SLOVENIA OPEN FOR ART 2025
33. International art symposium
15. 1.–15. 3. 2026
Nikolaj Pirnat Exhibition Centre, GE Amaterkenegg Castle
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 15. in January 2026, at 18. uri.
Artists and their works will be presented by Anamarija Stibilj Shajn, art historian and art critic.
The annual ascent of selected fine artists to Sinji vrh is traditional, and the International Symposium Slovenia, open to art, has confirmed for the thirty-third time that it is an important part of art events both in Slovenia and internationally. In addition to domestic authors, artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds, authors of different generations, artistic orientations and technical approaches gathered on it. In addition to painting in acrylic, oil and watercolor, drawing and graphics also shone in the artistic quality. The authors looked into the world of the external and scooped from personal depths. On the foundations of the classical, they revealed their views, thoughts and ideas, moving into the spheres of fresh solutions, modern artistic accents and topical messages. The following authors took care of the flow of artistic energies at this year's symposium: from Slovenia Jozica Medle (guest of Honor), Mojca Fo, Gregor Zhitko, Oliver Pili/and Natalija Premk Jenic, and from abroad Ivan Balazhevi/(guest of Honor, Croatia), Natasha Bakovic (France / Russia, lives in Croatia), Zoran Durbi / (Croatia), Jessica Gobert (France / England, lives in Croatia) and Helene Thuemmel (Austria).
At the exhibition "Journey", which also stops every year at The Exhibition Center of Nikolaj Pirnat, an individual author presents himself with works of large and small format. Guests of Honor are allowed to exhibit several works of art. So we can get to know them in a more complex way. Jozica Medle in her unique artistic expression connects painting and graphic elements, as well as collage applications. In a wide and at the same time carefully selected artistic and expressive repertoire, she found the possibility of full-power and full-blooded presentation of contents that interest her and are a reflection of her sensitive perception of space, time and life. Man and nature are in the center of her attention, and the created images are a reflection from the surface of her soul. Ivan Balazhevi / he presents himself to us with landscape themes in his affirmed artistic language. In doing so, he relies on the most eloquent features of the landscape face, exposing them, partially stylizing and authorically interpreting them in the dialogue between line and color, between the sharpness and softness of the application. Through the selected color values, it reveals the coloristic sensibility of fine nuances and sensed tonal gradations.
Mojca Fo and Jessica Gobert were awarded for the quality of the artwork. Mojca came from the reality of memories and took the story into symbolic and surreal forms in an artistically sophisticated way. Jessica revealed her mastery of the drawing medium and dedication to charcoal as the medium of her record in an excerpt from the natural sini-Greek environment. If the participating authors swear by classical technology, the symposium photographer Brut Carniollus, in addition to the documentary and thus veristic photographic accompaniment of the symposium, also reveals his other creative side, in which he upgrades the photographic shots with the possibilities offered to him by modern computer technology.
Thus, the reassembled image of heterogeneous artistic practices, whichthey arrive at 33. International Symposium Slovenia, open to art.
Anamarija Stibilj Shajn, artistic director of the project
From mid-January to mid-March, The Exhibition Centre of Nikolaj Pirnat will exhibit the works of ten contemporary artists who created at the Slovenia symposium open to art last summer. The exhibition, which is also hosted annually in Idrija, will feature paintings, prints and drawings inspired by Sinji vrh, a look into the distance, nature and socializing with the participants of the symposium. With their thoughts, views and ideas poured on canvas or paper, we will thus be able to meet.
Domen Gostisha, Museum associate of the Idrija City Museum
SLOVENIJA, ODPRTA ZA UMETNOST 2025
33. Mednarodni likovni simpozij
15. 1.–15. 3. 2026
Razstavišče Nikolaja Pirnata, grad Gewerkenegg
Odprtje razstave: četrtek, 15. januarja 2026, ob 18. uri.
Umetnike in njihova dela bo predstavila Anamarija Stibilj Šajn, umetnostna zgodovinarka in likovna kritičarka.
