Jože Šubic: Take a Picture
Jože Šubic: Take a Picture
20 March–18 April 2026
MMC KIBLA/KiBela
You are cordially invited to the opening of Jože Šubic’s solo exhibition Take a Picture, which will take place on Friday, 20 March 2026, at 7 p.m. at KiBela, space for art.
The series Take a Picture begins with the artist’s intention to explore corporeality and intimacy as a visual language – one in which the body, figuration, and the sensuous erotic charge of images are not meant to provoke, but to exist naturally within symbolic, mythological, and everyday imaginaries
At first glance, the series Take a Picture situates itself within a long tradition of the artistic gaze cast upon the female body. Portraits and nudes of women – nearly bare yet persistently and partially concealed by shirts, skirts, or fragments of clothing and objects – create a tension between disclosure and restraint. The title Take a Picture also suggests an act of capture, possession, and archiving, in which the gaze becomes a command that arrests the body, suspends it in time, and inscribes it as a visual document. Yet within this seemingly controlling gesture, a fissure emerges and extends further.
Šubic’s series evokes selected moments from the art-historical past, including feminist positions and pivotal practices, opening a space for reflection on how the body, eroticism, and subjectivity have been reshaped over time.
Biography
Jože Šubic was born in Maribor in 1958. In 1982 he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in painting in 1984. He works in painting, sculpture, object art, ceramics and graphic art. He lives and works in Maribor. He has received the Glazer Award twice (1992 and 2013), as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ZDSLU (2020), and many other national and international awards. His works have been shown in over 200 group and solo exhibitions.
< Jože Šubic: Take a Picture with Nu a repos, oil on canvas, 2023
Production: Association CODE BLUE
Co-organized by ACE KIBLA and X-OP Association for Contemporary Art
MMC KIBLA/KiBela, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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