EX-TEMPORE PIRAN 2022 has been successfully concluded. It received a very good response from the participants and many Slovene and foreign visitors. This year, 194 artists from different countries participated and competed for prizes at this traditional high-profile competitive event. The prizes were awarded at the closing ceremony. In addition to various redemption rewards and hotel prizes and the Tartini 330 prize, important prizes were also awarded by the Coastal Galleries of Piran.
Among these Grand Prix particularly stands out. This year, it was awarded to the promising high school student MATIC MOŠKON from Ljubljana. The special prize Cesare Dell’Acqua (with the support of the Municipality of Koper) went to MLADEN STROPNIK, while the Young Author Prize went to BLAŽKA KRIŽAN. The closing ceremony turned into a pleasant evening accompanied by the sounds of the band XJAZZ and its singer Aleksandra Čermelj. The selected and awarded works are on display in the Piran City Gallery and the Monfort Gallery in Portorož until Sunday, October 2, 2022. More information on the link….
Before announcing new events, we are happy to inform you that the exhibition (EVERYTHING IS) NOT AS IT SEEMS, an international project of the Piran Coastal Galleries, produced by the Center for Contemporary Art – NITJA from Lillestrøm (Norway), was a great success and had an astounding resonance in the media. You can watch an extended professional journalist report prepared by RTV Slovenia as part of the Osmi dan show. More information on the link….
The exhibition was conceived, developed and designed by Mara Ambrožič Verderber, director of the Piran Coastal Galleries, who was constantly present during the installation, at the opening and other media and promotional events for professional and wider public audiences. The participation was marked by numerous well-known names from cultural and diplomatic circles in Norway. Some participating artists were also present, namely Meta Grgurevič (Slovenia), Anawana Haloba (Zambia/Norway), Corinne Mazzoli (Italy), Ane Mette Hol (Norway), Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn (Norway) & Kira Senkpiel (Germany) in Andrej Škufca (Slovenia). More information on the link…
The exhibition will be on display at NITJA- Center for Contemporary Art, until Tuesday, September 25, 2022. Since the project was conceived as a traveling exhibition that will also host local artists at each new location, we are already announcing it to take place in the Piran City Gallery in 2023.
We are starting the autumn cycle of exhibitions with the solo exhibition THE FOOL, by the increasingly established coastal artist LARA JERANKO MARCONI; we will open the exhibition on September 16, 2022 at 7 p.m. in the Loža Gallery in Koper. Lara Jeranko Marconi (Koper, 1984), a painter and illustrator from Koper, belongs to the generation of young Slovenian authors whose artistic skills were formed in neighboring Italy. During her academic studies in Venice, she already participated in the 51st Venice Biennale as part of the Open Ateliers group exhibition. At a certain stage of her creative development papercutting became her trademark. Her creations within this intriguing art genre will be highlighted this time as well. Lara’s world of plant arabesques and animal figures brings to life the eloquent symbolism of the initials in the miniatures of illuminated manuscripts created in the period from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. It is narratively condensed on monochrome two-dimensional surfaces of varying colors, with occasional transitions into space.
The light and sound installation COSMIC RAIN, which was installed in the Meduza Gallery in Koper by the artist TILEN SEPIČ, draws in many spectators even in the evening, when its curious light effects can be seen from the street. It will be on display until Friday, September 30, 2022. More information at the link…
KLAVDIJA JERŠINOVEC, winner of the last year’s Ex-tempore Piran 2021 Young Author Prize, is exhibiting at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran. The exhibition entitled SEA, SUN, HEART will be on display until Monday, October 31, 2022. More information at the link …
We look forward to the upcoming events and to your attendance!
