Petra Varl:

• Drawing
  Exhibition
  January 28 - February 28, 2010
  Opening on Thursday, January 28, at 7pm
  Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6, Maribor
• Signs
  Exhibition
  January 28 - February 13, 2010
  Opening on Thursday, January 28, at 8pm
  MMC Kibla, Kibela Gallery, Ulica kneza Koclja, 9, Maribor

We would like to inform you about two simultaneous exhibition projects of Petra Varl, an artist taking part in SCCA-Ljubljana project Internet Portfolio.

Petra Varl works as a visual artist in the area of drawing, graphic arts, painting, illustration and installations in galleries, public and private spaces.

In Maribor she is preparing two exhibitions, one in Maribor Art Gallery and the other in Kibela Gallery.

On the exhibition Drawing in Maribor Art Gallery Petra Varl presents a series of ink drawings on paper and leads us back to the important story of her work from her creative beginnings onwards. With her drawing and simple motifs of everyday life she builds an intimate and at the same time familiar universe: the meaning of a woman and her role, relationships, the tearing down of clichés, and the antagonism of old and new. The fragments create a parallel story in which the individual, appearing in diverse roles at the same time, can find him/herself. The curator is Andreja Borin, UGM collection curator. The exhibition will be on view until February 28.

The exhibition in the Maribor Art Gallery will be followed by the exhibition Signs in the Gallery Kibela. The occasion will also celebrate the 11th anniversary of the operation of Kibela, space for art. The exhibition will be on view until February 13.

You are kindly invited to attend the openings on January 28, at 7pm in the Maribor Art Gallery and at 8 in the Kibela Gallery.

Petra Varl was born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts in 1997. She has shown her work in numerous independent and group shows, including the Sao Paolo Biennial. Since the year 2000 she has been working as an Associate Professor of drawing and graphic arts at the Fine Arts Department of the Teacher's College of the University of Maribor. She lives and works in Ljubljana and Maribor.