Dragica Čadež

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’s Prešeren Prize for Lifetime Achievement, as we hold the largest collection of her works from various periods (more than 270 sculptures).

Dragica Čadež (1940) graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts (1963), where she also completed her postgraduate studies under professor Boris Kalin (1965). In 1982 she became the first female professor of sculpting in Slovenia and since 1989 she has been employed as a full professor at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana. She mainly works in wood, but lately she had started working in clay and ceramics, and at various times in her creative past, she had also worked in bronze, plaster and concrete. She has been working and holding solo exhibitions ever since 1963. Between 1968 and 1972 she was a member of the informal group Neo-constructivists (1968-1972), which created geometric and minimalistic art. In 1986 she received the Prešeren award for her breakthrough series of sculptures Associations of Pompei. Dragica Čadež lives and works in Ljubljana.

Foto: Dragica Čadez, Test Door, 1992, GBJ Collection, photo: Boris Gabrščik