MG - Exhibitions & Events

After a hiatus of several years, the Moderna galerija is again staging a selection of 20th century works from its national collection. Unlike the previous so-called permanent displays, which tended to focus on presenting chronological overviews of modernist styles, the 20th Century / Continuities and Ruptures exhibition breaks with traditional linearity by introducing the topics of the 20th century avant-gardes and of the art of the Partisan resistance, bringing them into the national history of art on an equal footing with more familiar trends and, as a consequence, casting new light on the latter.

Exhibition

Photo: Domen Grögl

1st and 2nd December 2011 at Moderna galerija, Fourth Youth Center Zalog - ČAMAC - Agrokombinatska 2, Primary School Zalog - Cerutova 7, BI-KO-FE - Židovska steza 2, CAFE OPEN - Hrenova 19, KUD C3 - Križevniška 2 and other places in Ljubljana and Zalog.

The project was supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, Culture Programme and Moderna galerija.

www.kudc3.org
http://www.culburb.eu/localities/ljubljana-zalog/

From a Museum of Modern Art to a Museum of Contemporary Art

On 26 November 2011 a new unit of the Moderna galerija - Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) will open in the renovated army barracks building in the new cultural quarter in Metelkova Street.
Image: Tomislav Gotovac, installation at Mala galerija, 2009

Press conference: Friday, November 25th, at 11 am, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), Maistrova 3

Friday, 4 November, 11 p.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 5 November, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Location: Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija)

A varied cast of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, and art historians have been announced: Luisa Accati, Beatrice von Bismarck, Thomas Fillitz, Dario Gamboni, Werner Hanak-Lettner, Nathalie Heinich, Bojana Kunst, Henrietta L. Moore, Robert Pfaller, Renata Salecl, Roger Sansi-Roca.

The symposium will try to come to terms with the event-orientation of the art field and art institutions; it will explore, as thoroughly as possible, the meaning of this general change in the nature of the work of art institutions, which only a few decades ago were calmly and quietly exhibiting "static" art production on walls and pedestals. The art field seems to be, in this sense, an entirely unreflected structure, although its event production has reached extraordinary dimensions thanks to the large and ever-growing number of art institutions. In this context, we should also emphasize explicitly the fact that in recent decades art institutions have not only preserved and exhibited contemporary art, but they have also been commissioning and producing it (along with all the other events). Because art institutions have thus become commissioners of contemporary art, similar in type and dimension to what the aristocracy and the church once were, it seems all the more necessary to consider in precise terms what such processes mean. We will ask ourselves such questions as: What kinds of speech and iconography are thus created, and why? What kinds of communities are thus formed, and why? How are all these things included in the general operation of society and how do they behave as a contemporary ideological apparatus?

Thursday, 10th November, 6 pm
Talk by Emmanuel Martinez, secretary general Centre Pompidou-Metz

2.10.2011 - 3.10.2011
Auditorium - Moderna galerija, Tomšičeva 14

After nearly three years of operation, IRZU - the Institute for Sonic Arts Research - presents the third edition of EarZoom sonic arts festival. While deeply engaged in conducting research and development of audio technologies, IRZU is still actively advocating the inclusion of sound and music computing within the public educational system.

Marcello Maloberti, Die Schmetterlinge essen die Bananen, 2010
Performans, 23. 9. 2011, in front of Moderno galerijo; photo: Jaka Babnik

23 September - 20 November 2011
29th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Moderna galerija

Opening hours of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm

Venues of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts: International Centre of Graphic Arts, Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija), Jakopič Gallery, Gallery of Cankarjev dom, public non-gallery spaces: Gosposvetska cesta 12 and Vošnjakova ulica 4

CIMAM's 2011 Annual Conference "Museums and the City" will be held November 14-17 in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Sarajevo. It is organized in collaboration with Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti MSU, Zagreb and Ars Aevi, Sarajevo, for the CIMAM members.

