Šeme Blaž

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Education:

  • 2006: completed post-doctoral research at the New Europe College in Bucharest and ICCROM in Rome, The Problem of Decay of Exterior Wall Paintings on Monuments: Comparative Study of Medieval Painted Churches of Bukovina (Romania) and Slovenia
  • 2005: PhD in Fine Arts / Restoration at UL ALUO with the topic Metoda ugotavljanja ohranjenosti in ogroženosti stenskih poslikav na zunanjščinah v Sloveniji na izbranem segmentu (Method for determining the preservation and endangerment of wall paintings on exteriors in Slovenia in a selected segment)
  • 2003: Master’s degree in restoration at UL ALUO, with the topic Eruptivni pojavi v ometih stenskih slik (Eruptive phenomena in the plastering of wall paintings)
  • 1999: graduated in painting from UL ALUO

 

Professional and collaborations:

  • 2000-2007: assistant at UL ALUO
  • 2007–: higher education teacher, assistant professor at UL ALUO
  • 2007–: research within the Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design
  • 2020–: research within the interdisciplinary interfaculty Institute of the University of Ljubljana for Sustainable Heritage Protection (IULzTDV)
  • 2010-2020: Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Painting Committee at ICOMOS (ISC MP)
  • 2018–: reviewer of the international strategic network CELSA (Centre European Leuven Strategic Alliance)
  • 2010–: member of the SEE Mosaics expert group (Mosaic Conservation and Training of Conservators in south-east Europe)
  • 2006, 2015, 2017 guest lecturer at the universities of Bucharest, Dubrovnik and Udine
  • 1999–2000: conservator-restorer at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, OE Kranj

For more than 20 years, he has led several conservation and restoration projects dealing with wall paintings, mosaics, stone statues and stucco

 

Scientific bibliography (selection 2016-2020):

  • ŠEME, Blaž. Conservation of exterior wall paintings in Slovenia: deficiencies in traditional practice and solutions for more sustainable preservation. Studies in conservation, ISSN 2047-0584. [Web ed.], 2020, ill.
  • ŠEME, Blaž. Ohranjanje in konserviranje-restavriranje modernih in sodobnih stenskih poslikav in mozaikov. (Preservation and conservation-restoration of modern and contemporary wall paintings and mosaics.) V: NEMEČEK, Nataša, (editor). Konservator-restavrator: povzetki mednarodnega strokovnega srečanja 2019 = Summaries of the International Meeting of Conservators-Restorers 2019, (Conservator-restorer, ISSN 1854-5289). Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration: Community of Museums of Slovenia. 2019, p. 54-63, ilustr.
  • ŠMUC, Andrej, DOLENEC, Matej, KIKELJ, Martina L., LUX, Judita, PFLAUM, Miran, ŠEME, Blaž, ŽUPANEK, Bernarda, GALE, Luka, DOLENEC, Sabina. Variety of black and white limestone tesserae used in ancient mosaics in Slovenia. Archaeometry, ISSN 0003-813X. [Printed ed.], 2017, vol. 59, iss. 2, p. 205-221.
  • ŠEME, Blaž, PRISTOV, Tjaša (author, photographer). Conservation of mural paintings in secular buildings in Slovenia. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, ISSN 1392-0316, Pasauiletini pastatu sienu tapyba: aktualios restauravimo teorijos, metodikos ir problemos = Mural painting in secular buildings: relevant theories, methods and problems of restoration / sudarytoja, edited by Dalia Klajumiene. – Vilnius: Vilniaus dailąes academy, 2016, 2016, 82, p. 23-41, ill.

 

References, conservation-restoration of works of art and other projects (selection 2016-2020):

  • Management of the conservation and restoration intervention: modern mosaic in the City Savings Bank of Ljubljana; Presented in: Mozaik v poslovalnici Mestne hranilnice ljubljanske na Čopovi 3 v Ljubljani: poročilo o konservatorsko-restavratorskem posegu (Mosaic in the branch office of the City Savings Bank of Ljubljana at Čopova 3 in Ljubljana: report on the conservation and restoration intervention, Ljubljana 2018), Ljubljana 2018.
  • Interdisciplinary project management Študentska forma viva: študentski inovativni projekti za družbeno korist (ŠIPK) (Student forma viva: student innovative projects for social benefit (ŠIPK), Ljubljana, 2018; Presented in: ŠEME, Blaž (editor.). Student form viva. Proceedings, Ljubljana 2018
  • Conducting conservation and restoration interventions: several fragments of Emona wall paintings, which are kept in the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana; Presented in individual reports on interventions for fragments with working codes MGML1 – MGML8, Ljubljana 2017.
  • Interdisciplinary project management Development, processing and testing of new materials for the production and conservation-restoration of mosaics: Po kreativni poti do znanja (Creative path to knowledge PKPZ); Presented in: VIDRAJZ Mateja, (editor). Development, processing and testing of new materials for the production and conservation-restoration of mosaics: Final report on the achieved goals.
  • Management of the conservation and restoration intervention: a modern wall painting in the corridor of the Secondary Hairdressing School in Ljubljana; Presented in: ZGONIK, Nadja. Restored social realist painting: a necessary marketing of equality. Diary, 10 June 2017; Wall painting “Youth is involved in production” by Maksim Sedej and Dane Pajnič; report on the conservation-restoration intervention, Ljubljana 2017

Vuga Martina

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Education:

