Current
12 December — 12 December, 2025
Julia Maurer - Somewhere In Between
Julia Maurer
An artwork is always a connecting link between diverse individuals. Simply by being viewed, it generates an interaction between the artist and the audience, unfolding multiple layers of meaning and structures of relationship. Once a work encounters a vis-à-vis beyond its creator, it begins to reveal its own narrative. Such a point of connection is embodied in the piece Love Song by Julia Maurer — part of the STRABAG Art Collection — which served as the initial inspiration for the exhibition Somewhere In Between at Y Gallery.
Past
13 November — 27 November, 2025
POP-UP SAŠO VRABIČ in collaboration with artist Ivo Suhadolnik Gregorin
Vrabič Sašo
As part of the November experimental pop-up display, we are finally presenting our house artist, Saša Vrabič. On view is a selection of prints from last year’s series Nova plošča, produced at the local International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), alongside a new painting titled Gemini Research, which announces the artist’s forthcoming series of monochrome portraits. Joining the presentation as a curatorial supplement is the photographic work Reference to a Reference by Iva Suhadolnik Gregorin.
4 September — 5 November, 2025
Constant Suffering for All at All Times
Dvorščak Patrik
Patrik Dvorščak develops and constructs his works based on a profound interest in human psychological states such as depression, dissociative and schizoid disorders, and anxiety. He portrays the modern individual who, living in late capitalism, is confronted with inner contradiction, organic dissociation, and self-destructiveness, while seeking to resolve rising anxiety through unconscious repression, withdrawal from tangible reality, and the deepening of an illusion of freedom, unconditional power, and the existence of personal supremacy. His focus lies in the dualistic nature of humanity: the relation between subject and object and their interconnection in relation to reality or, more often, to a constructed, defensive fantasy. These fundamental contradictions and inner (unconscious) conflicts manifest in his (generally monumental) visual works as depictions of social collapse, abstract dynamism, and enigmatic chaos, unfolding in a repetitive manner through layers of pink and reddish
Katarina Snoj: Attempt on Noise
Katarina Snoj
In the modern world, driven by the insatiable logic of consumption – to possess, to upgrade, to optimise – the individual is constantly addressed with the promise of personal growth. Yet this promise often remains merely superficial, as it does not lead to genuine personal transformation, but instead reproduces existing patterns of subjectivation, rooted in efficiency, competitiveness, and relentless self-management. In such a societal configuration, saturated with information and data, meaning is lost in the noise – the world expands towards quantitative overabundance and semantic emptiness.
Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera, Martina Mino Pérez, beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder)
In August 2024 as part of its war tactics Russia poisoned the Seim River, which flows into Ukraine. It was a reckless, perverse, and above all selfish act that is difficult to rationalise or understand. Polluting or poisoning a water source has not only immediate and dire effects, as the watercourse slowly seeps down the riverbed and leaves behind consequences that will be felt well into the future, and the impact on the environment is anything but localised. How this will return to Russia’s territory, only time will tell. Water is the most important natural resource and we should protect it from our own hatred and mutual carnage.
Weinberger Uroš
While preparing for our upcoming exhibition, we warmly invite you to visit our gallery between April 1 and April 15 to view a pop-up presentation by Uroš Weinberger. On display are five of his recent works, created between 2023 and 2024.
Širok Luka
The Shaping Change exhibition explores our relationship to the ever-changing environment. The title hints at both the influence and power of the environment and the potential of the individual to play an active role in changing it. Most of the works presented in the exhibition were created during a time of collective upheaval and radical social change, that is, during the pandemic, which represented both social isolation and the disturbance in supply chains. At the same time, the works also present the development and transformation of artistic practice, which was conditioned by the availability of artistic materials.
