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HISTORY OF NOVO MESTO AND ITS MOVABLE HERITAGE (Exhibition)
Within the framework of European Capital of Culture, The Museum of Dolenjska will present the urn artistry of Novo mesto with an exhibition of documentary photography and a prestigious monograph on urns from Novo mesto. In the early Iron Age period (8th - 4th century BC), Novo mesto was a large center of population with a large fortified settlement on Marof hill, around which several barrow cemeteries and individual burial mounds have been found. The archaeological excavations, which have been taking place ever since the end of the 19th century, have revealed fifty-three earthen mounds with over thousand studied graves from the early Iron Age, which included a large number of archaeological artifacts. Among them, there are nine bronze urns that represent the height of artistic expression of Iron Age Europe. As an important contribution to global cultural heritage, urns from Novo mesto remind us of the important role Dolenjska region had in the first millennium BC in development of European culture. The urn artists from Novo mesto were among the leading creators in a period when European civilization was only emerging. As the keeper of this important heritage, The Museum of Dolenjska strives to present the public the urns whose aesthetic values still shine after so many centuries, even though they were cast in fragile bronze. Opening Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00-18:00; Saturday+Sunday: 9:00-13:00 in14:00-17:00. more
from 25 November to 31 December (2011-2014)
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HOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE, Maribor Architecture Guide (Exhibition)
After Slovenia became independent in 1991, Maribor started intensively to set up profiles of urban and architectural development in the wider region, which is determined by larger cities like Ljubljana, Graz, and Zagreb. With wishes and visions of reformation into a lasting city, Maribor continues the tradition of spatially reasonable development. Maribor’s architecture is becoming architecturally recognizable in the wider area with numerous quality architectural environments and objects: the football stadium, business building Menerga in Tezno, shopping centre Baumax in Tabor, the puppet theatre at Lent, secondary-school centre in Tabor, etc. The guide includes more than eighty contemporary examples of urban interventions and architectures, and shows important buildings from the town’s birth until today. Opening Hours: Monday-Friday: 10:00-19:00
from 17 to 28 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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Europe in Museum - Museum in Europe, World on the Palm (Exhibition)
The exhibition “World on the Palm” will lead us through the magical world of tin-made figurines. We will travel across every continent, through Maribor's past, and then dive into a fairy-tale world. The Regional Museum Maribor boasts more than 40,000 tin and lead figurines that originate from the end of the 17th century to the first third of the 20th century. The exhibition will be accompanied by museum-related creative activities and guided tours for children and adults.
from 14 to 14 March (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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WOW, INDUSTRY, The Secrets of Beauty, The Zlatorog Factory Maribor (Exhibition)
The Zlatorog Factory was one of the oldest manufacturing companies in Maribor and, indeed, in Slovenia. It developed from a soap factory on Rotovž Square, which Karl Bros bought in 1878. In 1905, Bros moved production to the plot of land on which the Zlatorog Factory would later develop and grow. In 1920, the factory began making Zlatorog laundry soap. From 1946 to 1951, Zlatorog was one of the most important chemical factories in Yugoslavia. It was known for its cosmetics, laundry detergents, cleansers, toothpastes, and so on. In the size of its production and sale of laundry detergents it was among the leaders in Yugoslavia and Central Europe. In 1957, it signed a licensing agreement with the Hamburg-based H. Schwarzkopf Company and began producing shampoos, hair dyes, and hairsprays. In the early 1970s, it was the first company in Yugoslavia to develop the production of deodorants. By agreement with the Margaret Astor company, Zlatorog produced decorative and preparative cosmetics. Under various licensing agreements, it made suntan lotions, toothpastes, and hand creams, and developed its own lines of women’s and men’s cosmetics. In 1990, the Henkel company bought a 51-percent share in the factory, and in 1996, it bought the remaining 49-percent share. At the turn of the 21st century, the company Henkel-Slovenija was the largest exporter in the Maribor region. The exhibition employs innovative architectural and design approaches to convey the history of the factory and its products. It presents the modernity that was once closely tied to the concept of Europe. This sense of the modern permeated the factory’s production process, products, and advertising, and did not in any way lag behind the international trends of the time. Opening Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00-18:00; Saturday: 10:00-13:00