  • 2020: Habilitation title of assistant professor of higher education
  • 2005: Master’s degree from UL ALUO
  • 2003: Undergraduate study of restoration at UL ALUO

Work experience and collaborations:

  • 2005–2021 conservator-restorer for sculpture, employed at the National Gallery in Ljubljana; 2015–2021 Head of the Department for Conservation and Restoration at the National Gallery in Ljubljana

Scholarships:

  • 2013 The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings in Dresden, an international training seminar on the structural conservation of table images at the Dresden Institute
  • 2012 International Course on Wood Conservation Technology in Oslo, as part of ICOM

Participation with a contribution to conferences:

  • 2019 – Cleaning, Ethics, Techniques, Aesthetics, Matica Srpska Gallery in Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2017 – RECH 4 in Split, Croatia
  • 2015 – Gilt-en Art in Evora, Portugal

Exhibitions (management and / or co-design):

  • 2019 Secrets of a long life – the path of works of art from the restoration studio to the exhibition, exhibition of the restoration department of the National Gallery, Narodni dom Gallery, National Gallery
  • 2018 Praznujmo skupaj (Let’s celebrate together). 100 years of the National Gallery, photographic exhibition of art details at the Jakopič Promenade, Ljubljana
  • 2010 Pre – med– after (2010), exhibition of the restoration department of the National Gallery, Narodni dom Gallery, National Gallery
  • 2009 Gothic winged altar from Britof near Ukanj (2009), exhibition Gallery Narodni dom, National Gallery

Memberships:

  • 2015– Member of the executive board of the Association of Restorers of Slovenia
  • 2009–2021: Member of the expert council of the National Gallery
  • 2015–2020: leader of the executive organisation of the international professional meeting of conservators and restorers (co-organisers SMS, DRS, NG)

Awards and recognitions:

  • 2018 – recognition for important works of art in the field of restoration of the University of Ljubljana
  • 2010 – recognition of Mirko Šubic of the Association of Restorers of Slovenia for work on the project »Alojz Gangl, sculptor on the way to modernity«

Restored works of art – References (selection):

  • 2021: Project »Frančišek Smerdu (1908-1964), Donation to the National Gallery«, National Gallery, head of conservation and restoration works, conservation-restoration of works of art (2012-2021)
  • 2006-2020: Conservation-restoration project of works of art for occasional exhibitions and the permanent collection of the National Gallery
  • 2009, 2010: Project »Alojz Gangl, sculptor on the way to modernity, Bela krajina Museum Metlika (2009), National Gallery (2010), conservation-restoration of works of art, author of the conservation-restoration part of the exhibition
  • 2007-2008: Castle and manor houses of Snežnik Castle. Project supported by European Regional Development Funds: Art collection of Snežnik Castle (National Museum of Slovenia), management and implementation of conservation and restoration works on the collection of historical decorative frames of art material on paper from the authentic equipment of the castle, for ALUO
  • 2006: “Ivan Napotnik, 1888-1960 from public and private collections”, National Gallery; Velenje Gallery (2006); “Ivan Napotnik, Slovenian Sculptor” (2008) Exhibition Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; head of conservation and restoration works: conservation-restoration of works of art

Selected bibliography:

  •  Vuga Martin, Simon Škorja, The Universe of Cleaning- from theory to practice. V: Cleaning: Ethics, Technique, and Aesthetics: International Conservation Conference, 28-29. October 2019 = Cleaning: Ethics, Techniques and Aesthetics: international conservator conference, October 28-29, 2019.
  • Vuga, Martina. Filling and colour reintegration in a single step, conference paper. V: Postprints RECH 4 Croatia [Electronic resource] (2017).
  • Martina Vuga, Miladi Makuc Semion, Typical conservation problems of polychrome wooden sculptures in Slovenia, V: Conservar Patrimonio ISSN: 2182-9942.- Iss.22 (Dec 2015).
  • VUGA, Martina, MAKUC SEMION, Miladi. Technological aspects of sculptural creation and conservation-restoration of the work of Alojz Gangl. V: Conservator-restorer, abstracts of the professional meeting, Community Museums of Slovenia, 2010.
  • Vuga, Martina. Conservation and restoration of the works of Alojz Gangl. V: BREŠČAK, Mateja, editor (s), GANGL, Alojz. Alojz Gangl – sculptor on his way to modernity: [Bela krajina Museum, Metlika, 8 June 2009 – 3 January 2010, National Gallery, Ljubljana, 2 February 2010 – 16 May 2010]. Ljubljana: National Gallery; Metlika: Bela krajina Museum, 2010

Smole Jurij

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Education:

  • 1995: graduated in Sculpture from UL ALUO, works in stone, bronze and other metals
    1997: Master’s degree in Sculpture 1997 (with prof. France Rotar)

 

Work experience and collaborations:

  • 2009–: lecturer at the Department of Restoration UL ALUO
  • 2009–: tutor of the cross-border project for the preservation of Slovenian land through sculptural work in Jeremitišče and Štandrež
  • 2004–: expert associate: Institute of Metallic Materials and Technologies
  • 2015–: lecturer at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana
  • 2013– further program manager of the Domžale Gallery (program manager, organisation and setting up of exhibitions, art awareness, Galerija na potepu (Gallery on the go) excursions

Education (specialisation):

  • 1995 – 1998: Advanced training at the Brustolin foundry, Verona
    Expert in stone sculpture and precision casting of bronze and precious metals – castings made using the lost wax method

