CONTEMPORARY ART DAY 2023: The Future of Museums and Art Depots |
Piran Civic Gallery, Tartini Square 3, Piran
Thursday, 12.10. 2023 |
At 3:00 pm: guided tour of the exhibition (Everything Is) Not What It Seems |
At 4:00 pm: presentation The Impacts of New Technologies on Contemporaneity |
At 5:00 pm: round table The Future of Museums and Art Depots



Photo: Jadran Rusjan
The Day of Contemporary Art 2023 (La Giornata del Contemporaneo) is organized by the Italian association AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums) with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the Ministry of Culture and will, for the nineteenth time, take place in Italy this year on Saturday, October 7, 2023. It includes museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and art spaces across the country.
Thanks to the support of the Italian diplomatic and consular network, the event will be spread abroad from 7 October to 13 October 2023, and will also include Slovenia. The organizers – the Embassy of Italy in Ljubljana, the Consulate General of Italy in Koper and the Italian Cultural Institute in Ljubljana – invited the Piran Coastal Galleries to collaborate in the event. The Piran Coastal Galleries proposed to organise a professional encounter that reflects the ways in which the future of contemporary art museums is projected through open deposits, which become places where artistic heritage could also be seen as one of the raw materials of new sustainable ecologies. The joint event will take place on Thursday, 12 October 2023, at the Piran Civic Gallery.
At 3:00 p.m., there will be a talk, presentation and guided tour of the exhibition (Everything Is) Not What It Seems. At 4:00 p.m., it will be followed by a presentation of the work of Tiara Stergulc, a young graduate of IED in Milan, who investigates the effects of new technologies on contemporary works of art.
At 5:00 p.m., the program of presentations will continue with the round table on the topic of good museum practices in the Alpe-Adria region, entitled The Future of Museums and Art Depots. Prominent local and national art experts will participate, including Mara Ambrožič Verderber, director of the Piran Coastal Galleries, Simona Vidmar, director of the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM), Arijana Furlan Prijon, architect, Arhitektke Prijon – Ljubljana, Miran Mohar, artist and professor at the AVA Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana, and the guests of honour of Contemporary Art Day, Lorenzo Respi, Director of Exhibitions and Collections of the Modena Arti Visive Foundation and Francesca Zanella, expert of contemporary archives and projects for the digitization of cultural heritage, associate professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The Ambassador of Italy to Ljubljana, Carlo Campanile and the Consul General of Italy in Koper, Giovanni Coviello, will be present at the event at the Galleria Civica in Piran.
For a long time already, the discussion about museum depots no longer belongs solely to the field of museum conservation theory, but has, especially in the last decade, appeared as a primary and fundamental social need. In the discussion dedicated to the Day of Contemporary Art, the guests will present their museum and gallery activities aimed at the valorization of cultural heritage, in which the museum of contemporary art plays a promotional role in establishing a dialogue with the local and wider community. Open depots or otherwise accessible heritage are key factors for the bright future of museums in the 21st century. Not only in successful cases in Northern Europe, but also in the wider Alpe Adria region, to which we belong. Public collections and other art funds must therefore become permanently accessible and useful. Only in this way can cultural institutions be transformed into dynamic centers of various events and gatherings.



Photo: Matic Bukovac