It addresses the questions that surface as museums increasingly look for contact with their immediate environment, such as: What is this 'immediate environment'? Have there been any essential changes over recent decades in our understanding of what this means? What, in fact, is the space of the museum? No longer is this merely the museum's building; it is, at the same time, the city - both the local physical city and the global virtual city.

This is the first major ICOM-organized event on the territory of former Yugoslavia since 1997. Almost 170 museum directors and curators from all over the world have already confirmed their attendance.

The conference is supported also by ICOM Slovenia. More at www.cimam.org

study, study and act again

9th June - 21st August 2011
Mala galerija, Slovenska c. 35

Curator: Bojana Piškur

The Mala galerija is presenting the first major project in Slovenia by the Russian collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?). Formed in 2003 and made up of artists, critics, philosophers and writers, the collective sees its diverse activities as a merging of political theory, art, and activism. The group's ideas are rooted in its members' active participation in and research of the current social and political situation of Russian reality, and based on the principles of self-organisation and collectivism.

29 March - 19 June 2011
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

Marko Peljhan, Matthew Biederman and collaborators

Video recording of the tour through the exhibition by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman
Video in Slovenian and partly English (Slo/En)

The Makrolab project (1994-2007) is being presented in its entirety in a museum setting for the first time. The exhibition will include the structure of Makrolab, documentation of its genesis and ten years of operation from its origin through its first materialization at documenta X in Kassel to its transition into the projects Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation and the Arctic Perspectives Initiative (API).

Jasna Tijardović guide tour, Museum of Contemporary Art Beograd 1975. Photo: Milena Maoduš

21 - 24 June 2011, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Organised by: engage and Moderna galerija
http://www.engage.org/
http://www.mg-lj.si

The programme focuses on two main issues: on the one hand, on the present local situations in the territory of former Yugoslavia, where state museums of contemporary art are either closed (the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade), have only recently opened (the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb), or are just about to open for the first time in history (Moderna galerija - Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova); and on the other, on the still unresolved question how a newly built art museum can establish a relationship with its - as a rule disinterested - neighbourhood. On the basis of case studies of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade / Centre for Visual Culture and Information and the Student Cultural Centre from Belgrade in the 1970s we will try to find out if the socialist slogan "art to the people" can be of some relevance to the educational practices in the 21th century.

June 11th and 12th, 2011
At the hall of the cultural institute Vitkar at Parmova 25 in Ljubljana

In the framework of the study, study and act again exhibition in Mala galerija (Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana)

*Obshezitie / seminar-commune is a series of 48-hour seminars initiated by the Chto Delat? collective and the Socialist Movement "Vpered" in 2009. It is dedicated to the idea of political subjectivation through collective practices and aimed at breaking the conventional formats of discussions and conferences by promoting a dialogical, conflictual and personal relationship to knowledge production.

14. 5. - 2. 10. 2011, Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona / MACBA
in the frame of L'internationale - www.internacionala.mg-lj.si
Curator: Zdenka Badovinac

Press conference: Thursday, 12 May, 11.30
Opening of the exhibition: Friday, 13 May, 19.30

The exhibition presents the Moderna galerija's Arteast 2000+ Collection, the first-ever collection devoted to post-war avant-garde Eastern European art and the works from the Moderna galerija's national collections. The period represented by the exhibition is in keeping with the long-term research project of the network L'Internationale, which deals with post-war avant-garde art between 1956 and 1986.

13 May - 5 June 2011
Moderna galerija

The ESSL ART AWARD CEE showcases the latest tendencies of young contemporary art in
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.

In Ljubljana, the Nominees Night will be organised at Moderna galerija Ljubljana/ Museum of Modern Art on 13 May 2011, at 7 p.m.

Inaugurating statements will be made by Igor Španjol and Martin Essl, CEO bauMax.
The nominees for the Slovenian ESSL ART AWARD CEE are Maja Alibegović, Manca Bajec, Suzana
Brborović, Urška Djukić, Tina Dobrajc, Nejc Prah, Pila Rusjan, Maja Rožman, Miha Šubic and