Projects:

  • 2002 – 2020: portraits of famous Slovenes: dr. R. S. Pejovnik, dr. France Bučar, Zofka Kveder, Jaki, dr. Jakob Turk, dr. Anton Debeljak, Drago Košmrlj, dr. Karel Verstovšek, dr. Spektorski, dr. Ivan Žolger, Jakob Aljaž, Claude Galien
  • 2019: Initiator of the project Reforma viva in Kostanjevica na Krki
  • 2020: founder of the Patina Centre (UL ALUO and Livartis)

Membership / Jury:

  • 2015 – 2019: member of the jury for the selection of commemorative coins at the Bank of Slovenia and medallist

Exhibitions (selection):

  • 2021 Monument in Suhorje
  • 2001–2019: author of awards for the International Festival of Creativity Golden Drum
  • 2001–2019: author of awards for the International Mountain Film Festival, Lirikon Festival, Effie Awards
  • 2018 Monument in Krka, Novo mesto
  • 2018 Monument in Solkan
  • 2018 Gallery Domžale
  • 2017 Monument in Jeremitišče
  • 2017 Galerie M, Schloss Portia, Villach
  • 2017 Monument in Štandrež
  • 2016 Dr. Karel Verstovšek, Velenje
  • 2014 Monument in Loški Potok
  • 2008 Velenje Gallery
  • 2007 Domžale Gallery
  • 2005 Grosuplje City of Statues, Grosuplje
  • 2005 Conciliation Chapel, Bizovik near Ljubljana
  • 2001 Kos Gallery, Ljubljana
  • 2001 Tržič Forma Viva, Tržič
  • 2000 Latobia, Ljubljana, Flyers
  • 2000 Corpus del akti, Ljubljana
  • 1999 City Hall, Ljubljana
  • 1999 Ilirija Gallery, Ljubljana
  • 1998 Kos Gallery, Ljubljana
  • 1997 Latobia, Ljubljana
  • 1997 City Hall, Ljubljana
  • 1994 / LRD Domžale

Mentoring and co-mentoring:

  • Mentor for the Faculty Prešeren Award: Zoran Flander
  • Co-mentor for the Faculty Prešeren Award: Angel Oblak, Matevž Barborič

Diploma theses:

  • 1999 Tehnologija keramike (Technology of Ceramics) / Vlasta Čobal; mentors: Jurij Smole, Matjaž Počivavšek
  • 2002 Mozaik (Mosaic) / Taja Lojk; mentor: Jurij Smole, co-author: Matjaž Počivavšek
  • 2008 Wood as a modern sculptural material / Marjeta Medved; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2010 Form and material: Expressiveness in relief: Development and realisation of ideas in different embossed forms and the influence of the use of different materials on the character of the form / Mirjam Semolič Sore; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2010 Various approaches to stone / Marko Zelenko; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2012 Sculpture techniques of aluminium casting, production of a figural statue from aluminium and video / Žiga Vojska; mentor: Jurij Smole, co-author: Bučar Dušan
  • 2012 Effect of stone treatment on its surfaces / Doroteja Erhatič; mentor: Jurij Smole, co-author: Blaž Šeme
  • 2012 Sculpture and technological aspects of the found object / Nina Hrelja; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2013 Technological approach to ceramic, coloured sculpture / Martina Marenčič; mentor Jurij Smole, co-mentor Matjaž Počivavšek
  • 2013 Reconstruction of the presbytery of the parish church of St. James in Ribno near Bled / Saša Stržinar; co-author: Jurij Smole, mentor: Blaž Šeme
  • 2015 Hollowing as a basic principle of sculptural construction / David Herzog Leitinger; mentor Jurij Smole
  • 2015 Restoration of the doors of the Cathedral of St. Nikolaj / Zoran Flander; mentor Jurij Smole, co-mentor Tamara Trček Pečak
  • 2016 The possibilities of sculpture using foamed concrete / Miha Knez; mentor: Jurij Smole
    2016 The process of making coloured statues from laminated polystyrene / Ivana Postić; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2016 Technology of making sculptures using recycled materials / Matej Vočanec; mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2016 Technology as the foundation of expression in art in the case of masks / Maša Pelc; mentor: Jurij Smole
    2016 Replacement of missing handles on a porcelain vase from the National Museum of Slovenia / Barbara Škander; co-mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2016 Selected methods of cleaning stone surfaces / Julija Zupan; mentor: Jurij Smole, co-author: Blaž Šeme
  • 2016 From tender to implementation / Miha Makovec; mentor Jurij Smole
  • 2016 Ethical approach to conservation-restoration of the Tomos Colibri 03 / Angel Oblak moped; mentor: Tamara Trček pečak, co-mentor: Jurij Smole
  • 2016 Cleaning of a bronze sculpture / Maja Cingerle; mentor: Jurij Smole
    Master’s theses:
  • 2008 Applied materials and techniques in contemporary sculpture / Živa Kutnjak; mentor Jurij Smole, co-mentor Alen Ožbolt
  • 2007 Modern practices in sculpture / Josip Barić; mentor Jurij Smole

Co-mentor:

  • 2016 Image and holder / Simon Jugovic Fink; co-mentor: Jurij Smole, mentor: Sergej Kapus

Černelč Robert

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Education:

  • 1995–99 Painting Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
  • 2000–02 Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts.
  • 2001–2004 Master’s degree in film directing from the Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television.

