In March, the Piran Coastal Galleries announced the third Open Doors public call online and on social media networks. In the desire for as much diversity and inclusivity as possible, the main purpose of the PCG’s call remains to encourage new artistic productions and alternative contemporary projects in the field of visual art of the coastal area in a constructive and democratic way, and to enable their presentation in the Public Institution of the Piran Coastal Galleries. This year, the public call will be closed on April 8, 2024. The applications received will be reviewed by the PCG’s professional committee, which will make a final selection and explain it in writing, in accordance with the objectives of the public call and regulations in force in the field of culture in the Republic of Slovenia. We will organize an independent presentation of the selected author or collective within the 2024 public gallery service programme. The selected project will be assigned the most suitable PCG exhibition space and the date of the exhibition will be determined. More information on the link…
The two artists who were selected at last year’s Open Doors project, are currently presenting themselves in the PCG. Until 5.5.2024, the Loža Gallery in Koper hosts an interesting spatial installation of a young artist Nežka Zamar, entitled (Un)trusted Source: A Series of Invisible Practices. It is the artist’s first exhibition in the PCG, which was created after intensive research and the search for various interpretations of one’s own responses to contemporary events, self-questioning and pushing the boundaries of identity and individuality. More information on the link…
The second selected author is Hannes Zebedin, an Austrian academic sculptor living and working in the Karst region of Slovenia. He convinced the jury of experts with an engaged art project called Ceasefire, with which he critically responds to the current troubling effects of climate change. This time, his installation is related to the catastrophic fire that ravaged the Karst region and other parts of the Primorska region in the summer of 2022. The exhibition is on display until 5.4.2024 at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran. More information on the link…
The cooperation of the Piran Coastal Galleries with similar Slovenian and foreign institutions continues. The retrospective exhibition of an exceedingly versatile coastal artist Aleš Sedmak, albeit on a slightly reduced scale, is moving to the Art Salon of the Kočevje Regional Museum. From March 29 to June 1, 2024, a selection of artworks that were exhibited at the Piran Civic Gallery and natural history illustrations presented at the Meduza Gallery in Koper will be on display there. More information at the link…
In the month of March, in the new semester, cooperation with the students of the Department of Visual Arts and Design programme of the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska (VUO PEF) continues. The Piran Coastal Galleries actively joined the Meduza Gallery – Urban Laboratory (for the Future) project, which was designed by Assoc. dr. Boštjan Bugarič. Under his mentorship, the gallery space will come alive with public workshops, student exhibitions, talks, film screenings and other events on the theme of responsibility in the transformation of community space. The important connection between the two institutions opens up the field of artistic activity and research between the external and internal spaces of the city and the individual who lives and works therein permanently or temporarily. More information about the project will follow in the next month’s list of PCG events.
You are cordially invited to all of our events!