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HISTORY OF NOVO MESTO AND ITS MOVABLE HERITAGE (Exhibition)
Within the framework of European Capital of Culture, The Museum of Dolenjska will present the urn artistry of Novo mesto with an exhibition of documentary photography and a prestigious monograph on urns from Novo mesto. In the early Iron Age period (8th - 4th century BC), Novo mesto was a large center of population with a large fortified settlement on Marof hill, around which several barrow cemeteries and individual burial mounds have been found. The archaeological excavations, which have been taking place ever since the end of the 19th century, have revealed fifty-three earthen mounds with over thousand studied graves from the early Iron Age, which included a large number of archaeological artifacts. Among them, there are nine bronze urns that represent the height of artistic expression of Iron Age Europe. As an important contribution to global cultural heritage, urns from Novo mesto remind us of the important role Dolenjska region had in the first millennium BC in development of European culture. The urn artists from Novo mesto were among the leading creators in a period when European civilization was only emerging. As the keeper of this important heritage, The Museum of Dolenjska strives to present the public the urns whose aesthetic values still shine after so many centuries, even though they were cast in fragile bronze. Opening Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00-18:00; Saturday+Sunday: 9:00-13:00 in14:00-17:00. more
from 25 November to 31 December (2011-2014)
MARIBOR
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II. International Ceramic Triennial Unicum 2012, Shiny Black, Prehistoric Black Pottery of Novo mesto (Exhibition)
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NATURE ENABLES, Permanent installations Nature enables
The Nature Enables project includes installations that enable a versatile sensory perception of the environment through smells, textures, shapes, sounds, etc. The visitors are encouraged to follow the path in the Town Park and in the garden of the Dom invalidskih društev Maribor (Maribor Disability Resource Centre) that will be marked on a tactile map and a digital guide. The path will have several stops which represent the installations of KED Smetumet. THE TACTILE MAP The tactile map at the entrance to the Town Park from Trubarjeva Street will be placed for easier orientation of the blind and the visually impaired. It contains reliefs and a legend in Braille. The tactile map also includes marked stations of the Nature Enables project and the important parts of the Town Park that could be particularly interesting for visitors. THE STORIES OF TREES Signs with creative descriptions of trees are written in regular print and in Braille. They will be placed on park benches. The stops form a path that reminds the visitors of several characteristics of certain trees in the park. The descriptions will be written at a creative writing workshop and will contain the basic properties as well as sensory perceptions of trees, sounds, colours, etc. THE DANCE PLATFORM Dancing steps will be marked with contrast floor footprints that lead the dancing partner. Regarding the chosen dance styles, there will be several dancing steps schemes: English waltz, Cha cha cha and Disco. We will also add wheelchair ruts to invite the individuals in wheelchairs to dance. A PLACE TO SOCIALISE A tactile table will be made of different natural materials with diverse reliefs and textures. The benches around will include parts of old wheelchairs and enable access also for physically handicapped people. THE SOUND INSTALLATIONS The “mobile” are hanging elements that produce different sounds on touch. In the garden on 15 Trubarjeva Street, percussions, a xylophone and drums will be placed for playing. THE NATURAL INSTALLATIONS Raised flower beds, wooden constructions, pipes and interlaced forms will be full of edible and fragrant plants. Wicker nests for birds and squirrels will be placed on trees. SEPTARIAN CONCRETIONS In the garden of the Maribor National Liberation Museum, there is an exhibition of archaeological findings – septarian concretions that were found in Polički Vrh near Šentilj. These roundly shaped septarian concretions were formed in the Panonnian Sea. Besides their shape and dimensions, the septarian concretions are special because of the diversity and the number of minerals they “hide” inside. Visitors can also touch these rocks. Additional information is available on a board in regular print and in Braille or through an audio tape. more
from 16 November to 31 July (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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HISTORY OF NOVO MESTO AND ITS MOVABLE HERITAGE, Dolenjska and its People (Exhibition)
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 9.00-17.00; Sunday: 9.00-13.00 more
from 30 November to 31 December (2012-2014)
MARIBOR
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ALMOST SPRING, 100 Years of Slovene Art, Guided Tour (Part 1)
In the final stage of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012 the UGM / Maribor Art Gallery, in cooperation with the major Slovenian galleries and museums, presents a review of the 20th century art from Impressionism to Retro Avant-garde. Almost Spring also offers an insight into the new practices of the 21st century Slovenian visual art with a view into the future. Shall we step towards spring together? Gudided tour in Slovene language by curator and gallery's director, Breda Kolar Sluga. Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00-18:00 more
from 3 to 3 December (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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ALMOST SPRING, 100 Years of Slovene Art, Guided Tour (Part 2)
In the final stage of the European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012 the UGM / Maribor Art Gallery, in cooperation with the major Slovenian galleries and museums, presents a review of the 20th century art from Impressionism to Retro Avant-garde. Almost Spring also offers an insight into the new practices of the 21st century Slovenian visual art with a view into the future. Shall we step towards spring together? Gudided tour in Slovene language by curator and gallery's director, Breda Kolar Sluga. Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00-18:00 more
from 3 to 3 December (2012-2013)
MARIBOR
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The Knight, the Lady, and the Dragon: The Heritage of Medieval Warriors
This exhibition, showing at the National Museum of Slovenia's department located in the Metelkova Museum Quarter, presents medieval chivalry as it really was, challenging the common conception of knights as noble-minded medieval warriors.