 

Professional experience, areas of work and memberships of expert committees:

  • 2015-: teaches at the UL ALUO – Video, Animation and New Media and the UL AGRFT – Film and Television Directing.
  • 2004 member of the jury, UL AGRFT “Grossman Award” for the best screenplay.
  • 2004-2008 member of the expert jury, Film Fund of the Republic of Slovenia.
  • 2020 member of the expert commission of the Prešeren Fund.
  • 2021 member of the jury at the 24th Slovenian Film Festival, Portorož.
  • Member of the Slovenian Directors’ Association.
  • Areas of work: painting, film directing, video, set design and screenwriting.
  • 2019-: Head of Video, Animation and New Media.
  • 2021-: President of the Board of Directors of UL ALUO

 

References (selection 2017-2022):

  • Ljubljana, Equrna Gallery, Enter the Void, solo exhibition, 2022.
  • Feature film Ptičar (Birder), directing, script and scenography: Robert Černelč, 2021
  • Ljubljana, Bažato Gallery, Prostori na poti (Spaces on the Way), group exhibition, 2022.
  • Ljubljana, Cukrarna, Vračanje pogleda (Returning the Gaze), with Polona Tratnik, Hair in vitro, film, directed by: Robert Černelč, 2022.
  • San Sebastian Film Festival, feature film Inventura, directed by: Darko Sinko, pre-production set design by: Robert Černelč, 2021.
  • Kostanjevica na Krki, Božidar Jakac Gallery, Osamljenosti (Loneliness), 2020
  • Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota Gallery, Percepcija filma (Perception of the film), 2018
  • Brussels, Berlaymont Palace, (org. by the Ministry of Culture), paintings, 2017
  • Ljubljana, City Gallery, Telesnost (Corporeality), Video installation Nosferatu, 2017

 

Awards:

  • Prešeren Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts for painting, Ljubljana, 1999.
  • Sponsor’s Award, 10th ALU Student Colony, Velenje, 1999.
  • Award for a film form shorter than three minutes; videofilm “Abadon” (3 min) – V. Festival of Independent Film and Video of Slovenia, 2000.
  • Award for first place in the category of short fiction, videofilm “Dežanje” (17 min) – V. Festival of Independent Film and Video of Slovenia, 2000.
  • 3rd Prize of the May Salon, Ljubljana, 2000.
  • II. prize, XXXVII. International Ex Tempore Piran, Piran, 2002.
  • Prize for Young Perspective Painters, Izlake Painting Colony, Izlake, 2002.
  • Vesna for debutant of the year, short film “Worms”, Festival of Slovenian Film, Ljubljana, 2004.
  • Best Film Award – 3rd place, film Worms, Zlinsky pes, Zlin Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2005.
  • Vega Award for promising students abroad, Ministry of Education and Science, Ljubljana, 2005.
  • Special Mention of the International Jury, film “Worms”, European Festival of Film Schools Bologna, Italy, 2005.

 

Gumilar Marjan

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Education

Graduated in painting from UL ALUO.

Studied at the College of Physical Education in Ljubljana between 1976 and 1980.

 

Work experience and collaborations

2007–: Employed as a professor of painting and drawing, habilitated in painting at UL ALUO.

1987-2007: Worked as a freelance artist.

During this period, in addition to painting, also worked more intensively on experimental film and video film.

2016-2018: Head of the Department of Painting at UL ALUO

2017-2018: Visiting Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb

 

Important scholarships and residencies:

2004: Study stay in New York with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Soros Open Society Institute.

1993: Study stay in Paris with a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the French Republic.

1991: Study stay in Paris with a scholarship from the Zoran Mušič Prize Fund.

Multiple study stays in Paris.

 

Awards and recognitions

2017: Richard Jakopič Award for painting opus.

2005: recognition of important works of art of the University of Ljubljana.

1993: Rembrandt Sequin Award of the Rembrandt Foundation.

ZDSLU Grand Prize, Majski Salon, 1993 Ljubljana.

1991: Grand Prize for Painting at the XVI. Yugoslav Biennial of Youth in Rijeka.

 

Ehibitions

Selection of solo exhibitions

1987

  1. Bensa, Z. Posega, M. Gumilar, City Gallery of Ljubljana.

1989

Anatomy of Red, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana.

1992

New acquisitions of the Modern Gallery. Lojze Logar, Marjan Gumilar, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana.

1993

Marjan Gumilar, Museum of Recent History, Ljubljana.

Download: Koper, Loza Gallery; Exh. salon Rotovž, Maribor.

1994

Marjan Gumilar, Unconditional Judgment of the View, A + A Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

1995

Marjan Gumilar, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar 1986-1995, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Download:      1996 Lendava Gallery, Lendava.

1997 City Gallery of Ljubljana and Coastal Gallery of Piran.

1997

From the artist’s studio. Marjan Gumilar. Temptation, (European Wild Cats), Moderna galerija Ljubljana. (Presentation of the image in ICMG)

1999

Marjan Gumilar, Horizontal Shifts, Žula Gallery, Maribor.

2000

Marjan Gumilar, Horizontal Shifts, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar.corpus artisti, City Gallery, Piran.

2002

Marjan Gumilar, Dnevnik, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica.

2003

Marjan Gumilar, painter. Roman Makše, sculptor. Arts Place Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Marjan Gumilar, Forum Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.

