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Founded in 1976, the Bežigrajska galerija has been since 1996 a branch of the City Gallery, Ljubljana. As Bežigrajska galerija it operated at Dunajska 31, over the way of the Gospodarsko razstavišče, on the north-bound artery. In 2002 the Bežigrajsa galerija opened its second space at Vodovodna 2, 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 Museum Ljubljana (administrator of the City Gallery, Ljubljana) and the City Museum of Ljubljana merged into a new public institute City Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana in 2009, the Bežigrajska galerija 1 and 2 administratively operates under the umbrella institute as its autonomous unites.
In its both spaces it hosts approximately twelve exhibitions annually, some in 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; historical shows presenting, for the most part, works by well-known Slovenian artists; and, as a speciality, exhibitions of installations and objects.
The Bežigrajska galerija became involved with the latter in the 1980s, particularly with multimedia, including sounds of various environments, contemporary music, video, experimental film. 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.
The collection is based on the works collected by Franc 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 loos 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 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 these art works some thematic exhibitions in their gallery, but also in Media Nox Gallery Maribor. The gallery group exhibitions are often enriched by works lent from other international collections and institutions and vice versa.
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