From 30 January to 26 Might 2025, the Belvedere in Vienna presents the exhibition “The World in Colors: Slovenian Painting 1848−1918”
Supply: Belvedere · Picture: Ivan Grohar, “The Field of Rafolče”, 1903. Photograph: Belvedere, Vienna
Becoming a member of forces with the Nationwide Gallery of Slovenia, the Belvedere is presenting highlights of Slovenian portray from the period of nationwide emancipation—from the revolution 12 months of 1848 to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918.
The exhibition spotlights the defining attribute of Slovenian portray round 1900: the intensive engagement with shade. A deal with the examine of its ornamental impact, symbolism, expressive energy, and technical utility was, at the moment, present in few different locations to the identical extent.
The exhibition will give particular consideration to Slovenian artists’ ambivalent relationship to Austria and its capital Vienna. Many of those artists studied or lived for a time in Vienna, Graz, or Decrease Austria. This ambivalence stemmed from a way of latent exclusion whereas on the similar time being depending on state funding. On this context, many paperwork from the Belvedere Archive will shed a recent, extra nuanced mild on the cultural-political ties between Vienna and Ljubljana.
