Events

International Museum Day in GBJ

Date: 17. 05. 2026
Time: 10:00

On International Museum Day, entry to the GBJ is free all day.
You are very welcome to visit us between 10 am and 6 pm! As part of International Museum Day, you are invited to the following free events:

PROGRAM:

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Morning Intergenerational Workshop: Traces on the Face
Together, we will explore how monumental figures are created and how emotions are expressed on the face. We will experiment with unusual painting tools and create diverse textures without using a traditional brush.

10:00 AM Bike ride from Krško to a guided tour of Jaka Babnik’s exhibition at GBJ
Meeting point: Matija Gubec Square by the statue
Jaka Babnik and Miha Colner are organizing a bike ride from Krško to the Božidar Gallery, where a tour and public guided visit of Jaka Babnik’s exhibition A Matter of View will take place.
Registration required at info@galerija-bj.si or 07 49 88 140.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Guided tour of the exhibition Jaka Babnik: A Matter of View
Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition The Question of the Gaze with the artist Jaka Babnik and curator Miha Colner in the main exhibition hall of the Božidar Jakac Gallery.

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Guided Tour: Depictions of the Virgin Mary in the GBJ Collections
Join us for a guided tour of the depictions of the Virgin Mary that adorn the facades of today’s gallery—once the Cistercian monastery of Marijin studenec—and complement the Pleterje Collection of European Painters. The exhibited works span the 17th to 19th centuries and are owned by the nearby Pleterje Charterhouse. Most of the paintings were brought to Slovenia by monks from the Charterhouse of St. Anne in Bosserville near Nancy in Lorraine during the restoration of the Pleterje Charterhouse.

5:00 PM Opening of the Exhibition by Participants of the Printmaking Workshop
This year’s creative work focused on the drypoint technique, drawing inspiration from the works and related conceptual and artistic approaches found in the bodies of work by Bogdan Borčić and Karel Zelenko.
The workshop was co-organized with JSKD OI Krško.

photo: Kaja Selko

Exhibitions / Current

Ana Sluga
Fragile
15. 05. 2026 - 16. 08. 2026
The exhibition of Ana Sluga in the former monastery church showcases a selection of new and recent works that combine figurative elements, psychological tension, and a specific sense of the eeriness of everyday life characteristic of today’s contemporary times.
Jaka Babnik
A Matter of View
17. 04. 2026 - 30. 08. 2026
The exhibition showcases a mid-career retrospective of photographer and artist Jaka Babnik, who in the past nearly twenty years, roughly in the period 2007-2025, made and publicly presented number of impactful art pieces, both in the form of an exhibition and photobook.
Tone Kralj (1900–1975)
Vizionarski mistik
16. 04. 2026 - 30. 08. 2026
National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana The exhibition of Tone Kralj, that is the result of collaboration between National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana, and Galerija Božidar Jakac – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki, is dedicated to this year’s double anniversary …
Bogdan Borčić & Karel Zelenko
In Dialogue
08. 02. 2026 - 26. 01. 2027
On the occassion of the centenary of Bogdan Borčić’s birth and as part of the 20th exhibition in the Graphic Cabinet of Bogdan Borčić, the works of two great artistic companions, Bogdan Borčić and Karel Zelenko, are showcased in dialogue.

Exhibitions / Upcoming

Beyond Academia
Bosilj, Sekulić, Skurjeni, Tisnikar
25. 09. 2026 - 28. 02. 2027
The group exhibition entitled Beyond Academia presents a comprehensive survey of the work of four exceptional painters from the second half of the 20th century: Ilija Bašičević Bosilj, Sava Sekulić, Matija Skurjeni, and Jože Tisnikar, who represent the pinnacle of self-taught artistic …
Kristian Kožul
1573
11. 09. 2026 - 14. 02. 2027
The exhibition of Zagreb-based artist Kristian Kožul, entitled 1573, showcases his most recent artistic production in a distinct ambience of former monastery church. As it is common in his practice, he uses a wide variety of sculptural materials, as well as he focuses on a specific historical …
Artificial
Tin Dožić, Simon Goritschnig, Lara Reichmann, Andrea Zabric
25. 07. 2026 - 31. 01. 2027
Opening: Saturday, 25 July 2026, at 7pm!
The group exhibition entitled Artificial focuses on the meaning of so-called artificial structures, materials, and worlds that appear in various realms of everyday life in the modern world.