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| name                = Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec
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| name                = Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška
 
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| localname          = Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (KGLU)
Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti Slovenj Gradec
 
 
| street              = Glavni trg 24
 
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| telephone          = 386 (0) 2 882 2131
 
| telephone          = 386 (0) 2 882 2131
 
| fax                = 386 (0) 2 882 2130
 
| fax                = 386 (0) 2 882 2130
 
| email              = galerija@glu-sg.si
 
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| founded by          = Municipality of Slovenj Gradec
| founded by          = Slovenj Gradec Urban Municipality
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| opening hours      = 9am-6pm Tue-Fri, 10am-1pm + 2pm-5pm Sat, Sun
 
| contacts = {{Contact
 
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Marko Košan
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| name                = Andreja Hribernik
 
| role                = Director
 
| role                = Director
| email              = marko.kosan@glu-sg.si}}
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| telephone          = 386 (0) 2 620 3651
{{Contact
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| email              = andreja.hribernik@guest.arnes.si
| name                = Milena Zlatar
 
| role                = Curator
 
| email              = milena.zlatar@glu-sg.si
 
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{{Contact
 
| name                = Jernej Kožar
 
| role                = Curator
 
| email              = jernej.kozar@glu-sg.si
 
 
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{{Contact
 
{{Contact
| name                = Katarina Hergold Germ
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| name                = Zala Lorber
| role                = Curator and PR
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| role                = Project manager, Public relations
| email              = katarina.hergold@glu-sg.si
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| telephone          = 386 (0) 2 620 3652
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| email              = zala.lorber@glu-sg.si
 
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https://www.youtube.com/user/KGLUSG
 
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As a central regional gallery institution is [[Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec]] from the very beginning of its existence the platform successfully realizing its mission of preparing variegated program covering contemporary art of international, national and regional origin. It started in 1957 with ideas of local academic circles with painter and pedagogue [[Karel Pečko]] on its forefront, who conceived an ambitious programme, and invited fine arts critics to co-operate as selectors, which in the sixties was by no means established practice in Slovene galleries. Several famous stars of the fifties, sixties and seventies like [[Henry Moore]], [[Ossip Zadkine]], [[Daniel Buren]] and [[Victor Vassarely]] were exhibiting there. Some works of them and other artists are now building the part of the gallery collection with more than 1000 artworks.
 
  
Ambitions of bringing Slovenj Gradec, small town on the fringe of Slovenia with not more than approximately 8.300 inhabitants, to the international map of art and by associating international artist with Slovenian continued effectively under the guidance of [[Milena Zlatar]], paying much attention on the engaged art. Since 2008 [[Marko Košan]] overtook the directing of the gallery, paying more attention to regional artists, especially with the programme of in spring 2009 opened Small Gallery of Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, but the vision of the gallery located in the pure centre of the historic town core is still the same.
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From its very beginnings in [[established::1957]], the central regional gallery institution [[Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška]] (abbreviated as KGLU standing for Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti) has been a platform for a diverse contemporary arts programme covering international, national and regional contemporary art. A rich collection fo artworks that comprises over 3000 items, includes also works by Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Daniel Buren, Victor Vassarely, and other eminent figures who exhibited in the gallery in the 50s, 60s or 70s.
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The gallery manages also the [[Ravne Gallery| gallery in a nearby town Ravne na Koroškem]].
 
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==History==
 
==History==
The institution was established on ideas and endeavours similar to Arnold Bode idea of establishing Documenta in Kassel in 1955, so to create fine arts centre out of a rural town like Slovenj Gradec. First exhibition was in Slovenj Gradec lounched allready in 1954 and entitled ''Swedisch kitchen''. Officialy was the gallery established in [[Established::1957]] having its own exhibition space in old town hall on Glavni trg. In the year 1966 was built the edifice, where the gallery operates and exhibits till nowdays. In the same year the gallery stared with the international programme establishing the gallery politic that soon came under the sponsorship of the ''United Nations'' and support international programme in 1966, 1975, 1979, 1985 and 1991.
 
