UGM presents the work and life of Elsa Oeltjen Kasimir (1887–1944), an exceptional artist and extravagant personality.

Slovene painter Zmago Jeraj received Prešeren award for his lifework in 2008. At his retrospective exhibition UGM published an extensive exhibition catalogue of the artist’s work and life.

Saša Bezjak belongs to a young generation of artists and is very intimate in her creative process - she is a woman, a mother and a partner. The exhibition catalogue ‘Intimate’ shows segments of the artist’s everyday life and offers the viewer an insight into her intimate visual diary and in doing...

Polona Petek (b. 1970), painter from the younger generation, is one of the most interesting artists of classical painting in Slovenia and is also present in international arts circles. Her exhibition in 2007 at UGM was her first major solo exhibition.

Jasmina Cibic, Davide Grassi/Janez Janša, Žiga Kariž, Kracina & Leben, Sašo Sedlaček, son:Da and Polona Tratnik are seven young and internationally etablished Slovene artists who exhibited in 2007 at the Austrian contemporary art exhibition space Künstlerhaus Graz.

Voyage Years, 1904–1930 present for the first time the ‘German’ part of Jan Oeltjen’s artwork and puts on show 70 aquarelles and oil paintings unknown to the Slovene audience.

Anja Jerčič (b. 1975) paints plants in large dimensions, exposed to human sight. The plants are not exotic or mysterious and they don’t challenge the interpretation ability of the viewer, they are ‘ordinary’ plants of our everyday environment – clover, primrose, daisy, oreganum, nettle…

In his conceptual project Dušan Fišer (b. 1962) researches the mental structures of a space and exposes the human need for space exchange.