History
The Bežigrajska galerija (Bežigrad Gallery) is one of the smaller fine art exhibition spaces in Ljubljana. Founded in 1976, it has been a branch of the Mestna galerija Ljubljana since 1996. It hosts twelve exhibitions annually, some in cooperation with major museums and galleries in Slovenia and abroad. The exhibition program can be roughly divided into three categories: solo exhibitions of younger artists; "historical" shows presenting, for the most part, works by well-known Slovenian artists; and, as a specialty, exhibitions of installations and objects. The Bežigrajska galerija became involved with the latter in the 1980s, particularly with multimedia, including sounds of various environments, contemporary music, video, experimental film. Every year it also stages a traditional show entitled From Sketch to Puppet, which attracts especially young visitors.
Since 2002, there have been two Bežigrajska galerija exhibition spaces, BG1 and BG2.

The Collection of Visual and Concrete Poetry
The Bežigrajska galerija 1 primarily exhibits works from its collections of visual and concrete poetry. The collections are based on the works collected by Franc Zagoričnik over a period of thirty years and on works donated by others. They comprise the international collection, Franci Zagoričnik's collection, and the Slovenian Visual and Concrete Poetry collection.

The Images of Notations Collection
This collection contains musical scores by Slovenian and foreign composers that were important in the development of music in the 20th century. In contemporary musical notation, composers rarely use the traditional notation, or else combine it with artistic signs, individualistic "notations" invented by each composer to pictorially represent a sound. Thus notations become original works of fine art, only rarely relating to the artistic trends of their periods, and present the composers as fine artists as well. The collection comprises over a hundred scores by eighty composers (including John Cage, Vinko Globokar, Charles Ives, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ianis Xenakis.) executed in various techniques: drawing, collage, mixed media on paper, etc. Included in the collection there are also sound recordings of the compositions and concert videos.

Information
Bežigrad gallery: Miloš Bašin
phone: +386 1 4366 957, +386 1 4364 057
email: mestna.galerija-lj@siol.net

Location
The gallery is close to the town center, on the north-bound artery, 150 meters from the Bežigrajska galerija 1.

Opening Hours

from September 1 to June 30: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sundays, Mondays, public holidays: closed

from July 1 to August 31: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sundays, Mondays, public holidays: closed

foto: Blaž Samec

Location