  
"Slovenia was part of the then Socialist Yugoslavia, and only a skillful organiser could successfully have convinced the ruling elite in the town that the fine arts were precisely what was needed to elevate the town's reputation. The decision to invite the United Nations to take honorary patronage over the exhibitions proved to be appropriate, and it guaranteed the participation of renowned artists," wrote Milena Zlatar abote those pioneering perod of the gallery on the gallery web page and continuing that "participation in exhibitions in a socialist country represented a kind of challenge to some artists. One way or another, the exhibitions have opened Slovenj Gradec up to the world, and domestic fine art production has taken its place side by side with that from abroad." In the gallery there was exhibiting several famous stars of fifties and sixties, including [[Henry Moore]], [[Ossip Zadkine]], [[Victor Vassarely]], [[Johny Friedlaender]], etc.  
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The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU) started under the initiative of local academic circles with painter and pedagogue [[Karel Pečko]] at its forefront. Through his ambitious programme, the gallery invited fine arts critics to co-operate as selectors, which in the 1960s was by no means an established practice in Slovene galleries.  
  
==Collections==
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The institution was established on endeavours similar to Arnold Bode's idea for ''documenta'' in Kassel in 1955 – to create a fine arts centre out of a rural town like Slovenj Gradec. The very first exhibition, ''Swedisch Kitchen'', was dedicated to modern industrial design and organised already in 1954. The gallery was officially established in 1957 having its own exhibition space in the old town hall on Glavni trg. In 1966 the edifice where the gallery operates and exhibits still today was built. In the same year the gallery's activities received the honorary patronage of the United Nations (received also in 1975, 1979, 1985, and 1991).
Gallery´s collection focuses especially on the regional authors, but includes also several donations, bequests and purchases of international authors. Since its establishing the gallery has been building up a kind of museum of social aesthetics.
 
Parts of collection are on view temporarily, some items also within various exhibitions. Digital archiving of collection is in progress, parts can be viewed [http://www.glu-sg.si/collections.htm here]
 
  
There are several segments of the collection with more than 1000 art works:
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The ambition to bring Slovenj Gradec, a small town near the Slovene-Austrian border, to the international map of art as well as to connect Slovene and international artists continued effectively under the guidance of [[Milena Zlatar]], who paid much attention to engaged art. In 2008 Marko Košan became the director of the Museum and offered a space to the regional artists with the Small Gallery located in the lobby of the Museum. The space opened in 2009 and was transformed into the museum's shop after the big renovation of the Museum in 2011. In 2012 the [[Ravne Gallery]] was established and took over the role of the Small Gallery, focusing on the comprehensive presentation of current artistic production by artists from the Koroška region and from across Slovenia. With [[Andreja Hribernik]], a new director since [[2013]], the programme further expanded into international field.
  
====='''Permanent collection of Jože Tisnikar alias Hommage to Jože Tisnikar'''=====
 
Painter Jože Tisnikar (1928-1998) matured as an artist while working in a hospital pathology department. 43 paintings and drawings is best defined by the term 'dark modernism' and together with documentary material on the artist's life, reveal Tisnikar's world, examining his iconographic theme of death.
 
  
====='''Permanent collection of painter Bogdan Borčič'''=====
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==Current programme==
  
====='''International collection'''=====
 
The collection includes the works by Ossip Zadkine, Victor Vasarely, Maria Bonomi, Toon Wegner, Gene Chu and Paolo Minoli. It consists of paintings, prints, photographs, original architectural drawings, statues, and documentary material on installations, including performances.
 
