Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art on Tomšičeva houses a display of the national collection of 20th-century modernist art and 21st-century art based on the modernist tradition and tendencies. The Museum of Modern Art maintains, adds to, and presents to the public the national collection of 20th-century Slovenian art, and prepares, in its exhibition rooms and in other exhibition sites in Slovenia and abroad, survey exhibitions, scholarly exhibitions, retrospectives, and solo shows featuring modernist artists, and sees to the continuity of the general public's knowledge about the tradition of modern art.

Metka Krašovec, A Retrospective
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15
31 January - 29 April 2012
Curator: Martina Vovk

Metka Krašovec celebrated her 70th birthday in 2011; covering the past four decades of her intense and uninterrupted creative output, the retrospective will give a comprehensive, in-depth presentation of one of the most important and individual painterly oeuvres of the last decades in Slovenia. The selection will include the most crucial works that illustrate Krašovec?s artistic development both chronologically and in terms of subject and her varied and masterly approaches to the media of drawing and painting. The show will take us through the various stages in her markedly unique art, from the time of her Silences series, through the New Image painting and the eruptive imagery in her drawings in the 1980s, to the so-called neoclassicist portraits and landscapes. The exhibition catalogue will include several studies and numerous reproductions.

Marko Pogačnik, A Survey Exhibition
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15
Opening on 5 June 2012
Curator: Igor Španjol

Marko Pogačnik has been endeavoring to redefine the relationship between art and society for fifty years. He has developed a method he calls Earth healing to continue some of the important aspects of the work of the OHO Group, which also dealt with such issues as the pursuit of cosmic harmony. Pogačnik sees the landscape as a synthesis of natural and cultural givens and as an energy body determined by energy currents and points. The survey exhibition will present a new reading of, and connections between, the continuous and varied work that started with the Kranj Group, continued with the OHO movement and group, the Šempas Family, then the network of monuments in the Vipava Valley, the lithopuncture landscapes and the geopuncture circles.

Marko Šuštaršič, A Retrospective
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15
October 2012 - January 2013
Curator: Marko Jenko

Trieste Constructivist Space, a documentary exhibition
Moderna galerija, Cankarjeva 15
Curator: Marko Jenko