Exhibiting in Slovenia 1947–1979 is a website developed by a group of researchers investigating the exhibiting of visual art and, to a lesser extent, architecture and other exhibiting activities during that period. The period is framed by two exhibitions which, through their organisation, content orientation, the selection of works, and the responses they elicited, reflect the historical situation of their time. The guest show Exhibition of Soviet Painters (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, 1947) is representative of the brief period of the Yugoslav rapprochement to the Soviet Union in the field of art. This phase was not very prominent in Slovenia and ended in 1948, following Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform. The second exhibition, the large retrospective Slovenian Fine Arts 1945–1978 (Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and Architectural Museum Ljubljana, 1979), presented a broad spectrum of architecture, design and art, yet through its specific mode of presentation and interpretation, it also confirmed modernism as the most important current of Slovenian artistic production during the aforementioned period.
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