2004

Marjan Gumilar “O”, Bežigrad Gallery 2, Ljubljana.

Marjan Gumilar, Painting Exhibition, Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki.

2005

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

2006

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings, Galerija Edita Mileta, Maribor.

2009

Macchie, Loza Gallery, Koper.

Download: Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Organisms, Selection of paintings and drawings, 1996-2009, Murska Sobota Gallery.

2010

Trans. Moviments, Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, transfer to the Equrna Gallery in Ljubljana.

2011

From the Riko art collection, Galerija Miklova hiša, Ribnica.

2012

Horizontal shifts, Gallery of the Research Centre ZRC SAZU, Petanjci.

Organisms, selection of paintings and drawings, 1996-2009 Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Zeichnung: raum, Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt.

2013

Photos, pictures and Polaroids, City Gallery of Nova Gorica, with Ana Sluga.

Focus, Božidar Jakac Gallery – former monastery church, Kostanjevica na Krki.

Atopic body, Städtische Galerie, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany.

2014

Atopic body, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

2017

Marjan Gumilar, Paintings.

Zlatni Ajngel Gallery, Varaždin.

2019

Marjan Gumilar, CUTS.

Gallery Academija Moderna, Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Marjan Gumilar, CUTS.

City Gallery, Ljubljana.

 

Selection of group exhibitions

1985

Art of today – II. International exhibition Budapest, FMK Gallery.

1987

Abstract, non-subject directions in fine arts.

Ljubljana, Art exh. R. Jakopič.

1988

Controlled / supervised gesture.n.informel and abstrakt.ekspr., Koprivnica Gallery, Koprivnica.

Download: Ljubljana, Modern Gallery; Maribor, Art Gallery; Reka / Rijeka, Modern Gallery; Sarajevo, Collegium Artisticum; Subotica, Foyer of the National Theatre.

1989

Translimina, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

Download: Klagenfurt, Kuenstlerhaus Klagenfurt.

Gradišče ob soči / Gradisca d’is, Gal.reg.d’arte cont.l.spazzapa.

Kunst-zum beispiel…Slowenien/umetnost-na primer.Slovenia, Galerie an der Stadtmauer, Villach.

Download: City Gallery, Ljubljana.

Experience of the subject. Young Slovenian artists, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

1990 transfer to the Piran City Gallery.

Pannonia 89, Cc Miško Kranjec Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Download: Eisenstadt, Land. Gall. at Esterhazy Castle; Szombathely, Szombathelyi keptar.

1990

25th Zagreb Salon of Fine Arts, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia.

Contemporary Slovenian and Croatian drawing, Rotovž Exhibition Hall, Maribor.

1991 transfer to Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

Download: Rijeka, Modern Gallery; Zagreb, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

Subject experience, Young Slovenian artists, Piran City Gallery, Piran.

3rd Celje International Painting Weeks, Art Salon, Celje.

1991

24th Herceg Novi Winter Art Salon, Josip-Bepo Benković Gallery, Herceg Novi.

From the edge of the area of Slovenian art 1985-1990, Maribor Art Gallery.

13th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Drawing, Graphic Cabinet JAZU, Zagreb, Croatia.

16th Youth Biennale, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.

Young Slovenian Artists, Maison de l’Europe de Paris, Paris, France.

Coloured card, Free shipping plastic centre, Udine.

Young Slovenian Artists, Ljubljana Gallery, Ljubljana.

1992

Selection from the Ribnica Art Collection, Modern Gallery Ljubljana.

Selection from the Ribnica Art Collection, Piran City Gallery. Selection from the exhibition at the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana.

Pannonia ’92, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Salon des 4.z’arts, Lons-le-saunier.

1993

Didactic collection-oil, ZDSLU Gallery, Ljubljana.

Majski salon 93, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana.

Slovenian contemporary art – a fragmentary view, Stockholm, Palace of Artists. Transfer to Geneva / United Nations Palace Gallery, 1994; to Rome, 1995. Download: Helsingborg, Galleri Gamla Stan.

1 art colony Rembrant, Radenska Gallery, Radenci.

1994

Von uns aus…neue kunst aus slowenien, Universitaetsmuseum, Marburg.

Transfer to Bonn, Brussels, Goettingen (1995), to Hanau (1996). Download: Wiesbaden, Umgang des Hessischen Landtags.

U3, 1st Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana.

 

Association of Fine Artists of Prekmurje and Prlekija 1994.

Murska Sobota, Murska Sobota Gallery.

Download: Ljubljana, Museum of Recent History, ZDSLU Gallery; Maribor, Gallery Dlum Slovenian contemporary art – a fragmentary view.

Geneva, Palace of the United Nations. Transfer from Stockholm / Palace of

artists, Helsingborg / Old Town Gallery, 1993; transfer to Rome, 1995.

The exhibition supposedly also visited Liechtenstein and Denmark.

U3,1.triennial of contemporary Slovenian art.

Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

1995

Von uns aus…neue kunst aus slowenien.

Bonn, various exhibition centres. Bonn, exhibitions at the Gaestehaus der

Landesvertretung Hessen, and in Brussels in the Informationsbuero des Landes

Hesse. Transfer from Marburg and Wiesbaden (1994), transfer to Hanau (1996).

Download: Brussels, various exhibitions; Goettingen, Altes Rathaus.

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris.

MGL Permanent Collection. original works on paper by selected authors, City Gallery, Ljubljana.

