SPRINGTIME ACTIVITIES IN THE PIRAN COASTAL GALLERIES
The month of April in the Piran Coastal Galleries (PCG) is marked by significant promotional activities, inter-institutional collaborations and the rearrangement of exhibition spaces for upcoming high-profile projects and exhibitions, which will take place later on in the month of May.The introduction into the program year began with the regular cleaning of stone sculptures on the roadside lawn of Marina Portorose. In 1987, they were created by a group of internationally renowned sculptors as part of the International Symposium of Sculptors FORMA VIVA PORTOROSE. More at the link…
PIRAN CIVIC GALLERY AND HERMAN PEČARIČ GALLERY, PIRAN
Even in the PCG’s central exhibition space, Piran Civic Gallery, the arranging and cleaning of the gallery spaces for a large group exhibition in May will take place until Monday, April 22, 2024. The day after that, on April 23, 2024, and up to and including May 5, 2024, a special pedagogic-andragogic project, ArtLab Meduza, Creative Corner, intended for children, families and the general public, will take place in the gallery.
During the May Day holidays, ArtLab Meduza will be open to citizens of Piran and other visitors as a place for active co-creating and socializing. The diverse content of the ArtLab project program will be continued in the coming months on the ground floor of the Herman Pečarič Gallery. For this purpose, the gallery space will be temporarily transformed into a real creative laboratory, in which participants thirsty for artistic knowledge will be guided by various artists: Veruš Villangó, Gani Llalloshi, Francesco Zardini, Ištvan Išt Huzjan and Vasko Vidmar. The personal exhibition of the latter artist, who lives in Piran, can be seen in the Herman Pečarič Gallery from April 26 to July 28, 2024. The author Vasko Vidmar, who is considered an artist of great versatility in the local environment, reflects on the ecological utopias of modern society with an exhibition invitingly entitled You Are the Forest. More at the link….
On Friday, May 17, 2024, in the Piran Civic Gallery, we will present to the public a selection of works from the large thematic exhibition For Your Pleasure, Feminist Positions in Visual Art in and From Slovenia. We will present a selection of works as part of an important inter-institutional cooperation with the central national institution for modern and contemporary art, the Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana. Due to the expressed interest in the discussed topic, which the Piran Coastal Galleries have detected in the area of operation of the institute, in Slovenian Istria and the cross-border Italian and Croatian area, we will, in the presence of the curator and the acting director of the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Martina Vovk and the other authors of the project, host the opening of the exhibition on Friday, May 17, 2024 at 6 p.m. (on view until August 18, 2024). The press conference is scheduled for the day of the opening, at 12 noon. More at the link….
MONFORT GALLERY, PORTOROSE
In two sections of the former Monfort salt storage warehouse in Portorose, from 9 to 11 May 2024, preparations will take place for the staging of the theater play LEVITAN, produced by APT from Novo Mesto, based on the eponymous book by the Slovenian writer Vitomil Zupan. The project, which is being created in collaboration between the Piran Coastal Galleries, Koper Theatre, APT and Auditorium Portorose, under the masterful directing of Matjaž Berger, will attract more than a hundred visitors to the Monfort complex over the first weekend of May. Tickets will be on sale from the beginning of May. More about the contents at this link….
The spring and summer exhibition season at this most visited PCG exhibition space will begin with the opening (May 23, 2024) of a solo exhibition by the well-known American artist, political activist and filmmaker BRAD DOWNEY. More at the link…
LOŽA GALLERY, KOPER
Marko Brecelj (1951─2022) was a poet, singer-songwriter, musician, youth and social worker and a pioneer of Slovenian performance art. He was the founder of soft terrorism as a genre of artistic activism, living his personal art form without distinction, both privately and publicly. In the past 50 years, he strongly marked the cultural space of the former Yugoslavia, as his cult personality steadily changed opinion patterns even beyond the borders of the Slovenian Republic. In the Loža Gallery in Koper, we will open an exhibition dedicated to his formidable personality, his work and life at the end of May.
MEDUZA GALLERY, KOPER
Meduza Gallery, located on one of the liveliest streets in the centre of the city of Koper, has been an important centre of artistic events, a meeting point of ideas and fresh initiatives for more than 50 years. We are pleased to announce that the Municipality of Koper supported the PCG initiatives for another imperative renovation of this exhibition space, which was partially renovated in 2002. The renovation of electrical installations, including lighting, which has already begun, is expected to last until June of this year. During this time, the exhibition space will be closed for visitors.
OTHER PROJECTS AND EVENTS
PROMOTIONAL PROJECT: TARTINI 330 SOUND EXPERIENCE
At the press conference, on Wednesday, 10 April 2024, at 10 am at the premises of Vinakoper on Šmarska cesta 1 in Koper, we will present a breakthrough creative project entitled Tartini 330: Sound Experience by Sara. The product, the musical wine Re Maggiore, is the result of close cooperation between the PCG and Vinakoper, with the support of the Municipality of Piran. After the presentation, the invited guests will also be able to visit the Vinakoper wine cellar in the company of the author and the chief oenologist. In the week between 8.4.2024 and 12.4.2024, various activities will take place in Casa Tartini in Piran, marking the anniversary of the birth of the maestro of nations and the composer from Piran. More at the link…
MAY SALON 2024
As part of the MAY SALON 2024, the oldest Slovenian exhibition of works of art, which this year occupies exhibition panels on the Jakopič Promenade in Ljubljana’s Tivoli Park, the PCG participated in curating the exhibition (a member of the team of curators was Dr. Majda Božeglav Japelj, Museum Councillor at the PCG) and providing a photo of the painting by the coastal artist Zvest Apollonio, which is kept in their collections. On display until 19.4.2024. More at the link…
