The Šantel Family of Artists / exhibition opening
The Šantel Family of Artists: Three Women Painters in Maribor
First exhibition: Avgusta Šantel Jr.
UGM Kabinet, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6
Saturday, 19 April 2025, 11:00
curators: Breda Kolar Sluga and Igor Longyka
You are invited to the opening of an exhibition about three painters from the Šantel artistic family, which will shed light for the first time on their creative path after they moved to Maribor over 100 years ago and began to actively participate in the Grohar Art Club. The opening of the exhibition, curated by Igor Longyka, promoter of the so-called »Šantelian«, and museum consultant Breda Kolar Sluga, will take place on Saturday, 19 April 2025, at 11:00 in the UGM Kabinet.
The first part is dedicated to Avgusta Šantel Jr. (Gorica, 1876–Ljubljana, 1968), a painter, musician and teacher who, after teaching in numerous towns in Slovenia and Istria, moved to Maribor in 1920 and took up a position as a teacher at a secondary school for girls. In recent years, her work has been presented in smaller overview exhibitions in the towns where she worked. This research exhibition at the UGM Kabinet, however, focuses on her time in Maribor, where she devoted herself to printmaking alongside her many years of work as a painter. The works on display focus on her depictions of flowers and landscapes. After a hundred years, the exhibition will also include some works that were created during the artist’s lifetime in Maribor and have already been exhibited. In addition to the works from the collection of the Maribor Art Gallery, the exhibition will primarily show previously unexhibited works by the artist from private collectors who have kindly accepted our invitation.
