Events

Family Day and Museum Summer Night

Date: 21. 06. 2025
Time: 16:00

On Saturday, 21 June, the GBJ will offer free admission for families during the Family Day at the GBJ from 4 pm to 6 pm, and free admission for all visitors after 6 pm during the Summer Museum Night.
All events on this day are free of charge and will take place even in case of bad weather.

PROGRAMME:
16.00 – 18.00
Exploratory walk through Forma Viva
Landscape in my mind

CREATIVE ISLAND UNDER THE LIME TREES
Intergenerational felting workshop with artist Ana Vrtačnik
and many other activities

MUSEUM SUMMER NIGHT:
18.00 / Circus puppet show The Story on Buttons – Zapik Theatre
19.00 / Trajectories: Shifts – Guided tour of the first interventions in the permanent installations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the gallery (Tone Kralj, Božidar Jakac, Jože Gorjup)
20.00 / Guided tour by Touch with artist Anna Vrtačnik
21.00 / JUNEsHELEN – Concert under the Lime Trees

Exhibitions / Current

Dušan Fišer
How Do You Touch the Light?
26. 09. 2025 - 08. 02. 2026
The exhibition entitled How Do You Touch Light? showcases new works by the versatile artist Dušan Fišer, who in his artistic practice mainly focuses on the visual appearance of light and its effect on an individual and society.
Trajectories: Works from the Gorjup Gallery Collection
12. 09. 2025 - 15. 02. 2026
The exhibition Development Directions: Works from the Gorjup Gallery Collection will mark the 50th anniversary of Galerija Božidar Jakac – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and will showcase the rich and extensive collection of works from the Gorjup Gallery Collection, which is the …
Vesna Perunović
Home Paradigm
25. 07. 2025 - 30. 11. 2025
The exhibition by Vesna Perunović’s showcases her works made over the past fifteen years, when she has used various artistic means and processes to address questions of home and belonging, as well as to explore ways in which one’s own identity is being established and represented.
Trajectories: Shifts
Interventions in Permanent Exhibitions on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the GBJ
21. 06. 2025 - 31. 12. 2025
Temporary interventions with works of contemporary artists into the permanent displays of Galerija Božidar Jakac.
Bogdan Borčić & Johnny Friedlaender
Dialogue
08. 02. 2025 - 25. 01. 2026
As part of the 19th exhibition in the Graphic Cabinet of Bogdan Borčić, the works of two great artists and masters of printmaking, Bogdan Borčić and Johnny Friedlaender, are placed in dialogue.
Dragica Čadež
15. 01. 2025 - 23. 11. 2025
The small retrospective exhibition of Dragica Čadež presents a cross-section of the more than 50-year oeuvre of the sculptor, who has made a significant mark on the Slovenian and wider regional cultural space since the mid-1960s. Galerija Božidar Jakac with the exhibition celebrates sculptor&#…