Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art on Metelkova will house a display of the collection of contemporary art (the national and international Arteast 2000+ collections) and stage related exhibitions. The Museum of Contemporary Art will thus present art that deals with contemporary themes and media, including works that present the tradition of such art from the 1960s onward.

Oral Histories
Opening on 8 March 2012
Project by: Andreja Hribernik

New exhibition of works from the collections of MG + MSUM
Opening on 8 March 2012
Curator: Zdenka Badovinac

After the Museum of Affects exhibition closes, The Present and Presence exhibition, featuring a selection of works from the Arteast 2000+ collection and Moderna galerija?s national collection, will partly change and expand to inhabit also the second floor of the MSUM. The focus here will be on one of the eleven times the show deals with, namely, lived time (the time of the artwork - the video, the performance or any other form of time-specific work, such as debates, actions in the public space, involvement in various communities, etc.)

Dear Art
July - September 2012
Guest curators: What, How and for Whom / WHW

WHW, a Zagreb-based curatorial collective comprising Nataša Ilić, Ivet Ćurlin, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić and Ana Dević, has been working in the field of contemporary art since 1999. In Ljubljana they will stage an exhibition based on the Arteast 2000+ collection and reflecting the awareness that we never work in a vacuum but always in a very specific place with preexisting structures, conventions, and methods of work. In addition to being aware of working here and now it is equally important that we try to communicate universally and that what we do can communicate with other environments and systems.

László Beke, kuda.org
Opening on 11 October 2012
Curator: Bojana Piškur

The Igor Zabel Competition: Memoirs of the Blind
Opening on 11 October 2012
Curators: Agnieszka Pindera and Daniel Muzyczuk

This is Moderna galerija?s ninth open competition for curators of contemporary art, entitled the Igor Zabel Competition for the fourth time running. It is dedicated to new approaches in curatorial explorations in the field of contemporary visual art and bears the name of the Moderna galerija curator who devoted his professional life to this. An international jury selected a project that will juxtapose the work of the renowned artist Yuri Albert and a young-generation artist Marcel Türkowsky. Both artists deal with the issue of blindness.

Mladen Stropnik
Opening on 11 October 2012
Curator: Bojana Piškur

Marija Mojca Pungerčar, Time for a Walk
Opening on 11 October 2012
Curator: Igor Španjol

The exhibition presents the stories of two stray dogs that found a home in the porter?s lodge of the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. A wide social network gradually evolved around them, including the faculty staff, students, porters, neighbors, and people habitually walking by; some of the connections are quite surprising. In a documentary video, the dogs? lives are related by people who took care of them. In addition to the video there is a schematic representation of the interconnections between the protagonists. The artist explores the complex relationship between people and animals in the urban environment. The project presents a combination of formal and informal animal-keeping, where care for an animal does not necessarily mean its ownership, and makes us think about shared responsibility in a community and about a possible model of community care.

Jože Barši, A Survey Exhibition
December 2012
Curator: Bojana Piškur

About the MSUM (recorded May 2011)

Metelkova 22