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We are once again participating in the joint campaign of SMS and the Museum Registry Service at the National Museum of Slovenia #FORWARDTOTHEPAST #MUSEUMSRESEARCH #MUSEUMSANDCREATION, which will take place online from 9 to 15 December 2024. Museums and galleries are multifaceted institutions that respond to current events, encourage dialogue, intergenerational encounters, critical thinking, research, learning, and creativity.

In the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik, we have prepared for you online and on social networks:

The online exhibition ŽIGA OKORN – RAZKRIVANJA.

Žiga Okorn is currently exhibiting at the View Gallery. You can also see the Razkrivanja exhibition at:

After the Secondary School of Design and Photography, Žiga Okorn continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1991 under Prof. Gustav Gnamuš and Prof. Tomaž Brejc. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance artist. He is a co-author of the renovation of former military prisons into the Celica youth hotel and the author of one of the cells, for which he received a plaque from the City of Ljubljana in 2004 with the Sestava group. He is also involved in the design and staging of exhibitions, illustration, photography, and interior design. Since 1991, he has been regularly exhibiting his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures at home and abroad. In 2002, he received the award for the best watercolor at Extempor Piran and in 2008 at Extempor Grožnjan. In 2009 he received the Golden Nest Award, and in 2006, 2008 and 2011 he was a co-author of the Golden Pencil Award of the Architectural Chamber of Slovenia. He lives and works in Ljubljana.

»… Žiga’s search for the essential element of human existence, that is, love for oneself and one’s fellow human beings, takes place on the whiteness of the sheet, on which, with minimal artistic means, human figures are born as if from some invisible space in the shades of flesh that merge with life – water. Recently, the figure has increasingly grown into intense color landscapes that glow in warm red tones – and yet this is not only beautiful, we can also understand them quite the opposite, as the horror of fiery teeth. Landscapes in which the figures of a woman, a child or a couple almost stand still dictate the true grandeur of nature and, as in romantic painting, highlight the individual, his smallness and perishability, but at the same time, by constantly highlighting it, the painter conveys the meaning that a person or human life should occupy in the minds of the entire society….”

Exhibition curator: Saša Bučan Video: Vladimir Ristić The project was financed by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Municipality of Kamnik