Vsakoletni vzpon izbranih likovnih umetnikov na Sinji vrh je tradicionalen in tako je Mednarodni likovni simpozij Slovenija, odprta za umetnost že triintridesetič potrdil, da je pomemben del likovnega dogajanja tako v Sloveniji kot v mednarodnem prostoru. Na njem so se poleg domačih avtorjev zbrali umetniki iz različnih držav in kulturnih okolij, avtorji različnih generacij, likovnih usmeritev in tehničnih pristopov. Poleg slikarstva v akrilu, olju in akvarelu sta v likovni kvaliteti zablesteli tudi risba in grafika. Avtorji so se zazirali v svet zunanjega in zajemali iz osebnih globin. Na temeljih klasičnega so razkrivali svoje poglede, misli in ideje, prestopali v sfere svežih rešitev, sodobnih likovnih naglasov in aktualnih sporočil. Za pretok umetniških energij so na letošnjem simpoziju poskrbeli naslednji avtorji: iz Slovenije Jožica Medle (častna gostja), Mojca Fo, Gregor Žitko, Oliver Pilić in Natalija Premk Jenič, iz tujine pa Ivan Balažević (častni gost, Hrvaška), Natasha Bakovic (Francija/Rusija, živi na Hrvaškem), Zoran Durbić (Hrvaška), Jessica Gobert (Francija/Anglija, živi na Hrvaškem) in Helene Thuemmel (Avstrija).
Na razstavnem »potovanju«, ki se vsako leto zaustavlja tudi v Razstavišču Nikolaja Pirnata, se posamezni avtor predstavlja z delom velikega in tudi malega formata. Častnima gostoma je omogočeno, da razstavita več likovnih del. Tako ju lahko spoznamo na kompleksnejši način. Jožica Medle v svoj edinstven umetniški izraz povezuje slikarske in grafične prvine, pa tudi kolažne aplikacije. V širokem in hkrati skrbno izbranem likovno-izraznem repertoarju je našla možnost polnomočnega in polnokrvnega predstavljanja vsebin, ki jo zanimajo in so odraz njene senzibilne percepcije prostora, časa in življenja. Človek in narava sta v središču njene pozornosti, ustvarjene podobe pa odsev z gladine njene duše. Ivan Balažević se nam v svojem afirmiranem likovnem jeziku predstavlja s krajinsko tematiko. Pri tem se naslanja na najbolj zgovorne poteze krajinskega obraza, jih izpostavlja, delno stilizira in avtorsko interpretira v dialogu med linijo in barvo, med ostrino in mehkobo nanosa. Skozi izbrane barvne vrednosti razkriva koloristično senzibiliteto finih nians in občutenih tonskih gradacij.
Za kvaliteto likovnih del sta bili nagrajeni Mojca Fo in Jessica Gobert. Mojca je izhajala iz resničnosti spominov, zgodbo pa je popeljala v simbolne in nadrealne oblike na likovno sofisticiran način. Jessica je obvladovanje risarskega medija in predanost oglju kot nosilcu njenega zapisa razkrila v izseku iz naravnega sinjevrškega okolja. Če sodelujoči avtorji prisegajo na klasično tehnologijo, pa fotograf simpozija Brut Carniollus poleg dokumentarnega in s tem verističnega fotografskega spremljanja simpozija razkriva tudi svojo drugo ustvarjalno plat, na kateri fotografske posnetke nadgrajuje z možnostmi, ki mu jih ponuja sodobna računalniška tehnologija.
Tako je ponovno sestavljena podoba heterogenih umetniških praks, kisobivajo na 33. Mednarodnem likovnem simpoziju Slovenija, odprta za umetnost.
Anamarija Stibilj Šajn, umetniška vodja projekta
V Razstavišču Nikolaja Pirnata bodo od sredine januarja do sredine marca razstavljena dela desetih sodobnih umetnikov, ki so prejšnje poletje ustvarjali na simpoziju Slovenija, odprta za umetnost. Na razstavi, ki vsako leto gostuje tudi v Idriji, bodo na ogled slike, grafike in risbe, ki jih je navdihnil Sinji vrh, pogled v daljavo, narava in druženje z udeleženci simpozija. Z njihovimi razmišljanji, pogledi in idejami, ki so jih prelili na platno ali papir, se bomo tako lahko srečali tudi mi.
Domen Gostiša, muzejski sodelavec Mestnega muzeja Idrija