Category: Exibitions

The mosaic icon “Jesus Christ on the throne” shines in the Icon Gallery in Ohrid

The unique and unique mosaic icon in Macedonia was presented to the Macedonian public for the first time as part of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of organized museum activities in the city by the NU Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments and the Ohrid Museum, and on the occasion of the celebration of the 1110th anniversary of the death of Saint Kliment Ohriski.

The promotion was opened by the Director, M.Sc. Goran Patčev, with greetings to those present, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Debar-Kičevski, Mr. Georgij, and other representatives of the institution, cultural workers and visitors.

Art historian Katerina Velkoska spoke about the value and meaning of mosaic icons, who pointed out that in 1960, during the recording of icons in the church of St.Bogorodica Perivlepta in Ohrid, this mosaic icon was discovered in the southern chapel of the church next to other icons. At that time, the icon was dated as being from the 14th century, but it may be older.

On the icon with dimensions 28.5x21x2.5, Jesus Christ is represented sitting on the throne.

The mosaic technique represents the most complex and expensive medium of fine art in the Byzantine period, so small mosaic icons belong to a certain class of people and are a product of court art. This icon here in Ohrid was most likely brought as a gift from Constantinople or Thessaloniki.

Mosaic icons are among the rarest forms of Byzantine iconography. Today, significant examples are preserved in several of the world’s largest museum collections, in the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Bode Museum in Berlin and the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.

In Ohrid, a city that for centuries represented one of the most important centers of Orthodox spirituality and Byzantine culture in the Balkans, this rare mosaic icon represents yet another precious proof of its place in the history of European and Byzantine cultural heritage.

This project is part of the annual program for the work of institutions financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The project “Current maintenance of the collection of icons and other liturgical objects” was realized by the department curator, art historian Katerina Velkoska.

The solo exhibition “Diagrams of Embodiment” by the multidisciplinary artist Ivancho Talevski.

This is the author’s first solo exhibition in Ohrid.

Robevci House, Ohrid, NI Institute and Museum – Ohrid

Starting in 2015, during his frequent trips between Bitola and Philadelphia, Talevski has been recording time and space through his drawings, reacting to different experiences, social processes, events and locations.

The drawings arise from everyday walks through the two cities and create a kind of interspace in which different geographies, languages, memories and identities intersect. Through them, the author explores the relationships between the body and the ground, individual and collective memory, the past and possible futures.

The exhibition project also includes the new work “Dremka mi se dreme”, created as an intersection between the language of the drawing and the author’s long-standing experimentation with pictorial expression.

Ivancho Talevski is a multidisciplinary artist and professor who lives and works between Bitola and Philadelphia, USA. His works and projects have been presented in numerous international museums, galleries, biennials and triennials in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brussels, Seoul, Tokyo, Krakow, Taiwan, China and Skopje.

He has received several international awards, recognitions and grants, including support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and the Sachs Foundation for Innovation in the Arts.

Exhibition XXII BIMAS 2025

On May 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM, the XXII BIMAS_2025 exhibition was opened, at the initiative of the Association of Architects of Macedonia (AAM) with president Valentino Konstantinovski and member of the AAM Board of Directors Metodi Hadži Andov, with opening remarks by the Director of the National Institution Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments and Museum – Ohrid, Mr. Goran Pačev, and Iva Petrunova, member of the AAM Board of Directors. The exhibition features around fifty panels of architectural works from last year’s XXII BIMAS_2025, presented as a travelling exhibition of projects, completed buildings, interiors and competition entries, displayed in the exhibition space of the Robevci House. The exhibition will remain on display until May 20, 2026.

Exhibition “Inherited Costume”

Join us on Thursday, April 23, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at the “House of Robevci” in Ohrid, for the opening of Mila Dobrevska’s solo exhibition, entitled Inherited Costume.

Inherited Costume reflects the spirit of the Macedonian woman, translating traditional values ​​into new features of contemporary behavior. In this context, inherited costumes are not only the clothes we wear, but also the way we present ourselves and how others perceive us, reflecting the inherited traits and tendencies that make us recognizable. The exhibition addresses the younger generation as a reminder, precisely, of these values ​​and virtues that remain an inseparable part of us: kindness, love, critical awareness, perseverance and resourcefulness. These characteristics are presented through a dualistic interpretation of the past and the present, with comparisons, harmonies, interweavings, creating new interpretations and adaptations.

Inspired by traditional ornamentation and embroidery, Mila re-examines and adapts the basic elements of art: color, line, surface, form, material and space using hand-modeled cement mass, surfaces sprinkled with glass and innovative weaving and painting techniques. Inherited values ​​are translated into new forms that boldly lean towards the contemporary social context.

