2020

The astute visual commentator Tomato Košir never ceases to impress with his design solutions that insightfully and lucidly underscore the multilayered co...

A series of six short insights into the topics offered by the exhibition of late works by Andrzej Wróblewski in the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. Every weekend.

At the focus of Jaka Babnik’s work is the relation between a photograph, its subject, and the latter’s context – rather than the physical appearance of the subject, the photographer is interested in its significance and symbolic value. Adopting topographic, anthropological and exploratory approaches and diverse photographic practices, Babnik deals with ignored or glossed-over historical issues and events; in this, he often collaborates with public institutions.

The first international exhibition of Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957) that is dedicated solely to his travels across Yugoslavia and his late work. It showcases more than 120 of his works from the period between 1955 and 1957. The concept of the exhibition also relies on the “waiting room mentality,” as Heiner Müller described it in the documenta IX catalogue, seen as typical of the onetime socialist Central and Eastern Europe experience.

Topical Commentaries from the Past, our new mini-exhibition series in the vestibule of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, presents works from the Moderna galerija collections on posters, whose multilayered content imbues them with a communicative power that transcends any particular period. With its projects, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova does not confine contemporaneity to the present moment exclusively but finds it in the past as well. Our series of new posters featuring works from our collections link past potentials with the pressing issues of our time, today.

International comic book festival Tinta in Ljubljana presents Lewis Trondheim and Drunk Bunnies justapoxed with nine Slovenian mid-career comic artists.

Holobiont considers the idea of embodied cognition on a planetary scale, featuring a zoom from the outer space to inside the gut. The video documents Planetary Protection rituals at the European Space Agency and explores extremophilic bacteria in fermented foods as possible distributors of life between the stars. Bacillus subtilis, the nattō bacterium, plays a leading role. The opening will feature a discussion between Jenna Sutela (video call) and Tjaša Pogačar (live at +MSUM).

The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova is proud to present The Foundation of Endeavour, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Jasmina Cibic. The exhibition centres on the artist’s ongoing investigation into the idea of political gifts of culture, exploring their role within national and political structures during moments of European crisis in the 20th century.

Moderna galerija has prepared some online activities to provide access to our current exhibitions and a part of our permanent collection. We are also preparing a special program in collaboration with the other art institutions in the L’Internationale confederation and are actively involved in helping everyone in need of help these days.

The museum confederation L'Internationale has invited fourteen artists to join a conversation from their present working and living spaces, conditions and places. Their reflections suggest new perspectives on public/private space, solidarity and critique that are intrinsically connected with the present time. Presenting commissioned works by: Maja Smrekar, Paweł Żukowski, Guy Woueté, Siniša Labrović, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Babi Badalov.

Rihard Jakopič up Close exhibition presents rarely seen or touched artworks from the Moderna galerija storage and related conservation-restoration practices to the widest possible audience, including vulnerable groups such as the blind and partially sighted.

Jošt Franko’s artistic and photographic practice is based on interdisciplinary research projects exploring the topics of migration, workers’ rights, and the ignored parallel histories of communities and individuals in the territories of the former Yugoslavia.

Asia Culture Center, Gwangju hosting Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned exhibition. Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Gwangju Station is an adapted version of exhibition. It focuses mainly on the historical cases as a kind of introduction to the cultural politics of the non-aligned movement.

We’re home again, now truly isolated for the first time. We’re seeing our kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms with new eyes, and we’re fully aware of the smell of our apartments and houses for the first time, of their comforts and beauty or else the peeling plaster and drafty windows. Some dream interpreters say that when we dream about our homes we’re really dreaming about ourselves, as though our homes were as unique as we are. You are what your home is. But it’s not that simple.

The web exhibition Looking Back to Look Forward highlights works and artists from the City of Women archive that focus on collective actions, precarious labour, structural exploitation, solidarity and poetic protest. The works chosen specifically speak to the unique history of the former Yugoslavia region, with a focus on socially engaged art.

Duirng our work from home, Moderna galerija launched ARTEMIC – a series of thoughts, views and impressions about selected works from the Moderna galerija collections that MG staff share with our public. Today we present the last part with a series of photographs by Zore Plešnar, Above the Clouds.

Karol Radziszewski presents a rich selection of Central and Eastern European queer archival materials from the collection of the Queer Archives Institute (QAI). The QAI, established by Radziszewski in November 2015, is a non-profit artist-run organization dedicated to research, collection, digitalization, presentation, exhibition, analysis and artistic interpretation of queer archives, with special focus on the countries of the former Eastern Bloc.

An exhibition by the Rojava Film Commune, a collective of filmmakers founded in 2015 and based in the autonomous region of Rojava (which means “West” and refers to the western part of Kurdistan in contemporary northern Syria).

Twenty-four of Mušič’s Dachau drawings recently discovered in Italy are to be presented at an exhibition included in the Moderna galerija permanent exhibition of 20th century art. The exhibition poses some fundamental questions: "How does art confront the point where absolutely everything can be taken away from us? Not simply as physical death, but as death while still alive. How to create art after the gas chambers?"

Retrospective exhibition of the Painter Do You Know Your Duty (V.S.S.D.) duo, active between 1985 and 1995, and Alen Ožbolt, who after the discontinuation of V.S.S.D. continued his own artistic journey. The exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the production of this particular phenomenon of art in the late 1980s and early 1990s in our country.

The exhibition expresses unconditional support to the arts and culture, as well as to journalism, and set an example for freedom of opinion and human rights.

Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in 2020.