Category: Events

Visit of the reactive monitoring mission of UNESCO/ICOMOS/IUCN

 09. 04. 2017 – 14. 04. 2017

From 9 to 14 April 2017 a reactive monitoring mission UNESCO/ ICOMOS / IUCN stayed in our country to inspect the implemented activities and to assess how their recommendations on the scope of construction activities and their impact on the environment and cultural heritage if the world heritage site “Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region” are obeyed.

Mission members: Ms. Anna Sidorenko, representative of the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, Ms. Maja Vasiljevic of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature, an advisory body of UNESCO) and Mr. Pierre-Marie Tricaud, representative of ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites, an advisory body of UNESCO) today had a working meeting in NI Institute for protection of monuments of Culture and Museum- Ohrid. According to Ms. Sidorenko, the goal of the meeting was to obtain information and to review efforts, projects and progress in their implementation by the central and local government in the protection of cultural heritage and implementation of remarks by UNESCO from the 40th session held in Istanbul last year. After the monitoring by the mission, as well as meetings and consultations that follow, they will present their further guidance and recommendations.

Visit of the reactive monitoring mission of UNESCO/ICOMOS/IUCN

Visit of the judges for the “Zhiva” award

04. 04. 2017 – 05. 04. 2017

Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSK) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 in Ljubljana. The initiative team of experts of the member countries of the Forum (Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia) in 2012 established the award “Zhiva” and the competition is in six categories.

With their participation, the member states of FSK promote outstanding achievements in the field of cultural values ​​emphasizing at this the significant cultural heritage of Slavic countries. The “Zhiva” award itself is called according to the Slavic goddess of fertility, whose main attribute is grain, so the appearance of this special award is inspired from the classes of wheat.

This year the awards will be held at Bled in Slovenia, from 20 to 24 September and our institution is the only nominee of our country among more than 20 museums from 13 countries.

These days (4-5 April) judges Biljana Brajovic from Montenegro and Katja Dzhumalieva from Bulgaria came to Ohrid to inspect and assess the capacity values, meaning, richness and diversity of our museum collections and in general the overall activity of NI Institute and museum-Ohrid in the field of preservation, documentation, protection and conservation and, of course, the presentation of the huge fund of cultural heritage entrusted to us for preservation for future generations. The photos are from today’s visit to the Museum on Water in the Gulf of Bones, only one of its kind in the Balkans and in the wider region in general. According to the reactions and unabashed admiration of the judges, we are really a serious candidate for one of the prizes, keep your fingers crossed for us!

Visit of the judges for the “Zhiva” award

Exhibition of Small Format Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia

02. 06. 2017 – 15. 06. 2017

The exhibition “Small Format” is presentation of artworks made in various art techniques from 50 Macedonian authors, members of the Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia. The small format has always been a creative challenge and temptation even for the greatest artists such as Picasso, Dali, Matisse, Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, artists from all schools, art movements and styles that felt the inner urge to master the little square, with dimensions 25 x 25cm, and in a concise, sometimes metaphorical way to convey the motive of the big canvas in the shrunken dimensions. The exhibition which was opened on June 2 will last until June 15.

Exhibition of Small Format Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia

Polish School of Poster

 14. 10. 2016

The rich collection of posters that Polish Embassy in Macedonia has brought in the country is available for Ohrid artistic audience in the exhibition at the Memorial House of Hristo Uzunov. Works by the most prominent Polish poster artists of the so-called golden years from 1950 to the present are on display. For decades, no public event, film, festival, concert, theater play is presented without a poster. With the invention of threecolored lithographic process in 1880, by French graphic artist Jules Cheret, the poster at the end of the 19th century in Europe becomes the art of the great urban landscape. This new means of communication especially was developed with the new graphics solutions and great innovation of the first masters of the poster, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Leonetto Capielo, Alphonse Mucha, Eugen Graset.

The Polish poster is permitted form of artistic expression and owing to Polish graphic artists Poland became world famous for the art of the poster. Polish poster reaches a level of national art thanks to the extremely talented graphic artists as Tomashevski, Lenica, Majewski, Mlodozhenjec, Starovjejski, Shvjezhi and many others.

In Warsaw in 1968 was opened the first museum of the poster in the world, the Museum in Wilanow as a part of the National Museum in Warsaw whose collection has more than 60.000 works and is also one of the largest collections of posters in the world. This exhibition is realized through the project “Museum Link” of of the Museum of the City of Skopje, in cooperation with 18 other museums, including NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid.

The Polish school of poster is not only the tip of Polish creativity and cultural life after the Second World War, but also serious representative in the European cultural flows. The exhibition was presented in galleries and museums in several cities around our country.

Polish School of Poster in Memorial House of Hristo Uzunov

Inscriptions, a woman in space

 09. 09. 2016 – 16. 09. 2016

Mustafa Cevat Atalay was born in Karaman, Turkey. He graduated from the “Selcuk” University and completed his doctoral studies at “Gazi University”.Since 2013 he works as a lecturer at the “Namik Kemal” University in Tekirdag, Turkey.

