2016

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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2016

01 January 2016 — 20 January 2017

Exhibition programme announcement for 2016 at MG+MSUM, Museum of Modern Art plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.

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EXHIBITION | Srečo Dragan: Space is Out of Joint

22 December 2016 — 05 March 2017

The exhibition covers the fifty-year long history of Dragan’s artistic production in the new media as it evolved in the Slovene cultural space: original, archival, and television works.

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EXHIBITION FROM THE COLLECTIONS | Points in time 1889–1991

Addition to the permanent exhibition

In the Museum of Modern Art (MG+), a new exhibition is now on view: a circular timeline with a selection of works that are an addition to and continuation of the permanent exhibition 20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures and a guide to same.

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ANIMATEKA | Dušan Kastelic: retrospective exhibition (or How I wasted my first 50 years)

04 December 2016 — 11 December 2016

ANIMATEKA Dušan Kastelic Retrospective exhibition (or How I wasted my first 50 years) Exhibition Opening: Sunday 4 December at 6 p.m.,...

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DRAUGHT | Saša Spačal and Mirjan Švagelj | Symbiome – Economy of Symbiosis

01 December 2016 — 01 January 2017

Symbiome – the Economy of Symbiosis is a biological prototype of a complex system of social relations between different species that enter into symbiotic relationships under favorable conditions to reciprocally satisfy a need.

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EXHIBITION | Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri | Thinking Monument to (Sub)Urban Riot

03 November 2016 — 27 November 2016

Photo: "Work in progress: monument to riots"; Petrova Gora, Vojin Bakić, 1981; Conical Intersect, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975 »T...

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EXHIBITION | David Maljković | Again and Again

25 October 2016 — 11 December 2016

The Again and Again exhibition problematizes its own relation to the context and infrastructure by reusing and repurposing elements of previous exhibitions’ furniture and displays, thus probing institutional protocols and history.

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EXHIBITION | Pioneers of Computer Art

25 October 2016 — 29 January 2017

Pioneers of Computer Art presents artistic approaches at the intersections of different fields (programmed art, electronic music, and multimedia theater) that augured the use of computers before they came into general use.

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EXHIBITION | Tomaž Grom | Imstrument

25 October 2016 — 30 October 2016

Imstrument consists of recorded sound and video sequences performed by different musicians developing their individual musical language. The user can make music by selecting the source, defining volume and randomness, which generates a continuous and unrepeatable composition.

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THE EIGHTIES | New Spaces, New Images

14 October 2016 — 01 January 2017

New Spaces, New Images. The 1980s through the Prism of Events, Exhibitions, and Discourses – Part 1. The exhibition is based on a selection of events that shaped developments in Slovene art in the final decade of Yugoslavia.

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COMMENTARY #5 | Milan Erič | A utopian monument to people...

11 October 2016 — 10 January 2017

A utopian monument to people driven by political and economic circumstances to escape to major Western cities, where they have a hard time adjusting or assimilating.

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EXHIBITION | City of Women | Chantal Akerman: La Chambre / The Room

04 October 2016 — 16 October 2016

A long and slow panoramic shot describes continuously the space in a room. Chantal Akerman sits on a bed, at first motionless and then, when the camera captures her again, eating an apple. This film is a mysterious self-portrait of the filmmaker at her favourite spot as well as a sort of cinematic still-life, repetitively describing elements in a space.

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EXHIBITION | From The Studio of ... LUJO VODOPIVEC

03 October 2016 — 27 November 2016

Our new series of small-scale exhibitions entitled From the Studio of ... presents cross-section views of recent production by artists whose works are included in the Moderna galerija permanent exhibition 20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures.

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Neue Slowenische Kunst – An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia in Moscow

30 September — 9 December 2016 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Starting on 30 September 2016, the NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia exhibition, the first major survey show in Russia of the Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) will be on view at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

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ON REVOLUTION'S ROADS | traveling exhibition

18 June 2016 — 28 August 2016

Memorial tourism in socialist Yugoslavia. nternational Project Inappropriate Monument.

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COMMENTARY #4 | Vladan Jeremić and Rena Raedle | This is not a fence

18 June 2016 — 11 September 2016

A collective visual answer on fences and men.

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8TH TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART U3 | Beyond the Globe

03 June 2016 — 18 September 2016

The main topic of the U3 Triennial 2016 is the Cosmos. In our cultural imagination Cosmos functions as a code word for the danger of the final extinction of all life on Earth, and at the same time for the most radical Utopian aspiration of universal harmony.

U3 | Ištvan Išt Huzjan: Nuclei

Tuesday, 31 May 2016 | at noon

Opening of the exhibition at Reactor Center Podgorica (Podgorica pri Ljubljani) is the first event of the 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, on Tuesday 31 May 2016 on the 50th anniversary of the Reactor.

