Bežigrajska galerija
Dunajska 31, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 241 1770
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Bežigrajska galerija 2
Vodovodna 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana
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Founded in 1976, the Bežigrajska galerija at Dunajska Street has been since 1996 a branch of the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. In 2002 the gallery opened its second space nearby at Vodovodna Street, so called Bežigrajska galerija 2. The space on Dunajska is since than known as Bežigrajska galerija 1 and operates on the old location. Since the City Art Gallery Ljubljana and the City Museum of Ljubljana merged into a new public institute in 2009, the Bežigrajska galerija 1 and 2 operate under the umbrella of the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana as its autonomous unities.
Programme and exhibitions
In its both spaces it hosts approximately twelve exhibitions annually, some in the cooperation with major museums and galleries in Slovenia and abroad. The exhibition program can be roughly divided into three categories: solo exhibitions of younger artists in Bežigrajska galerija 1 (in 2009 Simona Šuc, Milanka Fabjančič, Vesna Čadež, Maruša Šuštar; in 2008 Karmen Bajec, Karmen Majer, Barbara Eva Zavodnik and many others) or young established and well known artists (in 2009 Nika Zupančič, Milan Golob and in 2008 Peter Ciuha). The lager venue of both Bežigrad units, the Bežigrajska galerija 2 offers solo exhibitions mostly to well-known Slovenian artists as recently to Jože Slak, Živko Marušič, and Dušan Kirbiš.
The Bežigrajska galerija became involved with the latter in the 1980s, particularly with multimedia, including sounds of various environments, contemporary music, video, experimental film. The specialities of Bežigrajska galerija 2 are not just exhibitions of installations and objects (Mirsad Begić, Roman Makše, Lujo Vodopivec, Marko Juratovec exhibiting recently), but also multimedia events, concerts and comprehensive group exhibitions and events. The stage for music is Bežigrajska galerija 2, where since 2003 each year in the 70s established experimental group Saeta performs the concert O-zvočenje. In 2004 the intermedia project S.O.L.A.R.I.S. of Narvika Bovcon and Aleš Vaupotič was presented.
It is also the podium for international video Festival Nature that is based on images of nature, or else include images of nature in some of their sequences, or are derived from things found in nature. The 6th edition in 2009 presented 14 mostly young and fresh videasts. In 2008 the festival featured among others also the video A listening human of Miha Vipotnik, one of the three Slovenian video art pioneers. In 2005 the Bežigrajska galerija featured group exhibition of 11 Slovene established sculptor featuring the theme of the nature - among Mirsad Begić, Jakov Brdar, and Mojca Smerdu representing established generation, also works of others young established artist were shown (Damijan Kracina and Vladimir Leben, Primož Pugelj, Urša Toman - Drinovec).
Every year it also stages a traditional show entitled From Sketch to Puppet. In 2009 Barbara Bulatović featured in both spaces the selection of her drawings, sketches, and puppets created mostly between 1997 and 2006, including works from the performance the Child and the World [Otrok in svet], bestowed with the Little Prince Award in 1998.
Occasionally the Bežigrajska galerija presents also group exhibitions of foreign artis as it was the exhibition of objects and videos of established Croatian artists: Ivana Franke, Mejra Mujčić, and Viktor Popović (2006).
The Collection of Visual and Concrete Poetry
The collection is based on the works collected by Franci Zagoričnik over a period of thirty years and on works donated by others. Beside these works it comprises also the international part and as third part works of Slovenian visual and concrete poetry authors.
The collection is not permanently exhibited. With the collected material the Gallery prepared in last decade 15 exhibitions showing mostly the solo presentation of artists as Nejc Slapar and Jaka Železnikar among others. The material of the collection serves as well for the thematic group exhibitions. In 2009 the international group exhibition Poetry Posters was featured with the aim also to show the loss of such creation since the digitalization intensively entered also art statements. It featured also the very first poetry posters created in Slovenia in the 70s by Miha Avanzo (in the cooperation with Zdravko Papič and Lidija Starc) or famous poetry posters of the Mladina Magazine (1982-84). Further it exhibited many works of artist from the context of Yugoslavia and many other established foreign authors (Arnulf Reiner, Lawrence Weiner), mostly Italians as Mariella Bolzoni, Luciano Caruso, Mario Casamassima, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini.
The Images of Notations Collection
The collection comprises notations of important Slovenian and foreign composers that have not been using the traditional notation, but have been combining them with artistic signs and so produced individualistic notations understood as original works of fine art. It contains over 100 scores by 80 composers including John Cage, Vinko Globokar, Charles Ives, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ianis Xenakis. Works are executed in various techniques as drawing, collage, mixed media on paper, etc. Included in the collection there are also sound recordings of the compositions and concert videos.
Also this collection is not permanently exhibited. In the last decade and half the Gallery prepared out of works of he Images of Notations Collection some thematic exhibitions in their spaces, but also in Media Nox Gallery, Maribor. Also this type of exhibitions are often enriched by works lent from other international collections and institutions and vice versa.
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The Bežigrajska galerija (Bežigrad Gallery) with its two units, simply named Bežigrajska galerija 1 and Bežigrajska galerija 2, features smaller fine art exhibitions in the Northern part of Ljubljana. +
The Bežigrajska galerija (Bežigrad Gallery) with its two units, simply named Bežigrajska galerija 1 and Bežigrajska galerija 2, features smaller fine art exhibitions in the Northern part of Ljubljana. +
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