from 16 June to 31 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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40th INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS COLONY LENDAVA 2012, 40 Years of International Arts Colony Ledava (Exhibition)
In 2012, the Gallery-Museum Lendava and the International Fine Arts Colony are celebrating their 40th anniversary. For this jubilee, the institutions are preparing a grand retrospective exhibition of the artworks created at the International Fine Arts Colony in Lendava, which will present the works in this extent for the first time. The Fine Arts Colony in Lendava was established in 1973, with the incentive of artists from Lendava and the Pomurje region. Since 1973, more than 170 artists have taken part at the colony. Participants were contemporary, academically trained painters, sculptors, graphic artists, and photographers from Slovenia and abroad (Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Macedonia, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Japan, China, Great Britain, USA, etc.). The participating artists come from various artistic generations and styles. The art collection in Lendava is distinguished by the variety of styles and content, which created over four decades. The collection includes over 700 artworks (paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs, tapestries, intarsias, reliefs, and statues), and as such forms a part of the Slovenian cultural heritage. The exhibition will be opened by two art historians: M.A. Franc Obal – a former, long-time director of the Murska Sobota Gallery – who will present the sculpting part of the collection; and by Ph.D. Kostyál László – the curator of the Gösceji Museum from Zalaegerszeg in Hungary – who will present the painting-graphic part of the collection. The exhibition will take place at Lendava castle (Gallery-Museum Lendava, Banffyjev square 1) and in the lobby of the theatre and concert hall in Lendava (Györgya Zale square).
from 21 September to 13 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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Revealed/Hidden (Exhibition)
The project is based on ideas of open and hidden spaces, which are physical, social, or spiritual. The theme addresses the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary art, the real social conditions and the spiritual quest. It participates in a number of authors from different fields to discuss the architectural elements such as doors, freedom and servitude, lawful and unlawful, the public, and obscurity. The same questions are raised by an omnibus of three short films. This is in the frame of the International Museum. The opening of the exhibition is accompanied by a presentation of the proceedings and the premiere of the omnibus of short films. Opening Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 9:00-1700; Saturday-Sunday: 9:00-13:00
from 18 October to 31 March (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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II. International Ceramic Triennial Unicum 2012, Shiny Black, Prehistoric Black Pottery of Novo mesto (Exhibition)
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Fragments of Unspoken Thought - contemporary work of several artists
from 7 November to 13 January (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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European Eyes on Japan (exhibition)
Founded in 1999, the project’s agenda is to invite photographers, working in Europe, to Japan to record images of various Japanese prefectures, which are to be preserved for posterity. The photographs focus on the Japanese people and how they live their everyday lives. The collection should serve as an opportunity for the people of Japan to reacquaint themselves with the aspects of their daily lives that have become overlooked and for Europeans to deepen their understanding of Japan and become more familiar with the presence of this distant Far Eastern country. The photographs, shot on various locations all around Japan, were collected throughout the year in the "European Eyes on Japan" publications and in exhibitions featured in cities throughout Japan and Europe. Works that have completed the exhibition circuit are later donated to the prefectures of origin as part of the cultural heritage for later generations. Slovenian photographer Bojan Radovič from Novo Mesto and Portuguese photographer José Pedro Cortes visited Japan in March 2012. Their view of Japan is presented through their photographs at Vetrinj Mansion in Maribor.
from 8 November to 15 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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10th Biennial of Slovenian Illustration
The Biennial of Slovenian Illustration (Slovenski bienale ilustracije) showcases the finest works by Slovenian illustrators created over the past two years. Illustration is presented as a distinctive art discipline with a strong influence on the development of children and young people's feeling for and understanding of art.
from 13 November to 31 January (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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The Sling is not a Toy
The exhibition brings together Roman leaden projectiles from several Slovenian archaeological discoveries.
