The international sculpture symposium Forma Viva began in 1961 due to the initiation of Jakob Savinsek and Janez Lenassi. It ran in four locations. Typical sculpting material in Kostanjevica Forma Viva is oak, in Seca near Portoroz stone, in Ravne iron and concrete in Maribor. In its early years, the exhibition ran every year, and then tapered off. At the end of the 1980's Forma Viva had ended everywhere, except in Seca. Artists from throughout the world participate. About 100 scupltures are exhibited in natural surroundings, in the gardens of a former monastery, and in the very city and nearby areas.

There were no exhibitions of Forma viva for a decade. In 1998 Forma Viva was renewed. The year's exhibiting artists were: Alfonso Berridi (Spain), Petar Barisic (Croatia) and Roman Makse (Slovenia). Plans for the future include making Forma Viva a biennial event.

Artists, exhibited at Forma Viva in Kostanjevica on the river Krka

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Sankho Chaudhuri (India)
Peter Cerne (Yugoslavia)
Kosso Eloul (Israel)
Petar Hadzi Boskov (Yugoslavia)
Silvio Mattioli (Switzerland)
Robert Roussil (Canada)
Eisaku Tanaka (Japan)
Jean Marie Touret (France)

Pedro Baretto (Venezuela)
Dusan Dzamonja (Yugoslavia)
Eberhard Fiebig (Germany)
Lloyd Glasson (USA)
Stane Jarm (Yugoslavia)
Hava Mehutan (Israel)
Koichiro Shirota (Japan)
Petar Smajic (Yugoslavia)
Vojin Stojic (Yugoslavia)
Vittorio Tavernari (Italy)
Miroslav Urosevic (Yugoslavia)

Kosta Angeli Radovani (Yugoslavia)
Bernard Ball (Great Britain)
Shoshana Heimann (Israel)
Yoshikuni Iida (Japan)
Milena Lah (Yugoslavia)
Aart Rietbroek (The Netherlands)
Jan Snoek (The Netherlands)
Jeanne Spiteris (Greece)
Minoru Togashi (Japan)
Sime Vulas (Yugoslavia)

Othmar Jaindl (Austria)
Ksenija Kantoci (Yugoslavia)
Ko Murai (Japan)
Vladimir Preclik (Czechoslovakia)
Bernard Segal (USA)
Gabriela Simossi (Greece)

Jerzy Beres (Poland)
Pierre Heyvaert (Canada)
Ryuzô Kawai (Japan)
Vjenceslav Richter (Yugoslavia)
Dragica Cadez - Lapajne (Yugoslavia)
Aldo Dezza (Italy)
Hisayuki Mogami (Japan)
Peter Startup (Great Britain)

Eugen Ciuca (Romania)
Aleksander Ilecko (Czechoslovakia)
Peter Jovanovic (Yugoslavia)
Mitsuyuki Takeda (Japan)
Laurence Whitfield (Great Britain)
Bogosav Zivkovic (Yugoslavia)

Franz Bucher (Switzerland)
Tone Kralj (Yugoslavia)
Djordje Kreca (Yugoslavia)
Annamarie Kupper (Switzerland)
Shigeo Miura (Japan)
Taizô Murakami (Japan)

Roderick Hanlan (Great Britain)
Berry Holslag (The Netherlands)
Kosuke Kimura (Japan)
Louis Mwaniki (Kenya)
Tone Lapajne (Yugoslavia)
Miroslav Sutej (Yugoslavia)
Ryoichi Tamura (Japan)
Dusan Trsar (Yugoslavia)

Karl Kessler (Austria)
Bata Marianov (Romania)
Kôichirô Shimada (Japan)
Ian Walters (Great Britain)
Janez Zorko (Yugoslavia)

Tone Demsar (Yugoslavia)
Hidemasa Fujimaki (Japan)
Brad Goldberg (USA)
Erik Van Spronsen (The Netherlands)
Krekel Van Spronsen Duller (The Netherlands)
Antonina Wysocka - Jonczak (Poland)

Villi Bossi (Italy)
Masamitsu Komuro (Japan)
Jon Oxman (USA)
Ratko Petric (Yugoslavia)
Rolf Westphal (USA)

Doru Covrig (Romania)
Negovan Nemec (Yugoslavia)
Michael Pennie ()
Margarita Michailova Poueva (Bulgaria)
Yutaka Toriyama (Japan)

Karl J. Ciesluk (Canada)
Avtarjeet S. Dhanjal (Great Britain)
Etsuo Hori (Japan)
Dora Kovacevic (Yugoslavia)
Carlos Medina (Venezuela)
Franz Weickmann (Germany)

Bosko Kucanski (Yugoslavia)
Shigehito Matsuda (Japan)
Heiner Richner (Switzerland)
Boris Zaplatil (Yugoslavia)

Jorge Du Bon (France)
Alberto Carneiro (Portugal)
Ivan Lesiak (Yugoslavia)
Molly Mason (USA)

Ulrike Birkhoff (Germany)
Perusko Bogdanic (Yugoslavia)
Frederick Bushe (Yugoslavia)
Dinu Câmpeanu (Romania)
Tadakazu Maeda (Japan)

Petar Barisic (Croatia)
Alfonso Berridi (Spain)
Roman Makse (Slovenia)

Johann Feilacher (Austria)
Darko Golija (Slovenia)
James Nestor (USA)

Mustafa Skopljak (BiH)
Nigel Ross (GB)
Tyronne Mitchell  (USA)

Boštjan Drinovec (Slovenia)
Sreten Milatovic (Serbia and Montenegro)
Niculae Seaptefrati (Romania)

Magdalena Miocinović Andric (Serbia)
Urša Toman Drinovec (Slovenia)
Agnessa Ivanova Petrova (Bulgaria)

Polona Demsar (Slovenia)
Klaus Grosskopf (Germany)
Samo Skoberne (Slovenia/Germany)