Stane Jagodič is one of Slovenia's most prominent contemporary visual artists in the domain of socially engaged art. The exhibition presents his rich creative path since the 1970s, highlighting the synthesis of his experimental approaches within the expanded fields of photography, drawing and printmaking, where his characteristic concerns with ecology, social justice, solidarity, anti-militarism, technological progress and the search for balance between them are expressed with particular clarity.

Stane Jagodič belongs to Slovenia's more prominent contemporary visual artists committed to socially engaged art, produced primarily through the investigative endeavour and intermedia fusion of various experimental art practices. His works address themes such as ecology, social justice, solidarity, anti-militarism, progress, and the search for balance among them. They are full of satire, humor, as well as poetry and emotion, with which he engages with the worlds of science, cybernetics, robotics, virtuality, digital technology, and projections of the future. His works encompass human history and contemporary life as well as numerous artistic transformations, movements and reflections of the 20th century.

The exhibition highlights the part of his practice in which his artistic statements are expressed most directly or expressively. Although his work constantly crosses the boundaries of different media—ranging from painting, drawing, and collage to objects, montage, assemblage, and installations in public space—his social critique is most powerfully expressed in the expanded field of combining photography (from photomontage and photocollage to X-ray Art, which also contributed to the peak of Slovenian and Central European neo-avant-garde), printmaking (from screenprints to spraygrams), and drawing (from caricature to visual and concrete poetry). Within this fusion, Jagodič most strongly utilises processuality as an important form of artistic statement, expanding his works from the point of objects into the zone of concepts and holistic artworks, sometimes also with an immersive effect.

Stane Jagodič held his first overview exhibition in 1975 at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. Fifty years later, his work returns to the gallery, not as a continuation, but as an attempt at a new reading of his oeuvre, presented to the public on this scale for the first time. The exhibition spans the entire period of his practice, with particular emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s, his most formative years. Alongside documentary material, it also presents a selection of objects, performances and scenographies that played a key role within this framework.

Stane Jagodič graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1970. He was the founder and director of the Junij Group (1970–1985), an international art movement, as well as the creator of the Junij International Art Collection and the initiator and director of the Slovenian Triennial of Satire and Humour Aritas-satirA (1995–2001). He has held more than fifty solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows at home and abroad. His works are included in both public and private collections. In 1979, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for his work. He lives and works in Ljubljana.