1996

2nd Vienna Painting Symposium (Prekmurje painters), Slovenian Cultural Centre Korotan, Vienna, Austria.

Real Presences, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Majski salon 96, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana.

Von uns aus neue kunst aus Slowenien, Stadhale Hanau, Hanau- transfer from Marburg, Wiesbaden (1994), Bonn, Brussels and Goettingen (1995).

Prekmurje people in Vienna, Slovenian Cultural Centre Korotan, Vienna.

Download: Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris, selector Patrick- Gilles Persin.

1997

Salon grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris, France.

Download: Luxembourg, Galerie d’Art Contemporaine

The Sublime and Romanticism in Contemporary Slovenian Painting.

Koper, Loza and Meduza Galleries. Lozs gal.: Šalamun, Oblak, Simčič, Sever, Kobal, Kirbiš, Gorenec, Meduza: Žido, Červek, Prančič, Fišer, Skrinar

Celje International Painting Weeks 1988-1997, Keleia Gallery, Celje

1998

A + A 1992-1997, Madrid, Circulo de bellas artes. A selection of works from the exhibition program of the M + M Gallery in Madrid. Download: Venice, Galleria A + A.

Pais Gallery, Osaka

EXPO ’98, Lisbon

Regards, Tours, St. Etienne. Download: Brussels, Centre for Contemporary Art; Koper, Loza Gallery

Ten years later, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota, broadcast: Lendava Gallery, City Gallery Ljubljana, Loža Koper Gallery, Maribor Art Gallery

1999

Factor banka art collection for 1999, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana

Art in Slovenia 1976-1999, Piran, City Gallery. The exhibition was also held in the Praetorian Palace and in the Loza and Meduza galleries in Koper.

2000

May Salon 2000, Prvinski d-o-t-i-k, Jakopič Gallery, Ljubljana

The Sublime and Romanticism in Contemporary Slovenian Painting, Loza and Meduza Gallery, Koper (download: City Gallery, Ljubljana)

2001

Factor banka Art Collection, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

The eye and its truth. Spectacle and reality in Slovenian …, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

2002

A look at painting during the transition from the 80’s to the 90’s, Ribnica na dolenjskem, Miklova hiša Gallery.

Black and White, Žula Gallery, Ljubljana.

A look at painting during the transition from the 80s to the 90s, Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica.

Žula Gallery Collection, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor.

Slovenian art in the office of Commissioner Verheugen, Brussels. In the office of Commissioner Guenter Verheugen in the European Parliament. Selected by Mr. Verheugen, in collaboration with the Equrna Gallery.

2004

Abstract painting from Mušič to Rimele, Loža Gallery, Koper.

Painting Policies, City Gallery, Piran.

Selection of works from the Riko Ribnica collection, Miklova hiša Gallery, Ribnica.

Experience of the Landscape in the Painting of Pomurje Artists, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

Ten years later, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade.

Painting, gesture and materials, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka.

2005

Painting Policies, Piran, City Gallery. Download: Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, Lyon, Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Slovenian Art 85 – 95, Ljubljana, Modern Gallery.

2006

Figure at the beginning of the century, Exhibition of the Slovenian Society of Art Critics, Velenje, Gallery.

7th Slovenian Biennial of the City of Kranj, Prešeren House Gallery, Kranj.

2008

Fragments – (selection of works by Slovenian artists from the collections of MMSU, Mali salon, Rijeka.

Exhibition of works by members of the Association of Fine Artists of Prekmurje and Prlekija, Cultural Centre, Budapest.

2009

Drawing in Slovenian II, Ljubljana, City Gallery.

A selection of works from the Riko collection.

Piran, City Gallery.

Drawing in Slovenia I, Ljubljana, City Gallery.

Zeichnung: raum, Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt.

Inter-acts, Professors and their selected students of the second year of ALUO master’s study

Ribnica, Miklova hiša.

2010

Selection of paintings 2010

Ljubljana, Equrna Gallery.

2011

A circle in the image, Ljubljana, Bežigrad Gallery.

Installation, Ljubljana, Isis Gallery.

New Works, Ljubljana, Equrna Gallery (Arne and Tomaž Brejc).

2012

Coincidences II, Murska Sobota Gallery, Murska Sobota.

2013

Buena Onda / Hommage a Damjan Cavazza, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana.

Exhibition, 50 Years of the City Gallery, Ljubljana.

Cultureshutdown, Public Call- Day of museum solidarity.

2014

The Magic of Art: Protagonists of Slovenian Contemporary Art 1968-2013, Villa Manin, Passariano- Codroipo.

Body Images, Expressive Figural Art in Slovene and Austrian Art, Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts – Werner Berg Museum.

60! Panorama, exhibition of the UGM collection at 60. Years, Maribor.

2015

The Magic of Art… ..Kunstlerhaus, WIEN….

2016

Flat and Distant, China and Slovenia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing.

2017

Night of Short Films, M. Gumilar, View 2002, Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana.

2020

Loneliness. The Expression of Anxiety in “Prekmurian” Fine Art, Božidar Jakac Art Museum, Kostanjevica na Krki, Pilon Gallery, Ajdovščina.

