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Announcing: the international art project Good News

Objavljeno: 27.02.2024
DOBRE NOVICE! (GOOD NEWS!) is a six-month-long art event with a creative dialogue between the celebrated Belgian sculptor William Sweetlove, more than 20 contemporary artists from several countries and the Kamnik community. DOBRE NOVICE! art event includes: a major exhibition in Miha ...

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Information about the opening hours of Miha Maleš Gallery

Objavljeno: 21.02.2024
We would like to inform you that, due to the preparation of the new exhibition Good News, the Miha Maleš Gallery will be open to visitors from February 21 to March 15, 2024, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. During this time, you will only be able to see the permanent exhibition of Kamnik and ...

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Final act of the charity auction of art works

Objavljeno: 12.10.2023
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, in the Miha Maleš Gallery, the representatives of the organizers - the initiator of the campaign, Saša Bučan from the Intermunicipal museum Kamnik, and the representative of the co-organizers, Matevž Bergant - the president of the Kamnik Lions Club, symbolically ...

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Information for Miha Maleš Gallery visitors

Objavljeno: 11.05.2023
Dear visitors. Miha Maleš Gallery and View Gallery will be closed to visitors from May 12 to June 2, 2023 due to the installation of new exhibitions. New exhibitions are being prepared, namely in the Miha Maleš Gallery an overview exhibition of all 30 artists who exhibited in the View ...

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Oliver Pilić, Pearl Earring, hand-printed woodcut, 2017

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
The graphic work Pearl Earring, in the woodcut technique and printed by hand, is the work of a younger generation Kamnik artist, Oliver Pilić. The latter significantly enters the context of contemporary fine art in the context of both the local and Slovenian art scene and technically intervenes ...

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Lojze Perko, Factory Utok, 1954, o.pl.

Objavljeno: 06.07.2022
In the 1950s, more precisely in 1954, the work of the academic painter Lojze Perko (1909-1980) was created, which depicts the Utok factory in Kamnik, when it was nationalized and expanded tremendously from the once small private leather factory of Tone Knaflič. Perko designed the picture from the ...

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Winter motif in art

Objavljeno: 08.12.2021
In Slovene art, Miha Maleš (1903–1987) represents a man who was a true "uomo univerzale" in the field of art and culture, as he was not only engaged in fine arts - painting, graphics and drawing, in which he introduced completely new, modern guidelines, but he was also a messenger of new art, ...

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Anton Koželj, Portrait of a Woman with Children in Slovene National Costume, 1920

Objavljeno: 26.08.2021
The Koželj family is one of the most prominent painting families in Kamnik, which can be traced from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, first with father Matija Koželj, a Nazarene painter, and then with sons Anton and Maks Koželj. Matija and Maks Koželj have already ...

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Fortunat Bergant (1721-1769)

Objavljeno: 12.04.2021
Fortunat Bergant was born in 1721 in Mekinje near Kamnik and died in 1769 in Ljubljana. He belongs to the second generation of Carniolan Baroque painters, and he was only engaged in table painting. He had great support in the nobility of the time (the Codelli and Erberg families), which was also ...

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Dušan Lipovec (1952- 2005)

Objavljeno: 06.04.2021
Painter and publicist Dušan Lipovec was born in Kamnik. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana (Ljubljana, 1977, Prof. Andrej Jemec), and continued his studies in Canada. He preserved the picturesque image of Kamnik, with its characteristic Small and Old Castles, in ...

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