Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection / exhibition opening
Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
UGM, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
opening: Friday, 2 February 2024, 19:00
You are cordially invited to the opening of the new hanging of the UGM Collection on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of UGM │ Maribor Art Gallery. The exhibition was created by the designer David Tavčar.
Spouse of the President of the Republic of Slovenia dr. Aleš Musar and Saša Arsenovič, the Mayor of the Municipality of Maribor will address the audience.
Just like a work of art is a composition of multiple elements niftily combined and confronted in harmonies that their authors concocted implementing their skills and tools, so an exhibition is an art form in and of itself, and its design is subject to principles not unlike those that shape an artwork – where works of art are the constituent elements of the conglomerate of the whole. The new major exhibition at the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery opens up a spectrum of views, positions, and forms, both within the artworks from the UGM Collection and in the art of exhibition-making as such.
Since its establishment in 1954, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery had been synonymous with the palace at Strossmayerjeva ulica, a great house, however not spacious enough to simultaneously accommodate both a permanent hanging of the collection and large temporary exhibitions. For a number of years, we have tackled this challenge by setting up temporary exhibitions of the UGM Collection in ever new constellations of works and in varying manners of display, so as to offer a new perspective on our collection and the history of 20th-century art in the city, region, and Slovenia.