Kuhar Rok

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1966 se rodi v Ljubljani.
1995 diplomira na Fakulteti za Arhitekturo v Ljubljani.
1996 zaključi podiplomski študij industrijskega designa na Domus Academy v Milanu, mentor Alberto Meda.
1997 začne samostojno pot na področju industrijskega oblikovanja.
Od 2005 skupaj s partnerko vodi biro Raketa.
Od 2017 zaposlen na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje v Ljubljani.

Frlic Metod

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Education:

  • 1988: graduated in sculpture under prof. Luj Vodopivec at UL ALUO special school at UL ALUO (Luj Vodopivec)
  • 1996: Master’s degree from the same professor at UL ALUO

 

Awards (selection):

2017

  • First prize in the Dr. France Bučar portrait competition, Ljubljana

2009

  • First prize in the Stane Kavčič portrait competition, Ljubljana

2008

  • “EXCELLENCE AWARD”, 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Design Contest, Beijing, China
  • Mayor’s Award 2008, Ljubljana

2007

  • ZDSLU Award for 2007, Ljubljana;
  • May Salon Award, Ljubljana

2002

  • First prize for the installation of a statue in TR3, Trzin

2000

  • Artist in Residence Sapporo (scholarship), Sapporo, Japan

1997

  • Grand Prix at the 3rd Biennial of Kranj, Kranj

1995

  • Atelierhaus Worpswede, DAAD (scholarship), Germany

1993

  • May Salon Award, Ljubljana

Public layouts (selection):

2020

  • Portrait of doctor Marija Bračko, Škofja Loka
  • Portrait of Janez Stanovnik, Ljubljana

2019

  • Portrait of conductor Anton Nanut, Kanal ob Soči

2018

  • Portrait of biologist and nature conservationist Fran Jesenko, Škofja Loka

2017

  • Portrait of Dr. FRANCE BUČAR, Ljubljana
  • Portrait of Dr. IVAN TAVČAR, Tomb at Visoko in the Poljanska Valley
  • The sad part of the rosary, spatial layout, New Chapel, Poljane above Škofja Loka
  • Vatican, Portrait of Pope Francis, Vatican Museum

2016

  • SOKOL statue at Sokolski dom, Gorenja vas
  • Portrait of dentist Dr. JOŽE RANT, Škofja Loka

2015

  • Portrait of businessman VINKO STANONIK, Poljane above Škofja Loka
  • Portrait of Bishop ANDREJ KARLIN, Stara Loka

2013

  • Fountain “THOUGHTS OF THE HEART”, Vrsar (primary school atrium)

2011

  • Statue “KISS”, Gornja Radgona (city park)

2010

  • WELL OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF “MURENČKI” (crickets), Gorenja vas

2008

  • Fountain “SPRING”, Trzin

2006

  • MEMORIAL TO DUKE KOCELJ, Zalavar, Hungary
  • Portrait of soldier ANTON HAFNER, Škofja Loka

2005

  • UNTITLED 2033, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Portrait of ANTON AŽBE, Škofja Loka
  • TWO 2021, Forma viva Portorož, Portorož (Park sonce Lucija)
  • HIS DEPTH 2077, Kranjska Gora

2004

  • SOFTNESS OF THE SOLID, Caorle, Italy

2003

  • DREAMS IMMERSE IN A PIECE OF THE MORNING, Changchun, China

2002

  • VISION OF CLASS VI, Lendava
  • WAITING, Plemenitaš, Croatia

2001

  • PARTIAL VIEW, Tržič

1999

  • SOLAR ECLIPSE, Szentgotthard, Hungary
  • BIRTH OF VERSE, Ios, Greece

1994

  • Portrait of composer ANTON JOBST, Žiri

1990

  • CROSS, Kočevski Rog

1989

  • COITUS fountain, Trzin

Sedlaček Sašo

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Associate Professor Sašo Sedlaček is a new media and conceptual artist with a wide range of media interests, research and discovery in areas where science, society and art intertwine. He is an engaged artist who exhibits his works all over the world and is the recipient of various domestic and foreign awards.

 

Awards:

  • TREND Award, Awarded Surpluses of Visual Creativity, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012
  • Siement Art Lab Award, Vienna, Austria, 2009
  • VIDA 11 Award, Fundación Telefónica Award, Madrid, Spain, 2008
  • SPAPORT Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, BiH, 2008
  • YVAA-Youth visual artist award / OHO Award for Young Visual Artists from Eastern Europe, Foundation for Civil Society in Trust, Slovenia / USA, 2006

Černe Oven Petra

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Petra Černe Oven is a designer, teacher, theoretician and author with a special interest in typography, information design and visual communications design.
Černe Oven received a Typographic Excellence Award from the Type Directors Club of New York, was the recipient of the Most Beautiful Slovene Book award (2011, 2017, 2018) and many other awards. She won the contest for designing the visual identity for the UNESCO event Ljubljana – World Book Capital 2010. She also won several awards for the best-designed Slovenian book (2011, 2017, 2018) and Slovene Designer’s Association awards.

Černe Oven completed her PhD at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK) in the area of history, typography and language. She became research fellow and worked with professor Paul Stiff on the project “The Optimism of Modernity: Recovering Modern Reasoning in Typography”, for which, among other things, she curated an exhibition on the British artist and typographer Edward Wright and edited the companion book Edward Wright: Readings, Writings (Hyphen Press, 2007).

In 2009, she developed the concept for the international lecture series “Information Design 2009/2010”, which was organized in collaboration with the Slovene Museum of Architecture and Design and the Pekinpah Association. In 2011, she collaborated on an extensive research project on the Slovene designer Miljenko Licul, which culminated in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana, for which she edited the accompanying book on the designer.

