This year, the traditional June event Summer Museum Night (SMN/PMN) will take place on Saturday, June 15. It is organized by the Slovenian Museum Association. For 22 years, it has been bringing together many cultural institutions and events throughout Slovenia. The Piran Coastal Galleries will be joining the high-profile evening event initiative again this year.

 

As an accompanying event to the group exhibition For Your Pleasure. Feminist Positions in Visual Art in and from Slovenia in the Piran Civic Gallery, we will organize a conversation with dr. Jasna Podreka, sociologist and assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, who is also a long-time volunteer at the Society SOS Telephone: Telephone line for women and children- victims of violence, where she performs various educational, awareness-raising and research activities. When they turn to her, she also works with victims of violence assisting them with programs and psychosocial support.

The topics explored by Podreka, which are directly related to one of the exhibited works (by Tanja Lazetić) at the For Your Pleasure exhibition, and general processes of discrimination of women in our society, the rise of new misogyny and of new post-patriarchal morality, will be discussed by Mara Ambrožič Verderber, director of Piran Coastal Galleries, and our guest of honor Jasna Podreka. The talk will start at 6 p.m.

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On the Summer Museum Night, visiting the galleries, which will be open until 10 p.m., will be free of charge. In the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran, visitors can see Vasko Vidmar’s exhibition entitled You Are the Forest, and in the Monfort Gallery in Portorose, the recently opened spatial installation by the renowned American artist Brad Downey entitled I Am You, You Are Me. The exhibition by Downey presents artworks by Banksy, Robert Smithson, Dieter Roth, Vladimir Tatlin, Jože Plečnik and Roman Singer. With a sophisticated layout, through artistic appropriations and quotations, he creates a dialogue between different languages of contemporary artists who have marked the history of contemporary art in the last hundred years…

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We will join eventful activities in Koper with an accompanying program of the exhibition Marko Brecelj: The Lodging of the Unreconciled at the Loža Gallery. The multi-layered spatial installation of the rich cultural heritage of Marko Brecelj (museum objects, the expanded cavalry of the Society of Friends of Moderate Progress- DPZN, prints, posters, photographs, comic-walls, chairs, manuscripts, sound mediums, musical instruments, video projections…) represents the life and various activities of the Koper citizen of great renown. The exhibition was prepared by curators Vasja Cenčič, Bine Skrt and Arijana M. Brecelj, who will also provide a special evening program on Summer Museum Night, when the gallery will be open until midnight. The evening program will start at 7 p.m.

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On Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 5 p.m., Piran Coastal Galleries will hand over to the Municipality of Ankaran a sculpture made of Istrian stone, which was sculpted by the Slovenian artist Ištvan Išt Huzjan at last year’s International Symposium of Sculptors Forma Viva Portorose 2023. For its installation, a location on the green in the memorial park next to the main entrance to the city was chosen in dialogue with the organizer, Piran Coastal Galleries, the artist and representatives of the municipality. It is the second sculpture created for the Municipality of Ankaran at the Forma Viva symposium.

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As part of the inter-institutional cooperation of the PCG with the Piran Community of Italians Giuseppe Tartini and the Ljubljana Puppet Theater, a project by the multimedia artist Jaša entitled Rekviem was created. The opening event, a site-specific spatial intervention, exhibition and performance, will take place at the Tartini House in Piran on June 22, 2024. A solo presentation at the Tartini House was awarded to the artist as a special Tartini 2023 Prize, which was awarded by the Community of Italians Giuseppe Tartini Piran as part of the 58th Ex-tempore Piran.

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We also prepared a diverse program for children and families in the month of June. The long-standing collaboration with Little Sailor/ Mornarček Kindergarten in Piran also continues within the framework of UNESCO projects. Children were encouraged to be inspired by this year’s theme With a Fairy Tale Through Time and were creating under the guidance of their teachers while researching the cultural heritage, fairy tales and legends of their hometown. The children’s creations that we presented at the opening with a varied program for the youngest can be seen on the first floor of the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran until Wednesday, June 12 2024.

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On the ground floor of the Herman Pečarič Gallery,  ArtLab Meduza pedagogical workshops continue, based on the content that presents contemporary fine art at various levels and to selected target groups. The pedagogical workshops were designed by PCG curator Ana Papež and will be guided by artist Vasko Vidmar, audiovisual artist Veruš Villangó, painter Gani Llalloshi and visual artist Ištvan Išt Huzjan. The spring andragogic program A Walk Among the Sculptures in the City Center of Piran, created in collaboration with Natalija Planinc, will conclude with the 4th meeting in the Park at the Herman Pečarič Gallery on Thursday, June 13, at 4.30 p.m.

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From June to November 2024, the 10th Triennale of Contemporary Art U3 will take place in the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. The project enables a view of the current situation in contemporary Slovenian art through the subjective view of the selected curator. The curator of this year’s edition is Tevž Logar, who invited the internationally renowned artist Marjetica Potrč to take part in the exhibition. She will participate with the work The Land of Caretakers: A Ballad of Piran (2022), which is in the PCG collection. It was created especially for the exhibition Water and Land (Piran Civic Gallery, December 2022-March 2023) , which was produced by the Piran Coastal Galleries.

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