From our collections: Milan Butina, scenographer, occasional exhibition

From our collections: Milan Butina, scenographer

temporary exhibition

Due to popular demand, we are extending the exhibition and you can see it until February 8, 2024!

The exhibition is on viewing: from November 9, 2023 to February 8, 2024

The exhibition From our collections: Milan Butina, scenographer was created as part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the artist's birthIn Kočevje, his birthplace, the year 2023 has been declared the cultural thematic year of Milan Butina. The Kočevje Regional Museum has prepared an exhibition in the Kočevje Art Salon. Homage to Milan Butina, and the artist's jubilee is marked by exhibitions at the Slovenian Theatre Institute - Theatre Museum, the Stane Kregar Gallery (at the St. Stanislav Institute in Šentvid) and the Hest Gallery in Maribor.

The exhibition From our collections: Milan Butina, scenographer at the Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum focuses on The artist's scenographic workWe exhibit at it a selection of sketches from the period between 1951 and 1967, which represent scenographic designs for twenty-four productions – seventeen were staged at the Ljubljana City Theatre, one each in Celje, Trieste and Kranj, and four remained unrealized. A selection of sketches is kept in our iconographic collections – Mrs. Darja Butina, the artist's daughter, is largely responsible for the enrichment of the collection, who donated Butina's scenographic sketches, a model, portraits of the creators, and sketches from backstage to SLOGI.

Milan Butina (November 21, 1923, Kočevje – June 24, 1999, Ljubljana) is considered the founder of art theory in Slovenia. However, Milan Butina did not work “only” as a painter and art theorist, but was also a theatre man. As a painter and set designer, he joined the Ljubljana City Theatre in 1950, where he was later employed as a technical manager between 1962 and 1967. As a set designer (and often also a costume designer), he co-created more than ninety productions, not only at the Ljubljana City Theatre, but also at the Ljubljana Youth Theatre, the Slovenian National Theatre in Trieste, the Slovenian National Theatre Drama Theatre in Maribor, the Celje City Theatre, the Prešeren Theatre in Kranj, the Ljubljana City Puppet Theatre and the Ljubljana Opera. He participated with his scenographic drafts at the triennials of theatrical scenography and costume design at Sterijevo Pozorje in Novi Sad and at the Prague Quadrennial of Scenic Design and Space in the Czech Republic.

Accompanying program for the exhibition

– in Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at 4:30 PM – guided tour of the exhibition with a workshop for experts from the Ministry of Culture and Culture; carried out by curator Tea Rogelj (author of the exhibition) and curator and educator Sandra Jenko,
– in Wednesday, November 22, 2023, at 5 p.m. – guided tour of the exhibition; carried out by curator Tea Rogelj (author of the exhibition),
– in Sunday, December 3, 2023, at 10 a.m. – guided tour of the exhibition with a workshop for families with children (5+); conducted by curator and educator Sandra Jenko, MA
– in Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 4 p.m. – guided tour of the exhibition; carried out by curator Tea Rogelj (author of the exhibition),
– in Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at 5 p.m. – guided tour of the exhibition; carried out by curator Tea Rogelj (author of the exhibition).

The opening of the exhibition took place on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 6 p.m., in the Hall of the Slovenian Theatre Institute.

At the opening, Dr. Gašper Troha, director of SLOGI, and Mag. Tea Rogelj, author and curator of the exhibition, spoke, and Jelena Ždrale and Andraž Polič performed with musical accompaniment.

Exhibition Colophon

The exhibition From our collections: Milan Butina, scenographer

Production: Slovenian Theatre Institute

Author and curator: Tea Rogelj, MA

Digitization and graphic design: Dana Kodermac

Technical design: Andrej Ovsec

Pedagogical programs: Sandra Jenko, MA

Lecturer: Andraž Polončič Ruparčič

From the media

After the exhibition Milan Butina, set designer, Oder broadcast, 3rd program of Radio Slovenia – Ars program, 28. 11. 2023