Events

Exhibitions

Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) Permanent exhibition at the National Gallery

Paths of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Martial Culture in Slovenia 31 May – 5 Nov, National Museum of Slovenia – Metelkova The exhibition of the National Museum of Slovenia presents its first comprehensive exhibition of about 50 selected items of Japanese weapons and armour of the museum’s as well as several private collections. In addition to samurai’s martial culture, the exhibition also depicts the world the samurai’s lived in, their worldview and ethos, and also the paths by which the legacy of the samurai’s reached the Slovenes. The figure of the Japanese warrior - the samurai - his weapons, fighting skills and attitude have stirred our imagination for at least a century and a half - ever since the land of the rising sun has opened itself to the rest of the world after a long period of self isolation. Open: 10:00 – 18:00 Closed: Mondays

Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th century Slovenian-born painter and a man with more than one homeland, spent most of his life between Venice and Paris. He mostly painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, views of Venice, double portraits with his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits depicting him as an old man. His visual motifs were always related to the Slovenian region of Kras and its typical scenes. He became world famous with his series of paintings We Are Not the Last, in which he relived the scenes he experienced in the Dachau concentration camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays the world’s only permanent survey exhibition of Mušič’s work, which explores the entire range of the famous artist’s painting techniques. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- 20:00. Closed: Mondays

comes alive through memories, photographs, films, sounds and selected objects from Slovenes who travelled through Afghanistan in the 1960s, when it was a peaceful, open country, and others who got to know it in later years. The almost 400 exhibited objects includes the exceptional Afghanistan collection of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw. The exhibition, enriched by contemporary artistic interpretations and a rich accompanying programme, emphasises the urgent need to return to a more humane model of society and promotes reflection on our future. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays Work or Your Art 6 Sep – 15 Oct, Match Gallery A group exhibition of the artistic group from Osaka and its surrounding offers an insight into the production of the art scene around the Shimbun Onna Gallery. It discloses the organisation and survival strategies of artists living there. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays Admission free

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