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[scroll down for English]Ž𝒆𝒍𝒋𝒆 𝒊 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒋𝒆č𝒋𝒂: 𝑰𝒛𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒋𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒏𝒆 𝒖𝒎𝒋𝒆𝒕𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒊 𝒊 𝒂𝒓𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒌𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒖 𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒋𝒊 1947.–1979.
21.10. 2026., 19 h, UHA, Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 3/I, Zagreb
Institut za povijest umjetnosti poziva vas na razgovor povodom monografije Ž𝘦𝘭𝘫𝘦 𝘪 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘫𝘦č𝘫𝘢: 𝘐𝘻𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘫𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘯𝘦 𝘶𝘮𝘫𝘦𝘵𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪 𝘪 𝘢𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘶 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘫𝘪 1947.–1979. (ur. Beti Žerovc, Miha Valant, Vladimir Vidmar). U razgovoru sudjeluju urednica Beti Žerovc te autori Gregor Dražil, Nika Grabar i Ivan Smiljanić, a moderira Sanja Sekelj.
Monografija se bavi odabranim primjerima izlaganja likovne umjetnosti i arhitekture, promatrajući ih kroz prizmu političkih i društvenih prilika tadašnje Jugoslavije i njezina položaja u svijetu. Na odabranim studijama slučaja ispituje čimbenike koji su u vezi s izlaganjem presudno oblikovali umjetnost i kulturu tog razdoblja te kako su se ta područja odnosila prema državi: jesu li slijedila službenu ideologiju i učvršćivala je ili su se od nje distancirala. Poglavlja razmatraju što su izložbe artikulirale i na koji način, i to u odnosu na nacionalne težnje pojedinih jugoslavenskih naroda te pitanje zajedničkog kulturnog identiteta, kao i na njihovo međunarodno predstavljanje. Uvid u organizaciju tih zbivanja u Sloveniji pridonosi i širem razumijevanju izložbe kao medija i funkcioniranja umjetničkih institucija. U kontekstu hladnog rata i izložbe i institucije pokazuju se kao voljni suradnici političko-ekonomskih sustava i prenositelji njihovih ideologija, premda ne nužno onih koje bismo očekivali.
Razdoblje kojim se monografija bavi uokvireno je dvjema izložbama koje svojom organizacijom, sadržajem i izborom radova rječito odražavaju povijesnu situaciju svojega vremena. Gostovanje Izložbe sovjetskih slikara (Moderna galerija u Ljubljani, 1947.) reprezentativno je za kratkotrajno jugoslavensko približavanje Sovjetskom Savezu na području likovne umjetnosti. Ono je u Sloveniji ostalo ograničeno i završilo 1948., nakon isključenja Jugoslavije iz Informbiroa. Druga izložba, velika retrospektiva Slovenska likovna umjetnost 1945.–1978. (Moderna galerija u Ljubljani i Arhitekturni muzej Ljubljana, 1979.), predstavila je širok raspon arhitekture, dizajna i umjetnosti. No svojim posebnim načinom prezentacije i interpretacije ujedno je potvrdila modernizam kao najvažniju struju slovenskog umjetničkog stvaralaštva prethodnog razdoblja.
Autori poglavlja: Gregor Dražil, Tina Fortič Jakopič, Nika Grabar, Meta Kordiš, Katarina Mohar, Tina Palaić, Cvetka Požar, Ivan Smiljanić, Maja Vardjan, Vladimir Vidmar, Beti Žerovc
Nakladnici: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Društvo Igor Zabel za kulturo in teorijo, 2026.
Monografija je jedan od rezultata petogodišnjeg znanstvenog projekta, a širi rezultati projekta dostupni su na mrežnoj stranici https://razstavljanjevsloveniji.si/
Monografija je u slovenskom izdanju slobodno dostupna u PDF formatu: https://razstavljanjevsloveniji.si/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/zelje_in_protislovja_sl_digital.pdf
U razgovoru sudjeluju:
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐢 Ž𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐜, izvanredna profesorica na Filozofskom fakultetu u Ljubljani, kao voditeljica istraživačke skupine ukratko će predstaviti cjelokupno istraživanje provedeno u okviru projekta Likovno i arhitektonsko izlaganje između umjetničkih i ideoloških koncepata: slučaj Slovenije, 1947.–1979. (J6-3137), koji je financirala ARIS, Javna agencija za znanstvenoistraživačku i inovacijsku djelatnost Republike Slovenije.
𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫, docentica na Fakultetu za arhitekturu u Ljubljani, autorica je poglavlja "The Construction of the 'Yugoslav Architecture' Idea Through the Prism of Two Post-War Exhibitions". Govorit će o promjenama u arhitektonskom izlaganju prije i nakon isključenja Jugoslavije iz Informbiroa 1948., koje je dovelo do brzog hlađenja odnosa sa Sovjetskim Savezom.
𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐫𝐚ž𝐢𝐥, kustos Međunarodnog grafičkog likovnog centra u Ljubljani, govorit će o vezama slovenskog prostora s inozemstvom na području izlaganja u odabranom razdoblju. Autor je poglavlja "The Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts and Exhibiting Slovenian Artists in the West: The Cases of West Germany and Italy".
