Author: Muzej Ohrid

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 +

27th traditional exhibition on occasion of May 18th, the International Museum Day

19. 05. 2017

Traditionally as in the past years, NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid is marking May 18th, the International Museum Day. This year it will be celebrated with the 27th exhibition of artworks from our rich fund of contemporary art. Such as in the previous years, the exhibition will display the works of artists who had their exhibitions in the last several years in the Robevci Art Gallery.

traditional exhibition on occasion of May 18th, the International Museum Day

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

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