Tara Rubinič, “Nega in konec"

Monika Slemc Klavžar, “Fading memory"

Jaša Mrevlje Pollak, “No mountain stands forever"

Foto / Photo: Jadran Rusjan / OGP 2023

Ex-tempore Piran, one of the most important traditional art events in Slovenian Istria, was successfully concluded. 246 participants applied to the event and 210 works of art were submitted. The international expert jury (Eda Čufer, Slovenia; Igor Eškinja, Croatia; Daniele Capra, Italy) selected 54 works of art for the exhibition and awarded the main of the 17 purchase prizes.

This year’s edition the 58th International painting ex-tempore introduces some innovations: raising the amount of the first prize, Grand Prix, to €4,000, and the presentation of all the selected and awarded works in one place, in the Monfort Gallery in Portorož. The closing ceremony with the awarding of the prizes and the convivial evening also took place in the Monfort complex, where in the Wooden Hall we created a particularly suggestive atmosphere for all the guests, awardees and sponsors.


Grand prix

PIRAN COASTAL GALLERIES, received by MONIKA SLEMC KLAVŽAR (Slovenia) for the painting entitled Fading Memory.


Young author prize

PIRAN COASTAL GALLERIES, received by TARA RUBINIĆ (Slovenia)


Special prize Tartini 2023

COMMUNITY OF ITALIANS GIUSEPPE TARTINI PIRAN, received by JAŠA MREVLJE  POLLAK (Slovenia)


Major purchase prizes

OBČINA PIRAN, received by MIHA ŠTRUKELJ (Slovenija)

JP OKOLJE PIRAN, received by NECA FALK (Slovenija)

HOTEL MARKO PORTOROŽ, received by PETJA KOCET (Slovenia)

GASSPAR d.o.o., received by ZORAN KRULJ (Srbia)

STARA GOSTILNA PIRAN, received by SIMON VOVK (Slovenia)

PRIVATE COLLECTOR, received by BARBARA JURKOVŠEK (Slovenia)


Purchase prize

MESTNA OBČINA KOPER, received by JANJA KOSI (Slovenia)


Hotel prizes

EUROTASS HOTELI d.o.o., received by X ANDREJ SCHLEGEL Slovenia)

ART HOTEL TARTINI PIRAN, received by ANDREJA MODRIN ŠVAB (Slovenia)

BELVEDERE IZOLA, received by MILENA ROŠTOHAR (Slovenia)


Special prizes

TRGOVINE ART LJUBLJANA IN ROYAL TALNES, received by GORANKA SUPIN (Croatia)

TRGOVINE ART LJUBLJANA IN CLAIRFONTAINE, received by KLAVDIJA JERŠINOVEC (Slovenia)


Prizes for works on paper

TA MAONA, Piran, received by TIHANA KARLOVIĆ (Croatia)

TURISTIČNO ZDRUŽENJE PORTOROŽ, received by TANJA GABRIJELČIČ GORŠIČ (Slovenia)


Children’s prize (up to 15 years of age)

PIRAN COASTAL GALLERIES, received byFRAN USENIK, pupil of the elementary school TRNOVO from Ljubljana.