Images of Maribor from the UGM Collection / exhibition opening
Images of Maribor from the UGM Collection / exhibition opening
Celebrating Maribor Day 2022!
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva 6
opening: Saturday, 1 October 2022, 12.00
You are kindly invited to the opening of the exhibition Images of Maribor from the UGM Collection in the UGM Cabinet, where we join the celebration of Maribor Day 2022 with an exhibition of some well-known and other lesser-known images of our hometown by 25 artists from the UGM Collection.
Curator: Simona Vidmar
Exhibition team: Urška Dokl, Jure Kirbiš, Katja Rus, Boris Rajh
Artists: Remigij Bratož, Ida Brišnik Remec, Ivan Čobal, Viktor Cotić, Ivan Dvoršak, Bojan Golija, Janko Andrej Jelnikar, Zmago Jeraj, Karel Jirak, Petra Kapš, Maks Kavčič, Ivan Kos, Fredy Koschitz, Janez Mežan, Zoran Mušič, Jožef Peteln, Zora Plešnar, Oton Polak, Marjan Remec, Rajko Slapernik, Fran Stiplovšek, Avgusta Šantel, Janez Šibila, Ante Trstenjak
We encounter Maribor as seen by artists of the past 100 years – from the 1920s to the 2000s. We are taken on a journey through classic vistas – a view of the old town along the river Drava, the main square with the plague column, Lent’s historic alleyways, the cathedral and the city castle – to less common scenes of the township’s edge, new town districts and the town park. Maribor was a popular motif for artists who called Maribor home, as well as for those who only stayed in Maribor a short while, working or otherwise. Among the selection of images of Maribor, we may highlight prints by Josip Pipo Peteln, Viktor Cotič and Oton Polak, drawings from the sketchbooks of Ida Brišnik Remec and Marjan Remec, as well as painting of Maribor squares, streets and the old bridge by Zoran Mušič, Karel Jirak and Fredy Koschitz. Of the images of Maribor in the UGM Collection – which could fill the entire gallery - we paid special attention to those artworks that are only rarely on display, thus uncovering the rich and varied character of treasures kept by UGM | Maribor Art Gallery.
