Guided tour of the exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
Guided tour of the exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection
UGM, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Saturday, 23 March 2024, 11:00
Led by:
Jure Kirbiš, curator at the UGM
We invite you to take a guided tour of the major new exhibition, where more than 250 iconic, lesser-known or first-time works from the UGM Collection are displayed across seven rooms and two halls into a singular, vibrant experience. The exhibition Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection was created by designer David Tavčar. On Saturday, 23 March 2024, you will be guided through the exhibition by Jure Kirbiš.
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.
While ten years ago Nadja Gnamuš, the curator of the exhibition 60! Panorama, conceptualized the exhibition layout around different themes (personal, withdrawn subject, cultural landscapes, political), and four years ago we put up the 100+ Highlights from the UGM Collection in chronological order by style, Spekter, on the other hand, focuses on the formal aspects of visual arts: colour, form, material, texture, composition. In anticipation of the gallery’s expansion to new premises at Rotovški trg, we paid special attention to our first and, as of now, our only home, using design contours to highlight the palace’s most identifying and charismatic features. Under the baton of designer David Tavčar the rooms and halls of the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery have been transformed into experiments of modes of display and interpretations of historic forms of exhibition-making: from the salon and the white cube to schematic trials and original new forms.
The guided tour is free of charge on payment of the entrance fee.