Melancholy - Maruša Štibelj and Eva Mlinar

On Friday, December 16, 2022, at 6 p.m., you are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition entitled Melancholy, by Maruša Štibelj and Eva Mlinar. The exhibition curator, Saša Bučan, will present the project in the gallery View.

Maruša Štibelj (1986) graduated in art pedagogy at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana. He searches for material for collages in old magazines and newspapers and constantly tries to expand the boundaries of collage as a self-sufficient medium, while maintaining the original spectrum of colours that the material offers. In 2018, at the Salon of Fine Arts in Paris, she received the jury prize for the work Chronically late. She is a member of the ZDSLU and the Kranj Art Society and the artistic director of the contemporary collage festival KAOS. She presents her work at solo exhibitions and regularly at numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.

Eva Mlinar (1985) completed the study of art history at the Faculty of Arts and the study of visual communications at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works in various fields of visual art; from book and contemporary illustration to painting; and she often introduces elements of collage into her works. She has already presented herself at several independent exhibitions, and regularly also exhibits at Slovenian and international illustration biennials (China, Croatia, France, Lithuania, …). In 2019, together with the writer and playwright Eva Mahkovic, she published a literary-visual collection of grotesques of an incompatible genre, Vignettes of the Coward, which was voted for the grand prize of the Slovenian Book Fair – Book of the Year 2019.