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* [http://www.glu-sg.si/collections.htm Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts Collection website] | * [http://www.glu-sg.si/collections.htm Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts Collection website] | ||
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12 Jul 2021
31 Dec 2021
Slovenian contemporary visual arts exhibition We Live in Interesting Times, curated by Marko Košan, on the occasion of Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, coorganised by the Ministry of Culture, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška in Slovenj Gradec, and the European Parliament,
13 Jun 2017
A presentation of the The Second Explosion - Slovene Art of the 1990s research project and book launch by artist and curator Tadej Pogačar and photographer Dejan Habicht, coorganised by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts and the educational program for young curators INCUBATOR,
8 Dec 2016
9 Dec 2016
Mateja Lazar of the Creative Europe Desk Slovenia (Motovila Institute) and Andreja Hribernik (Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts) at the Creative Georgia Forum
25 Oct 2013
1 Dec 2013
Transfer > Slowenien, a joint exhibition organised in the framework of an artists-in-residence exchange programme between Slovenia and Upper Bavaria also featuring works by Katja Felle, Jure Markota, and Uroš Weinberger (Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts),
19 Sep 2013
13 Oct 2013
The joint exhibition Augenräume - contemporary art from the Koroška region - by Zoran Ogrinc, Luka Popič, and Peter Hergold, and curated by Marko Košan (Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts),
The institution was established on endeavours similar to Arnold Bode's idea for documenta in Kassel in 1955 - to create 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 old town hall on Glavni trg. In the year 1966 the edifice, where the gallery operates and exhibits till nowadays 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 rich collection focuses on the regional authors, but includes also several donations, bequests and purchases of international authors. Parts of collection are on view temporarily, some works also within various exhibitions.
The collection is divided into several segments. Some are dedicated to the most important regional artists. Jože Tisnikar (1928–1998) matured as an artist while working in a hospital pathology department. 43 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 includes also the works by other Slovene artists with similar sensibility (Zdenko Huzjan, Mirsad Begić). In 2003 Bogdan Borčić (b. 1926) donated 40 paintings from 1986 to 2003, which make the Koroška Gallery of Fine arts together with the Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki which holds Borčič's graphic cabinet, the central institution to study the works by this vital experimentator.
The international 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. The donation of the works by Italian artist Pino Poggi (donated in 1998) provides the basis for a developing International Museum of Social Aesthetics.
The Slovene art of the 19th and 20th Century collection 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 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 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 includes also some works of former Yugoslav authors.
Franc Tretjak (1914–2009) 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).
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.
The gallery has organised several repercussive international exhibitions and events, starting 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 seventies. The exhibition featuring works from the 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 last 20 years the gallery has featured various thematic international exhibitions (The Artist and an Urban Environment in 1997, The Kitchen - From the Idea to Excession (1954–2004) in 2004, 2 LIVE on the dilemmas of our existence and being, sixty years since the end of World War II in 2005 - here the primary focus was on photography - 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 Koroška Gallery in 2007). In 2008 Jernej Kožar and Rado Poggi curated Necessary Discourse on Hysteria on the issue of social hysteria with the artists experiencing the process of an exhibition-installation, and in the remaining three weeks joined performances, discussions, theatre, talks, speeches and video works.
Initiated by the new director Marko Košan a new exhibition room opened in 2009 in order to be more attentive on the regional artists.
In 2009 the project Libri of Italian sculptor and politically engaged conceptualist Pino Poggi, being tightly connected with Slovenj Gradec, was on view, followed by the newest setting of the project At the Golden Thigh [Pri zlatem stegnu] by authors Nataša and Katja Skušek, and Mladen Stropnik.
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