from 15 November to 15 February (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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TRACING AN OUTLINE: DRAWING WITHIN THE TATE COLLECTION
Tracing an Outline: Drawing within the Tate Collection The new Maribor Art Gallery is to collaborate with Tate Liverpool, the UK’s most visited gallery of modern and contemporary art outside of London, on an important new exhibition which will critically engage with recent debates on the expansion of the category ‘drawing.’ The exhibition will take place at Umetnostna galerja Maribor (UGM), Slovenia as part of the programme for Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture. Tracing an Outline will present around two hundred works from the Tate Collection, from 1891 to the present day, proposing a more layered, complex relationship between drawing’s long-standing conventions and its radical experimentations than has previously been acknowledged. Traditional approaches to drawing, matters of observation, linear and tonal techniques, will be presented alongside works by artists who have encouraged viewers to think more critically about the qualities of the medium and in doing so carried drawing towards new paradigms. Paul Gauguin’s work on paper Tahitians c.1891 provides the starting point. The exhibition will then move through the early part of the twentieth century, when artists such as Pablo Picasso signalled a change in the status of drawing by using it in tandem with collage or papier collé. The later experimentations of the Surrealists moved drawing further away from stylistic conformity and unitary authorship, disengaging the medium from its connoisseurial associations. In the latter half of the twentieth century drawing an emphasis on conceptual and material processes caused artists to rethink drawing’s potential as a ‘verb’ rather than a ‘noun.’ During this time, drawing entered into dialogue with photography, sculpture and projection in works such as Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone 1973, which will form a key part of the exhibition. The exhibition includes major works from the Tate Collection by artists including Francis Al?s, Francis Bacon, Lee Bontecou, Paul Cézanne, Willem De Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread. The exhibition is organised by Tate Liverpool and Umetnostna galerija Maribor (UGM), Slovenia.
from 15 November to 15 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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NATURE ENABLES, Permanent installations Nature enables
The Nature Enables project includes installations that enable a versatile sensory perception of the environment through smells, textures, shapes, sounds, etc. The visitors are encouraged to follow the path in the Town Park and in the garden of the Dom invalidskih društev Maribor (Maribor Disability Resource Centre) that will be marked on a tactile map and a digital guide. The path will have several stops which represent the installations of KED Smetumet. THE TACTILE MAP The tactile map at the entrance to the Town Park from Trubarjeva Street will be placed for easier orientation of the blind and the visually impaired. It contains reliefs and a legend in Braille. The tactile map also includes marked stations of the Nature Enables project and the important parts of the Town Park that could be particularly interesting for visitors. THE STORIES OF TREES Signs with creative descriptions of trees are written in regular print and in Braille. They will be placed on park benches. The stops form a path that reminds the visitors of several characteristics of certain trees in the park. The descriptions will be written at a creative writing workshop and will contain the basic properties as well as sensory perceptions of trees, sounds, colours, etc. THE DANCE PLATFORM Dancing steps will be marked with contrast floor footprints that lead the dancing partner. Regarding the chosen dance styles, there will be several dancing steps schemes: English waltz, Cha cha cha and Disco. We will also add wheelchair ruts to invite the individuals in wheelchairs to dance. A PLACE TO SOCIALISE A tactile table will be made of different natural materials with diverse reliefs and textures. The benches around will include parts of old wheelchairs and enable access also for physically handicapped people. THE SOUND INSTALLATIONS The “mobile” are hanging elements that produce different sounds on touch. In the garden on 15 Trubarjeva Street, percussions, a xylophone and drums will be placed for playing. THE NATURAL INSTALLATIONS Raised flower beds, wooden constructions, pipes and interlaced forms will be full of edible and fragrant plants. Wicker nests for birds and squirrels will be placed on trees. SEPTARIAN CONCRETIONS In the garden of the Maribor National Liberation Museum, there is an exhibition of archaeological findings – septarian concretions that were found in Polički Vrh near Šentilj. These roundly shaped septarian concretions were formed in the Panonnian Sea. Besides their shape and dimensions, the septarian concretions are special because of the diversity and the number of minerals they “hide” inside. Visitors can also touch these rocks. Additional information is available on a board in regular print and in Braille or through an audio tape. more
from 16 November to 31 July (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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Bernd & Hilla Becher (Germany) - photographic exhibition
from 19 November to 25 January (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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Dear Art - contemporary work of several artists
from 29 November to 10 February (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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Danilo Jejčič (Slovenia) - overall exhibition of graphics
from 30 November to 10 February (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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Mladen Stropnik (Slovenia): Sofa - graphics
from 30 November to 10 February (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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Kassaboys: Art Uniforms (kunstuniformen) (exhibition)
Art group Kassaboys consists of Košice artists Radovan Čerevka, Tomáš Makara and Peter Vrábeľ. The group was established in 2006 in Košice and made several group shows: “We work with terms like local patriotism and centralism, democracy and nationalism or the legendary archetype of the artist from an art periphery“. The Kassaboys art group created a series of uniforms and military ranks intended to artists, which indicate their position within the art scene. The ranks depend on the number of exhibitions and the prestige of the gallery where the artists exhibited. These ranks provide visible categorisation of artists according to their importance. The uniforms are mostly suitable for exhibition openings but can also be worn as everyday attire. The uniforms were designed as a means of helping the viewers orient themselves in the complicated hierarchy of figures appearing in the world of art. Dividing the artists into equal and more equal is also beneficial to the art scene. “We will avoid the tiring discussions about who, where and with whom was exhibiting, “say the Kassaboys. On one hand, the art uniforms are a parody of ranking art according to a hierarchical scale, whereas on the other hand, they suggest that art is equally important as the army or the police. Contemporary visual art in Slovakia is perceived as unimportant; a fact also reflected by state politics and a lack of interest among the general public. The old saying tells goes: “Clothes make the man“. Yet, besides their creativity, do artists really need uniforms to be visible? Kunstuniformen tries to emphasize the importance of art in society. The curator of the exhibition is Lenka Kukurová.