13 November — 10 January, 2024-2025
Tina Dobrajc, Mito Gegič, Arjan Pregl in Sašo Vrabič
The TELL ME Y exhibition presents the latest productions of four artists represented by the Ljubljana-based Y Gallery. Tina Dobrajc, Mito Gegič, Arjan Pregl and Sašo Vrabič showcase their paintings created in recent years. Although their shared main medium is painting (as well as illustration, scenography, graphics, plastic arts and music), the works in the exhibition differ in their fundamental approaches, the construction of images and techniques used, as well as their messages and the way of communicating with the audience. Their practice within the current Slovenian art scene is exceptionally relevant in terms of content. They are united by a critical and occasionally humorous viewing of current social events and make regular references to a wide variety of artistic fields and popular culture. Each of them addresses the complexity of modern times in their own unique way, which is reflected in the diverse repertoire of paintings that represent the artists’ critical standpoint toward
6 September — 4 November, 2024
Iva Tratnik - Totem and Tattoo
Tratnik Iva
Iva Tratnik’s work has an archaic, (pseudo)mythological appeal. Torn between the extreme poles of life and death—affirmatively, ecstatically, yet also bewilderingly and fatally—it tells unusual tales that bear witness to the discomfort of the human condition. The paintings, tapestries and textile sculptures combined in the Totem and Tatu exhibition create a luxurious organic, fertile, and abundant atmosphere, which is at the same time in the process of decay, breaking, and disintegration. Skulls, open bodies, dislocated organs (dissecta membra), surrounded by vital, unbridled growth and budding, present us with a kind of oneiric scenography, which, in its affirmation of opposites, is akin to an ancient mystery that performatively enacts the paradox of human existence.
Đuro Seder in Marko Tadić
As part of its summer exhibition programme, Y Gallery has joined forces with Zagreb’s Lauba Gallery, which has curated a selection of works by two Croatian artists — Đuro Seder and Marko Tadić — representing different generations and artistic styles, for display on the Ljubljana art scene. Đuro Seder is represented in the exhibition by six oil-on-canvas paintings that embody his figurative expressionism. Alongside Seder’s paintings, Lauba presents us with Marko Tadić’s distinctive collages, which continue to explore themes that have long fascinated the artist — the concept of modern urbanism and post-war utopian architecture. Tadić blends these themes with vintage photographs sourced from Zagreb’s flea markets, into which he integrates hand-drawn elements, thereby creating entirely new micro-worlds and subtle, suggestive narratives.
Patrik Dvorščak, Jurij Hartman, Petra Korent, Oskar Slabe, Neža Šivec
For the fourth time, the ECOART festival takes place in Y Gallery. This time it features the exhibition 25/7? It’s only natural, which presents the works of five young and promising Slovenian artists, which has become something of tradition at the festival. The diverse local art scene is at the forefront of the event, as it is here that all these young emerging talents are nurtured and shaped. Some of them are still at the art academy, while others are already fully paving their artistic path independently outside the safe realm of the academy. All artists, however, are fully up to speed with the big and worrisome issues at home and worldwide.
Živko Marušič, Ira Marušič
The beginning of spring brings an exhibition opening to Y Gallery: the intergenerational painting tandem – Ira and Živka Marušič. Father and daughter created five monumental works in the oil, wax and pigment techniques on canvas with a unique subtle work process. At their centre, the works present the artists’ captivation with nature, interpersonal relationships, the dreamlike coexistence of different entities and, finally, their own creative milieu. The title of the exhibition refers to their joint painting and sharing of the studio, as well as to a nostalgic memory from the turn of the last century, when their creative collaboration began with playful, colourful compositions filled with childish innocence and curiosity.
Vrabič Sašo
Y Gallery is hosting our “house artist” Sašo Vrabič’s solo exhibition. Although the broader public has recently become accustomed to his dynamic figural paintings, this time the versatile artist presents us with a series of works on paper, created in pastel and watercolour techniques. This extensive, insightful and memorable series of intense human portraits is titled Non-existent. In its essence, along with heightened intensity and milieu expression, it addresses a handful of current concerns related to the artist's personal practice as well as to various faced by modern society.
8 December — 29 January, 2023-2024
Žiga Kariž, Denis Krašković, RONE84
This time, Y Gallery presents an unexpected heterogenous trio, which at the exhibition comes together as a colorful Advent surprise. Selected artists of the middle generation, Žiga Kariž, RONE84 and Denis Krašković, introduce themselves at the ČU ČU MADAFAKA exhibition with their newer works, as well as some older ones, which we have already seen in certain foreign and local galleries in a different content-rounded entirety.
