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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Within the 47th manifestation “Macedonia Honoring St. Cyril”, in the complex Vittoriano, at the popular Piazza Venezia in Rome, thirty-five Macedonian carvings were presented. Among them were the oldest preserved examples of woodcarving in our country (the pillars of the iconostasis of the church of the Holy Physicians the Lesser in Ohrid from 14th century) and a larger number of exhibits from 20th century, made by the hands of masters of the famous Ohrid carving school.
The exhibition was organized by NI Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum-Ohrid which owns part of the presented exhibits, including the oldest ones, while the other are works of 11 authors, modern Ohrid woodcarvers from four different generations who still today cherish the tradition of this extremely subtle artistic craft.
The exhibition was accompanied by a brilliant concert of Duke Bojadziev and friends.
“Art of the Macedonian woodcarving-tradition and continuity” at the Vittoriano museum complex in Rome, Italy
These two exhibitions of ethnological objects that are stored in NI Institute for Protection of Monuments and Museum-Ohrid, on the opening were the cause of much joy, but also nostalgic views, especially among those visitors who still cherish manual labor.
Black and red woolen cord, golden and thread that are hallmarks of the “klasheniks” in one hand, and the use of “file”, “sachan” in knitting with white thread, on the other hand, gave a soul and joy to the space in which they were displayed.
Having in mind the fact that the exhibits are not unknown handwork for the women of Ohrid, more surprising for the visitors was the very idea of this type of exhibition to refresh cultural events in the city.
Although it is said that manual labor is dying, however Ohrid residents remain more or less faithful to the tradition. They appreciate such items, and those citizens who can not keep them at home dowry items from their grandmothers and mothers, have given them to the ethnological department, where they are kept in special conditions.
The oldest exhibit on the exhibitions is “klashenik”, dating from the late 19th century, while the other exhibits are from the beginning of the 20th century. As for the origin of the objects, furniture and handmade items, they are mainly from Ohrid, while the “klasheniks” are mainly from Ohrid-Struga region, but thera are also samples from Debar, Kichevo, Resen, Galichnik.
Exhibitions “Clothes from klashna” and “Handwork” in the House of Robev Family
This was the largest exhibition ever presented by the Republic of Macedonia in a foreign museum. The objective was to perform a broader presentation of the culture of our country in a friendly country such as the Netherlands and a way to restore the traditionally good relations, especially in the sphere of culture and tourism. The initiative for this exhibition was launched in 2005 during the visit of a large delegation from the Netherlands to Ohrid and after five years of preparatory activities came to its implementation in 2011. Their exhibits for the exhibition lent more institutions of our country: NI Museum of Macedonia-Skopje, NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid, the Museum of the City of Skopje, NI Institute and Museum-Bitola and NI Stobi. A total of 159 items, including 52 icons, archaeological, ethnological, and other liturgical objects were displayed, of which 29 from the collection of our institution.
Exhibition “Unimagined beauty-icons from Macedonia” Katarajnekonvent Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
The exhibition was organized on the occasion marking the 1100 anniversary of the death of St. Naum by the Macedonian Orthodox Church- the Diocese of Debar and Kichevo and it presented a total of 30 icons, of which 5 from the collection of NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid.
Exhibition “St. Naum of Ohrid icons in the ico painting of the Diocese of Debar and Kichevo from 18th and 19th centuries” in the church St. Sophia in Ohrid