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EXHIBITION FROM THE COLLECTIONS | Low Budget Utopias

26 April — 25 Oktober 2016

The exhibition Low-Budget Utopias presents works that come largely from the Moderna galerija’s Arteast 2000+ Collection. This is the eighth installation of the collection in which we develop the notion of the collection as a tool. In the present exhibition we explain the collection and the museum as tools that help to sustain a utopian consciousness.

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NSK – an Event in the Final Decade of Yugoslavia on view in Eindhoven

16 April 2016 — 26 June 2016 | Van Abbemuseum | NL

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is opening the exhibition The 1980s. Today's Beginnings?. The exhibition project will include, and thus place in the international context, an abridged version of the NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst – an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia exhibition, staged last summer at the Moderna galerija.

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Chto Delat? | The Excluded. In a Moment of Danger

15 April 2016 — 22 May 2016

NEW AQUISITION FOR THE COLLECTION | The film The Excluded. In a Moment of Danger is based on a theater performance by members of the School of Engaged Art. Thematically the work is connected with the recent social situation in Russia—the failure of citizen-led initiatives, government repression, and the overall sense of depression that has overcome people.

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COMMENTARY #3 | VIA NEGATIVA | 100 Toasts

12 April 2016 — 12 June 2016

You’re invited to take part in the VIA NEGATIVA project in the vestibule of +MSUM, starting 12 April, as the third in a series of artistic commentaries.

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ORDERED BY NUMBERS. Images of Architecture from the Slide Collection of Izidor Cankar

07 April 2016 — 22 May 2016

Originally intended for use art history university courses, these images illustrate not only how the world has changed, but also how our perception of it has itself changed.

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IVAN DVORŠAK | Photographer and Graphic Designer

07 April 2016 — 22 May 2016

Ivan Dvoršak’s great retrospective exhibition offers an insight into the creative life of an exceptional photographer and graphic designer whose body of works has been comprehensively evaluated for the first time.

2005-2015 | Špela Čadež: Boles

Thursday, 31 March 2016 | 6 p.m. | Animation, 2013 | Location: Kinoteka

The work carried out by Špela Čadež over the last decade constitutes the high point of the renaissance of Slovenian art animation film.

2005-2015 | Matjaž Ivanišin: Karpotrotter

Thursday, 31 March 2016 | 6 p.m. | Film, 50 min, 2013 | Location: Kinoteka

Ivanišin's meditation on people and places from the films of Karpo Godina, who had known and frequented them in a different time, constitutes a subtle, highly multilayered film essay.

2005-2015 | Viktor & Daria Radić: Lunch on the Grass

Thursday, 31 March 2016 | 6 p.m. | Staged, short film, 7 min, 2013 | Location: Kinoteka

It happened with a 65 years' delay, but it did happen: the most authentic Slovenian variation on Bicycle Thieves.

2005-2015 | Nika Autor: In the Land of Bears

22 March 2016 | 7 p.m. | Film, 72 min, 2012 | Location: Kinoteka

In 2010 and 2011, the huge Slovenian construction sector, which employed more than 70,000 foreign workers, collapsed, leaving behind it debts, halted construction activities and exploited and unpaid workers.

2005-2015 | Vlado Škafar: Letter to a Child

18 March 2016 | 7 p.m. | Documentary, 100 min, 2008 | Location: Kinoteka

Škafar's body of films thus far undoubtedly constitutes the most original achievement of Slovenian cinema in the last decade.

2005-2015 | Matjaž Klopčič: Ljubljana the Beloved

9 March 2016 | 6 p.m. | Feature film, 110 min, 2005 | Location: Kinoteka

Feature film, 110 min, 2005

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EXHIBITION | From The Studio of ... MATJAŽ POČIVAVŠEK: Nesos / Island

08 February 2016 — 03 April 2016

The latest in the series of small-scale exhibitions From the Studio of… presents the current artistic output of sculptor Matjaž Počivavšek.

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COMMENTARY #2 | Arjan Pregl | Precarious Day

08 February 2016 — 08 April 2016

The second in the series of artists’ commentaries displayed on the wall of +MSUM’s entrance hall.

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E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL | Art in Slovenia 2005-2015

03 February 2016 — 03 April 2016

Screenings of ten video projects by Sašo Sedlaček, Marko Batista, Robertina Šebjanič, Neven Korda, son:DA & Erinç Seymen, Lenka Djorojević & Neža Jurman & Matej Stupica, Maja Smrekar, Tanja Vujinović, Luka Prinčič, Andrej Škufca as a part of e-flux video rental (EVR) project.

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