29 September — 1 December, 2023
Pregl Arjan
At the Y Gallery Arjan Pregl presents himself with 3 different cycles, each representing a different artistic approach, content presentation and technique. Instead of the numerous drawings we recently saw at the Nova Gorica City Gallery, etchings are now on display, and intricated, precisely created and well-thought-out paintings are now joined by Collateral Paintings, the origins of which we saw last summer at the Gallery Gallery.
Šiljan Joškin
This time, the Y Gallery space hosts the Serbian author Joškin Šiljan, whose gestures are characterized by intense colour surfaces, letter phrases and a free interweaving of lines. His working method is often described as automatic drawing. The resulting works contain lightness of being and wit as an escape from the ordinary and conventional. Through modern artistic expression, he seeks to articulate the unconscious, to capture the indeterminacy hidden in a dream or vision, and to show boundless freedom.
Ema Kobal, DILEMA, Jernej Čuček Gerbec, Carolina De Matthaeis, Nejc Trampuž, artist collective Kvadratni meter
The group exhibition Community.env presents the works of young artists whose common point in artistic practice is the question of man's relationship with his environment in which he lives. This year, this environment is narrowed down to the concept of urban space. It includes urban planning, different urban areas, community spaces, parks, third landscapes, suburban areas and architecture. Based on the idea of the importance of community and quality of life in the city, presented in this exhibition are various artists of the younger generation, whose practice deals with urban planning, architecture, environmental protection, the human factor, capturing the pulse of the city, real estate issues and quality of life in the city. Among them are graphic artist and illustrator Ema Kobal, photographer Carolina De Matthaeis, conceptual duo DILEMA, intermediate artist and environmental activist Nejc Trampuž, artist Jernej Čuček Gerbec and artist collective Kvadratni meter.
Mito Gegič - Go Tell the Fathers That We Are Leaving
Gegič Mito
This time Y Gallery presents a new solo exhibition of artist Mito Gegič titled Go Tell the Fathers That We Are Leaving. The paintings of various formats are mostly part of a brand-new production from 2022 and 2023, united by eccentric images from the Internet and a lot of scepticism towards modern power relations, illustrated through the prism of hunting, militia, borders, and game.
Aleksij Kobal - Logarithms of Expression
Kobal Aleksij
Y Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by academic artist Aleksij Kobal titled Logarithms of Expression. This is the first in a series of exhibitions within the thematic project From Pixel to Canvas that will take place this year. The project includes presentations by painters whose work is primarily built from digital images.
The solo exhibition Logarithms of Expression brings together paintings from the artist's series The Planted, Dilemmas Crisscrossed and Wormholes of Heaven.
14 September — 18 November, 2022
Traceback() - 2. ECOART Festival
Bezovšek Sara, Godec Miha, Kosi Janja, Klavžar Slemc Monika, Trampuž Nejc, Žibert Ulla
As part of the ECOART Festival, we are opening a new group exhibition at the Y Gallery where this year's group exhibition consists of various works by six local artists of the younger generation: Sara Bezovšek, Mihe Godca, Janje Kosi, Monika Slemc Klavžar, Nejca Trampuža and Ulla Žibert.
This year's edition is entitled Traceback() and focuses primarily on invisible and visible changes related to the human environment, urbanity, nature, interconnectedness, interdependence and involvement in the socio-economic system. The works, placed in dialogue, address various issues, reflect doubts, and ask multiple questions. They address the problem of digital and physical oversaturation and refer to a suffocating present, permeated by the absolute pollution of real and virtual space. We read the artworks of many media as individual responses, or at least as the beginnings of creative thinking about our actions, our mistakes, and especially our errors.