New findings by Slovenian experts in the field reveal a picture of Slovenia's medieval past that is rather different from that presented in history classes and old history books.
Bringing together a wide variety of different objects from museums in Slovenia and abroad, the exhibition offers an objective yet exciting look at different aspects of chivalry in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. more
from 13 December to 25 October (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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Picture Slovenia - open-air photographic exhibition
What does Slovenia look like through the eyes of amateur photographers? It looks absolutely stunning. To see for yourself, visit Ljubljana's Tivoli Park and view an exhibition of large-format photographs of Ljubljana, the Central Slovenia region and Slovenia's major sights taken by amateur and professional photographers for the Picture Slovenia photographic competition.
The aim of the competition is to promote the international recognition of Slovenia and encourage visitors and everyone else who loves Slovenia to take part in its promotion by contributing their photographs depicting it.
The competition jury consists of the renowned Slovenian photographers Arne Hodalič, Tomo Jeseničnik and Borut Peterlin, and the manager of the Picture Slovenia project, Primož Žižek.
For more information about the competition, please visit the Picture Slovenia website.
from 20 December to 13 May (2012-2013)
LJUBLJANA
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The Present and Presence: Repetition 3 - The Street
The exhibition The Present and Presence brings together works by Slovenian, Balkan and Eastern European artists created from the 1960s to the present day. Themed on the concept of contemporaneity, it deals with various forms of time.
Part 3 of the exhibition features works created in public spaces, or more precisely, in the streets. During the period of Socialist rule, the public space interventions created by the Eastern European artists whose works are kept in the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova's Arteast 2000 collection, were gestures for democracy.
The exhibition showcases work by the following artists and art groups: Čto delat?, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Tomislav Gotovac, Irwin, Milan Knížák, OHO, Dan Perjovschi, Tadej Pogačar The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lotty Rosenfeld, Martina Ruhsam Vlado Repnik, Škart, Endre Tót, Goran Trbuljak, and Želimir Žilnik. It also includes a selection of video works from the EVR Archives, and the archive of the Museum in the Streets. more
from 18 January to 1 June
LJUBLJANA
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Marko Šuštaršič (Slovenia): Retrospective exhibition - paintings
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Stane Kregar: Pilgrimage to Beauty - commemorative exhibition of paintings
Stane Kregar (1905-1973), one of the major Slovenian painters of the last century, was famed for being an all-round artist whose works were regularly being purchased even by the state institutions of the period of the socialist regime – despite the fact that he was a priest and that he did not avoid religious motifs.
Stane Kregar was remarkable not only for his artistic power, but also for his extraordinarily broad command of artistic techniques and painting styles. While in his early period he flirted with surrealism, he later switched to poetic realism. After 1953 he turned to abstract painting and became one of its earliest exponents in Slovenia.
