Arteast 2000+ COLLECTION, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART METELKOVA

At the +MSUM, several exhibitions of works from Moderna galerija’s collections have been staged, with special emphasis on the Arteast 2000+ collection. Arteast 2000+ is the first museum collection conceived with a focus on Eastern European postwar avant-garde art in a broader international context. Since its inception in 2000, the collection has become well known for providing a comprehensive overview of the art in the region. Similarly, it is recognized for the insight it provides into certain shared sociopolitical issues that are or were of central concern for the artists in the formerly socialist countries, outlining as it does the developments from the 1960s through the transition period in the 1990s to the present-day context of global neoliberal capitalism. In 2011, Arteast 2000+ became the core of the newly founded Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM), which operates as part of Moderna galerija, Ljubljana.

The new display foregrounds four sections loosely grouped together under the headings: women, monuments, science – art, and pavilions. The first group comprises works by Marina Abramović, Geta Brătescu, Vlasta Delimar, Olja Grubić, Katalin Ladik, and Maja Smrekar. All the works revolve around the body – political, exhausted, human-animal, female-male, archetypical, and pornographic. READ MORE