Galerija Ganes Pratt
Cankarjeva cesta 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 591 94 326
Primož Nemec, Owner and Director
Phone386 (1) 30 355 168
Ganes Pratt
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Location
After being first years located on Gregorčičeva ulica 3, next to the Equrna Gallery, the Gallery moved to the apartment in the first floor of Cankarjeva cesta 7, what is the street connecting Prešern square with Tromostovje and Tivoli park beginning with the Modern gallery.
Attitude
The Gallery 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 form of ruminating about the changes that had happened in the turbulent past of Eastern European countries. Their research in various media is turned towards the visual, sonic and tactile, the exploration in the state of artistic media today and their insertion in the realm of the public imbued with capitalist consumerism.
Artists
Two generations of artists are represented by Ganes Pratt Gallery. The first one is tightly connected with Venice Academy of Art, where almost all of them have been studying and were presented on the very fist exhibition of the Gallery, opened on the 25th of 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 Dejan Kaludjerović.
"I do not represent fifty artists, what the economical logic would dictate to be more successful in the satisfying of taste of the bright public. Long term cooperation with chosen artists and common development of relations within the small group means much more to me,” said director Primož Nemec in the interview for Mladina in 2007.
Programme
- 2006
After Ganess Pratt Gallery started its activities with the group show Bad Girls & Bad Boys in 2006 Ganes Pratt Gallery and presented itself at the City Gallery, Ljubljana there were on the view three in the first year three solo exhibitions: Let's Put an End to All Disasters, a follow-up to a project by Jaša at the Sarajevo Winter Festival realised in co-operation with Festival Ljubljana, a solo exhibition by Urša Vidic and a project by Išvan Išt Huzjan. Ganes Pratt Gallery also presented the Cocktail Problem by Meta Grgurevič and Jaša in the international festival of installations OPEN06 at the Lido in Venice.
- 2007
The 2007 programme of the Gallery commenced with a presentation of work by Meta Grgurevič in relation to the exhibition Radical Chic by Jaša at nearby Equrna Gallery. The project Check Point by Jaša and Ištvan Išt Huzjan was subsequently organised in co-operation with Kapelica Gallery at a number of festivals, including the Archipelag-Archipelago Festival, Nova Gorica and Gorizia, and Jaša's project Keep On Waving Your Guns was presented as part of a site-specific installation realised in co-operation with ProstoRož - FlowerSpace Association. In March 2007 there was featured work of of Jasmina Čibic (who studied at Goldmiths College in London) - the first solo exhibition of the artist in Slovenia. Further Viktor Bernik, Sašo Vrabič, Mark Požlep and Simona Settimo from Italy also showed their new work here. December 2007 saw the group exhibition Painting Project by Viktor Bernik, Janez Janša, Arjan Pregl and Sašo Vrabič.
- 2008
The 2008 Ganes Pratt featured eight personal exhibitions of following artists: Jasmina Čibic, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Nina Slejko, Urša Vidic, Dejan Kaludjerović, Jaša, arjan Pregl and Meta Grgurevič. Two curated exhibition were as well presented: the exhibition of Sašo Vrabič and Tanja Vujinovič entitled Non-central Domains were part of the programme of showing video art in Slovenia after 2000. Summer months was featured by group show Down the Rabbit Hole, overtaking the quotation of the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This exhibition curated by Nadja Gnamuš and Petja Grafenauer put on the pedestal contemporary paintings including art works of Viktor Bernik, Beli Sladoled (Miha Perne in Leon Zoudar), Ksenija Čerče, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, one of Janez Janša, Jaša, Matej Košir, etc.
- 2009
Beside solo exhibitions of Mark Požlep, Urša Vidic and Arjan Pregl, the programme in 2009 was in autumnal months in the light of the Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art
