Events

Guided tour of the exhibition ‘Distant Gaze’

Date: 19. 03. 2025
Time: 17:00

The guided tour will be conducted by curator Kristina T. Simončič.

The exhibition Distant Gaze: New Objectivity and Realisms in Central Europe (1925-1933) focuses on the historical period of the 1920s and 1930s, when the new tendencies of the modern era came to dominate the fields of arts and culture. In the visual arts, there emerged the style of new realism whose objective, resigned and often ironic expression was a direct reflection of the turbulent spirit of the era. The exhibition offers an insight into artistic production in the period 1925-1933, within the wider cultural milieu of Central Europe, and an opportunity to analyse the sociopolitical processes of the time through art, which always mirrors the Zeitgeist.

Emma Abram, Anna Bartoniek, Vladimir Becić, Giovanni Colacicchi, Stane Cuderman, Ivan Čargo, Avgust Černigoj, Tošo Dabac, Gyula Derkovits, Zoran Didek, Otto Dix, Petar Dobrović, Marianne Dufour, Cata Dujšin Ribar, Conrad Felixmüller, Hans Finsler, Jaromír Funke, Jenő Gábor, Ladislao de Gauss, Pencho Georgiev, Olaf Globočnik, Jože Gorjup, France Gorše, George Grosz, Božidar Jakac, Alexander Kanoldt, Imre Kinszki, Karlo Kocjančič, Gojmir Anton Kos, Ivan Kos, Tine Kos, France Kralj, Mara Kralj, Tone Kralj, Fran Krašovec, Stane Kregar, Jan Lauschmann, Marius Ledda, Gerda Leo, Peter Loboda, Miha Maleš, Ida Maly, Piero Marussig, France Mihelič, Jerolim Miše, Mario Moschi, Franjo Mosinger, Omer Mujadžić, Živorad Nastasijević, Dana Pajnič Oražem, József Pécsi, Gregor Perušek, Veno Pilon, Nikolaj Pirnat, Elda Piščanec, Oton Postružnik, Mira Pregelj, Ivo Režek, Nasta Rojc, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Ekaterina Savova Nenova, Georg Schrimpf, Maksim Sedej, Janko Skerlep, Hinko Smrekar, Orlando Sora, Franjo Stiplovšek, Vladimir Štoviček, Zlatko Šulentić, Sava Šumanović, Đuro Tiljak, Ivana Tomljenović Meller, Marijan Trepše, Ante Trstenjak, Kiril Tsonev, Vladimir Varlaj, Drago Vidmar, Nande Vidmar, Géza Vörös, Eugen Wiškovský, Johannes Wohlfart, Gustav Wunderwald, Karl Yordanov.

The exhibition is on display until 23 March 2025.

Foto: France Gorše, Head of a Girl, 1928, GBJ Collection

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