IRWIN: PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK |
curated by: Hana Čeferin,
coordination: Tina Jazbec |
Piran Civic Gallery, Tartinijev trg 3, Piran, 6.11.2026-11.4.2027 |
Opening: Friday 6. 11. 2026 at 6 p.m. |
In collaboration with: MGML – Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, City Museum of Ljubljana and Projekt Atol Institute.
IRWIN
The Sower, 2025
Pigment print, 72 x 91 cm
Photograph: Jaka Babnik
Courtesy of Gregor Podnar Gallery.
The exhibition IRWIN: Photographic Work, presents a selection of 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. With it, Slovenian art collective IRWIN shines a spotlight on photography as one of the core, although perhaps less emphasised, aspects of their work.
The exhibition, which was on view at the City Museum of Ljubljana from May to September 2026, reveals how the IRWIN group uses photography as a means of documentation, transformation and conceptual reflection, and places the displayed images in their symbolic and political contexts. At a time of rising nationalism and distorted historical narratives, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the images – and perhaps on photographic images in general – as domains in which meaning is arbitrarily redistributed and rewritten and the politics of representation are constantly being reinvented. The project is a visiting exhibition organised through collaboration between Piran Coastal Galleries and MGML – Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana as part of the 2027 programme, in partnership with the Projekt Atol Institute. A survey catalogue has also been published to accompany the exhibition and will be presented as part of the winter programme of accompanying events. The curator of the exhibition, which will open on Friday, 6 November 2026, at 6 p.m., is Hana Čeferin. It will be on view at the Piran Civic Gallery until 11 April 2027.
