Slovenia gets a second taste of national art
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova opens this month
By Richard Unwin. Museums, Issue 229, November 2011
Published online: 22 November 2011
Slovenia’s new Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) is due to open in the capital on 26 November. Its planned October launch was delayed by a range of factors, including changes in the coalition government. A new branch of Ljubljana’s Moderna Galerija, MSUM will be based in a former Yugoslav army barracks.
Works on show will include the Arteast 2000+ collection, covering international avant-garde art from the 1960s to the present, such as Alexander Kosolapov’s Lenin Coca-Cola, 1980, above.
The Moderna Galerija houses Slovenia’s national collection of 20th- and 21st-century work and will operate from two locations. The original building is now home to the Museum of Modern Art.
