Layering
International group exhibition
Meduza Gallery, Koper, Slovenia
12.06.26–20.09.26
Curated by: Andrea Bódis, Barna Benedek, Júlia N. Mészáros, Milán Bódis,
Coordination: Tatjana Sirk.
Artists at the exhibition:
Linda Arts (NL), Beti Bricelj (SI), Maria Chakarova (BG), Rita Ernst (CH), Tünde Fülöp (HU), Katalin Haász (HU), José Heerkens (NL), Barbara Höller (AT), Ingrid Hornef (DE), Martina Klein (DE), Ágnes Kontra (HU), Zsuzsanna Kóródi (HU), Minami Miyajima (JP), Gabi Mitterer (AT), Riki Mijling (NL), Katja Pál (SI), Rita Rohlfing (DE), Anikó Robitz (HU), Esther Stocker (IT), Anna Szprynger (PL), Mar Vicente (ES), Olga Zabron (PL).
The international group exhibition Layering presents twenty-two contemporary women visual artists from different generations, from ten European countries and Japan, united by a distinctive visual language primarily associated with Op Art. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Piran Coastal Galleries and 37 Gallery fromBudapest directed by Andrea Bódis. Active since 2010, the gallery pays particular attention to emerging artists, offering them promotional support during the first five years of their professional careers. Since 2017, its activities have focused mainly on artists working in the fields of geometric abstraction and concrete art.
In 2024, the gallery conceived and organized an international travelling exhibition dedicated to women artists represented by the gallery. In addition to their shared gender identity, these artists are connected through research developed across different media within the artistic practices described above. The initiative was created primarily to encourage networking among European galleries capable of recognizing, without prejudice, the quality of the selected artists’ work and the importance of female creativity within the visual arts and contemporary society as a whole. The project, which is still ongoing and continuously evolving, has already attracted prestigious partners from other European countries, creating new opportunities for dissemination, increased visibility, and critical recognition of the participating artists’ achievements on the international stage.
The exhibition highlights the complexity and multiplicity of meanings in contemporary visual art, as well as the thematic, linguistic, and technical specificities of the participants, their use of diverse media, and the innovative approaches that characterize their practices. The exhibition also explores the sources of inspiration behind the works on display. This series of exhibitions is therefore not a gender-focused exhibition, but rather a unique opportunity to present and promote the most recent achievements of the participating artists as a collective, while also allowing audiences to engage directly with the individual works and the creative personalities behind them.
The exhibition was first presented in 2024 in Budapest (37 Gallery); it then travelled to Vienna (Sehsaal Galerie), Cologne and Coaraze (Floss und Schultz Galerie), before finally arriving in Sofia this year (Nonsofia Gallery and Archive – Centre of Geometric Art). In each country, new artists were involved, generally from the host nation. In previous editions, Slovenia was represented by Beti Bricelj; for the current exhibition at the Medusa Gallery, Katja Pál has also been selected. The project is scheduled to conclude in 2028, year in which a collective catalogue will also be published. The volume will document the cycle of exhibitions held in European galleries and, through critical essays, will offer an assessment of the exhibition network built up over the course of the project, as well as of the individual artistic approaches of the participants.
The international exhibition is part of the main exhibition program of PCG, supported by the City Municipality of Koper and Ministry of Culture RS.
Tatjana Sirk
