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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.

In the Museum of Modern Art (MG+), a new exhibition is now on view: a circular timeline with a selection of works that are an addition to and continuation of the permanent exhibition 20th Century. Continuities and Ruptures and a guide to same.

In the installation, Maruša Sagadin references architectural elements from public spaces, such as columns, arches, facades and benches. These forms are not simply translated; instead, their basic structure is expanded.

The Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, and Miloš Kosec) is an art and research collective that focuses on nonuments: hidden, abandoned, erased or forgotten architecture and public spaces whose meaning has been transformed due to political or societal changes.

The work builds on the film Yours is the world in which I move uninvited (2025), using the metaphor of ghosts or phantasms to explore the erasure and subsequent absence of people and our attitude toward them.

The exhibition asks how to contend with the end that we are already living and will be dealing with for the foreseeable future, without veering into the utopian or dystopian, since neither hope nor despair provide a solid base or have much to contribute.