  
====='''Collection of Slovene art of the 19th and 20th Century'''=====
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The gallery's collection of works by Slovene artists reflects several decades of the gallery's exhibitions programme, and features the work of Marko Šušteršič, France Mihelič, Riko Debenjak, Marjan Pogačnik, Božidar Jakac, Ive Šubic, Rudolf Kotnik, Kiar Meško, Dragica Čadež, Janez Boljka, Zdenko Huzjan and others. The most significant segment of the collection are works by artists who are natives of Carinthia or are in some way or another connected with the Mislinja, Drava or Mežica Valleys, namely Franjo Golob, Karel Pečko, Bogdan Borčić, Lojze Logar, Gustav Gnamuš, Rade Nikolić, Anton Dolenc, Vida Slivniker, Harald Draušbaher, Andrej Grošelj, Štefan Marflak, Miran Prodnik, Naca Rojnik, Peter Hergold and Sašo Vrabič.
 
  
The collection also presents the heritage from the 19th century onwards as well as the most recent art trends. A special place is occupied by the works of Franc Berneker (1874-1932), the first modern Slovene sculptor and fellow traveller of the impressionist painters, and by the works by painter Oskar Pistor (1865-1928), whose portraits, genre and landscape paintings establish links between the Upper Drava Valley and cosmopolitan Vienna and Munich, and also depict the landscapes of the Tyrol and Carinthia which inspired Pistor. The collection included also some works of former Yugoslav authors like: Krsto Hegedušić, Vlado Jakelić, Pedja Milosavljević, Miljenko Bosanac, Zorislav Drempetić, Nikola Koydl, Robert Tanay, Seid Hasanefendić, Zvonko Lončarić, Branislav Dinić, Nikola Gvozdenović, Mića Popović, and others.
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==Collections==
  
====='''Collection of social aestetics of Pino Poggi'''=====
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The museum's rich collection focuses on regional authors, but also includes several donations, bequests, and purchases of international authors. Parts of the collection are on view temporarily, some works also appear in various exhibitions.
Works by Italian artist Pino Poggi (donated in 1998) provide the basis for a developing International Museum of Social Aesthetics.  
 
  
====='''Collection of Franc Tretjak alias African Collection'''=====
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The collection is divided into several segments, some dedicated to the most important regional artists. [[Jože Tisnikar]] (1928–1998) matured as an artist while working in a hospital pathology department. His 65 paintings and drawings are best defined by the term "dark modernism" and together with documentary material on the artist's life, reveal Tisnikar's world, examining his iconographic theme of death. The collection ''Hommage to Tisnikar'' also includes works by other Slovene artists with a similar sensibility: [[Zdenko Huzjan]], [[Mirsad Begić]]. In 2003 [[Bogdan Borčić]] (1926-2014) donated 40 paintings from 1986 to 2003, which have made the Koroška institution, together with the [[Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki]] which holds Borčić's graphic cabinet, the central institution to study the works by this vital experimentator.
Dr. Franc Tretjak spent nearly 20 years in Africa as an economic consultant of the United Nations and donated to Slovenj Gradec his African collection consisting of domestic artefacts (vessels, ladles, calebashes, fans, baskets, musical instruments, tools, arms, etc) and items which have an ethnological value (cult objects including masks and statuettes, fetishes and amulets, objects of white and black magic, Nomoli (Nomori) statues and rare 'antiques' from the African continent).  
 
  
====='''Open-air collection'''=====
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The collection of 19th- and 20th-century Slovene art reflects several decades of the gallery's exhibitions programme, and features the work of [[Marko Šušteršič]], [[France Mihelič]], [[Riko Debenjak]], [[Marjan Pogačnik]], [[Božidar Jakac]], [[Ive Šubic]], [[Rudolf Kotnik]], [[Kiar Meško]], [[Dragica Čadež]], [[Janez Boljka]], and others. The most significant segment of the collection are works by artists who are natives of Carinthia or are in some way or another connected with the Mislinja, Drava, or Mežica valleys ([[Franjo Golob]], [[Karel Pečko]], [[Lojze Logar]], [[Gustav Gnamuš]], [[Anton Dolenc]], [[Vida Slivniker]], [[Štefan Marflak]], [[Peter Hergold]], [[Sašo Vrabič]], etc.).
The open-air gallery on the edge of Štibuh Park is also arranged as a venue for cultural events. In the 1970s its cultural function was further enhanced with the installation of sculptures by selected artists (Ivan Meštrović, Drago Tršar, Josip Diminić, Jordan Grabuloski, Ivan Sabolić, Ratko Vulanović, Ana Bešlić, etc) under the slogan 'For Peace'.  
 
