Exhibitions & News

Chris Evans: I Don't Know if I've Explained Myself

1. 6.- 4. 7. 2010
Mala galerija, Slovenska cesta 35

Guest curator Tirdad Zolghadr

Chris Evans engages with a variety of forms and materials including short films, bronze sculpture, editioned etchings, airbrush paintings, ceramics, live events and unwieldy social situations. What you see before you is not a group show, but the upshot of three consecutive events June 1-3, which were part of Evans' artwork "I Don't Know if I've Explained Myself" (2006 - ongoing). The different works on display, by Evans, IRWIN, and Mark Požlep & Jaša, were discussed on three different occasions in the soundproof room to the right of the gallery. The discussion was relayed via live feed to the audience, which was seated among the works. Evans' "I Don't Know if I've Explained Myself" takes its lead from a 1970 conference organized by Seth Siegelaub at Nova Scotia College. 25 artists participated in a discussion on the sixth floor, while students watched on monitors in the canteen.

You are kindly invited to attend the talk Cities Destroyed for Cash by Damon Rich on Friday, 28 May, at 6 p.m. at the Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Tomšičeva 14, Ljubljana.

Buildings sit at the center of the global financial crisis. In the US, the preference for traditional residential design masks a century- long transformation in the functioning of architecture. Public power, exerted through government, joined with digitized financial markets to transform individual houses from distinct objects to interchangeable nodes within a global structure. This structure, comprising buyers, sellers, builders, brokers, lenders, bankers, traders, insurers, investors, and regulators, connected the built environment to new forms of investment and developed hundreds of millions of acres of post-World War II landscape.

19. - 22. May 2010
Moderna galerija, Tomšičeva 14

The workshop Media and memoria is the initial meeting of a new international network for South-Eastern studies which intends to intensify the international exchange of scholars and students from different branches - history, political sciences, art history, media studies and literature.

David Maljković, still from Images with Their Own Shadows, 2008, 16 mm, 6' 16'', Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures

26 January - 14 March 2010
Mala galerija, Slovenska cesta 35

David Maljković confronts us with a heritage that has been forgotten and overlooked, one that is no longer recognized as relevant or valuable in its own environment and in today's specific historical moment. Maljković's films, collages, sculptures, and installations treat topics relating to the potential of the historical, cultural, and theoretical heritage of modernist projects in the former Yugoslavia.

Mercedes Vicente at the opening of the Darcy Lange exhibition, 20 August 2009

Igor Zabel Competition

The winning project will be realized in April 2010 at the Mala galerija (Slovenska cesta 35).

The jury, Galit Eilat, Joze Barsi, Bojana Piskur and Igor Spanjol, has selected the award winner: "Untaken Photographs" curated by Arielle Azoulay.

The Igor Zabel Competition is dedicated to innovative curatorial approaches and theoretical research in contemporary visual arts. Igor Zabel, a curator at the Moderna galerija for many years, stressed the dialogic relationship, the heterogeneity of the identity, the transparency, and the contextual determination of a curator's position.

24 November 2009 - 28 February 2010
Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

The opening of. the first exhibition in the renovated Moderna galerija building is held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Danilo Türk.

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