Galerija Skuc

Profil

kuc Gallery has been operating in the premises at Stari trg 21 in Ljubljana since 1978 as part of the KUC Cultural Centre, one of the pillars of non-governmental culture in Slovenia for over 30 years now. In these 23 years of operation, kuc Gallery has become a prominent international art centre for exhibitions, different art events, publishing and documenta tion.

At the end of the '70s, the foundation of kuc Gallery meant a counterpart to the dominant exhibition policy of the established national galleries and institutions in Slovenia. Its first artistic director was the art historian and curator Taja Vidmar Brejc and it opened with a retrospective presentation of the conceptual art group OHO.
In the eighties, kuc Gallery under new artistic directors (Duan Mandic, Marina Grinic, Barbara Borcic) became the centre of (sub)culture in Slovenia, and thus even aggravated its relationship with govern-mental institutional culture. Characteristics of this period were multi-media projects; presentations of the Conceptual Art movements in Zagreb and Belgrade (Raa Todosijevic, Mladen Stilinovic, Goran Djordjevic, for instance); and the first projects of now established Slovene artists including IRWIN, V.S.S.D., Bojan Gorenec and Marjetica Potrc.

In the last ten years, kuc Gallery has become one of the most visited exhibition premises in Slovenia, with some 1,000 visitors on average per exhibition. The focus on regional and local developments represents a significant segment of the Gallery's programme but at the same time the involvement in the international cultural industry has become a growing part of the daily routine. We have decided to establish a closer co-operation with institutions and individuals working in the region including art centres in Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Italy, that provides a wider theoretical framework of our curatorial work. kuc Gallery has developed into an art production centre and since 2000 it has also started to represent its artists at international art fairs.
During the last few years, the following internationally working artists were presented in the Gallery: Ingold Airlines, Rasheed Araeen , Joe Bari, Raimond Chaves , Attila Csörgo, Tacita Dean , Leif Elggren , Olafur Eliasson , Vadim Fishkin , Carl Michael von Hausswolff , IRWIN, iga Kari, Antal Lakner , Juri Leiderman, Maja Licul , M+M, Olaf Nicolai , Cesare Pietroiusti , Tadej Pogacar, Marko Peljhan , Goran Petercol , Marjetica Potrc, Mladen Stilinovic, Neboja eric-oba, Nika pan, Apolonija uteric, Elulalia Valldosera, Sislej Xhafa , and others.