Ganes Pratt, Galerija sodobnih umetnosti
Mala Gallery, Slovenska cesta 35, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 241 6850
Profile
Ganes Pratt stimulates the development of new ways of expression in classical and new media. The artists represented by the gallery are radical, but not in the sense of ruminating about the changes that have happened in the turbulent past of Eastern European countries. Their research in various media is turned towards the visual, the aural, and the tactile, the exploration into the state of artistic media today and their insertion into the public sphere imbued with capitalist consumerism.
Artists
Two generations of artists are represented by Ganes Pratt Gallery. The first one is tightly connected with the Venice Academy of Art, where almost all of them have been studying and were presented on the very first exhibition of the gallery, opened on 25 April 2006 under the title Bad girls & Bad boys: Jaša, Meta Grgurevič, Jasmina Cibic, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Simone Settimo, Giorgio Andreotta Calo and two artists promote study of art in Ljubljana, namely Viktor Bernik and Urša Vidic. In 2007 and later other artists were invited to work with Ganes Pratt Gallery: Arjan Pregl, Žiga Kariž, Mark Požlep, Nina Slejko, and Serbian artist Dejan Kaludjerović – comparing to the founding generation is the second invited group of artist a few years older, but all of them are nowadays considered as the established young genaration of Slovene artists.
Location
Located initially on Gregorčičeva ulica 3, next to the Equrna Gallery, Ganes Pratt Gallery relocated to an apartment in the first floor of Cankarjeva cesta 7, on the street which connects the Three Bridges and Prešeren Square with Tivoli Park beginning at Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija). Eventually its programme was moved into the Mala Gallery space, which was rented from the Moderna galerija for the season 2011/2012.