Since 2010, Černe Oven has teamed up with her colleague, Barbara Predan, to edit the collection entitled 42 (published by the Pekinpah Association), which publishes books on the subject of design theory. Up until now, 20 books have been published in the series. The books are always part of larger projects, seminars, workshops, and exhibitions. In 2012, she and Barbara Predan developed the project “Designing an Agenda, or, How to Avoid Solving Problems That Aren’t” (Pekinpah Association and the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region), which looked at the fields of service and information design in both theoretical and practical terms. In 2013 they published a scholarly monograph under the same title. In 2014, Černe Oven and Predan were invited to contribute a text to the Information design: research and practice (Routledge 2017). In the same year they finished a project Death in Design (various workshops in 4 countries, book, exhibition) which examines the advantages and disadvantages of a world without death, and offers pointers on how to detect, depict, explain, kill, and survive death.

Černe Oven has also published professional and scholarly articles in Eye magazine, Typography Papers, Baseline, 2+3D, Emzin, Typomag, Hyphen, Oris, Likovne besede and other magazines and academic journals.

Černe Oven is a founding member and a member of the supervisory board of The Brumen Foundation, head of the section for information design of the Pekinpah Association, and co-founder of Institute of Design, a scientific research organization. She is the Slovenian representative and a board member at worldwide Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).

Černe Oven is a member of several boards of international conferences (International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication, Cyprus, Greece; CIDI: Information Design International Conference, Brazil; Information+ conference, Vancouver, Berlin; ATypI, Antwerpen, Tokio) and regular peer reviewer for scholarly journals (Information Design Journal, Design Principles and Practices Research Network, AR Journal). In 2021 she was a member of the European Design Awards jury.

Under the auspices of various institutions and events in Slovenia, Černe Oven and Predan have hosted over thirty world-renowned experts in the field of design. Černe Oven regularly lectures at symposia and academic conferences at home and abroad. She teaches a course in the history and theory of design at the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana and serves as a Vice-Dean for International Cooperation.

 

Website: linkedin.com/in/petracerneoven

Bibliography: on request

Močnik Ramovš Lucija

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Assoc. Prof. Lucija Močnik Ramovš (MA), is professionally engaged in the conservation and restoration of paintings on canvas, with an emphasis on structural interventions and aesthetic presentation. She is a lecturer in the field of conservation-restoration of paintings at the first and second level of the university study program.  

Education:

  • 1999: completed her studies in restoration with Professor France Kokalj.
  • 1996: graduated from UL ALUO with Professor Andrej Jemac.

 

Scholarships:

She continued her studies at home and abroad.  

Work experience and collaborations:

  • 1999 – lecturer at UL ALUO, associate professor since 2013.
  • 2023-2025 Head of Department for Restoration UL ALUO
  • 2017–2021: Dean of UL ALUO.
  • 2013–2017: Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs.

In addition to her professional work, she is also involved in numerous working groups at the University of Ljubljana. She cooperates professionally with many national institutions in the field of cultural heritage protection.

  • 2020–: Chair of the Expert Commission for Immovable Cultural Heritage.
  • 2013 – 2018: President of the ZVKDS working group for professional exams in the field of conservation-restoration and rapporteur for the Ministry of Culture and a member or examiner of the examination group for the conservation-restoration subfield of fine art heritage – easel painting at the Ministry of Culture.

She organised and conducted several professional training seminars in collaboration with the ZVKDS Restoration Centre with the aim of educating and improving conservators-restorers.

Awards and recognitions:

  • 2008: Mirko Šubic Award for professional work – organising, leading and working on the conservation and restoration of the art material of Snežnik Castle.

 

References – restored works of art (selection):

  • Conducting conservation and restoration interventions on two dioramas at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia in 2018 and 2019.
  • Conservation and restoration works on paintings from the gallery collection of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the National Gallery and the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.
  • Management and conservation-restoration of baroque paintings from the cycle Four Seasons (Allegory of Winter, Summer and Autumn) from the collection of ZRC SAZU, 2014-2017.
  • Conservation-restoration of paintings and management of works on 11 paintings from the art collection of Strmol Castle, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, 2012.
  • Conservation-restoration of paintings for the project The Fading of a Period, An Outline of Late Baroque Painting in Carniola (author: Ferdinand Šerbelj). Exhibition: National Gallery, Ljubljana, 2011
  • Conducting conservation and restoration work on the interior of the Ortnek chapel, permanent installation of side altars in the National Gallery, 1999 to 2002.

 

Bibliography (selection):

  • From gluing to minimal interventions. V: NEMEČEK, Nataša, (editor). Conservator-restorer: (20 years): summaries of the 2020 international expert meeting: National Gallery, 2020. Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration: Community of Museums of Slovenia, 2020. p. 62-68.
  • Aesthetic presentation of images – two steps forward, one back. V: NEMEČEK, Nataša, (editor).  Conservator-restorer: summaries of the international professional meeting 2018, National Gallery, 2018 Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Conservation-Restoration: Community of Museums of Slovenia, p. 24-27.
  • MOČNIK RAMOVŠ, Lucija, GOSAR HIRCI, Barbka. 2016. Use of retouching colours based on resin binders: from theory into practice. V: RECH 3: Postprints 2015. Porto: Escola artística e profissional Árvore (43-52).