Kregar used a variety of different fine art techniques, from pencil, charcoal, tempera and gouache on paper and oil on canvas to monumental fine art techniques such as fresco, mosaic, sgraffito and the stained glass technique. Apart from that, he also designed handicraft products made using tapestry, embroidery and marquetry techniques.
from 6 February to 5 May
LJUBLJANA
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Da Vinci - The Genius
Da Vinci – The Genius, the largest exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci to tour the world, consists of more than 200 exhibits, including machine inventions crafted according to Da Vinci's designs, replicas of his works of art, and numerous interactive demonstrations.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, architect, philosopher and expert in biology and anatomy, is considered to be the quintessential Renaissance man and one of the most all-round geniuses of all time. Born out of wedlock and thus not afforded a formal education, he was a self-taught man acquiring his knowledge through experimentation.
Apart from an outstanding body of artistic work, Da Vinci left behind conceptual designs for numerous fascinating inventions such as the precursors of the modern bicycle, car, helicopter, parachute, submarine and military tank as well as designs for an ideal city, to name just a few.
The Da Vinci – The Genius exhibition may not include Da Vinci's originals, but nevertheless it gives an unrivalled insight into his world. Among the exhibits you will find replicas of several of his paintings, including the famous Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, 3D animations explaining how the paintings were created, machine inventions crafted according to his designs, facsimiles of his designs, a presentation on his life and times, interactive presentations of his works and much more. more
from 15 February to 30 June
LJUBLJANA
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Bogdan Borčić: Excursions - exhibition of paintings
The exhibition Excursions brings together the latest paintings by Bogdan Borčić, one of the leading Slovenian abstract painters. The artist was born in Ljubljana, but his art has a clear hint of the Mediterranean. Borčić's works are kept at numerous art museums around the world, including, among others, the Albertina museum in Vienna.
Bogdan Borčić first made a name for himself as one of the foremost representatives of the Ljubljana School of Graphic Art. Later, in the 1970s, he switched to minimalist painting and, according to the art critic Tomaž Brejc, originated one of the most authentic varieties of abstract painting in Slovenian art.
from 6 March to 25 May
LJUBLJANA
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The Marvels of a River Revealed - open-air photographic exhibition
The exhibition Marvels of a River Revealed brings together magnified photographs of diatoms, tiny algae also known as silica algae, which can be found in all kinds of water environments, including the Ljubljanica river basin, whose biotic diversity is to a large extent due to diatoms' abundance and diversity.
Diatoms, which are practically invisible to the naked eye, inhabit all kinds of water environments, from oceans to lakes, rivers and marshes. There are several hundreds of thousands of diatom species currently inhabiting the earth, and new species are being discovered constantly. Diatoms are of crucial importance for the environment as through photosynthesis they produce the organic matter that represents the beginning of the food chain and release oxygen. They account for the production of around 40 percent of the Earth's oxygen.
The exhibition Marvels of a River Revealed, co-organized by the LUTRA Institute for Conservation of Natural Heritage and the National Institute of Biology, brings together photographic images of the diatoms' tiny silica cell walls magnified 50,000 times using an electron microscope.
from 8 March to 8 May
LJUBLJANA
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from 14 March to 9 May
MARIBOR
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Here the Horses of Celts
In the year 2010 in Kobarid arcaheologists discovered ritual buried horses with the Celtic weapons and other objects of the warriors. The finds from the periode arround 300 BC are exceptional and of a great importance for Slovenian and European archaeology. more
from 20 March to 18 June
MARIBOR
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The exhibition's initial concept presents different ways discovered by Marko Pogačnik in the past 50 years, how to incorporate the artistic potentials into various life processes. It all started with his collaboration with the OHO movement and art group (1965-71), followed by the foundation of the farming and artistic community Šempas Family. At the present, this orientation is reflected in collaborations with the VITAAArt Group and with LifeNet groups around the world in setting up Geopuncture Circles. Also documented are Pogačnik's interactions with political processes, such as his resistance against the Vietnam War (1966) and his contribution to Slovenia's independence in the form of the state coat-of-arms more
from 4 April to 7 July
MARIBOR
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Imagining the Balkans: Identities and the Memory in the Long 19th Century
This travelling exhibition, organized by UNESCO, presents the extraordinary cultural diversity in the South-Eastern European region and the processes which shaped the identities of the nations living in that part of the world.
The exhibition traces the 19th century historical development which led to the formation of modern nations in South-Eastern Europe. It brings together exhibits from national museums in twelve countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Slovenia. more
from 8 April to 25 August
LJUBLJANA
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Tanja Balać (Macedonia): Spatial Distances - paintings
