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Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926) - Glenn Miller Orchestra MENT Ljubljana 2019 World Famous Glenn Miller Join the moveMENT and Ljubljana, January 2019 paintings To mark its one hundredth Orchestra directed by Wil discover your new favourite Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any 1 Oct - 31 Mar anniversary, the National Salden is a real musical festival! Ljubljana festival Sat at 12:00 inaccurate information appearing in the Gallery of Slovenia presents treat for all lovers of great hosts over 50 fresh music calendar. the life and work of Ivana music and old good swing. artists and bands from all Information and reservation: Kobilca, one of the most P. 6 over Europe. 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Closed: Mondays, Slovenian-born painter and a man with the most important graphic designers in holidays. the world, who has designed hundreds of more than one homeland, spent most of Ljubljana. History. City. his life between Venice and Paris. He mostly corporate images, magazines, newspapers, Prestigious exhibition of original Permanent exhibition at the City painted landscapes, still lives, portraits, books, LP covers, and has created thousands artfully made jewellery, tableware, of posters during his career spanning over Museum of Ljubljana Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, views of Venice, double portraits with his wife and other items of artistic merit. fifty years. He has been inscribed into the The permanent exhibition about the world history of design with his iconic “I Ida, and poignant self-portraits depicting The gold items from the imperial history of Ljubljana. How well do you him as an old man. His visual motifs were love NY” logo. Milton Glaser has decided to know the rich history of Slovenian capital? treasury of the Ming dynasty, more donate thirty-five original posters (created always related to the Slovenian region of precisely, from the Wanli period Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle and New Kras and its typical scenes. He became world between 1966 and 2016) to the City of Ages, the 20th and 21st centuries… what (1573-1620), are great masterpieces Ljubljana, which will enrich the collection of famous with his series of paintings We Are is the history of Ljubljana? A chronological Not the Last, in which he relived the scenes of gold crafts, and they show the the International Centre of Graphic Arts after presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia of the exhibition. he experienced in the Dachau concentration sophisticated taste as well as the heritage with precious authentic artefacts, camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays economic power of the famous Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926) - paintings Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays and like the world’s oldest wooden wheel with the world’s only permanent survey 21 Jun - 10 Feb 2019, National Gallery 1 Jan. an axle aged 5,200 years, is on display on rulers. Jewellery, tableware, and exhibition of Mušič’s work, which explores other items of artistic merit show Ljubljana. History. City. exhibition. In our the entire range of the famous artist’s Drago Tršar: Erotic Sculpture globalised world, heritage just might be the social position of their owners, To mark its one hundredth Stojan Kerbler - retrospective painting techniques. 25 Oct 2018 - 27 Jan 2019, Museum of 22 Nov 2018 - 20 Jan 2019, City Art what differentiates cities the most, and it while depictions of dragons with anniversary, the National Gallery of Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00-20:00. Modern Art gallery of Ljubljana also shaped our capital’s identity. Therefore, five claws and phoenixes reveal Slovenia presents the life and work the exhibition proudly highlights local Closed: Mondays and 1 Jan. Academic sculptor and academician Drago connections with the imperial of Ivana Kobilca, one of the most Stojan Kerbler is one of the main figures in peculiarities, stories of everyday life in Tršar has for many decades marked the family. These items rarely leave well-known Slovenian artists of all the field of Slovene photography over last the past, and the individuals who left the Slovenian artistic space with a great creative China and can be seen in Slovenia times. Together with her friends and fifty years. The present retrospective covers a strongest impressions on our history. wide range of Kerbler’s works, from the late energy and author’s recognizable artistic for the first time. acquaintances like Rosa Pfäffinger, Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays until 21:00. 1950s to the early 1990s and illustrates the language. He represents one of the prime Open daily: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays Maria Slavona and Käthe Kollwitz, Closed: Mondays and 1 Jan. master photographer’s search for a suitable sculptural authorities in our cultural space 10:00-20:00. Closed: 1 Jan. she was one of the first female photographic idiom, the changes in and and his extensive scope of work of various painters of the modern age that development of his photographic expression series, cycles and individual works, both Plečnik Collection The new permanent exhibition at the Plečnik succeeded in a traditionally male that were the result of his uncompromising public (he signed his name under many important public sculptures) and private House in Trnovo presents the most important field. vision and his humanity as well as his inner development, which in turn well serve to sculptures, deserves a comprehensive projects of the late architect. Plečnik’s Her first retrospective in forty years illustrate the inner logic of his changes in presentational exhibition in the largest and creativity comes to life through the plans, presents around 130 works of art style and subject matter. The exhibition most important Slovenian gallery spaces. models and photographs of his creations from all periods and of different features 174 photographs, a showcase of a such as the Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Open: 11:00 - 19:00. Closed: Mondays. Castle, the National and University Library genres. Besides popular works, like rich selection of magazines, catalogues and Admission free Woman Drinking Coffee, Summer, other publications with contributions on in Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at Children in Grass and Mira Pintar, Kerbler’s work, as well as two documentaries Over my Eyes: Stories of Iraq about the photographer. 4 Dec 2018 - 3 Mar 2019, Jakopič Gallery the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous other many lesser-known paintings will masterpieces. Several plans of Plečnik’s The exhibition offers an unfamiliar be presented; together, the pictures Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays and never realized visions are also on display. The perspective of Iraq through the eyes of a 1 Jan. Cathedral of Freedom, the master’s vision reflect Kobilca’s creative power generation of young local photographers. of the Slovenian parliament, is especially and the influences of European art The work of these photographers forms a worthy of our attention. centres. unique and previously unseen view of Iraq Sundays at 10:00 guided tours in and captures the fragmented picture of Guided tours: every hour, on the hour (the English. contemporary life across the country: from last guided tour at 17:00). A group may be a maximum of seven persons. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursday 10:00 - the vastness of the mountainous northern The Gold of Chinese Emperor borderlands, to a multiplicity of scenes across Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays, 16 Aug - 15 Feb 2019, National Museum of Slovenia 20:00. Closed: Mondays and 1 Jan. the country, with the fading flashbacks of its holidays 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Music Music Blaž Vrbič and Grosuplje Big Band Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Samanta Škorja - clarinet Enjoying an enviable international 5 Jan, 20:00 Michael Wendeberg - conductor Tea Andrijić - piano reputation, the Slovak Philharmonic Tobačna Rinnat Moriah - soprano Jernej Maček - trumpet Orchestra (1949) is a regular guest Frank Sinatra Tribute Jean-Frédéric Neuburger - piano Bojana Karuza - piano of main music venues and festivals 10 and 11 Jan, 19:30 17 Jan, 19:30 Klemen Slakonja and RTV Slovenia Big in Europe. Within half a century of Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Russian Centre for Science and Culture Band intense artistic activity, the Slovak Programme: V.