The traditional Ex-tempore Piran, which takes place every year towards the end of summer, also symbolically heralds the start of the autumn program in the Piran Coastal Galleries. 

 


Loža Gallery, Koper

The personal exhibition of paintings by the Maribor artist Borut Popenko titled Openings, which will be opened on September 27, 2024, is an exchange exhibition for this year’s January presentation of the works of the Slovene Littoral artist Lara Marconi Jeranko in the premises of the Maribor Art Gallery (UGM). Since the beginning, Popenko has been interested in the basic elements of painting that arise from empty space, from the materiality of the painting medium to the formation of the painting field. In his exploration of colors and shapes, proportions, compositions, volumes and harmonies, he refers to the abstract painting tradition, from abstract expressionism, color field painting, geometric abstraction to monochrome painting and minimalism. Among his role models, he cites giants of abstract art such as Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly, and contemporaries Anish Kapoor, Peter Halley and Gerwald Rockenschaub.
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Piran Civic Gallery and Monfort Wooden Hall, Portorose

In the Piran Civic Gallery, two content-related exhibitions are on view until 17 November 2024: Ex-tempore 10, prize-winning works from the Piran Coastal Galleries’ 2014-2024 collections and Ex-tempore Piran 2024, prize-winning works from this year’s edition. Until September 29, 2024, selected works of Ex-tempore Piran 2024 and children’s creations Ex-tempore Muza Meduza 2024 are on display in the Monfort Wooden Hall in Portorose.
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Andragogical program

Room: Openly dialogues between artists and critics

As part of the exhibition Ex-tempore 10, award-winning works from the OGP’s collections 2014-2024, which accompanies this year’s ex-tempore, we will organize informal conversations about contemporary visual art with experts and artists. Meetings between various actors working in the art field aim to bring contemporary art closer to a wider audience, especially from the point of view of creators and art connoisseurs. The talks will take place in the Piran City Gallery on Saturday, October 19 and Saturday, November 9, from 10:00 to 12:00.

At the first meeting, Tina Fortič Jakopič, art historian and curator of the art collection at the Museum of Recent and Contemporary History of Slovenia, and Ulla Žibert, visual artist and recipient of the ex-tempore 2017 grand prize, will be with us.

At the second meeting we will hear Miran Mohar, painter, graphic designer, scenographer, member of the Irwin group and co-founder of the collective Neue Slowenische Kunst, the theater of the Scipinon Nasice sisters and the design group Novi kolektivizem, and Tina Konec, visual artist and winner of the 2018 Ex-tempore.


Pedagogical program

In conjunction with the EX-TEMPORE 10, prize-winning works from the Piran Coastal Galleries’ 20142024 collection exhibition, we will organize pedagogical workshops for school groups and young individuals. While viewing and closely observing the prize-winning works from the collection of the Piran Coastal Galleries, youngsters will be able to interpret and recreate the exhibited painting of their choice in their own way. The workshops, which will be organized by the curator and pedagogue Ana Papež, will take place in the Piran Civic Gallery; they will be open to the public on Friday, October 4, and Friday, November 15, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and for organized groups in the morning, by prior agreement (ana.papez@obalne-galerije.si). 

On the ground floor of the Piran Civic Gallery, young art enthusiasts are welcomed by Muza Meduza, a wall-mounted coloring book with soap bubbles in which they can draw or write their thoughts or impressions from the exhibition.
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Herman Pečarič Gallery, Piran

The young artist, student of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Tara Rubinić, is the recipient of the last year’s Ex-tempore Piran 2023 Young Author Prize. The prize is in the form of a solo exhibition at the Herman Pečarič Gallery in Piran. This year, the young creator presents herself here with an exhibition of drawings and paintings entitled Three Times Away From the World, which is on display until 27 October 2024.
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Monfort Gallery, Portorož

At the beginning of October, a photography exhibition by Jaka Ivančič will be on view in the former Monfort salt storehouses. The series of documentary photographs Slovenia: A Symphony of Views, for which the Koper-born author received numerous recognitions and awards, was previously on display at Ljubljana Castle. The Piran Coastal Galleries are preparing the exhibition in cooperation with the National Geographic Slovenia. These are excellent examples of documentary photographs that show the beauty of Slovenia and particularly its Littoral region with various landscape motifs. The curator of the exhibition, which will open on October 10, 2014 and will be on display until January 12, 2025, is the internationally renowned photographer Arne Hodalič.
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Exchange exhibition and international collaboration: Dissident Histories. Insurgent Futurities

At the initiative of the Piran Coastal Galleries, the exhibition Dissident Histories.Insurgent Futurities will be on view at the Gallery of the City of Gdansk in Poland from October 8, 2024 to December 15, 2024. Insurgent Futurities. It represents the 40-years of the artistic duo Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid’s creative work. The pioneers of political video began their collaboration in 1982 and have left a deep artistic and political mark in the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia and abroad. The exhibition of internationally recognized female artists is upgraded by a new project by authors Marina Gržinić, Tjaša Kancler and Jovita Pristovšek, who started working together in the new millennium. The project is not only a retrospective reflection, it is a path to the future that foresees the continuation of political discourse and visual storytelling through the popular digital medium of video film. The exhibition is prepared by the curator Łukas Guzek (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk) in cooperation with the director of the Piran Coastal Galleries Mara Ambrožič Verderber. The exhibition concept, design and layout are contributed by Marina Gržinić and Jovita Pristovšek. The project will be realized with the support of: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Koper, 4G, the Gϋnter Grass Gallery (GGM), the Goethe Institute in Gdansk, the City of Gdansk, the Ministry of Culture of Poland and the Photon Gallery from Ljubljana, under the auspices of the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Poland and Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
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International project: Italian Council

This year, the Piran Coastal Galleries are among the selected winners of the prestigious Italian Council Award 2024. The PCG applied to the international call for new works of art with the project Breaking The Circuit of Control by the Italian visual artist Francesco Bertocco. As the project holder, PCG invited prominent international partners to participate: the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART) from Italy, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo from Brazil, the University of Paris 8 from France, the Center for Contemporary Art NITJA from Norway, the Foundation ICA from Milan and the City of Gdansk in Poland. Cooperation with important foreign institutions represents an important challenge and strengthens the involvement of PCg in the international art scene.
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