  
=Exhibition programme==
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The collection not only presents the heritage from the 19th century onwards but also the most recent art trends. A special place is occupied by the works of [[Franc Berneker]] (1874–1932), the first modern Slovene sculptor and contemporary of the impressionist painters, and by the works by painter [[Oskar Pistor]] (1865–1928), whose portraits, genre and landscape paintings establish links between the Upper Drava Valley and cosmopolitan Vienna and Munich, and also depict the landscapes of the Tyrol and Carinthia which inspired Pistor. The collection also includes some works of former Yugoslav authors.
  
===International exhibitions and events===
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=== International collection ===
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The international collection includes works by Ossip Zadkine, Victor Vasarely, Maria Bonomi, Toon Wegner, Gene Chu, and Paolo Minoli. It consists of paintings, prints, photographs, original architectural drawings, statues, and documentary material on installations, including performances. The donation of the works by Italian artist Pino Poggi (donated in 1998) provides the basis for a developing an International Museum of Social Aesthetics.
  
The gallery has organised several repercussive international exhibitions and events, starting mid 70s.
 
  
In 1975 the French artist [[Daniel Buren]] was invited to take part in the exhibition ''Engaged Figuration''. He chose a conceptual artistic engagement, as he placed his blue-white flag among other flags hanging in front of the gallery and announcing the participation of artists from different countries. Beside numerous artists who exhibited more "classical" works in the gallery, there were still other conceptualists, like [[Pino Poggi]] with his AU Arte Utile Manifesto, or [[Braco Dimitrijević]] with two documentary photographs.
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===Open-air collection===
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The open-air gallery on the edge of Štibuh Park is also arranged as a venue for cultural events. In the 1970s its cultural function was further enhanced with the installation of sculptures by selected artists (Ivan Meštrović, [[Drago Tršar]], Josip Diminić, Jordan Grabuloski, Ivan Sabolić, Ratko Vulanović, Ana Bešlić, etc.) under the slogan "For Peace".  
  
In 1979 the ''International fine art exhibition'' exposed the problems of the socialisation of art and psycho-formation, it dealt with the peripheral areas of fine art, and touched upon the alternatives in contemporary architecture in the seventies. Among the exhibitors was the Italian artist [[Ico Parisi]], exhibiting 1976 on [[Venice Biennial]]. For Slovenj Gradec he constructed the Wall of Apocalypse in the hall of the Gallery; today this act is seen as a truly prophetic warning on modern communication and the addiction to electronic media.
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==Exhibition programme==
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The KGLU Art has organised several repercussive international exhibitions and events, starting in the mid-1970s. In 1979 the ''International Fine Art Exhibition'' exposed the problems of the socialisation of art and psycho-formation, it dealt with the peripheral areas of fine art, and touched upon the alternatives in contemporary architecture in the 1970s. An exhibition featuring works from Ossip Zadkine's collection in Paris took place in 1991. The sculpture "Memorial to the Apologist of Cubism – the Poet Guillame Apollinaire" (1937, bronze), which Zadkine presented as a gift to Slovenj Gradec at the first international fine art exhibition in 1966, was transferred from Paris – with the permission of the foundation – as late as 1990, and in the same year it took its place in the atrium of the gallery.  
  
