Krško Gallery

Contact

Galerija Krško

Hočevarjev trg 6, SI-8270 Krško

http://www.kd-krsko.si/

info@galerijakrsko.si

Phone386 (0) 7 488 0190

Managed byKrško Culture House

Helena Rožman, Curator

helena.rozman@mestnimuzejkrsko.si

Set in an desacralised 18th century church, the Krško Gallery is an unique exhibition venue for various contemporary artistic endeavours in the field of visual arts. Established in 1966 , it has been managed by the Krško Culture House since the year 2010. It has white blank interior that consists solely of late-baroque architectural elements which strongly allude to its original devotional use. As such it both enables and sometimes even demands site-specific deployment of artworks

It has up to 6 exhibitions per year and is open to all sorts of artistic expression – painting, photography, sculptures, multi-media installations and the like. The main protagonists of exhibitions are mainly Slovenian artists from all over Slovenia.

Background

The former Church of the Holy Spirit was built (on the ruins of a yet older church) in the 1770s by the Auersperg noble family and was supposedly projected by the renowned architect of that time, Johann Fuchs. In 1939 the church was not in use for churchly purposes any more and between 1939 and 1966 the the Museum society for political districts of Brežice and Krško had a part of its collection displayed there.

In its first three decades, the gallery was led by the Valvasor Library, Krško which organised mroe than one hundred exhibitions. Later on, this was taken over by the local office of JSKD, and in 2010 its custody was given to the Krško Culture House (which also runs the Municipal Museum of Krško and the Rajhenburg Castle)

Exhibitions

The gallery is now sometimes compared to the Božidar Jakac Gallery in Kostanjevica na Krki, a renowned and also church stationed gallery for visual arts. That one is similar in its specific ambience and in preparing exhibitions specially tailored for the venue.

Some of the artists who presented their works here are the puppeteer Silvan Omerzu, the Domestic Research Society collective, the photographers Uroš Abram and (in course of a collective exhibition) Borut Peterlin, the artist Erik Mavrič and the sculptor Boštjan Drinovec, the painters Arjan Pregl and Marijan Novak Slunjsk.

See also

• Krško Culture House
• Municipal Museum of Krško
• Rajhenburg Castle
• Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki

External links

• Krško Gallery website