Between 1959 and 1986 Mala galerija was operated under Moderna galerija and managed by Zoran Kržišnik. In this era its main purpose was to exhibit the works by selected contemporary domestic and foreign artists as well as to establish international connections. This final thesis is an attempt to asses the importance of a smaller exhibition space for a larger museum institution in a wider museological context and specific socio-political situation of the time. Through analysis of the organisational development of the exhibition space, an overview of press and archival documentation, a comparison of its exhibition policies to exhibitions at Moderna galerija as well as with critical overview of Mala galerija exhibitions I examine the wider role of this exhibition space. Research problem, emphasized in the thesis, is the international aspect of Mala galerija's exhibition programme, reflected also in the exhibition policy of Moderna galerija, the idea behind Ljubljana Biennal of Graphic Arts and Zoran Kržišnik's ativities. By grounding the analysis in the wider social, cultural and political context as well as taking into account Slovene and Yugoslav cultural policies of the time, I attempt to establish why such international connections were encouraged to such extent after the second world war.
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