Author: Muzej Ohrid

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

 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

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

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

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

 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

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

24. 07. 2015 – 05. 08. 2015

Within the “Ohrid Summer Festival”, the 60th solo exhibition of the famous Macedonian painter Stefan Hadzi-Nikolov, who has left a special stamp on the art of the Republic of Macedonia in the last three decades, was opened

With his special talent and his wonderful approach to art, as well as  through his exhibitions he has imposed to the Macedonian audience, and to the audience in the neighboring countries.

The artist Hadzi-Nikolov noted that Ohrid means a lot to him as an artist and proof for this is that his 60th solo exhibition is organized right there.

Ohrid, after Skopje is a city where he had most exhibitions. His first exhibition in Ohrid was in 1988. In 2000 he exhibited in the House of Urania, in 2009 and 2015 in the House of Robev Family. The current exhibition presents works made in recent years, which were never exhibited in Ohrid, most of them nor in any gallery. This exhibition of around thirty paintings in oil on canvas is actually a section of its multi-decade career.

“Light of the past” in the house of Robevci

15. 05. 2015 – 31. 05. 2015

Artistic expression through the works of numerous artists from the country and abroad, which in past years had solo exhibitions in this Institution, leave some of their works for the rich collection of NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid.

The exhibition as traditional, and this year jubilee one, the 25th in row, presents asection of art that was presented here, at our institution over the years. We always have quite a lot of works and we have a special criteria that we follow in the selection. We make the selection and always try to represent different techniques. There are graphic artists, sculptors, artists who create oil paintings, acrylic paintings on cardboard, collages. For example, here is a new work by Sergej Cinguloski, who is in Montenegro in this period. Then, we have a photograph of morality by the artist Tina Drcar from Slovenia. This means that we are up to date with modern art.

These artists are presented at the exhibition this year: Maja Raunik-Kirkov, Pande Petrovski, Snezana Grozdanovic, Eng Sion Yeo, Cvetanka Temkova-Ilova, Miroslav Trendafilovski-Miki, Jordan Manasijeski, Svetlana Solodovnikova, Natasa Dimitrijevic, Tina Drcar, Sergej Cinguloski, Emel Mahmoud, Slavica Sekuloski and Vaska Opeloska.

Paintings and works of art on the occasion of May 18th, the International Museum Day.