exhibition departs from the Painting Now project, which will be expanded with new names and works by the curator Andrej Medved.
summer 2022
Now including the most eminent artists from Southeast Europe, the Art Collection Telekom was conceived to shed light on the political landscape and social development of the region, as well as seek the points of cohesion in presenting its politics and art. The exhibition will showcase a selection of works from the collection, with the aim of proposing a new view of it through bringing together aesthetics and politics.
November–December 2022
2006 saw the first exhibition of Franc Ferjan’s (1885–1964) work staged at the Museum of Modern Art, emphasizing Ferjan’s profound understanding of the role of light and his great sense of the objecthood of things and space. The scope of his work in the field of stereo photography only became apparent in the spring of 2021, when we acquired more than 1500 black-and-white and color shots on glass and film, negatives and positives, previously kept by a private collector.
The study exhibition – second in the series From Moderna galerija’s Photography Collection – will put on view the various themes Ferjan dealt with in stereo photography.
November 2022–January 2023
Moderna galerija has been collaborating with the Restoration Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana on conservation-restoration projects collectively titled Artworks up Close for a number of years. This year, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb is joining the venture. Our presentation of several artists and their works will highlight various ways of tackling the conservation-restoration issues that arise when working with modern and contemporary art. The project will wrap up with a publication bringing the experts’ papers.
November 2022–January 2023
The exhibition will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marijan Tršar, an artist whose life intertwined with numerous notable figures in Slovene culture. Presented in one of the exhibition rooms in the Museum of Modern Art will be canvases from the artist’s late period, in which he played around with colorful abstract forms. The paintings will be coupled with fragments from his writings, comprising his theoretical views, his studies of other artists, his contributions to art theory, and his reflections on abstraction related to his explorations of Kandinsky and modernisms.
exhibition series
The series of exhibitions From the Studio of… presents the latest production of the artists included in the permanent exhibition 20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures at the Museum of Modern Art and others. The artists to be featured this year include Zmago Lenardič, Sergej Kapus and Marjan Gumilar.
March 2022
Xenogenesis brings together a selection of key works by the Otolith Group, the London-based art collective consisting of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. This cross-section of works, created between 2011 and 2018, reflects the artists’ ongoing commitment to creating what they call “a science fiction of the present” through the use of images, voices, sounds and performance. Suspended between fiction, poetry, documentary and theory, The Otolith Group’s post-cinematic films, high definition videos and multiple screen installations address the global crises of the Racial Capitalocene that have shaped contemporary planetary capitalism.
March 2022
The main topic of Nika Autor’s work over the past years has been migrations, both the current ones and the migrations in the 1960s and 1970s from former Yugoslavia to Western Europe. Formally, Autor’s works are more than films, expanding into the fields of essay and experimental video, video installations, photographic interventions, and texts. The artist addresses her topics in a highly sensitive way, devoid of moralizing. The presentation at the +MSUM will include video installations and photographic and textual interventions from her production of Newsreels over the last two years.
19 May–11 September 2022
While Part 1 referred to the neo-avant-garde artistic practices and ecology, Emergency Exit, Part 2 will focus more on the issues of contemporary environmental practices relating to the theme of emergency exit in their effort to find solutions to burning environmental issues of our time. They seek ways out in situations that seem without prospects, in social or ecological cataclysms in which humans along with other parts of the ecosystem strive to survive in a currently disrupted system.
July–September 2022
The NFT market boom broached the discussion about blockchains also in the art world. In reality, the blockchain that was created in 2008 at the time of the financial crisis and which many see as the basis of a new, more private and safer Web 3.0, has already altered the global economy and is changing the digital environment in which also art is produced, distributed, and exchanged. Co-produced with the Aksioma institute, the exhibition will consider the ways in which art and digital technologies intertwine and affect one another.
September–December 2022
The exhibition will show the different takes on the concept of artistic work in terms of production and content since the postwar avant-gardes through the 1990s to this day, always in relation to the Arteast 2000+ collection. It will also include the concept of constituents as developed by the L’Internationale confederation of museums, and artworks from the collections of the L’Internationale partner institutions.
An international conference, “The Heritage of Historical Avant-Gardes in the 1990s,” will be organized and a catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition.
The exhibition forms part of the four-year EU project “Our Many Europes” run by the L’Internationale confederation of European museums.
spring 2022, permanent display – oval grass bed in front of the +MSUM
The sculpture (previously often referred to as Lines) is one of the works Duba Sambolec produced in 1979, at the time she worked under the patronage of the Litostroj factory in Ljubljana, where she was given the opportunity to make a series of sculptures using the industrial processes of working metal. The sculptures in the series were all large-size and intended for public outdoor spaces. Sambolec exhibited them in this way in 1980; Iron Curtain was put up in the Ferant residential quarter in Ljubljana.
exhibition series, July–December 2022
The New Media Lab revives early new-media art, especially early digital works that are now difficult to access as the software and hardware necessary to run them are no longer in use. 2022 will see a comprehensive description of the original installations and the reconstructions of two works by classics of new-media art in Slovenia and more broadly, Vuk Ćosić’s Nation-Culture and Srečo Dragan’s Matrix Coincidence Dating Club. Both artists are also included in Moderna galerija’s collection.
exhibition series, January–December 2022
Draught is a series of small-scale solo exhibitions presenting the current production of young and middle-generation artists. In 2022, Matjaž Ivanišin, Špela Volčič and Ano Likar will be presented.
18 January–17 April 2022
In his Imperfect Stories about Several Encounters, Ivanišin will exhibit his films Karpopotnik, Playing Men, and Oroslan as three video installations. The film images thus come together not only as consecutive sequences, but also as segments watched simultaneously. This brings to the foreground the visual aspects of the film, rather than the narrative.
23 April–27 November 2022
Marko Jakše is representing Slovenia at the 59th Venice Biennale, the international art exhibition taking place from 23 April to 27 November 2022. In her statement, the artistic director of the Biennale, Italian curator Cecilia Alemani, stressed the importance of fantasy transformations, both material and immaterial, for the present moment. The title of this edition of the Biennale is a reference to The Milk of Dreams, a book by the British-Mexican painter and author Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), who started her career as a surrealist artist.
We reserve the right to change the program.