1985: ''Ossip Zadkine'' - The exhibition featuring works from the artist's collection in Paris took place in 1991. The sculpture Memorial to the Apologist of Cubism - the Poet Guillame Apollinaire (1937, bronze), which Zadkine presented as a gift to Slovenj Gradec at the first international fine art exhibition in 1966, was transferred from Paris - with the permission of the foundation - as late as 1990, and in the same year it took its place in the atrium of the gallery. Zadkine's exhibition meant a logical continuation of the exhibitions which emphasised traditional fine art practice, and one of the most important among them was certainly the exhibition of sculptures and graphic works by [[Henry Moore]] in 1979.  
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In the 90s and up to 2010 the KGLU has featured various thematic international exhibitions (''The Artist and an Urban Environment'' (1997); ''The Kitchen – From the Idea to Excession (1954–2004)'' (2004), ''2 LIVE'' on the dilemmas of our existence and being, 60 years after the end of World War II (2005) – here the primary focus was on photography – a medium that decisively marked the 20th century; ''Thread'' [Nit] with 33 Slovene and foreign artists, curated by [[Maja Škerbot]], marked the 50th Anniversary of the KGLU in 2007. In 2008 [[Jernej Kožar]] and Rado Poggi curated ''Necessary Discourse on Hysteria'' on the issue of social hysteria with artists experiencing the process of an exhibition-installation, and in the remaining 3 weeks joined by performances, discussions, theatre, talks, speeches, and video works.
  
1997: ''The Artist and an Urban Environment'' -  The ever topical theme indicated the problems of contemporary society, most eloquently with the expressive potential of photography and video, very concretely also with the written reflections and installations, and sufficiently sensitively and sometimes even exotically with several "classical" fine art works. Selectors of the show displaying art activity in the non-governmental organisation [[Cities - Messengers of Peace]] Milena Babić,Vanesa Cvahte, Mathias Flügge, Fernando Castro Florez, Marko Košan, Jernej Kožar, Želimir Koščević, Pino Poggi and Ron Ramsey.
 
  
2003: ''Inge Morath - Border.Areas, Last Journey'' - Exhibition of world famous photographer [[Inge Morath]] (1923 Graz - 2002 New York) was curated by Regina Strassegger, Kurt Kaindl and Brigitte Blüml. Very varied photographic work (including jobs with international magazines such as [[Magnum]], [[Life]], Paris Match and [[Vogue]]) presented her journey through the borderland between Auistrian southern Styria and Slovenia searching for clues to her own origins and the interaction of history, politics, daily life and culture in the border area.
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==See also==
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* [[Ravne Gallery]]
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* [[Koroška Regional Museum]]
  
2004: ''The Kitchen - From the idea to excession (1954 - 2004)'' - Fifty years after the very first exhibition ''Swedish kitchen'' was shown in Slovenj Gradec the exhibition focusing on contemporary art works and positions inspired by the same phenomenon was prepared.
 
  
2005: ''2 LIVE'' - The exhition encompassed the widest possible meanings and existential dilemmas of our existence and being, sixty years since the end of World War II. Primary focus was put on the photography - medium that decisively marked the 20th century and has become one of the leading art genre.The 71 artists of different generations were selected by the group of curators who pointed to the social, ecological, economic and humanitarian dilemmas of man, to picture man as an individual and a social being, whose basic right is to live.
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.glu-sg.si/en Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška website]
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* [http://museums.si/en/museum/details/6/carinthian-gallery-of-fine-arts-slovenj-gradec-gallery Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška] on [[Museums.si - Museums and galleries in Slovenia|Museums.si]] website
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2007: Thread -  The international exhibition ''Thread'' with 33 domestic and foreign artists, curated by [[Maja Škerbot]], marked the 50th Anniversary of the Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts. It put on a pedestal a material that had for centuries remained in the domain of clothing culture and the applied arts and showed how in recent years, it has entered into the world of the visual arts in truly sovereign style and on a surprisingly massive scale.The connection between clothing culture, applied art, domestic equipment and contemporary art production is intense, and it is the subject of illumination in the exhibition Thread.
 
