Opening of the exhibition From our collections: Milan Butina, set designer

The exhibition From Our Collections: Milan Butina, Set Designer is part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. In Kočevje, his birthplace, the year 2023 has been declared the Milan Butina Cultural Theme Year. The Kočevje Regional Museum has organised the exhibition Hommage to Milan Butina in the Kočevje Fine Arts Salon, and the artist's jubilee is being marked by two exhibitions at the Slovenian Theatre Institute - Theatre Museum, the Stanet Kregar Gallery (in the St Stanislav Institute in Šentvid) and the Hest Gallery in Maribor, in addition to the Slovenian Theatre Institute - Theatre Museum.

The exhibition From Our Collections: Milan Butina, Set Designer at the Slovenian Theatre Institute - Theatre Museum focuses on the artist's oeuvre as a set designer. It will present a selection of sketches from the period between 1951 and 1967, representing scenographic designs for twenty-four productions - seventeen were staged at the Ljubljana City Theatre, one each in Celje, Trieste and Kranj, four remained unrealised. A selection of sketches is kept in our iconotheque collection - the enrichment of the collection is largely due to Mrs Darja Butina, the artist's daughter, who donated Butina's scenographic sketches, a model, portraits of the creators and backstage sketches to SLOGI.

The exhibition will open on Thursday, 9 November 2023, at 6 pm, in the Hall of the Slovenian Theatre Institute. Dr Gašper Troha, Director of SLOGI and mag. Tea Rogelj, author and curator of the exhibition, will open the exhibition, with music by Jelena Ždrale, violinist.

The exhibition will be on view from 9 November 2023 to 29 December 2023.

You are cordially invited to the exhibition!