from 30 November to 15 January (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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HISTORY OF NOVO MESTO AND ITS MOVABLE HERITAGE, Dolenjska and its People (Exhibition)
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 9.00-17.00; Sunday: 9.00-13.00 more
from 30 November to 31 December (2012-2014)
MARIBOR
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ALMOST SPRING, 100 Years of Slovene Art (20th Century)
In the final stage of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012 the UGM / Maribor Art Gallery, in cooperation with the major Slovenian galleries and museums, presents a review of the 20th century art from Impressionism to Retro Avant-garde. Almost Spring also offers an insight into the new practices of the 21st century Slovenian visual art with a view into the future. Shall we step towards spring together? In 2012, the Maribor Art Gallery hoped to present the highlights of its extensive Slovenian art collection in the new gallery building and at the same time to introduce the long awaited permanent exhibition. Due to the delayed beginning of construction of the new UGM building, we have instead embraced the idea to symbolically unite the entire Slovenian art space in Maribor. As a result, UGM now presents a review of Slovenian art of the past 100 years from the collections of about 20 Slovenian museums and galleries, including the National Gallery and Museum of Modern Art, Coastal Galleries Piran, Mikl house in Ribnica, Gallery of Murska Sobota and others. In its search for new perspectives for the future, UGM is opening a new art venue with the final exhibition of 2012. High above the city of Maribor, on the 11th floor of the once famous Hotel Slavija, which has been recently renovated and awakened from obscurity, Slovenian artists of the future are presented. A selection of works by about 20 most prominent figures of contemporary visual art at the same time presents the most recent history and one of the possible views into the future. We have divided the hundred years of Slovenian art into two parts, into the 20th and 21st century. The 20th century follows the chronological overview of Slovenian art, starting with the Impressionists and continues all the way to the end of the century. Among the participating museums and galleries the Museum of Modern Art has the central role with its contribution of the works by several great names, such as Marij Pregelj, Gabrijel Stupica and Zoran Mušič. Other collections can be recognised by their excellent segments of Slovenian art, for instance the National Gallery with the representatives of Slovenian Impressionism: Rihard Jakopič, Matija Jama, Ivan Grohar and Matija Sternen; Coastal Galleries Piran with the 1980s art, Gallery Mikl house with the sculptures from the end of the century, and the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design with works by its academic staff. The UGM exhibition joins works which normally are not displayed together and by positioning them in new constellations, a fresh discourse is enabled. Apart from the chronological overview the exhibition reveals certain special features - a room is reserved for selected thematic emphases which will change in the course of the exhibition: initially, it is called the “Maribor room”. The 21st century presents the most interesting names of contemporary art production. These are the individuals who have already made an impact and whose works have found their place in the history of Slovenian art, even though they are clearly focused on the future: ranging from the middle-aged generation (Vadim Fiškin, Nika Špan and Nataša Prosenc) to the younger artists, the »rising stars« (Jasmina Cibic, Jaša, Peter Koštrun and others). The strongest of the many connotations of spring is the promise of expectation. It is an ancient record of endless continuation and arrival of a new beginning. It is precisely our expectations that drive us forward, no matter how uncertain the path ahead may be. We kindly invite you to join us on our journey through a hundred years of Slovenian art while we expect new beginnings and flourish also for the gallery! Curators: Breda Kolar Sluga and Simona Vidmar In co-operation with: Meta Gabršek Prosenc; and with assistance of: Andreja Borin, Meta Kordiš and Taja Toplak UGM would like to thank the following institutions: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, L
