Slovenian Theatre Institute
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16 Feb 2024
31 Mar 2024
"Möderndorfer Theatre - Gledališče Möderndorfer", a photography exhibition of Vinko Möderndorfer's directoral opus, based on his book with the same title. Prepared by Slovenian Theatre Institute and Forum Ljubljana, designed by Nina Šturm, with Tea Rogelj as the curator and with English translations by Nataša Jelič.
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10 Nov 2017
7 Jan 2018
The touring exhibition The history of Europe - told by its theatres, a part of the European Route of Historic Theatres EU supported project, with Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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22 Mar 2017
3 Sep 2017
"The history of Europe - told by its theatres" touring exhibition, a part of the European Route of Historic Theatres EU project, with Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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17 Jan 2017
25 Feb 2017
"The history of Europe - told by its theatres" touring exhibition, a part of the European Route of Historic Theatres project, with Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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13 May 2016
5 Oct 2016
"The history of Europe - told by its theatres" touring exhibition, a part of the European Route of Historic Theatres project, with Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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22 Oct 2015
28 Mar 2016
"The history of Europe - told by its theatres" ehibition, a part of the European Route of Historic Theatres project, with Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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18 Jun 2015
28 Jun 2015
Meta Grgurevič, JAŠA as set designers and Ana Savić Gecan, costume designer, selected by Barbara Novakovič Kolenc, and students of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana and Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) presented at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PG). Produced by Slovenian Theatre Institute and Muzeum Institute, in cooperation with Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Prague
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13 May 2015
5 Oct 2015
The touring exhibition "The history of Europe - told by its theatres", created as part of the European Route of Historic Theatres project, Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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9 May 2015
26 Jul 2015
Bauhaus – Networking Ideas and Practice (BAUNET), an exhibition also also featuring the works of August Černigoj from the collections of the Avgust Černigoj Gallery, Lipica and the Slovenian Theatre Institute
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10 Feb 2015
30 Apr 2015
The touring exhibition "The history of Europe - told by its theatres", created as part of the European Route of Historic Theatres project, Slovenian Theatre Institute participating,
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2 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014
Barbara Novakovič Kolenc's lecture Pendulum Movements and the Dynamics of Spaces in the Arts', at the SharedSpace: Spatial Curation Symposium, Prague Quadrienal of Performance Design and Space, National Theatre Museum of Slovenia and Muzeum Institute
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9 Sep 2010
10 Oct 2010
Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, a 2010 touring exhibition (Budapest–Prague–Warsaw–Bratislava–Ljubljana) co-organised by the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia
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6 Jul 2010
28 Jul 2010
Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, a 2010 touring exhibition (Budapest–Prague–Warsaw–Bratislava–Ljubljana) co-organised by the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia
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12 May 2010
6 Jun 2010
Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, a 2010 touring exhibition (Budapest–Prague–Warsaw–Bratislava–Ljubljana) co-organised by the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia
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26 Mar 2010
30 Apr 2010
Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, a 2010 touring exhibition (Budapest–Prague–Warsaw–Bratislava–Ljubljana) co-organised by the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia
History
The National Theatre Museum of Slovenia was established in 1952 under the aegis of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Provincial Theatre in Ljubljana. The museum's first director was Janko Traven, who collected an enormous amount of material from the early periods of Slovene theatrical history. The museum was also supported by private donors. Janko Traven's successor Dušan Moravec began to organise the collected material more systematically, and in 1964 the museum began issuing various publications, including Letopis or The Repertoire of Slovene Theatres (to mark the 100th anniversary of Ljubljana Drama Society) and the magazine Documents of the Slovene Theatre Museum, which continues to be published biannually today. The Repertoire has been recently digitalised and included in the Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal.
In 1978 the Theatre Museum merged with the Film Museum to become the National Theatre and Film Museum, and in 1990 this institution acquired new display rooms and an office space at Mestni trg in Ljubljana's Old Town. However, in August 1996 the museum was divided into two independent institutions – the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia and the Slovenian Cinematheque. In 2014 the Slovenian Theatre Institute was founded as a successor of the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia.
Departments
The iconotheque collects posters, costume design drafts, programmes, portraits, and plans, as well as plans and photographs of theatre sets, while the videotheque collects, preserves, and facilitates internal study access to recordings of theatre productions.
The Slovenian Theatre Institute Archive comprises personal documents, correspondence, legal and self-management acts, manuscript and typed texts, albums and collected newspaper reviews, plus thematically-arranged archive material on Slovene theatres, in particular legal and self-management acts, circulars, decrees and minutes of meetings. There is also a collection of articles relating to dramatic productions, opera, ballet, film, and experimental theatre covering the period 1963–1996.
