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In the latest instalment in Cukrarna Gallery’s series of video exhibitions, we are presenting works by Phil Collins, bringing together three major films that span more than two decades of the artist’s practice. Internationally recognised for his deeply engaged and research-based approach to documentary, Collins has developed a body of work that operates fluently between moving image, music, performance, and political commentary.
The popular exclamation “Let’s go to the seaside!” promises a summer exhibition. The title may seem unusual for a museum in Ljubljana, but the exhibition presents its collection as a treasury of fragments illuminating the history of the idea of a summer holiday by the sea.
The international festival Lighting Guerrilla is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year under the headline theme of Diversity. The participating artists explore this topic from various angles, creating a unique blend of transitions between different perspectives, experiences and meanings.
For the fourth consecutive year, Plečnik House is hosting an exhibition of the recipients of the Plečnik Awards, Slovenia’s central national honours for outstanding achievements in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and interior design. The awards are granted for realised projects within the Republic of Slovenia, as well as for works in Slovene communities abroad that contribute to the enrichment of spatial culture.
Tanja Lažetić is an established Slovenian intermedia artist working in photography, video, installation, performance, ceramics, artist’s books and painting, whose practice consistently explores the questions of time, memory and identity.
Accomplice brings together a new series of sculptural works by Vienna-based South Korean artist Yein Lee. Developed specifically for the Parterre Gallery, the exhibition consists of five sculptures and a ground-based pool installation. Extending into the architecture of the gallery, the works form a landscape of precarious relations that explores conditions of material instability and spatial uncertainty.
A retrospective of the past ten years of a prominent non-objective artist and creator of contemporary visual art, distinguished by subtle monochromatic imagery and original objects. The exhibition unfolds a multilayered artistic practice, from paintings to constructed compositions of metal objects.
A special place in Ljubljana's history is reserved for Roman Emona, the traces of which have been preserved in the very centre of the city.
Welcome to a trail tracing the 2000-year-old heritage of Emona. A walk through modern Ljubljana can take you further than you think! It takes you to the time of Emona, a city brimming with life between the first century and early sixth century.
The exhibition of the photographic works of the IRWIN art collective will present, for the first time, more than 90 photographs by one of the most important internationally active Slovenian artist groups. The exhibition encompasses records of their artistic interventions, performances and temporary installations, as well as conceptually designed artworks in their own right, spanning four decades of production.
An overview of the work of one of the most important and distinctive visual artists, a leading representative of Slovenian late modernism and postmodernism. The selected works reveal a convergence of the artist’s in-depth research, profound understanding of contemporary visual art, original artistic language, and complete commitment to the practice of painting.
“A tower, a mule, me and the garden” – that is how Jože Plečnik imagined his life when he didn’t know yet that after Vienna and Prague his native Ljubljana would be his lifetime’s environment for his creative work.
How well do you know the rich history of Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle and New Ages, the 20th and 21st centuries… what is the history of Ljubljana? Get to know Ljubljana's past - see the chronological presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia of heritage with precious authentic artefacts, like the world's oldest wooden wheel with an axle!
A tribute to the museum as a place of encounter and dialogue.
Listen to the story of Ljubljana Mayor Ivan Hribar in Villa Zlatica.
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As an introduction to the final weekend of May, which promises warm, almost summery weather, the traditional Library Under the Treetops is once again opening in the garden of Plečnik House. Join us in the shade of Plečnik’s century-old trees ...
Last night, the Jože Plečnik Fund presented the Plečnik Awards 2026 in the garden of Plečnik House, and one of the awards is coming to Plečnik House as well. The Plečnik Medal 2026 for the Enrichment of Spatial Culture was ...
To accompany the exhibition by the acclaimed Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra at the Fotomuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands, a retrospective photomonograph titled Ordinary People was published by Lannoo at the end of 2023. On the occasion of the project’s ...
The City Museum of Ljubljana is joining the Ljubljana Art Weekend festival from 22 to 24 May 2026 with a diverse programme offering insight into the work of the IRWIN art collective. Check out what we have prepared for you!
Over the past few months, architecture students at the prestigious Yale University in the United States have been exploring the work of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana and have created the exhibition Pre–Mo–Po–Mo: Micro-Urbanism in Jože Plečnik’s Ljubljana.
Drawing on research conducted for the major exhibition Slovenian Women Artists 1850–1950, presented at Jakopič Gallery and the City Museum of Ljubljana in 2023/2024, curators Ana Porok and Barbara Savenc have contributed biographical entries on Slovenia’s first women architects ...