First guided tour of the exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
First guided tour of the exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
UGM, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Saturday, 17 February 2024, 11:00
Led by:
David Tavčar, author of the exhibition
Breda Kolar Sluga, curator at the UGM
We invite you to the first guided tour of the new major exhibition at the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery, which opens up a spectrum of views, positions, and forms, both within the artworks from the UGM Collection and in the art of exhibition-making as such. Join David Tavčar, author of the exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection, and Breda Kolar Sluga, curator at the UGM, on Saturday 17 February at 11:00 at Strossmayerjeva ulica 6.
In the year marking our 70th anniversary, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery invites you to come see the new hanging of our collection. The new temporary display was created by the designer David Tavčar, who over the past year combed through the museum’s collection to select over 270 works of art featured in the exhibition, some iconic, some lesser known and others shown to the public for the very first time, and arranged them across seven rooms and two halls into a singular, vibrant experience.Since its establishment in 1954, the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery had been synonymous with the palace at Strossmayerjeva ulica, a great house, however not spacious enough to simultaneously accommodate both a permanent hanging of the collection and large temporary exhibitions. For a number of years, we have tackled this challenge by setting up temporary exhibitions of the UGM Collection in ever new constellations of works and in varying manners of display, so as to offer a new perspective on our collection and the history of 20th-century art in the city, region, and Slovenia.