We are expecting you, on Thursday, April 23 at the “House of Robevci” at 7 pm.

Exhibition “Lust for nostalgia” of the Ohrid painter Sasho Blazes

 28. 07. 2017 – 10. 08. 2017

Last night at the Gallery “Robevci” in Ohrid the sixth solo exhibition of the Ohrid painter Sasho Blazes, entitled “Lust for nostalgia”, was opened.

Sasho Blazes was born in Ohrid in 1980, and this is his third solo presentation to the Ohrid audience. In addition to the five solo exhibitions, this artist, who completed his education at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania (2002-2006), where he received his MA in 2008, has so far participated in numerous group exhibitions in the country and the world.

His latest cycle of paintings, made in the last few years (2015-2017), consists of a series of portraits that seem to refer to the classical concept and procedure in their creation. These portraits of celebrities and close people are striking through the deconstruction of the represented character, a deconstruction that can be interpreted as a transformation of the actual appearance by penetrating into the structural sediments that construct the person. The author himself, defines the appearance in his previous works as “memories”, “mirrors of reality”, “narratives”, “different realities”, represented through a combination of various coloristic abstract and/or figurative fragments.

In the same time, Blazhe’s color is a pronounced element with its artistic and sign autonomy in resolving the surface of the image and defining the character of the presented physiognomy, and the vibrant coloristic solutions associate to the view in a blurred mirror.

The exhibition will last till 10 August.

Exhibition of pictures by Stefan Hadzi-Nikolov

14. 07. 2017 – 27. 07. 2017

Within the program of this year’s edition of the Ohrid Summer Festival and as a part of the summer exhibition program of the NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid, the exhibition of pictures by Stefan Hadzi-Nikolov was opened at the Gallery Robevci in Ohrid.

This renowned Macedonian painter, who presented himself in the same space in Ohrid two years ago with his 60th solo exhibition titled “Light from the Past”, presented at this exhibition his latest works from the rich opus.

So far, Hadzi-Nikolov has realized many solo exhibitions, not only in Macedonia, but also around the world, starting from 1982 until today.

Hadzi-Nikolov participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He is a participant of several international fine art colonies. From 2002 to 2006 he participated at the Art Exhibition “Impression” in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Stefan Hadzi-Nikolov has received numerous awards and prestigious awards in the field of art, confirming his work.

The exhibition of pictures by Stefan Hadzi-Nikolov at the Gallery Robevci in Ohrid.

Exhibition of fresco copies, church embroideries and liturgical items

25. 06. 2017 – 30. 06. 2017

By the end of June 2017, another part of the rich heritage from the collections of the NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid was exhibited in the lower space of the Icon Gallery-Ohrid.

It is about twenty frescoes with the images of Slavic Enlighteners Ss. Clement and Naum of Ohrid, but also Ss. Cyril and Methodius and other saints from the churches in Macedonia and neighboring countries, but also one from Rome, Italy. Copies were made mostly in 1966 and 1980, on the occasion of the celebration of the 1050th anniversary of the death of St. Clement of Ohrid (1966) and the opening of the Museum of Slavic Literacy in Ohrid (1980) by the most famous copists of the time, such as Dragomir Jasovic, Zdenka Zivkovic, Nikola Conev and others. Last year, 2016, most of these frescoes were exhibited at the exhibition “St. Clement of Ohrid and his presentations in the art” at the University Urbaniana in the Vatican, as well as at two other exhibitions in Skopje and Ohrid.

Within this exhibition are exhibited a certain number of church embroideries and liturgical items from the collection, in order to enrich the content and diversity of objects presented to visitors of the Gallery of Icons-Ohrid.

Exhibition of fresco copies, church embroideries and liturgical items

Exhibition “Intaglio” from Print Nest Studio +

16. 06. 2017 – 29. 06. 2017

The exhibition “Intaglio” that was open on 16. 06. 2017 in the Art Gallery “Robevci”consists of graphics works of the authors from “Print Nest Studio” from Sofia, Bulgaria. Six young artists both from Macedonia and Bulgaria, who cherish the traditional graphic techniques, established their own studio in Sofia.

The studio combines different personalities, people with different abilities and attitude to life, but with a common goal in the art. The feature in the graphics of the young authors Zoran Mishe, Ivan Mateev, Vasil Angelov, Goran Trichkovski, Pavel Celkoski and Iva Dimitrova.is to build the image in the range of black and white. They use mainly traditional graphic techniques for creating forms and spaces, conditions, thoughts and feelings. The thematic register is diverse and multi-layered. The forms vary in possible technical range from the accuracy of the miniature to monumental. The exhibition will last until June 29.

Exhibition “Intaglio” from Print Nest Studio +