  
2008: Necessary Discourse on Hysteria - The exhibition curated by Jernej Kožar and Rado Poggi, revived museums and faced up to the responsibility of aesthetical education. Artists of two generations visualised, intervened and interacted together with theoreticians on the issue of social hysteria. They experienced in the first week the process of an exhibition-installation, and in the remaining three weeks joined performances, discussions, theatre, talks, speeches and video works. The topics were Terror, Genetic Engineering, Consumer Society/Isolation, Mass-Information, Power of Media, Profiling, Supershows, Identity, Privacy, Noise Consumption, Sweet-life and Ideology.
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For the lists of artists see the External links below.
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==Small Gallery for artists of the Koroška region==
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[[Category:Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012]]
As a politik of new director Marko Košan, to be more attentive on regional artists, is since 2009 in the groundfloor of the gallery building opened a new room.
 
  
In 2009 there was on the view the project ''Libri'' of italian sculpturer and politicaly engaged conceptualist Pino Poggi, being tightly connected with Slovenj Gradec. In November 2009 the exhibition programme continued with the newest setting of the project ''Pri zlatem stegnu'' by authors Nataša and Katja Skušek, Mladen Stropnik.
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[[Category:Slovene Impressionists and their Time]]
  
== External links ==
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[[Category:EU funding of Slovene organisations (Culture and MEDIA Programmes)]]  
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/index-eng.html Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts website]]
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[[Category:EU Culture funding recipient]]
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/razstave.htm Past exhibitions - lists of artists]]
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[[Category:EU Creative Europe, Culture funding recipient]]
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/necessarydiscourse/index.html Exibition Necessary Discourse on Hysteria website]
 
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/nit/slo_gallery.htm Exibition Thread website]
 
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/exhibitions/2Live/index.htm Exibition 2 LIVE website]
 
* [http://www.glu-sg.si/collections.htm Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts Collection website]
 
* [http://www.maribor2012.si/en/ Maribor and other towns - European Capital of Culture 2012 website]
 
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/museums/museum-profile/Koroska+Gallery+Of+Fine+Arts/444.html Saatchi gallery website]
 
  
  
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From its very beginnings in 1957, the central regional gallery institution Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (abbreviated as KGLU standing for Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti) has been a platform for a diverse contemporary arts programme covering international, national and regional contemporary art. A rich collection fo artworks that comprises over 3000 items, includes also works by Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Daniel Buren, Victor Vassarely, and other eminent figures who exhibited in the gallery in the 50s, 60s or 70s.

The gallery manages also the gallery in a nearby town Ravne na Koroškem.


History

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (KGLU) started under the initiative of local academic circles with painter and pedagogue Karel Pečko at its forefront. Through his ambitious programme, the gallery invited fine arts critics to co-operate as selectors, which in the 1960s was by no means an established practice in Slovene galleries.

The institution was established on endeavours similar to Arnold Bode's idea for documenta in Kassel in 1955 – to create a fine arts centre out of a rural town like Slovenj Gradec. The very first exhibition, Swedisch Kitchen, was dedicated to modern industrial design and organised already in 1954. The gallery was officially established in 1957 having its own exhibition space in the old town hall on Glavni trg. In 1966 the edifice where the gallery operates and exhibits still today was built. In the same year the gallery's activities received the honorary patronage of the United Nations (received also in 1975, 1979, 1985, and 1991).

The ambition to bring Slovenj Gradec, a small town near the Slovene-Austrian border, to the international map of art as well as to connect Slovene and international artists continued effectively under the guidance of Milena Zlatar, who paid much attention to engaged art. In 2008 Marko Košan became the director of the Museum and offered a space to the regional artists with the Small Gallery located in the lobby of the Museum. The space opened in 2009 and was transformed into the museum's shop after the big renovation of the Museum in 2011. In 2012 the Ravne Gallery was established and took over the role of the Small Gallery, focusing on the comprehensive presentation of current artistic production by artists from the Koroška region and from across Slovenia. With Andreja Hribernik, a new director since 2013, the programme further expanded into international field.


Current programme

Collections

The museum's rich collection focuses on regional authors, but also includes several donations, bequests, and purchases of international authors. Parts of the collection are on view temporarily, some works also appear in various exhibitions.