𝐈𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐢ć, asistent s doktoratom na Institutu za noviju povijest u Ljubljani, autor je poglavlja "Revolution Within Frames: Artistic Creation and Exhibiting in the Yugoslav People's Army". Govorit će o likovnom stvaralaštvu i izlaganju u Jugoslavenskoj narodnoj armiji (JNA), području u kojem dolaze do izražaja proturječja između službene politike socijalizacije kulture i dominantnih mjerila visoke umjetnosti.
Razgovor moderira 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐣, znanstvena suradnica na Institutu za povijest umjetnosti.
* Naslovna fotografija kolaž je dviju fotografija s izložbi: Izložba sovjetskih slikara (Moderna galerija u Ljubljani, 1947.; sl. 1) i Američko avangardno slikarstvo (Moderna galerija u Ljubljani, 1961.–1962.; sl. 42).
Razgovor je organiziran u sklopu projekta „Digitalna mrežna, prostorna i (kon)tekstualna analiza umjetničkih fenomena i baštine 20. stoljeća – DIGitART", koji financira Europska unija – NextGenerationEU, a provodi se na Institutu za povijest umjetnosti u razdoblju 2023.–2027.
Razgovor je organiziran u partnerstvu s Udruženjem hrvatskih arhitekata – UHA.
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Desires and Contradictions: Exhibitions in Slovenia and Yugoslavia, 1947–1979
21 October 2026, 7 pm
Croatian Association of Architects – UHA
Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 3/I, Zagreb
The Institute of Art History invites you to a conversation on the occasion of the monograph Desires and Contradictions: Exhibiting Art and Architecture in Slovenia 1947–1979 (eds. Beti Žerovc, Miha Valant, Vladimir Vidmar). The participants are editor Beti Žerovc and authors Gregor Dražil, Nika Grabar and Ivan Smiljanić. The conversation will be moderated by Sanja Sekelj.
The monograph examines selected examples of art and architecture exhibiting, observing them through the prism of the Yugoslav political order, its doctrine and its geopolitical prospects. Through case studies, it explores the factors that decisively shaped art and culture in relation to exhibiting, as well as how these fields operated in relation to the state: whether they adhered to and reinforced the official ideology or distanced themselves from it. The chapters consider what the exhibitions articulated and how – both in relation to the national aspirations of individual Yugoslav nations and the question of a shared cultural identity, as well as considering how they were presented internationally. Insight into the organisation of these events in Slovenia also provides a broader understanding of the exhibition as a medium and of the functioning of art institutions. In the context of the Cold War, both the exhibitions and the institutions emerge as willing collaborators with the political-economic systems and as conveyors of their ideologies – even if not necessarily those that one might have expected.
The period addressed by the monograph is framed by two exhibitions which, through their organisation, content orientation and the selection of works, tellingly reflect the historical situation of their time. The guest show Exhibition of Soviet Painters (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, 1947) is representative of the brief period of the Yugoslav rapprochement to the Soviet Union in the field of art – a rapprochement that, in Slovenia, remained limited and ended in 1948 following Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform. The second exhibition, the large retrospective Slovenian Fine Arts 1945–1978 (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and Architectural Museum Ljubljana, 1979), presented a broad spectrum of architecture, design and art, yet through its specific mode of presentation and interpretation, it also confirmed modernism as the most important current of Slovenian artistic production of the preceding period.
Chapter authors: Gregor Dražil, Tina Fortič Jakopič, Nika Grabar, Meta Kordiš, Katarina Mohar, Tina Palaić, Cvetka Požar, Ivan Smiljanić, Maja Vardjan, Vladimir Vidmar, Beti Žerovc
Publishers: Ljubljana University Press and Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, 2026
The monograph is one of the outcomes of a five-year research project. Further project results are available on the website https://razstavljanjevsloveniji.si/
The Slovenian edition of the monograph is freely available as a PDF: https://razstavljanjevsloveniji.si/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/zelje_in_protislovja_sl_digital.pdf
Participants:
Beti Žerovc, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, will, as head of the research group, briefly present the research conducted within the project Exhibiting Art and Architecture between Artistic and Ideological Concepts: The Case of Slovenia, 1947–1979 (J6-3137), funded by ARIS, the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.
Nika Grabar, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, is the author of the chapter "The Construction of the 'Yugoslav Architecture' Idea Through the Prism of Two Post-War Exhibitions". She will speak about changes in architectural exhibiting before and after Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948, which led to a rapid cooling of relations with the Soviet Union.
Gregor Dražil, curator at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, will speak about the connections of the Slovenian art scene with foreign countries in the field of exhibiting during the selected period. He is the author of the chapter "The Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts and Exhibiting Slovenian Artists in the West: The Cases of West Germany and Italy".
Ivan Smiljanić, Assistant with PhD at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, is the author of the chapter "Revolution Within Frames: Artistic Creation and Exhibiting in the Yugoslav People's Army". He will speak about artistic creation and exhibiting in the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA), an area in which the contradictions between the official policy of the socialisation of culture and the dominant standards of high art come to the fore.
The conversation will be moderated by Sanja Sekelj, Research Associate at the Institute of Art History.
The cover image is a composite of two photographs from the exhibitions: Exhibition of Soviet Painters (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, 1947; fig. 1) and American Vanguard Painting (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, 1961–1962; fig. 42).
The event is organised as part of the project "Digital Network, Spatial and (Con)textual Analysis of Artistic Phenomena and Heritage of the 20th Century – DIGitART", funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, and carried out at the Institute of Art History in 2023–2027.
The event is organised in partnership with the Croatian Association of Architects – UHA.
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