16. 4. 2026 Conversation with the Artist and Presentation of the Monograph / Ida Brišnik Remec

Conversation with the Artist and Presentation of the Monograph / Ida Brišnik Remec
Participants: Ida Brišnik Remec, Dr. Barbara Jaki, Simona Vidmar Čelik, Breda Kolar Sluga, Dr. Andrej Smrekar, Andreja Borin
UGM, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Thursday, 16 April, 2026, 11:00

The monograph of painter Ida Brišnik Remec is the result of a collaboration between the Maribor Art Gallery, which holds an extensive body of the artist’s work in its collection, and the National Gallery of Slovenia, the custodian of a donation of more than forty key drawings and paintings created during the artist’s most intensive creative period. Their shared aim is to shed light on one of the more distinctive and overlooked contemporary Slovenian painters. You are warmly invited to a conversation with the artist and the authors of the monograph!

“Ida Brišnik Remec has remained in the shadow within Slovenian art—overshadowed by the dominance of the male gaze that determined what was considered valuable, by regional distance from the center that defined her as a Maribor-based artist, and by the person most important to her, her husband, the painter and companion Marjan Remec. The story of Ida Brišnik Remec is the story of an artist who, in silence and solitude, created a unique and diverse world of images. It is a story of perseverance, radical dedication to artistic thought, and an intimate connection with creation—a connection the artist expressed in stained glass works dedicated to Francis’s Canticle of the Creatures, and one she continues to renew daily, even now in her eighties, through simple acts: looking, listening, painting.” (Simona Vidmar Čelik)

Edited by Breda Kolar Sluga, the monograph includes scholarly contributions by Dr. Andrej Smrekar, who illuminates the artist’s creative development within the broader context of Slovenian and European art, and by Andreja Borin, who focuses on the diverse body of the artist’s works on paper. It also features an in-depth conversation between Breda Kolar Sluga and Ida Brišnik Remec, offering rare insight into the artist’s intimate reflections and key moments in her life.

The monograph (204 pages, hardcover, in Slovenian and English) was designed by the internationally acclaimed designer Rafaela Dražić.

The discussion will feature: artist Ida Brišnik Remec, Simona Vidmar Čelik, Director of the Maribor Art Gallery, Dr. Barbara Jaki, Director of the National Gallery of Slovenia, Dr. Andrej Smrekar, former curator and museum advisor at the National Gallery of Slovenia and Andreja Borin, curator at the Maribor Art Gallery. The event will be moderated by the publication’s editor, curator Breda Kolar Sluga.

The monograph will be available at a discounted price at the presentation.

Ida Brišnik Remec, after attending the classical gimnasium in Maribor (1952–60), completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (1964). She taught at several schools, including the Angel Besednjak Primary School and the Secondary School for Preschool Teachers in Maribor. For many years, she led art courses at the University of the Third Age in Maribor and preparatory classes for admission to higher education programs in the arts.Together with her husband Marjan Remec, she worked in a studio on Maistrova ulica in Maribor and mostly exhibited jointly. She participated in numerous group exhibitions and organized 50 solo presentations; her works are held in public and private collections as well as in public spaces. Particularly notable are the 15 stained-glass windows for the Gothic windows of the pilgrimage church on Ptujska Gora and a tapestry in the Church of St. Joseph in the Studenci district of Maribor. Since 1966, she has been a member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies and the Maribor Fine Artists Society. In 1973, she received the Dove of Peace plaque at the exhibition of works by Yugoslav women artists in Slovenj Gradec. In 2024, the Municipality of Maribor awarded her its most prestigious cultural honor, the Glazer Lifetime Achievement Award.