Tina Dobrajc - Balkan Promises
Dobrajc Tina
Artist Tina Dobrajc is returning to Y Gallery with a new exhibition, where her large-scale, mystical and always impressive paintings continue to be very popular. Thanks to her thoughtful use of rich animal iconography, numerous folkloric emblems, and sophisticated feminism, her works are sometimes startling and, above all, quickly recognizable. Kurent, accordion players, Drežnica carnival masks and naked girls with mobcaps are motifs that work perfectly in a scenographically elaborated and balanced forest landscape, getting under the viewer's skin with a touch of imaginative pop culture references.
LAIBACH KUNST - APOCALYPSE AND OTHER STORIES
Laibach
At this exhibition, Laibach Kunst presents its newer paintings with the following remark: all images are part of a coherent artistic strategy and have a long and rich tradition with a multifaceted meaning that can never be fully grasped or resolved. The first image was condensed in a black cross and the power this symbol holds. It was followed by others from Laibach’s arsenal of images and symbols – iconic images. The exhibition is no different, as it showcases recognisable motifs, such as the thrower, the sower, the deer, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. When Laibach revisit and reinterpret these symbols, they transform them rather than (re)construct them. By doing so, they negate the very principle of “the inimitable” and introduce seriality.
Štrukelj Miha
Miha Štrukelj is an artist with an international career who has since the late formally and substantively remained faithful to the concept of the “grid,” which is the prime basis of his works. The image of a pixel from the time of the first useful home computers combined with one of the painting methods for transferring sketches to paintings, or in Štrukelj’s case, photographs, has become and remains a building block and leitmotif of Štrukelj’s works to this day. But the use of the grid changes, albeit being a constant basis of his creations, which are to an extent expressed according to the painter’s vision, or a mere remnant of a line or a graphic element on the canvas. This results in the works’ wide variety of layering and its deepening effect.
24 September — 17 December, 2021
Mitja Ficko - Sesame Door and the 3 X Friends
Ficko Mitja
The Y Gallery is proud to present Painter Mitja Ficko and his large atmospheric canvases full of fantastic figures and an abundance of colours. The exhibition carries the unusual title Sesame Door and 3 X friends.
For many years now, the renowned painter of the middle generation has been creating recognisable atmospheric paintings, in which he stems from his personal experience and transforming them into scenes adorned by fragments of metaphors, where the main goal of the work is not the final materialisation, but the constant transition and the relations between narrative and visual.
3 September — 17 September, 2021
Crash & burn - Sara Bezovšek and Nejc Trampuž
Sara Bezovšek, Nejc Trampuž
The exhibition titled Crash & Burn highlights the works of intermediate artist and photographer Nejc Trampuž, who in his practice explores topics related to ecology and the exploitation of natural resources, transforming them into artistic projects. Through her practice, visual artist Sara Bezovšek explores the effects of Internet culture and social media on the viewer. The exhibition is thus a spatial arrangement where contents and images found on various social networks, online platforms and the artists’ personal archives fuse together.
Zdenko Huzjan - "Shadowy Mouthpiece"
Huzjan Zdenko
Huzjan’s “mouthpieces” may be viewed as demarcation of the Senses from the spiritual, about an enigmatic image-drawing where there is no “danger” of primary suffering. Although all the symbols that appear in the paintings are quite recognisable, a dimension that is not only one-way, unambiguous, but is also charge with a kind of spirituality, a magic, that instantly occupies the space around the “shrivelled” figures, which are painted with a kind of vehemence, purposefully rugged, rough, rigid, but in reality refined, drawn (since it is primarily a Trail, an internal-external “engagement” on the surface of the canvas) with a masterful touch; a principle of the consecrated priestly elite.
Jakše Marko
»I wish you an unburdened view(ing) ... However, if possible, brush your rational mind aside and into the background. This is not a political program; there is nothing to understand here. Surrender to your bare senses and emotions and try to pulsate in the unfathomable world of imagination ... without a master.
Good luck!«
Jakše Marko
“Damjan said a short text from me to accompany the exhibition would be most welcome. Since he wasn’t too keen (nor was I, to be honest) on the title I ‘slapped’ onto my previous show — Against the Flow, at Miklova Hiša — I’ve decided to give it a gentle tweak this time...