He has six solo exhibitions behind him and also numerous group exhibitions. “Inscriptions, a woman in space” is the latest cycle of paintings with which the author presented himself to the Ohrid audience.

“Inscriptions, a woman in space” by Turkish artist Mustafa Dzevat Atal Memorial house of Hristo Uzunov

Portraits of St. Clement of Ohrid in the art in Macedonia and neighboring countries

09. 08. 2016 – 20. 08. 2016

Within the activities of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences to mark the 1100 anniversary of the reposal of St. Clement of Ohrid, on August 9, 2016, in the cathedral church of St. Sophia in Ohrid an exhibition of copies of frescoes depicting the saint from the churches and monasteries in Macedonia and neighboring countries was opened. The exhibition actually consisted of fresco copies that on May 24 the same year, in organization of NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid, on the occasion of the traditional manifestation “Macedonia Honoring St. Cyril”, was opened at the Pontifical University Urbaniana at the Vatican, complemented with several other exhibits, copies of frescoes and photos. This same exhibition earlier was on display in the premises of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Skopje.

“Portraits of St. Clement of Ohrid in the art in Macedonia and neighboring countries” in the church. Sophia in Ohrid

Symphonic Imagination

29. 07. 2016

Maria Meshkoska was born in Ohrid (1989). She graduated in 2012 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of painting, conservation and restoration in the class of Blagoja Manevski. She continues her Master Studies at the  Bologna University, at the Department of conservation and restoration. She is a member of DLUM (Society of the Artists of Macedonia) since 2012. Meshkoska has participated in many group exhibitions and annual exhibitions of DLUM. She has also participated in the fresco painting of several churches in Macedonia.

The exhibition presents 20 paintings with abstract theme, made in the traditional painting technique, oil on canvas.

“Symphonic Imagination” Mary Meshkoski house Robevci

Exhibition “Face to face”

17. 06. 2016 – 30. 06. 2016

In the Gallery Robevci in Ohrid, the first solo exhibition of works in mixed media in a large format by the author Tanja Dzipunov was opened.

It comes to mixed media where acrylic on canvas as a base is enriched and combined with natural materials such as hemp, wood, paper etc. It’s a kind of picture-sculpture, something like an installation of canvas, says the author.

Rich in color, the exhibits captivate with their freshness and easily communicate with the audience.

The exhibition is symbolically entitled “Face to face” at a time when art is placed in the background, when we want to avoid dealing with substantial issues of beauty, emotions, judgments and sharing our own ideals.

The exhibition “Face to face” will be set from 17 to 30 June in the House of Robev Family in Ohrid as a part of the annual program of NI Institute and Museum in Ohrid that continues in the future as well.

Exhibition “Face to face” Tanja Dzipunov in the House of Robev Family

Unknown territory

 03. 06. 2016 – 16. 06. 2016

Gabrielle Schaffartzik was born in 1964 in Bremen, Germany. She studied at the University of Gottingen, Germany, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. She studied Byzantine iconography in various studios in Russia, France and Austria. She is a member of the German Federal Association of visual artists as well as GEDOK-German Association of Women Artists.

She has participated in international art colonies in many countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, India, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey. In 2015 she was granted a 6-week artistic stay in Istanbul, Turkey. Her works can be found in public and private collections in Germany and abroad.

The exhibition contains a selection of paintings made in oil on canvas from her latest cycle called “Terra Incognita”, a term that refers to artistic focus on landscapes that are not topographically determined. Gabriele’s tendency is to go a little further from the representative answers in order to create new, more or less abstract spaces in personal dialogue between associations, memories, emotions, quotes and symbols, colors, lines, ornaments and patterns.

“Unknown territory” of the German artist Gabrielle Schaffartzik in the house of Robevci

St. Clement of Ohrid and his presentations in Art

23. 05. 2016 – 06. 06. 2016

The 48th traditional manifestation “Macedonia Honoring St. Cyril”, in 2016 was held in Rome, Italy and was marked by the celebration of two significant anniversaries, 1130 years since the arrival of St. Clement of Ohrid in our city and 1100 years of his reposal. On this occasion, NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid organized appropriate exhibition that was opened on May 23rd at the Pontifical University Urbaniana at the Vatican.

The exhibition presented 18 copies of frescoes depicting St. Clement, alone or together with other saints from the churches in the Republic of Macedonia and neighboring Balkan countries. There were also displayed five icons from 13th to 19th centuries from the collection of our institution, including the oldest painted icon portraying St. Clement of Ohrid, which, along with the wooden relief icon, is the oldest icon depicting the patron of Ohrid.

Part of the exhibition were a number of photographs of churches where in a certain period of the history the relics of the saint have rested, photos of the relics of the saint, his grave at Plaoshnik, as well as photographs of contemporary works, monumental sculptures presenting this saint.

“St. Clement of Ohrid and his presentations in Art” at the Pontifical University Planners Vatican