A list of precisely catalogued premières in Slovene theatres that were published since 1867 and later developed into a database that covers the entire history of Slovene professional and experimental theatre was digitalised and put online in collaboration with the Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal that features also the digital collections and virtual exhibitions prepared by the Institute.
See also the article about the Slovenian Theatre Institute Library.
Exhibitions and international projects
In December 2013 a permanent exhibition entitled In pursuit of a theatre. From the jesuits to Cankar was opened at the Institute premises. The exhibition presents the beginnings and the main development of theatre in Slovenia, its integration into European cultural context and its role in shaping Slovenian national awareness.
The museum has organised various exhibitions also in other galleries. In 2006 it cooperated with Municipal Museum of Radovljica in preparing the Anton Tomaž Linhart Memorial Room.
The e-exhibitions are prepared in collaboration with the Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal. Thus the Alenka Bartl, our renowned costume designer's exhibition at the National Gallery of Slovenia got its digitalised variant.
Since 2013, SLOGI has created some further digital galleries that feature recent award-winning productions from the Maribor Theatre Festival and the winners of the Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards. Referential documentary photos, video and audio excerpts are collected in collaboration with Prodok teater TV, Slovene theatre houses and RTV Slovena and regional archives, they are accessible to wide public on the Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
In 2003 the museum organised the presentation of a costume from the Oedipus Rex production of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana at the Prague Quadrennialof Performance Design and Space (PQ). In 2011 the four authors presented in Prague were: Ema Kugler, Dunja Zupančič, and Miha Turšič in the section Countries and Regions, curated by Tomaž Toporišič; while a costume from A Journey to Rome (Caravaggio) (produced by Slovene National Theatre Maribor) created by Belinda Radulović was part of the Extreme Costume Design Section.
Slovene contribution at the the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ curated by Barbara Novakovič Kolenc in June 2015. A flyer cover image.
The PQ 2015 features the installation based on the set design by Meta Grgurevič and JAŠA for the ballet Tristan and Isolde (the national Opera and Ballet production of 2014) and on the costumes designed by Ana Savić Gecan for the performance Storm Still (SNG Drama Ljubljana), curated by Barbara Novakovič Kolenc. SLOGI has collaborated also with the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) that prepare an installation for the PQ Student Section.
Theatre architecture
In the period 2008–2011 the National Theatre Museum collaborated in a complex international project entitled Theatre Architecture in Central Europe (TACE) led by the Theatre Institute in Pargue. In spring 2009 Ljubljana hosted around 70 architecture students in the introductory workshop Visions and Possibilities organised by Vojteh Ravnikar's seminar at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. Afterwards the students developed their own visions of a potential new Slovene National Theatre building for the given location in the Ljubljana city centre with their tutors at their home universities (in Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Liberec, Ljubljana, and Prague). Later they revealed their ideas at an exhibition in Autumn 2009 at Ljubljana City Hall and in a catalogue.
In November 2009 a symposium on experimental theatre spaces was held in Ljubljana, followed by a publication Occupying Spaces. The extensive TACE exhibition Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe that has toured Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, and Bratislava was hosted by the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana along with an accompanying publication synthesizing a pioneer research in the field of theatre architecture.
European Route of Historic Theatres
As a kind of follow-up SLOGI joined another EU supported project for the period 2012–2017: European Route of Historic Theatres organised by Perspectiv, Association of Historical Theatres of Europe based in Berlin, hand-in-hand with the partners from 12 countries. The Adriatic Route of Historic Theatres comprises also the historical buildings of the SNG Maribor and SNG Drama Ljubljana. In the period 2015–2017 a touring exhibition "The history of Europe - told by its theatres" was presented at theatre museums in Warsaw, Kopenhagen, Vienna, Munich, Ljubljana and London.
See also
- Slovenian Theatre Institute Library
- Sigledal.org - Slovene theatre portal
- Maribor Theatre Festival
- Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ)
External links
- National Theatre Museum of Slovenia website
- Slovenina Theatre Institute profile at the Museums.si
- Slovenian Theatre Institute's collection on Europeana (contributed through the ECLAP project)
Slovenian Theatre News
E-exhibitions
- The SLOGI e-exhibition on Alenka Bartl, costume designer on the Sigledal portal
- The SLOGI e-exhibition Borštnikovo srečanje 2013 on the Sigledal portal
- e-Gallery of the Borštnik Ring award winners 1979–2014 on Sigledal.org
Theatre architecture projects
- Theatre Architecture in Central Europe project website
- database (with galleries) of 15 Slovene theatre houses at the TACE website
- Student competition's results - A new theatre for the 21st Century in Ljubljana
- PERSPECTIV project - Adriatic Route of Hitoric Theatres web page
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