The collection is divided into several segments, some dedicated to the most important regional artists. Jože Tisnikar (1928–1998) matured as an artist while working in a hospital pathology department. His 65 paintings and drawings are best defined by the term "dark modernism" and together with documentary material on the artist's life, reveal Tisnikar's world, examining his iconographic theme of death. The collection Hommage to Tisnikar also includes works by other Slovene artists with a similar sensibility: Zdenko Huzjan, Mirsad Begić. In 2003 Bogdan Borčić (1926-2014) donated 40 paintings from 1986 to 2003, which have made the Koroška institution, together with the Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki which holds Borčić's graphic cabinet, the central institution to study the works by this vital experimentator.

The collection of 19th- and 20th-century Slovene art reflects several decades of the gallery's exhibitions programme, and features the work of Marko Šušteršič, France Mihelič, Riko Debenjak, Marjan Pogačnik, Božidar Jakac, Ive Šubic, Rudolf Kotnik, Kiar Meško, Dragica Čadež, Janez Boljka, and others. The most significant segment of the collection are works by artists who are natives of Carinthia or are in some way or another connected with the Mislinja, Drava, or Mežica valleys (Franjo Golob, Karel Pečko, Lojze Logar, Gustav Gnamuš, Anton Dolenc, Vida Slivniker, Štefan Marflak, Peter Hergold, Sašo Vrabič, etc.).

The collection not only presents the heritage from the 19th century onwards but also the most recent art trends. A special place is occupied by the works of Franc Berneker (1874–1932), the first modern Slovene sculptor and contemporary of the impressionist painters, and by the works by painter Oskar Pistor (1865–1928), whose portraits, genre and landscape paintings establish links between the Upper Drava Valley and cosmopolitan Vienna and Munich, and also depict the landscapes of the Tyrol and Carinthia which inspired Pistor. The collection also includes some works of former Yugoslav authors.

International collection

The international collection includes works by Ossip Zadkine, Victor Vasarely, Maria Bonomi, Toon Wegner, Gene Chu, and Paolo Minoli. It consists of paintings, prints, photographs, original architectural drawings, statues, and documentary material on installations, including performances. The donation of the works by Italian artist Pino Poggi (donated in 1998) provides the basis for a developing an International Museum of Social Aesthetics.


Open-air collection

The open-air gallery on the edge of Štibuh Park is also arranged as a venue for cultural events. In the 1970s its cultural function was further enhanced with the installation of sculptures by selected artists (Ivan Meštrović, Drago Tršar, Josip Diminić, Jordan Grabuloski, Ivan Sabolić, Ratko Vulanović, Ana Bešlić, etc.) under the slogan "For Peace".

Exhibition programme

The KGLU Art has organised several repercussive international exhibitions and events, starting in the mid-1970s. In 1979 the International Fine Art Exhibition exposed the problems of the socialisation of art and psycho-formation, it dealt with the peripheral areas of fine art, and touched upon the alternatives in contemporary architecture in the 1970s. An exhibition featuring works from Ossip Zadkine's collection in Paris took place in 1991. The sculpture "Memorial to the Apologist of Cubism – the Poet Guillame Apollinaire" (1937, bronze), which Zadkine presented as a gift to Slovenj Gradec at the first international fine art exhibition in 1966, was transferred from Paris – with the permission of the foundation – as late as 1990, and in the same year it took its place in the atrium of the gallery.

In the 90s and up to 2010 the KGLU has featured various thematic international exhibitions (The Artist and an Urban Environment (1997); The Kitchen – From the Idea to Excession (1954–2004) (2004), 2 LIVE on the dilemmas of our existence and being, 60 years after the end of World War II (2005) – here the primary focus was on photography – a medium that decisively marked the 20th century; Thread [Nit] with 33 Slovene and foreign artists, curated by Maja Škerbot, marked the 50th Anniversary of the KGLU in 2007. In 2008 Jernej Kožar and Rado Poggi curated Necessary Discourse on Hysteria on the issue of social hysteria with artists experiencing the process of an exhibition-installation, and in the remaining 3 weeks joined by performances, discussions, theatre, talks, speeches, and video works.


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