Exhibitions in the NLB Gallery Avla
In 2016, the NLB Avla Gallery organised and hosted five exhibitions, which attracted a wide audience. On the 45th anniversary of the building located at Trg republike 2 in Ljubljana, the Bank organised an international event in the Innovative Entrepreneurship Centre in cooperation with the Museum of Architecture and Design, which met with a broad response, featuring renowned figures from the design industry, the social sciences, the corporate sector, and the training entitled “Development Potential and Strategies – What Next?”.
Karel Zelenko – my means of expression is drawing
An exhibition of Karel Zelenko in the collections of the NLB and the MGLC (the International Centre of Graphic Arts). Both institutions keep part of the artistic opus of this renowned artist. The exhibition aims to bring it closer to the general public. The opening was attended by numerous fans of art.
Karel Zelenko is a creator who belongs to the oldest Slovenian graphic artists and representatives of the first post-war generation that graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. As an artist, Zelenko discovered what he was interested in early on. His motives draw from real life, as he lived it. He transformed memories, experience, what he saw and what he lived in his artistic creations. He chronicles the life of little people from the streets and squares, with love perhaps being the central theme of his works. The graphics, exclusively black-and-white, indicate social criticism masked in irony and the grotesque. The artist himself said that he had deliberately selected graphics because the reproduction capacity allows him to reach more people. We were guided through his creations by the museum councillor, Breda Škrjanec MSc.
Adolf Born – Selection of graphic works
The exhibition of his graphic works is an excellent example of cultural cooperation between countries and is held in honour of the Day of Statehood of the Czech Republic. The opening ceremony was also attended by Věra Zemanová, Czech Ambassador to Slovenia, and Ema Born, the artist's partner. They both sincerely thanked everyone who had helped organise and put the exhibition on at the NLB Avla Gallery and expressed their view that the first Born exhibition in Slovenia would be an unforgettable cultural event for all art lovers.
Lights of the Future – children in photographs of the 20th century
Exhibitions in Galerija NLB Banka Skopje
The most prominent art gallery in the NLB Group is that of NLB Banka Skopje. In 2016, it organised 13 exhibitions, showcasing the works of domestic and foreign artists, which received wide coverage.
Exhibitions in the Lendava Branch Office: “Money – The Curse of the Gods”
The Lendava Branch Office is displaying an exhibition of means of payment, from the Bronze Age onward. The exhibition, arranged in cooperation with the ‘Lindva’ Pomurje Collectors Association, reveals a mystery or two and showcases the creation of money in the form in which it is known today.
How money was created as the means of payment still remains under a veil of secrecy. The legend says that only money became more important than the gods. As this disappointed the gods, they put a spell on it.
In the second half of the year, in collaboration with the ‘Lindva’ Pomurje Collectors Association the Bank arranged an exhibition of the current means of payment from 67 countries of the world. It featured money boxes and wallets made of waste material, reused within the scope of social entrepreneurship.
